Jeff Eckermann wrote:
> --- Typing80wpm@aol.com wrote:
>
>
>>I DID Succeed in doing the sort of things I want in
>>VBA script in MSAccess,
>>but that does me no good at work because we cant get
>>the money to purchase
>>copies of Access.
>>
>>I own a copy of Visual Basic, and if I could find a
>>good example of
>>accessing the postgres in vba through the odbc
>>driver, then I could do what I want,
>>compile it, and put it on the work stations.
>
>
> Try this one:
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/genpage.php?howto-visualbasic
>
> If you already have some acquaintance with VBA in
> Access, then you can leverage that knowledge by using
> Visual Basic. Since you already own Visual Basic,
> that could be the no (extra) cost solution that you
> are looking for.
>
>
To add to this suggesting you could consider entering to world of .NET
at no cost, in eith VB.NET or C#, by using SharpDevelop, which is an
Open-source .NET IDE which comes compete with a visual designer. I've
not really used it in anger, but it's a very impressive bit of work.
http://www.sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SD/
PHP will certainly do the polling and querying work, but struggles a bit
with displaying the alert on the screen. You could try PHP/GTK but
you'll probably find SharpDevelop a much nicer development environment.
>
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