Small Application Toolkit |
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ANNOUNCEMENT (18th October 2003):
What is the Small Application Toolkit (SAT) |
The Small Application Toolkit (SAT) is a collection of utilities intended to simplify the development of small, multi-user, GUI based applications in a (Microsoft -or- X) Windows client / Unix server environment.
There are many existing methods for creating this type of application; Oracle/Forms, Ingres/OpenRoad, VisualBasic/ODBC, HTML/CGI etc, all of which have their place, but for many small applications these can be expensive/bloated/complex.
With this in mind SAT was developed using the following guidelines:-
No (Microsoft -or- X) Windows development skills are required. Any programmer with a reasonable grasp of Unix shell script can produce useful applications with the minimum of fuss. Take a look at the demo application to see just how easy SAT is.
SAT applications can be written in most Unix character based languages; C, Shell script, Perl etc. To produce SQL based database applications the SAT package includes a filter to simplify interfacing SAT with the MySQL database system.
Although the SAT components are designed to work together, most of them can be used stand-alone or incorporated into other applications.
All Unix components are implemented as scripts for easy portability.
System Requirements |
GUI Client
The client executables have been tested under Windows 98, NT4 and Linux. The client source
(which requires TCL/TK 8.3 or greater) has been tested under Windows 98, NT4, Linux, Solaris and AIX.
Server Components
All server components are implemented as scripts. However, the GUI server source code requires TCL 8.0 or greater.
TCL information and download can be found at Tcl Developer Xchange.
An executable version of the GUI server is available for Linux.
NOTE: TCL is not required when using the Linux executables.
SAT Components |
SATGUI |
Framework in which the on-line (interactive) parts of SAT applications are developed.
The GUI has two components; (Microsoft -or- X) Windows Client and Unix Server.
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SATSHELL |
SATSHELL is the easy way to create Linux/Unix shell scripts with GUI interfaces. SATSHELL
GUI screens are described using the SAT Display Language(SAT/DL). The interface between
SATSHELL and shell scripts is very simple as it uses the normal Linux/Unix Standard
Input/Output mechanism.
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SATFORM |
Forms processor to generate "word processor" quality output by merging application
data with templates. The templates use an HTML style mark-up system (SAT/ML) to define
the page layout and text attributes. Printers must be compatible with HP LaserJet III or later.
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SATFILTER |
Filter supporting a sub-set of SAT/ML to process pre-formatted output where data merging
is not required. Printers must be compatible with HP LaserJet III or later.
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SATREPORT |
Basic tabular report layout tool. Formats lines of data containing tab delimited columns.
Generates output in the format suitable for SATFILTER.
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SATMYSQL |
Filter to simplify interface with the MySQL database system. Provides interfaces
with SATGUI and SATFORM (Not required for SATREPORT).
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