Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-04 Thread Jim Byrnes
Martin Walsh wrote: On 07/03/2010 10:25 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] http://dabodev.com/ Please check it out. And go to www.leafe.com and subscribe to the dabo-user email list. I would like to try out Dabo, but I don't see it in the Ubuntu repositories and I would like

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-04 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/03/2010 08:25 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Jeff Johnson wrote: On 07/02/2010 11:40 AM, Chris C. wrote: I'm writing this question because I want, for my own satisfaction, to rewrite one of my Access dbs (one that does our finances) into a stand-alone Python database program using SQLite. I know I'

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Martin Walsh
On 07/03/2010 10:25 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: > Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] >> http://dabodev.com/ >> >> Please check it out. And go to www.leafe.com and subscribe to the >> dabo-user email list. > > I would like to try out Dabo, but I don't see it in the Ubuntu > repositories and I would like to avo

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread bob gailer
On 7/2/2010 9:44 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: On 07/02/2010 08:19 PM, bob gailer wrote: On 7/2/2010 5:56 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] Visual FoxPro ... is very similar to Access I differ. Access and FoxPro are very different. Yes they both use tables, relationships, indexes and SQL. Yes they

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jim Byrnes
Jeff Johnson wrote: On 07/02/2010 11:40 AM, Chris C. wrote: I'm writing this question because I want, for my own satisfaction, to rewrite one of my Access dbs (one that does our finances) into a stand-alone Python database program using SQLite. I know I'll be learning as I go, but that'll work, I

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread John
On Friday 02 July 2010 08:19:24 pm bob gailer wrote: > On 7/2/2010 5:56 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Visual FoxPro ... is very similar to Access > > I differ. Access and FoxPro are very different. Yes they both use > tables, relationships, indexes and SQL. Yes they both have visual >

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 08:19 PM, bob gailer wrote: On 7/2/2010 5:56 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] Visual FoxPro ... is very similar to Access I differ. Access and FoxPro are very different. Yes they both use tables, relationships, indexes and SQL. Yes they both have visual designers for forms and

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to handle it all(for my own uses). But, I would think, you would agree that a simple account balance app, would be no more than tkinter with a few functions to write and retrieve data from

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:32 PM, David Hutto wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:31 PM, David Hutto wrote: Well, it was mainly that he said he was a beginner and was only using this for a single banking project, I do believe. Not that learning a new package would wouldn't be helpful, I like

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:14 PM, David Hutto wrote: Stick to the main python libraries(python with sqllite, and for the standalone exe know it's somewhere, and I've seen it in the past few days, but didn't pay attention because it wasn't important to what I was doing at the time) going anywhere else is t

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
ginning to lose faith in being able to get help from the Dabo mailing list. Thanks again, Chris C. *From:* Jeff Johnson [mailto:j...@dcsoftware.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 02, 2010 2:09 PM *To:* Chris C. *Subject:* Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program On 07/02/2010 11:40 AM, Ch

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread bob gailer
On 7/2/2010 5:56 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] Visual FoxPro ... is very similar to Access I differ. Access and FoxPro are very different. Yes they both use tables, relationships, indexes and SQL. Yes they both have visual designers for forms and reports. Yes they both are programmable.

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:10 PM, David Hutto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:07 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, David Hutto wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: > > In the end, there

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:07 PM, David Hutto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >>> On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to handl

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, David Hutto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: >>> >>> In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to >>> handle it all(for my own uses). But, I would think, you would agr

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> >> In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to >> handle it all(for my own uses). But, I would think, you would agree >> that a simple account balance app, would be no more t

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to handle it all(for my own uses). But, I would think, you would agree that a simple account balance app, would be no more than tkinter with a few functions to write and retrieve data from

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 06:32 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:31 PM, David Hutto  wrote: >> >>> >>> Well, it was mainly that he said he was a beginner and was only using >>> this for a single banking project, I do believe. >>> >>> N

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:31 PM, David Hutto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> On 07/02/2010 06:14 PM, David Hutto wrote: >>> >>> Stick to the main python libraries(python with sqllite, and for the >>> standalone exe know it's somewhere, and I've seen it in the past f

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 06:14 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> >> Stick to the main python libraries(python with sqllite, and for the >> standalone exe know it's somewhere, and I've seen it in the past few >> days, but didn't pay attention because it wasn't imp

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:14 PM, David Hutto wrote: Stick to the main python libraries(python with sqllite, and for the standalone exe know it's somewhere, and I've seen it in the past few days, but didn't pay attention because it wasn't important to what I was doing at the time) going anywhere else is t

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
d because I was beginning to lose faith in being able to get help > from the Dabo mailing list. > > > > Thanks again, > > Chris C. > > > > > > From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:j...@dcsoftware.com] > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 2:09 PM > To: Chris C. > Subject:

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
ginning to lose faith in being able to get help from the Dabo mailing list. Thanks again, Chris C. *From:* Jeff Johnson [mailto:j...@dcsoftware.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 02, 2010 2:09 PM *To:* Chris C. *Subject:* Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program On 07/02/2010 11:40 AM, Ch

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"Chris C." wrote rewrite one of my Access dbs (one that does our finances) into a stand-alone Python database program using SQLite. I know I'll be learning as I go, but that'll work, I'm not in a big hurry and I'll work on it in my spare time. If its a database focused app I'd take a look

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 11:40 AM, Chris C. wrote: I'm writing this question because I want, for my own satisfaction, to rewrite one of my Access dbs (one that does our finances) into a stand-alone Python database program using SQLite. I know I'll be learning as I go, but that'll work, I'm not in a big h

[Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Chris C.
Hi, I'm not a programmer, but I have been exposed to some programming basics. I've written small parts of console-based C++ programs in an OOP class I took last year (but nothing outside of the classroom setting), and on my own I've written some semi-simple multi-form multi-report databases in Acc