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  Integrated Data Management: Kexi 0.1 Beta 2 Released
KDE Office Suite Posted by Lucijan Busch on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @00:39
from the hoping-everything-works-as-expected dept.
Months after the previous beta version and a lot of framework changes later, the Kexi Team is pleased to announce Beta 2 of Kexi, the integrated data management environment for KDE. This is a preview release for interested developers and experienced users; changes from the previous beta include an integrated kexisql engine and an improved user interface. Kexi source packages and MS Windows binaries are available at download.kde.org. Kexi is slated for a standalone release later this year and will be in KOffice after the 1.3 release.


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Installation quirks on windows
by cylab on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @01:19
I tried to install this on windows. It works, but:

- it tries to install some configuration to "d:\kde" regardless my install-settings (unfortunatly, I have no drive "d:" )

- it is in polish despite the chosen option in the installation dialog. is there a way to get an english version ?

regards
cylab
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  • Re: Installation quirks on windows
    by anon on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @07:25
    I had the same problem....how do I change the menus to English?
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  • Re: Installation quirks on windows
    by Jaroslaw Staniek (Kexi Team) on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @14:02
    "is there a way to get an english version" - fixed now. Please wait for mirrors' update and uninstall old and install new one - the new file name is now:

    kexi-1.0beta2-update1-win32.exe

    --
    js
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    • Re: Installation quirks on windows
      by cylab on Thursday 22/Jan/2004, @00:12
      thanks, great work btw. !
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Handy Hint
by David on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @01:50
Don't put entrance pages on web sites.
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screenshots Kexi + other KDE-apps on MS Windows
by Fabrice Mous on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @01:54
Kexi-MSwindows/images.html

Fab

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  • Re: screenshots Kexi + other KDE-apps on MS Windows
    by Sebastian on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @03:28
    How do you run those KDE-Apps on Windows? Is this a kind of XServer for Windows with cygwin?
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    • Re: screenshots Kexi + other KDE-apps on MS Window
      by fab on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @03:36
      nope native

      Fab
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      • Re: screenshots Kexi + other KDE-apps on MS Window
        by Navindra Umanee on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @04:23
        I think this has something to do with it:

        http://iidea.pl/~js/qkw/

        This should be properly announced of course, but at the time (and still) I didn't properly understand what it was or how it worked (due to language issues).

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        • Re: screenshots Kexi + other KDE-apps on MS Window
          by G. on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @11:36
          mmmh, very interesting indeed.
          That would be something similar to Apple's KWQ wrapper classes for khtml...
          Wow. Quite an effort.
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          • Re: screenshots Kexi + other KDE-apps on MS Window
            by Roberto Alsina on Thursday 22/Jan/2004, @04:41
            I I understand correctly, it's not similar.

            KWQ is meant to use OSX API to replace Qt, while this other thing with the exact same letters in a different order uses Qt to replace kdelibs?
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      • Re: screenshots Kexi + other KDE-apps on MS Window
        by charles on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @05:04
        Any binaries for Mandrake 9.2 or something like an rpm?
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    • Re: screenshots Kexi + other KDE-apps on MS Windows
      by Alex Exojo on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @04:17
      Qt/KDE wrapper:

      http://iidea.pl/~js/qkw/

      Seems great, isn't it?!
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looks nice...
by Mark Hannessen on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @01:54
is this some sort of form builder like program?
can it handle multiple users at the same time?
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Windows Install
by anon on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @07:24
Kexi installed in Polish on Windoze. How do I change the default to English?
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  • Re: Windows Install
    by Also Debian User on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @07:32
    Same problem here, but I think that with this package Polish is all you get.
    In D:\KDE\share\locale\pl\LC_MESSAGES are alle the Polisch files, the other language folders are empty.
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Data Management?
by Hans Jäger on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @07:29
And Rekall? Why isn't Kexi included in the 1.3 release?
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  • Re: Data Management?
    by Lucijan Busch on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @07:36
    > And Rekall?
    what about it?

    > Why isn't Kexi included in the 1.3 release?
    because it's quite immature, and we hadn't enough time to implement everything we want to. shipping a beta in a package which is called stable may not be a good idea.

    lucijan
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    • Re: Data Management?
      by Hans Jäger on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @08:09
      > because it's quite immature,

      as the rest of Koffice...

      > and we hadn't enough time to implement everything we want to.
      > shipping a beta in a package which is called stable may not be a good idea.

      KO developer's release :-9


      Rekall is a mature application, gpl, non beta, why not include it into Koffice?
      Rekallrevealed.org

      And what abour Hbasic as a future Koffice Kandidate?
      hbasic.sf.net
      lacks KDE integration but is a real solution.
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      • Re: Data Management?
        by David on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @08:31
        And you helped koffice with?
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      • Re: Data Management?
        by Ricardo Sousa on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @08:47
        Well,
        perhaps gambas ( http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ ) would be a good choice. It looks mature and seems to support KDE3 environment pretty well.
        It isn't a KDE app either... but looks rather nice...:)
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        • Re: Data Management?
          by jo on Thursday 22/Jan/2004, @01:30
          hbasic is qt based
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      • Re: Data Management?
        by Joseph Wenninger on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @12:49
        > Rekall is a mature application, gpl ...

        That's one of the problems I have with rekall. Kexi is ment to be easily exendable in the future and is ment as some kind of platform like gideon (kdev 3) is.

        Pure GPL is nice for stand alone application, but for me it is counter productive for heavily plugin based applications, that's why eg gideon has some lgpl parts and kexi will be completely LGPL or less restrictive.
        Ok, konqy is a counter example, but there the plugins don't need access to internal structures / informations in most cases, so non GPL kparts are okay there

        JoWenn

        PS: I really don't like the GPL
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        • Re: Data Management?
          by jo on Thursday 22/Jan/2004, @01:33
          UPS, I don't think they were opposed to LGPL licensing...
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Download?
by CMHICKS on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @09:09
Where can I find the newest source? I looked on ftp.kde.org but I can't find the Kexi source.. I must be blind or something..
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To change PL nanguage to EN
by Jaroslaw Staniek (Kexi Team) on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @10:42
in the file:

letter:\kde\share\config\kdeglobals

please change "pl" to "en" in these lines:

Country=pl

Language=pl

Btw, the installer will be fixed soon.

--
regards / pozdrawiam,
Jaroslaw Staniek / OpenOffice Polska
Kexi for win32 & MAC OS X,
Kexi project: http://koffice.kde.org/kexi
QT-KDE Wrapper project: http://iidea.pl/~js/qkw
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Failed to build
by Cory M Hicks on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @11:25
When I run make I get:

In file included from field.cpp:24:
../../kexi/kexidb/connection.h:593: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `Q_ULLONG'
with no type
../../kexi/kexidb/connection.h:593: `Q_ULLONG' declared as a `virtual' field
../../kexi/kexidb/connection.h:593: parse error before `(' token
field.cpp:327:2: warning: #warning fixme
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  • Re: Failed to build
    by Jaroslaw Staniek (Kexi Team) on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @12:39
    Perhaps you are using qt3.1, not 3.2. But it's nothing wrong, as I use the same.
    Just replace command:

    % make

    with:

    % export KEXI_OPTIONS="-DQ_LLONG=long\ long -DQ_ULLONG=unsigned\ long\ long"
    % make -f Makefile KEXI_OPTIONS="$KEXI_OPTIONS"

    You may want to create scripts for above.

    --
    regards / pozdrawiam,
    Jaroslaw Staniek / OpenOffice Polska
    Kexi for win32 & MAC OS X,
    Kexi project: http://koffice.kde.org/kexi
    QT-KDE Wrapper project: http://iidea.pl/~js/qkw
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    • Re: Failed to build
      by Cory M Hicks on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @13:02
      Now I am getting:
      In file included from keximainwindow.cpp:66:
      kexicontexthelp.h:25:27: kocontexthelp.h: No such file or directory
      In file included from keximainwindow.cpp:66:
      kexicontexthelp.h:28: parse error before `{' token
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: non-member function `const char* className()' cannot have
      `const' method qualifier
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
      kexicontexthelp.h: In function `QObject* qObject()':
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: invalid use of `this' in non-member function
      kexicontexthelp.h: At global scope:
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: parse error before `private'
      kexicontexthelp.h:33: destructors must be member functions
      kexicontexthelp.h:34: parse error before `private'
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: warning: `bool qt_static_property(QObject*, int, int,
      QVariant*)' declared `static' but never defined
      kexicontexthelp.h:29: warning: `QMetaObject* staticMetaObject()' declared
      `static' but never defined
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      • Re: Failed to build
        by Jaroslaw Staniek (Kexi Team) on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @13:13
        add -DKEXI_NO_CTXT_HELP=1 to $KEXI_OPTIONS (see my prev. post)
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        • Re: Failed to build
          by Cory M Hicks on Thursday 22/Jan/2004, @05:14
          That didn't solve the issue I'm still getting:
          kexicontexthelp.h:25:27: kocontexthelp.h: No such file or directory
          In file included from keximainwindow.cpp:66:
          kexicontexthelp.h:28: parse error before `{' token
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: non-member function `const char* className()' cannot have
          `const' method qualifier
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: virtual outside class declaration
          kexicontexthelp.h: In function `QObject* qObject()':
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: invalid use of `this' in non-member function
          kexicontexthelp.h: At global scope:
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: parse error before `private'
          kexicontexthelp.h:33: destructors must be member functions
          kexicontexthelp.h:34: parse error before `private'
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: warning: `bool qt_static_property(QObject*, int, int,
          QVariant*)' declared `static' but never defined
          kexicontexthelp.h:29: warning: `QMetaObject* staticMetaObject()' declared
          `static' but never defined
          make[4]: *** [keximainwindow.lo] Error 1
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  • Re: Failed to build
    by Joseph Wenninger on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @12:51
    QT 3.2 dependency. Replace Q_ULLONG by Q_ULONG or unsigned long long, should be not problem for now

    JoWenn
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Kexi's quasi EOModeler E-R View pretty cool
by Marc J. driftmeyer on Friday 23/Jan/2004, @01:34
It's nice to see some NeXTish Enterprise Objects Modeler functionality being added into dealing with relational databases. If it can be extended to say include PostgreSQL I think it could be one kick butt tool.

If you don't know what I'm referring to please read:

http://www.apple.com/webobjects/specs.html

If KDE wants to distinguish itself in the OSS world, offering an EOF Tool for Linux via KDE would help immensely. Not to mention adding Objective-C support.
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