via Amiga Future....Steffen Gutmann has released version 3.2 of the incredible database package
MUIbase. From the Read Me file:
MUIbase is a fast and flexible database system. It is targeted for advanced desktop users who want to manage data in a comfortable and powerful way. MUIbase is able to manage any kind of data, e.g. addresses, CD series, movies, photo collections, your family tree, your income and expense, and much more. The power of MUIbase lies in its clear and powerful graphical user interface and its programming capabilities. Programming MUIbase allows you to process data in various ways, e.g. automatic calculations upon user input, generation of reports, import and export of data, etc. For example MUIbase can be used for calculating the total amount of income, or the total amount of recorded time on a CD, or to automatically create and print serial letters to your customers.
MUIbase offers the following features:
- Shared access to a project from multiple instances of MUIbase running on the same or different computers.
- Unlimited number of projects, tables, attributes, and records.
- Attributes can be of type string, memo (multi line text), integer, real, date, time, Boolean, choice (one item out of many items), reference (easy way to reference a record of another table), button (for starting MUIbase programs), and virtual (compute value on the fly).
- The string type can also manage lists of strings, files, and fonts. A string can refer to an external image which is displayed in the graphical user interface.
- Dynamic loading of records. Records which are not needed may be flushed from memory (e.g. when memory is low).
- Programmability. With the easy and powerful MUIbase programming language complex tasks can be implemented. The language also includes a SELECT-FROM-WHERE query for easy and fast data retrieval.
- Ordering of records by any combinations of attributes.
- Flexible and powerful search and filter facility.
- Query editor which allows entering and managing of SELECT-FROM-WHERE queries. The queries can be saved and the results can be printed.
- Optional logging of changes (adding, deleting and changing of records) into a system log table.
- Import and export facility.
- Full documentation including user and programming manual in HTML and PDF.
- Operating system independence. MUIbase is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Amiga. The source code of MUIbase is also available as part of a Source Forge project.
New features since V3.1
- When a project has been changed, a '*' used to be prepended to the window title. This has been replaced by prepending the text 'Changed' instead. In addition, if a project has been locked by another MUIbase instance, the window title is now prepended with 'Locked'. Finally, if there is a newer version of the project on disk, the window title is prepended with 'Old'.
- allow quick search in select-from-where lists similar to how this works in GTK.
- The programing functions MIN and MAX are now defined over arbitrary datatypes not just integers and reals numbers.
- The generation of the user manual has seen an overhaul and unused document formats such as PS and DVI have been removed.
- Several bug fixes.
Install your copy of the best Amiga database system available today and get coding. Downloads available on the
MUIbase site and
Aminet.
-- eliyahu
