Well ... I got it eventually but your responses certainly cleared some things out.
Ok so I decided that Dabo is for me ..Is it?What I want to do with it is not very complicated , I want to create a gui for some winxp machines that interact with a mysql back-end and I want the user to be able to save data into the mysql db and also be able to search and run reports on that db. What I have on my hands is that I work for a company that sells movies ( no ,not a big time company) and we have about 200 movies and 15,000 contacts.So before I dig any deeper into dabo I'm waiting for an advice from you guys.Can it be done? I want the user to be able to add new contacts and new movies also.A movie can be related to many contacts and a contact can be related to many movies.The user should also be able to run searches through the db , so for example he wants to see how many contacts are related to X-movie and be able to print that info out. This is my first project but wait till you get a load of the second one. I want exim to route every e-mail that comes in into a mysql db build on those contacts and "place" every e-mail under the contact it came in from and I also want the ui to be searchable in terms of contacts and/or emails.Ok , so for the e-mails that don't yet have a contact I want them to be dropped into a separate db for later review.So , for example I get an e-mail from somebody that's not in the database that e-mail should be dropped into the db anyway somewhere like not-in-db for a manual review by the user.After the user adds the contact into the usual db the e-mail should be moved where it belongs along with the contact info. The db should be searchable from the ui and let's say I want to see all my conversations with Ed Leafe I would do a search in the ui and all my e-mails to Ed and from Ed should be right there.The ui should also be able to add new contact info into the db. I'm not asking too much , am I? The reason I'm telling you all this is that I want an opinion from you , how long will it take you to build such a beast and then I'll be able to multiply that by 10 and have my answer to forward that to my boss.Cause that's how long I think it will take me to do it. Thank you guys and any ideas would be appreciated , hell, even the whole source code would be nice :). Thanks. P.S. Ed ,your screen-casts are wonderful but no search and add data into the db screen-casts.You make it sound so easy :). Ed Leafe wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2008, at 1:39 AM, cfirsten wrote: > >> Ok , I got this one !!!I copied the entire dabo directory into the >> site-packages dir and it worked.I saw that in here somewhere. >> After that I got an error about the wx module.Ok !!!Got that one too. >> Now I get a mysqldb import error !!Hahahaha!!!Ok , I'm going for >> this one >> now... >> I'll let you know what's next ..... > > As Uwe said, the Runtime Engine is a self-contained installation of > Python, wxPython, MySQLdb, psycopg, kinterbasdb, ReportLab... oh, and > Dabo, too! > > It is really meant to be a way for people who are interested in > trying out Dabo to be able to run the wizard, see the demo, and maybe > even write some of their own programs without having to go through the > whole process of installing all the prerequisites. If they decide it's > not for them, running the uninstaller removes everything, and their > machine is as it was. > > If you want to have the Dabo module available in your normal Python > installation, the Runtime Engine is not for you. Install Dabo as you > would any other module. > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
