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Issue 6.3

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Swatter Part 2

A simple bug database

Issue: 6.3 (March/April 2008)
Author: Brad Rhine
Author Bio: Brad Rhine is the developer of Kodiak, a complete student information system written entirely in REALbasic. That's his day job. In his spare time, he writes shareware applications in REALbasic.
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In this issue, we continue Swatter, a simple bug database. Last time, we began by discussing a bit about databases and proceeded to define our database structure, or schema, using SQL. I hope you still have the SQL files we created last time handy, because we're about to create our project file and build our interface.

Go ahead and fire up REALbasic, and create a new project. We'll call it Swatter. It's a good idea to create a folder to hold the project file and our SQL files, just so we have everything in one place and we always know where everything is. Once your project is created, we can begin to build our interface.

Based on the tables we defined last time (projects, users, and issues), we have six basic functions to cover, which we'll handle in five windows. Now, the more mathematically inclined among you may be wondering how I started with three tables, arrived at six functions, and decided on five windows. It's pretty simple, really. Each of our three tables has two functions: displaying and data entry. We also have deleting data and editing data, but as you'll see shortly, we can handle those along with displaying and entering data.

The Main Window

Our main, and default, window for Swatter should have two ListBoxes on it. One will list our projects, and the other will list open issues for each selected project.

I made the window 600 pixels wide and 400 pixels, but you may choose to size it differently, and that's fine. As long as you can see the data you need to see, you have a lot of leeway with window and control sizes. I gave the window the name "MainSwatterWindow" and assigned "Swatter" as its title.

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