Platform suggestions for a portable task mgr program
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From: Joè... on 19 Jul 2010 23:15 Hello, Greetings to All... I'm here to get some inputs on a "thought" I have. Since few years I had been feeling the need for a Personal Task Manager program/ software. After trying out a couple of freewares, none of them could perfectly fit into my requirements. So I'm now thinking of building one for myself or adapting one from an open source program available. Given below are the features I am looking forward to have in the program. - It should have a backend/data repository on which SQL like queries can be run (I have a data model ready in mind) - It should have a good front end where the user can make/edit/view entries. - It should be portable between windows system (without needing setups) - It should have the capability to run from tray Could you suggest what is the best platform (FE & BE) which I can use to build this thought into a program? Note: I'm an not a regular programmer. Though I was passionate about programming in good old college days, now - after 7 years, I've lost touch. Thanks in Advance, Joe.
From: tm on 20 Jul 2010 02:39 On 20 Jul., 05:15, Joè... <johnjac...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, Greetings to All... > > I'm here to get some inputs on a "thought" I have. Since few years I > had been feeling the need for a Personal Task Manager program/ > software. [snip] > - It should have a backend/data repository on which SQL like queries > can be run (I have a data model ready in mind) SQL in this context is unusual. Probably you had a simplified SQL API in mind, since a database seems a little bit heavy for a task manager. > - It should be portable between windows system (without needing > setups) Normally the term portable is used when Linux, BSD, UNIX and MAC OS are also supported. I know that you are talking about support of different versions of windows but this is not really portability in the common sense. A portable windows application seems like a contradiction in terms. > Note: I'm an not a regular programmer. Though I was passionate about > programming in good old college days, now - after 7 years, I've lost > touch. I suggest you start with something simpler to get in touch with programming again. Greetings Thomas Mertes Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements and operators, abstract data types, templates without special syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed, interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.
From: P. Lepin on 20 Jul 2010 08:04 tm wrote: > On 20 Jul., 05:15, Joè... <johnjac...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm here to get some inputs on a "thought" I have. Since few years I >> had been feeling the need for a Personal Task Manager program/ >> software. > >> - It should have a backend/data repository on which SQL like queries >> can be run (I have a data model ready in mind) > > SQL in this context is unusual. Probably you had a simplified > SQL API in mind, since a database seems a little bit heavy > for a task manager. I have to disagree. In my experience, SQLite or an embedded version of one of the open source SQL servers seems to be a fairly common choice (not unusual by any rate) for persistence in single user desktop apps. >> - It should be portable between windows system (without needing >> setups) > > Normally the term portable is used when Linux, BSD, UNIX and > MAC OS are also supported. I know that you are talking > about support of different versions of windows but this is > not really portability in the common sense. > > A portable windows application seems like > a contradiction in terms. I believe many Windows users with little cross platform experience, especially non-techies, use this adjective to refer to the applications capable of running from, and storing their state on a flash drive or another similar portable storage device. This is the "portability" the OP seems to be referring to. >> Note: I'm an not a regular programmer. Though I was passionate about >> programming in good old college days, now - after 7 years, I've lost >> touch. > > I suggest you start with something simpler to get in touch > with programming again. No arguing with that. -- P. Lepin
From: Richard Heathfield on 20 Jul 2010 08:47 tm wrote: > On 20 Jul., 05:15, Jo�... <johnjac...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, Greetings to All... >> >> I'm here to get some inputs on a "thought" I have. Since few years I >> had been feeling the need for a Personal Task Manager program/ >> software. > > [snip] > >> - It should have a backend/data repository on which SQL like queries >> can be run (I have a data model ready in mind) > > SQL in this context is unusual. No, it isn't. > Probably you had a simplified > SQL API in mind, since a database seems a little bit heavy > for a task manager. Not at all. This is, in fact, a very good way for a neophyte programmer to become more familiar with SQL, and it's a very good application for a database. > >> - It should be portable between windows system (without needing >> setups) > > Normally the term portable is used when Linux, BSD, UNIX and > MAC OS are also supported. Evidently you occupy a very small universe. If a program were /only/ portable to such a limited range of platforms, I would hesitate to use the word "portable". > I know that you are talking > about support of different versions of windows but this is > not really portability in the common sense. > > A portable windows application seems like > a contradiction in terms. Well, by /your/ definition of "portable" it's pretty easy to get portable windowing - GTK+, for example, or Qt. > >> Note: I'm an not a regular programmer. Though I was passionate about >> programming in good old college days, now - after 7 years, I've lost >> touch. > > I suggest you start with something simpler to get in touch > with programming again. I strongly disagree with this. It's a very nice little program to help a former programmer to get his hand back in. > > Greetings Thomas Mertes > > Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net Sig blocks are separated from the main text of your article by the character string "-- \n" (i.e. two minuses, a space, and a newline). This is really easy to understand, and in fact even newsreaders can understand it (and do understand it, stripping sig blocks from replies). If you would be so kind as to modify your sig block so as to make it recognisable to newsreading software, that would be good and public-spirited of you, and there are those of us who would appreciate it. <snip> -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line vacant - apply within
From: Richard Heathfield on 20 Jul 2010 08:51 Jo�... wrote: > Hello, Greetings to All... > > I'm here to get some inputs on a "thought" I have. Since few years I > had been feeling the need for a Personal Task Manager program/ > software. After trying out a couple of freewares, none of them could > perfectly fit into my requirements. So I'm now thinking of building > one for myself or adapting one from an open source program available. > > Given below are the features I am looking forward to have in the > program. > - It should have a backend/data repository on which SQL like queries > can be run (I have a data model ready in mind) > - It should have a good front end where the user can make/edit/view > entries. > - It should be portable between windows system (without needing > setups) > - It should have the capability to run from tray > > Could you suggest what is the best platform (FE & BE) which I can use > to build this thought into a program? For all of the above requirements except the last (running from the tray), I'd have suggested PHP with mysql at the back. This application has got "web site" written all over it. Having said that, if you would prefer to stick it on a pen and carry it around with you (and there's something to be said for that), you could do worse than C++ Builder, which makes front end programming easier than falling off a log, and the back end db stuff isn't *too* scary. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line vacant - apply within
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