rana@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au (Ranadeva Peries) (12/04/90)
I am currently trying to build a database front-end using XView (2.0). I am looking for prototyping tools to aid in designing this front end which will consist of forms for querying a database. Are there any public domain products that will allow me to do this. I am currently running X11R4 (both on NCD 19s and SPARC stations) under SunOS 4.1. Thanks in advance for any help on this matter. Please mail me direct to: rana@wacsvax.cs.uwa.oz.au Ranadeva Peries Department of Computer Science University of Western Australia, Nedlands 6009. W.A.
fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) (12/14/90)
> > I am currently trying to build a database front-end using XView (2.0). > I've been doing this since XView was beta. If you use the standard XView objects, its very straightforward. I'd suggest a *clean*, single and portable interface to the database (more accurately an "SQL interface"). Also, concentrate on database issues like table design and stored proc usage (std database concerns). If someone had a spreadsheet object for XView out there (a bonafide XView object, not an add-on like the matrix thingee from the Exocode people), things would go a lot faster. > I am looking for prototyping tools to aid in designing this front end > which will consist of forms for querying a database. > I use devGUIDE from Sun. Not quite a *complete* environment yet, but it has proved to be extremely helpful. Frank G.