On 08/09/04 20:01 -0400, Srinivasan Krishnan wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:24, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
On 08/09/04 12:30 +0530, komal wrote:
Hello
I want to design and develop application using MySQL as backend with tally 4.5 like interface. How to go about that? Any idea?
Please do not crosspost.
MySQL is a bad idea for lots of reasons (lack of transactions by default, silent truncation of strings, non standard SQL being the biggest flaws).
I recommend looking at AvSAP and modifying that instead.
Or maybe PostgreSQL - supports transactions and triggers, is stable and free. A Tally-like front end means a regular GUI front end. You have several options in this space:
- Scripted languages such as Perl, Python (with Tk, or the wxWindows
interface or the GTK interface), or even Tcl/Tk (ugh)
- A regular C or C++ GUI using GTK/ Qt/ Gnome/ KDE/ wxWindows (the most
common, and you fill find several other GUI frameworks if you search on freshmeat), or maybe even Java with a GUI toolkit
- If you prefer a commercial IDE, you could even get Borland's Kylix,
which supports C++ Builder and Delphi (not sure if it is still around, though)
AvSAP is a WxPython based application using PostgreSQL as a backend.
Apparently it works, but I really have no further knowledge about it.
Devdas Bhagat