Re: [Gnue-dev] A few of questions for a new project that will use GNUe

[Derek Neighbors]

> I'm evaluating a new application, that a customer has asked me to make, and I 
> want to use GNU-e for it. For the moment, I will use GNUe-Forms and Reports. 
> I have some questions (and will have more in the future :)

Great.

> - I'm trying to test master/detail forms and they dont' work. I'm thinking if 
> this feature is already implemented. If so, can anyone explain me how to do 
> it? In techref manual, you talk about two attributes of Blocks ("master" and 
> "detail"), but i've seen that Datasources also admit two attributes ("master" 
> and "masterlink") that I haven't seen in any doc.

If you are using last release you might want to upgrade to CVS.  We now 
have a master / detail WIZARD.  So you can run this then look at 
internals.

Basically if I have datasource1 called dtsPerson and datasource2 called 
dtsPhone.  In person there is field phone_id and in phone there is field 
id. 
 
In the data source dtsPhone put the following....

detaillink="id"
masterlink="phone_id"
master="dtsPerson"

> - The application must allow internationalization/localization, because it 
> will be used in different countries, with varying languages, date and 
> currency formats, etc. Have you thought in how will this be done in GNU-e?

Arturas is working on this and recently submitted some patches for this.

> - The application will need to scale down to a single PC with Windows 98 
> running both the database server and the client, and up to a few dozen of 
> clients in different sites talking to a single db server. The only server 
> I've found that runs on W98 is MySQL. Do you think that the combination MySQL 
> + GNU-e is lightweigth enough to run in a single PC? (I think so...) The 
> amount of data is very small (in fact, a similar previous application ran in 
> a 386 with MS-DOS).

Yes, but if you find a smaller database like Gadfly or ZODB or Other (even 
txt files) you can easily writ a driver for it.

> If the project goes on as expected, I will contribute to GNU-e development as 
> much as I can, and will make my packages available, if possible. Thanks for 
> your help.

You can check out irc at irc.openprojects.net #gnuenterprise if you ever 
want real timme help.

Derek