Best GUI for small-scale accounting app?

[Ed Leafe]

On Dec 28, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:

>> 	Obviously, something like that could also be added - do you
>> want to help develop Dabo? We're always looking for talented people
>> with good ideas!
>
> Only if you want to hire me.  I mostly do volunteer development only
> on GPL projects.  If I'm writing something that can become part of a
> commercial Microsoft product, I expect to be paid.  But I don't mind
> posting snarky comments :).

	Oh, geez. After months of us getting skewered for releasing Dabo under 
GPL, with everyone saying that they wouldn't even *look* at it for fear 
of 'infecting' all of their code, we change the license to the MIT 
license, and now the complaint is that Microsoft is going to sell the 
code!

	Ever get that feeling that you can't win?  ;-)

> I hope Dabo can read the xml files Glade generates, so you have a gui
> builder that's already deployed.

	That's definitely part of the development plan. But after looking at 
Glade and several other designers, our conclusion is that they all lack 
something: either flexibility, ease of use, or something else. Sizers 
were probably the item that was the most difficult thing to handle 
well. The best designer for sizers we found was Qt Designer. We'd like 
to make our designer as visually clear as that one.

	Also, Dabo is not just a UI toolkit: it's a full 3-tier application 
framework. Our major design goal is to integrate the database 
connections defined into the UI designer, so that you can drag and drop 
fields from the tables in the connection onto the design surface, and 
create data-bound controls in one step.

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