Sqlite application

Hey,

I don't know any of sqlite application template in Quickly that some contributors have done. The ubuntu-application template uses couchdb, (with desktopcouch binding) which is very cool for storing easily data and get them synced between computers (you will find some tutorials with "$ quicky tutorial ubuntu-application".

Support for SQLite is built into the Python standard library since v2.5. It has a very simple API.

http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.htm

I don't know that there is anything specific that Quickly can or should provide in this regard.

Didier/John

Thanks for your quick responses.

I was thinking of Glade specifically, I guess. I've used Delphi and some other RAD desktop tools where they have data bound controls and was wondering if anybody had done any work binding the Glade/GTK+ widgets to sqlite tables and columns.

Martyn

Martyn,

In Quickly Widgets, there is a widget that binds to a Python Dictionary, and one that Binds to a record type in DesktopCouch. I'd like to create one that binds to a sqlite table as well, but I don't know that I'll have time to get to this for Maverick. Also, Quickly Widgets are not integrated with Glade quite yet, but might be for Maverick.

However, it's easy to do what you want with a quickly.widgets.DictionaryGrid. I know it's not the GUI way you are looking for yet, but that will come in later version.

Here's a quick example
from quickly.widgets.dictionary_grid import DictionaryGrid

#create a list for storing the dictionaries
work_items = []

#get stuff from the database
sql = """SELECT description, status, spec, assignee
                     FROM work_items
                     where date = '%s'
                     AND milestone = '%s'""" % (d , "maverick-alpha-2")
cursor.execute(sql )

#build the list of dictionaries from the data
for r in cursor:
    wi = {"Item":r[0].strip(),
              "Status":r[1].strip(),
              "Spec":r[2].strip()}
    work_items.append(wi)

#build your grid and add it to the window
grid = DictionaryGrid(dictionaries = work_items)
grid.show()
self.builder.get_object("vbox1").pack_start(grid)

I you want to make it editable, pass in "editable=True" when you create it, and connect to the cell-edited signal, and update the database from the signal handler.

HTH

Rick

OK - Thanks for that - this is just what I wanted. I've just used a version of this code against one my db tables and it works a treat.

I guess if I use an object-mapper like sqlalchemy then its even easier.

Thanks again

Martyn