On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 03:56 +0000, CJ wrote: > To all you who know: > > I'm trying to write a program, granted it's going to be a large one, > that will keep track of people's computers when they're in my shop > being repaired. I want to assign a number to each computer system, > and that number will stay with that machine throughout the program. I > want to be able to see when the computer is taken in, where it is at > the time, etc... > > My question is this: > > How would I go about writing this program in perl, and is perl the > language to write it in? I'll use MySQL to store the data. The > reason I chose perl is because I like linux, and perl runs excellently > in linux, and I'd like to do my developing on a linux box.
You've made all the right decisions already :) This sounds like an excellent use for my 'Axis' project: http://entropy.homelinux.org/axis You'll have to design your tables in MySQL. Then design your GUI with Glade ( which designs Gtk2 interfaces ... Gtk2 is the widget toolkit that gnome uses ). Then create some Gtk2::Ex::DBI and Gtk2::Ex::Datasheet::DBI objects to connect your tables to your forms. It's remarkably easy, requires *very* little code, and I'll help you out if you get stuck. -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-7676 / F: (+61) 2 9922 7989 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.nusconsulting.com.au -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
