DbcQ

DbcQ is an SQL front-end application that uses the dbc database library and integrates with the KDE Desktop Environment.

All development is being done on Linux (RH5.1) with Egcs 1.1. The code uses C++ exceptions, STL and templates, so older compilers will have problems. Egcs 1.0 may work, although I've had trouble with it's exception support. g++ 2.7.x will not work.

Availability

DbcQ is being made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

You can download libdbc from here (65K).

Screen Shot

DbcQ looks like this (50K).

Notes for v0.3

To build:

• DbcQ requires:
  • QT 1.41 or greater.
  • KDE 1.0.
  • dbc 0.4 or greater.
• After building and installing the prerequisites, you can build dbcq. Right now the RDBMS server is hard coded in the application. To change from OCI to ODBC you will have to edit dbcq.cpp (line 389). The next version of dbcq will be much more clever about this.
• Modify the tmake template dbcq.pro. The INCLUDEPATH variable will have to be set appropriately on your system. When you're done modifying dbcq.pro, regenerate the makefile by running 'tmake -o Makefile dbcq.pro'. If you do not have tmake, you will have to edit the Makefile manually (or you can download tmake from this site).

To install:

Copy the xpm files from ./dbcq/xpm to $KDEDIR/share/toolbar and copy dbcq to some directory in your path. Make sure the required libraries are built and in you lib path.