Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 18 Oct 2006 02:20:15 -0700, "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > Aren't we going round in circles here? There presumably are grid > > Possibly -- it was the fairly recent lamentation about Delphi that > made me think the initial desire had been for some such "automatic" > linkage between GUI and database that would have been preferred...
I think it's about finding the right level: the stated toolkits (Kiwi, Thyme, GNUe, TinyERP) are probably quite high-level or mix in various application-specific bonus material, and perhaps a fairly elementary datagrid widget is what is being sought. > > widgets connected to database tables/views/cursors, if only exposed via > > user interface toolkits and other frameworks such as PyQt, Dabo and so > > on, but I thought the questioner wanted to know how to implement these > > things from the ground up. > > > ... lacking such automation, a search for books on how to do this was > next. But given so many combinations of toolkits, I didn't think a > general (cookbook?) solution would be available. True. Still, I can only point to things which might provide useful building blocks in developing some of the solutions mentioned above. For example, PyQt's QSqlRelationalTableModel and QTableView might be acceptable building blocks: http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Docs/PyQt4/html/qsqlrelationaltablemodel.html See here for Python-based examples: http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=33&sessionId=41&confId=44 I'm sure other people can provide links to resources for other toolkits and frameworks. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list