Thread: Request for a data app (yes, I know no shame)
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2006-08-09 , 21:19
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#13
Originally Posted by jmbowman
PortaBase uses the Qt library for GUI widgets, strings, data structures, etc.; porting it to use GTK+ would effectively be a full rewrite, and isn't likely to be done by the original author (me).
Well, this is a surprise, and a honor ! Does this mean you are also a 770 user these days ? :-)

Sorry about the confusion with Metakit. But it's good to know that Portabase may still have a future yet...
Anyway, feel free to poke around the PortaBase documentation and source code and scavenge ideas from it...a lot of the UI design, data schema, and overall code structure could be reused for a database application in any language or widget library.
Indeed. One of the things I very much liked with Portabase on the Zaurus was its design twists that made it well suited to small-screen devices, like the "tabbed pagination" - much like the psion data app, albeit in a different way. Crudely ported desktop interfaces, even good ones, can never achieve that sort of usability on mobile devices.