[Kexi] Missing features in Kexi

[Maarten Wisse]

Dear Sebastian and Jaroslaw,

thank you very much for your response. Your willingness to help almost 
persuades me to opt for Kexi. Unfortunately, what I need now is really a 
pretty stable platform for my application, and I'm not convinced that Kexi 
gives me that at present. I think Kexi is better than Knoda when it comes to 
usability, but Knoda has much more features in its stable version (form 
widgets in particular). So, I think I will go with Knoda and if that doesn't 
succeed, return to Kexi.

Best regards,

Maarten

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 14:55, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> On Monday 22 May 2006 18:52, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> > Maarten Wisse said the following, On 2006-05-22 15:00:
> > > Final question: I want to implement a form from which the user can
> > > click on a button and get an email message in kmail with a predefined
> > > message including data from the database. is that possible with the
> > > current state of scripting support?
> >
> > Probably yes, using Python (or Ruby?) libraries for mail handling, since
> > Python/Ruby scripting is available for 1.0, and you can assign a script
> > execution to a push button.
> >
> > Later, I would advertise using macros for this action.
>
> Yes, it's possible.
> 1. Create a new script and assign the button's onclick-action to it
> (rightclick on the button => assign action).
> 2. You are able to access KMail or KAddressbook via dcop from within python
> or ruby. For python you are able to use pydcop or pykde while ruby provides
> access with QtRuby. But you are also able to fetch the data via the dcop*
> commandline-programs.
> 3. The question is, what you like to do with the data once your script got
> it (btw, a little hint, use e.g. Eric3 to develop the code and later once
> it works as expected, just copy+paste it into your Kexi-script)... You are
> able to use the krosskexidb-module to put it direct into a kexi database
> (see also http://www.kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=617 for some
> example scripts). If you like to have the data displayed within a form, it
> may got difficult to figure out how cause we don't provide bridges for that
> yet. But that's not a problem cause the KexiMainWindow is published and you
> are able to access, manipulate, call, etc. that way everything via
> pyqt/qtruby. If you like to get more details here, how to archive it, I
> could try to provide you some examples.

-- 
Dr. Maarten Wisse
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Group Theology in a Postmodern Context
Faculty of Theology
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

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