which OSS product would be easiest to learn that is xPlatform

[Ken Moffat]

James McDonald wrote:

> I want to open a csv file which has column headings and rows of data...
>
> eg.
>
> COUNTRY,CITY,MODE,ISP,PHONE#,etc,etc
> United Kingdom,London,Analog,Demon,012345678,
> United States,Washington DC,Analog,AOL,023456789,
> Australia,Sydney,Analog,Bigpond,0345678901,
>
> then feed that into the gui with each field being a drop down list 
> that filters i.e. if you select United States it filters all the 
> remaining fields so you only get records that have United States in it.
>
> and finally you only get a list of phone numbers for each local ISP's 
> POP... which you then pass to your dialler program....
>
>
> What sort of cross platfrom product could do this? and be familiar to 
> someone like my self who has created heaps of little windows VBA form 
> apps....
>
>

Maybe you could do this with the free version of Kylix for linux and 
delphi for windows?

Lazarus is another pascal ide that is cross platform.

Either one has a pretty good selection of components and the ide is very 
good. The free kylix does not give you built in database support. 
Lazarus does, but it's certainly not as easy to use as delphi (windows 
only, sadly, and not free.) If you get Delphi you might get kylix 
developer free, which has database support.

If you try kylix you will need to install the unofficial patches to make 
it work with newer linux releases. http://www.kylix-patch.de.vu/



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ken