Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: gui/schema

[Richard Terry]

snip....

You got it in one:

> Richard's entry forms look like they're all the same, but with a
> differently configured lookup field here, a comma-separated
> multi-lookup field here, and some action modifying checkboxes here. The
> actual actions are pretty repetitive too :
> either the literal value of the field, a lookup id, a few look ids, are
> put and gotten from table fields; a bunch of data
> is reorganised and put out to a stream in a different order with extra
> formatting information that fit a protocol of
> other programs ( e.g. tex) .

That's why coding the vb project was done so quickly (6/12) because all the 
subroutines to pull the data from the database tables where inherently the 
same -  a quick cut/copy, minor sql changes, and re-using the same 
subroutines for actually querying the database and displaying and saving the 
data.

I was hoping that if the SOAP editor got started, then a generic Edit area 
Editor could soon follow - just pass a few label parameters and up comes the 
new editor etc.


Regards

Richard