I've got some rudimentary stuff put together. Actually it's based on
work done by Alfredo Kengi Kojima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
It has some site specific stuff in it (an implementation of foreign
keys for MySQL), but it does work. I'm no longer working on the code,
but I do successfully use the code. Let me know if anyone wants it.
I don't think Alfredo will mind, but I'll let him comment if he's
still on this list.
-Erik
Erik Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Clifford Meece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm brand new to Dia, so please let me know if I'm treading on ground
> > already covered.
> > I would like to contribute to the dia project by adding data modeling
> > support with an 'export to SQL' option. I may even build in the ability
> > to go straight to the SQL server to create tables. Initially I would
> > like to support MySQL, but eventually add support for other RDBS later.
> > My initial thoughts were to take the existing code for UML support
> > and modify it for an SQL library.
> > Also, I can offer some website space for the Dia project if it is
> > needed.
> >
> > Other areas that I would like to contribute are:
> > 1. Automatic export from an SQL database of network infrastructure data
> > to a Dia network Diagram. This will tie in to an existing project that
> > I am working on.
>
> I'm actually working on something like this. The first goal is to make
> it possible to place table description from databases as objects in
> Dia. It's MySql I'm working with and the idea is that dia will get
> the table description from the database in real time. The information
> to connect to the database will be saved in the file (if desired),
> enabling Dia to update the table descriptions on loading of the file.
>
> I haven't come that far, but I'm pretty confident that something will
> come out of it. (I made it my assignment in a GUI-programming
> course. There's no deadline though...)
>
> I'm interrested in cooperating with others of course.
>
> Other ideas are automatic placement of connectors between primary and
> foreign keys, editing and creation of tables and use of GNOME-DB
> to connect to other databases than MySql.
>
> --
> - Mårten
>
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>
>
-Erik
Erik Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
