I am looking for some advice on where to start with building my guy. I will mostly be coding on my mac, but have the option of windows or linux. I am going to be building an application that will be based around a database for my business and want to make it easy for me or my partner to input data and look up data, as my partner is not computer savy. Any help would be nice, thank you
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Jump to PostI suggest you start with one of the simpler cross-platform GUI toolkits, also known as a widget toolkit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits#Cross-platform
Jump to PostYou're talking about two different things there.
One of them is a server-client interaction over a network. That's information flow; it's not particularly anything to do with GUIs.
How you enable the user to manipulate data to communicate with the server over the network, and how the returned information is …
Jump to PostThe database part is almost definitely better handled with a database engine. A reasonably good and cross-platform, and free one is MySQL. All database engines are setup in a server-client arrangement over a …
Jump to PostSounds like a perfect opportunity for a web based app, php + html + jQuery.
In my opinion everything is gearing towards web based apps anyway, OK it might not be as fast as native GUI, but HTML + jquery has got great portability.
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