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KEXI is a visual database apps builder, developed since 2002.

Changes in KEXI

Highlight:

  • Codenamed "Black Mamba"
  • Improved data-aware forms.
  • Form Designer's Data Source Pane for assigning data source to forms and widgets. Object tree view for easier navigating within widgets hierarchy.
  • Import from CSV files and pasting tabular data from clipboard. Export data to CSV files and copying tabular data to clipboard. Automatic detection of delimiters and column types.
  • Improved server connection dialog. Stored connection data.
  • Support for images in forms (stored as BLOBs).
  • New form widget: multiline editor.
  • Improved MS Access (mdb/mde) file import (optional plugin).
  • Improved import of server databases to a file-based projects. Entire Kexi projects (not only tables) can be imported too.
  • Scripting plugin (Python and Ruby) to extend functionality, including example script for HTML export.
  • Simple printouts, print settings and print preview for table and query data.
  • Handbook added (incomplete).
  • More than two hundreds of overall improvements and bug fixes.

Details:

  • 1.0.0 Alpha 1
    • Initial Alpha, released on 2005-12-21, together with KOffice 1.5 Alpha 1
  • 1.0.0 Beta 1
    • Released on 2006-01-31, together with KOffice 1.5 Beta 1
    • Kexi binary packages provided by some Linux/UNIX vendors are available within KOffice release. Testing Facilities with klik are also available.
    • MS Windows installation package from OpenOffice Polska is available.
    • Full Kexi source code ready to compile can be obtained with instructions here.
  • 1.0.0 Beta 2
    • Released on 2006-03-14, together with KOffice 1.5 Beta 2
    • Changes since Beta 1
    • Forms
      • Fixed saving images within forms for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
    • Database Drivers
      • MySQL: non-latin1 text data (UTF8 encoded) was not properly retrieved.
      • MySQL, PostgreSQL: entering special characters like ', \, ", \n did not work.
    • CSV Import Dialog
      • Fixed crash when importing CSV files smaller than 200 bytes.
      • Fixed CSV importing for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
    • Command-line Options
      • Fixed support for -print-preview option.
  • 1.0.0 Release Candidate
    • Released on 2006-03-29, together with KOffice 1.5 Release Candidate
  • 1.0.0
    • Released on 2006-04-11, together with KOffice 1.5.0
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