Re: MS ACCESS please help!!
- Posted by bfurniss <bfurniss at IHUG.CO.NZ> Mar 18, 2000
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At 10:29 PM 3/17/00 -0500, you wrote: >Nick Johnson wrote: > >>> It would be huge project to wrap these functions but would likely be quite >>> useful. I have no idea how much work would go into creating a EuODBC >>> library but it looks like a lot. I'm interested in doing a front-end for >>> an Access database as well so maybe I'll take a look. Even if I don't >>> finish what I start, I might be able to come up with a good foundation for >>> others to build on. >>This brings up a good point - shouldn't it be possible to write a programme >>to automatically create simple euphoria wrappers for something like this? >>Just run a programme and poof, you have odbc access? (It would obviously >>need fine tuning...) >> >>Nick > >Swig for Euphoria. Wouldn't that be nice. Actually, it should be doable. >ODBC has a full API. If Euphoria could directly access these API's without >having to write a wrapper for each one, then all we would need is API doc >for whatever target we had and voila...or poof...as you say. Of course then >all you have to do is be able to read all that lovely API documentation and >make sense of it. Not even Euphoria can do that for you > >Everett L.(Rett) Williams >rett at gvtc.com > This sounds rather fascinating , please give further details ; when able.