--- Typing80wpm@xxxxxxx wrote:
I DID Succeed in doing the sort of things I want in
VBA script in MSAccess, but that does me no good at work because we cant get
the money to purchase copies of Access.
I own a copy of Visual Basic, and if I could find a
good example of accessing the postgres in vba through the odbc
driver, then I could do what I want, compile it, and put it on the work stations.
Try this one: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/genpage.php?howto-visualbasic
If you already have some acquaintance with VBA in Access, then you can leverage that knowledge by using Visual Basic. Since you already own Visual Basic, that could be the no (extra) cost solution that you are looking for.
To add to this suggesting you could consider entering to world of .NET at no cost, in eith VB.NET or C#, by using SharpDevelop, which is an Open-source .NET IDE which comes compete with a visual designer. I've not really used it in anger, but it's a very impressive bit of work.
http://www.sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SD/
PHP will certainly do the polling and querying work, but struggles a bit with displaying the alert on the screen. You could try PHP/GTK but you'll probably find SharpDevelop a much nicer development environment.
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