Re: Database from AppleScript
Re: Database from AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Database from AppleScript
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:05:47 -0500
- Thread-topic: Database from AppleScript
"David Crowe" wrote:
> Kevin;
>
> Can't FMP interface quite nicely with SQL databases now, especially
> in version 9 (which I've only read about, I'm still on 8).
Yes, it can. There are a number of 'bridge' tools out there for that
purpose. In fact, for quite a few years there has been a FM database that
holds the bridge scripts, and one just implements that in their own database
set.
A quick google will yield useful results.
> Are there SQL databases that have as efficient a development
> environment as FMP, especially on the development of a nice user
> interface?
That's the best thing going for FM, I think. I just wish more folks had the
software. For my own usage, I often use FM to make interfaces for my own
AppleScripts, because it's much faster than Smile or other AS interface
builders.
Even if I don't need more than the single record to use as an interface,
it's just really fast to build an AS application that is driven my FM.
I don't know of anything that is equivalent for SQL, but I will predict that
the tighter integration of SQLite since mid-era OS X versions will yield
some such tools.
There are, of course, very excellent applications to interact with an
existing SQL installation, which I find very useful for Apache + SQL web
site testing locally.
For example, I use:
MySQL Administrator
MySQL Query Browser
Your SQL
These are not UI's for a database, but a UI to interact with the SQL files
themselves: creating a new DB, examining tables, setting permissions, etc.
These are basically like the standard PHP-based SQL manager "phpMyAdmin",
which is pretty ubiquitous on web hosts.
The above tools are much faster, as they are desktop applications.
--
Gary
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