framework for a databased crossplatform GUI application

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framework for a databased crossplatform GUI application

I would like to develope a databased GUI application for free, which is cross-platform. I almost decided, that the UI should be GTK (logical, not pixel-based layout, GUI description not cluttering the code (glade xml))...

What I am missing is a good framework, which connects database and GUI, so I am looking for building database gui app.

Any suggestions? (ask me for more details if I am not concrete enough)

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Consider using Dabo for this. It is a GUI application framework for building apps around a database. It uses wxWindows for the GUI toolkit which is a bit higher level than just GTK. And you write your code in Python.

Michael Dillon 2009-11-11 14:12:51

hm, maybe I looked at wxWindows (wxWidgets) long ago, but it looked to me a legacy framework

pihentagy 2009-11-11 15:02:18

wxWidgets is still actively developed, last release in Sept 2009, and similarly wxPython was last released in May 2009. So the legacy bit is just a long history. These frameworks are still alive and active. Of course, if you chose wxPython, you could just pick up SQLAlchemy for the database bit, and not worry about the extra features of DABO. Even though wxPython + SQLAlchemy doesn't have any connection between DB and GUI, it is trivial to add that bit.

Michael Dillon 2009-11-11 16:03:18

Well, I don't want to say it is not actively developed, but it smells a bit it suffers from too agressive backward-compatible piece. But will sure look into dabo. Ah, you mean "higher level", that wxWidgets can display itself with gtk, windows forms ...

pihentagy 2009-11-11 16:59:24

But using macros (well, in the C++ tutorial), criptic constanst for identifying which button was pressed smells like legacy stuff :(

pihentagy 2009-11-11 17:23:26

+1 A:

The natural choice, if GTK+ is used, would be libgda: it provides a quite advanced abstraction layer on more database engines. There is another ongoing project, gsql, but I don't know anything about it and I didn't understand the differences between them either.

ntd 2009-11-11 17:43:17

Isn't it gnome only (which implies it is linux only)?

pihentagy 2009-11-12 10:10:57

@pihentagy: libgda does not have any gnome dependency. In the download page it is packaged for windows too.

ntd 2009-11-12 14:35:25

+1 A:

Take a look at Glom, seems to do a lot what you want.

Andreas Tunek 2010-08-03 12:39:22

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