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diff --git a/kexi/doc/dev/kexi_guidelines.txt b/kexi/doc/dev/kexi_guidelines.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c2dfaba --- /dev/null +++ b/kexi/doc/dev/kexi_guidelines.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +PROPOSAL: Generic Guidlines For Kexi Development + +Jaroslaw Staniek +started: 2003-06-25 + +Idea 1 +Add tests for command line-only operations using kexiDB library. +These tests can be later turned to command line options for Kexi what will allow non +GUI operations o databases/projects. + +Idea 2 +Look at QSQL module from QT. E.g. there is efficient cursor feature (it works quite good with mysql). +We have KexiDBRecordSet instead, but this is just the same thing. +In fact many KexiDB features are compatible with QSQL. +Focus on: +- avoid loading all result data to client memory (fetch some records instead) +- avoid blocking operations (do asynchronously as many things as possible) +- avoid memory copying (at low level try to store original char* data instead of QString, + convert to QString only on data displaying) + +Idea 3 +Directories layout: +dialogs/ ++-altertable/ ++-datatable/ ++-queryeditor/ ++-sqleditor + +widgets/ ++-tableview/ ++-datatableview/ + +Idea 4 +Classes naming guidelines: +'Dialog' suffix for all classes |