Re: Announce: QtAda 0.2.0

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Vadim Godunko <vgodunko@gmail.com> writes:

> We are pleased to announce new release of QtAda 0.2.0. 

> <snip>

> All questions and comment are welcome!

This looks very interesting.

I suggest you include a direct link to the Qt Open Source download
page; it took me a while to find it.

http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/index

I've downloaded that, but have not tried to compile it yet. I'm on
Windows XP; I have mingw installed.

Apparently the open source edition includes the full Qt Designer? That
is _very_ interesting; I've been looking for an alternative to Visual
Basic for a home database GUI interface project that I need to upgrade
from VB 3.1 (10 years old!). 

I suppose I should give GtkAda and Gnade another try, but it was
painful the last time around.

Do any of the Qt classes provide database functions? In particular,
binding database record fields to display/edit fields is very easy in
VB (not so easy in Gnade).

Ah; I found the Qt manual online
(http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/groups.html), and there are database
classes; QSqlDatabase, QSqlField etc. I'll definitely give this a try.

Hmm. Grep'ing for 'database' and 'sql' in the QtAda source gave no
hits. So maybe I'll have to write that binding; that's ok, if the rest
works nicely.

Thanks for the pointer!

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-- Stephe