[REBOL] Access to Rebol forms converter
From: james:mustard at: 28-Sep-2003 16:14
Hi all,
Currently at work we deal in a lot of legacy Access databases and we are in the
process of creating an Access plugin to convert forms into REBOL/view and PHP
objects.
We already have shifted the majority of our data backends to SQL Server, or
MySQL and Access Forms is the only weak-point remaining (they crash and corrupt
at random moments which is rather disconcerting).
http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtemplates.zip
This a link to a sample database and templates for form sizing and label
conversion into Rebol. How it works is that the ExportModule is added to any
Access database containing forms you want to convert (along with an
ExportToRebol macro) and then once the macro is run it inspects each form and
its controls and outputs a text file that can be run by rebol/view. At present
this is output to the same directory as the database as frm[form_name].txt files.
For those without Access, the module code can be found here:
http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebTemplates/ExportForm_Module_code.txt
(the code module is also included inside the zip file as a text file).
Hopefully by the end of next month we will have all the conversion templates
completed and available to those on-list who are interested.
Regarding licensing etc - still to be decided but probably LGPL.
Regards,
James.
