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Dabo - 0.8.4

3-tier desktop app framework for Python

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Current Version:	0.8.4
Release Date:	2008-06-06
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	620
Downloads (all versions):	2,997
Price:	Free. Released under the MIT license.

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Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. It has features that are critical for developing apps that need to access databases, such as data binding to controls, and database-independent SQL abstraction.

What's new in this version:

Bugfix: grid can now search by non-string/non-numeric fields. Thanks Dennis Meulensteen for pointing out the problem
Deprecated bad spelling: unBindEvent()
Web Update now works for ide and demo, as well as the base framework.
Fixed WordWrap in dGrid.
Fixed Windows dTextBox problem, which would change ReadOnly back to False when changing the Alignment.
Added StrictNumericEntry property to dTextBox and dSpinner.
Linked the Find/Replace dialog to dGrid's findReplace() method, enabling finding in a dGrid. (ticket #1126)
Replace All bugfixes.
Forms were always restoring their default size, even when explicit sizes were given. Fixed.
Fixes from Kevin Edwards to make sizing sub-panels perform better, and to propertly set the background color of the dGrid bool renderer checkbox.
Fixed the getLastInsertID() for dbPostgreSQL, to work with non-serial PK's as well. Thanks to John Fabiani, Adrian Klaver, and Lorenzo Alberton.
Added dabo.settings.dateFormat, dateTimeFormat, and timeFormat. If None (the default) the formatting of these date types will be dependent on the user's settings in the operating system. This lets the appdev specify the format desired for display and editing in text controls and the grid. Prior to this, the only format was YYYY-MM-DD, which was satisfying to nobody.
Added dabo.ui.getObjectAtPosition(x,y), which returns an object reference based on the screen coordinates passed.
Removed unneeded, hackish code from datanav2, thanks to Pedro Vale de Gato.
John Fabiani fixed some issues with port in dbMSSQL.py.
Added dataToXML() to dBizobj.
Nate Lowrie added some niceties to dEditor, including better code folding.
Added code to allow biz.DefaultValues being set to None. If the field values are still null when saving, the insert statement won't include them, allowing database defaults to be used.
dCursorMixin no longer raises NoRecordsException from sort().. it merely returns.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Python 2.3.3 or higher
wxPython 2.6 or higher
ReportLab (if you need to generate reports)
MySQLdb (if connecting to MySQL databases)
psycopg 2 (if connecting to PostgreSQL databases)
pysqlite2 (if connecting to SQLite databases)
kinterbasdb (if connecting to Firebird databases
pymssql (if connecting to Microsoft SQL Server databases

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Great product; amazing service - Version: 0.8.2, 11/13/2007 02:00PM PST

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I write apps that are used internally here at work. As a Python developer, I chose wxPython as my UI toolkit, since it looks and works great on Mac, Windows and Linux. But it is filled with arcane C++ style constructions, and made development slow and difficult.

I tried Dabo after reading some good things about it, and was sold immediately! Its syntax greatly simplifies working with wxPython. In fact, it is so consistent that I rarely use the documentation at all.

The docs are spotty; where they exist they are excellent, but more remains to be written. But the developers are very active on the mail lists, and are always quick to respond with an answer.