10x, However there seems to be a problem with windows: "Windows - Gambas interpreter and compiler now compiles on CygWin but not components. This problem is under investigation. Note that programs without GUI can work. "
kind of defeates the point. Anyway, I can use VB itself if I wanted too but its again going into details that these particular students can do without and in fact they'd have trouble to cope with most programming languages at this time. The problem with this particular project is that it needs to become viable in a semester to live so they need to concentrate on sql queries and quick ways to retrieve them. An idea, can I compile rekall on cygwin? and not be in violation of its license when I'll use it in the gov offices without paying the company? although it won't be lean anymore. a browser can work on any gov issued backward hardware and hence the web site solution is more appealing and decentralized for the offices counterparts all over the country and requires less handling (again the funding problem). > -----Original Message----- > From: Gilad Ben-Yossef [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 11:39 AM > To: Tzahi Fadida > Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il > Subject: Re: Looking for a viable alternative to MS access. > > > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > There are several free open-source projects on the web, > however from > > the looks of it none are comparable to ms access. > > So the next best thing is to use some webservice combined > > with some database language. I was thinking about > > PHP+RUBY RAILS for the db forms + POSTGRESQL. > > Any other suggestions? > > Try Gambas. It's a full IDE environment (including editor, debugger, > runtime, icon editor, database connection wizard, etc) for > developing in > a Object oriented BASIC environment, or in other words it's a > clone of > Visual Basic without some of the more ridiculous things in > VB. The site > actually lists the differences from VB and there is a VB > compatibility > module (not finished yet). > > It's damn impressive suite and it has build in support for MySQL, > Postgress and SQLite - the last being an in process database > (no server > needed, just like MS Jet). > > The GUI is qt based, so you get decent Hebrew support (it's not > perfect, but the bugs I found are very minor to the point of calling > them cosmetic) > > I'm writing an Israeli financial documentation system with it > right now > for kicks (because I don't want a web based one and because it's a > great excuse to experience working with Gambas) and my only > complaint > thus far is that the documentation is not as 100% full as I > would like > (but it exists and pops up when you hit F1) > > And of course, it's GPLed. :-) > > In short, check it out: > > http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ > > Gilad > > -- > Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Codefidence. A name you can trust(tm) > Web: http://codefidence.com | SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: +972.9.8650475 ext. 201 | Fax: +972.9.8850643 > > "I am Jack's Overwritten Stack Pointer" > -- Hackers Club, the movie > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
