GUI toolkits and dynamic table browser widget

[Vito De Tullio]

Simon Cropper wrote:

>>> I would like to create windows with grids (AKA rows and column of a
>>> table like excel). Do any of the GUI interfaces have these types of
>>> widgets? i have looked but can't find any and I have not stumbled on
>>> program that presents data in this way so I can see how they do it.
>>>
>>> Specifically I would like to run a SQL command and have the returned
>>> list passed to a widget with little or no manipulation and that widget
>>> present the data, allow the user to scroll through that data and
>>> preferably allow edits to occur. These edits could then be passed back
>>> via a string to the program for inclusion in a sql-update command.

>> Have a look at PyQt [1], specially QTableView [2] and QtSql [3]

> That looks very promising... do you understand the licensing though?
> 
> GPL to GPL is obvious but would development of an in-house system be
> commercial or GPL licensing?

If you're so scared of GPL, you should look at pyside:

 http://www.pyside.org/docs/pyside/PySide/QtGui/QTableView.html

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ZeD