Category Archives: SQLEditor

Beta release schedule

Yes, I know I said Sunday or Monday for the new beta. But instead I’ve been fixing more bugs and various things. So it should be better. There is now a new way of showing foreign key links which adds … Continue reading

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Create a low end database program

Punkish made the suggestion in one of the comments (actually the only comment) back on May 29th about adding an actual database to SQLEditor and turning it into a database program. The more I think about this the more I … Continue reading

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Overlapping NSViews in cocoa

One thing that is desperately obvious when rewriting a java application to cocoa is overlapping views. In java you can often overlap swing components as long as they are lightweight (not operating system controls for instance). The cocoa documentation says … Continue reading

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SQLEditor Beta 3 (kindof)

SQLEditor Cocoa Beta 3 is making good progress. The only things remaining for the current beta are: Finish the menu handing Write some help It now pretty much supports importing java version saved files although it’s still having trouble with … Continue reading

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SQLEditor drag and drop

David was commenting that drag and drop from the java version of SQLEditor was handy, so it’s returned! I implemented a new floating window which allows the user to drag and drop objects onto the main canvas. Which seems to … Continue reading

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Menu enabling

Thanks to Cocoa Menu Validation I now know how to do dynamic enabling and disabling of menu in a tidy way. Previously everything was less tidy and more confused. Thank you Chris Hanson!

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File Format between versions

One of the things I’ve been doing recently is to rewrite SQLEditor to use cocoa instead of java’s swing toolkit. This gives a much better application for people using Macintoshes, but it has meant a file format change. The old … Continue reading

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