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From: JohnDz <johndz@geocities.com>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Character mode forms designer
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Your enthusiasm should not be subsided for long as I feel this is a very
worthwhile endeavor, especially since a refurbished wyse50 terminal can
be purchased for about $90. A good application could be developed
without making the customer go broke in the process. 

You may want give TCL/Tk another look. PgAccess is a bit more than
"Pretty", it is very much a cross platform application. I am using it
now to connect to a pgSQL database from a Macintosh client and am
impressed with the performance. Best of all, connectivity to the
database has very little overhead, with no need for ODBC. 

It would not surprise me a bit if someone out there hasn't already
created a character mode version. I am sure with reasonable effort, an
extension could be created for decent character mode user interfaces. In
a perfect world, Pgaccess or a similar app could run in character mode
with little modification. It seems to me that this is possible. 

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|John Dzilvelis                                                 |
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Chris Newman wrote:
> 
> I have been working on a simple forms designer using curses and libpq and
> now that my initial rush of enthusiasm for this project has subsided I
> thought it might be a good time to gather some opinions on how worthwhile
> this might be.
> 
> Unless I have somehow missed it, I don't recall that there is any software
> currently available to allow the development of character mode applications
> which connect to a PostgreSQL backend.
> 
> However, as the majority of messages to this list concern "pretty"
> interfaces, (e.g. pgaccess, pgadmin) I realised it would be worthwhile
> checking if others would be interested in this kind of product, or if I am
> becoming evermore the minority in preferring terminal use to that wretched
> mouse thing. :)
> 
> I would be interested to hear both from those who might find a use for such
> an application, and any others who have undertaken similar projects.  What
> I am looking for, having passed that "Eureka" moment when the first form
> query is fetched back successfully, is the motivation to keep going until
> it becomes a freely distributable product.
> 
> Ideally, I am hoping that there is enough interest to warrant the forming of
> a project group to work on this sort of application, be it based on my
> prototype or the start of a brand new project.
> 
> Please feel free to contact me with any comments.
> 
> Chris Newman
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> chris@lightwood.demon.co.uk