Games type interface

[EternalOptimist]

Got an interesting request from client co.

Our big customer chains use a vb/sql planning tool for ordering stock.

potential smaller customers, one man bands, would not be able to support the cost of this solution.

MD has asked me if it is possible to build a games/like interface that supports a small database, that would be generic enough to appeal to a disparate clientele.

what language platform cost etc


tia

[Not So Wise]

Game like interface = Fancy looking but simple to use?

Have a look at WPF (Desktop/Windoze) and/or Silverlight (Internet Windoze/Mac)

[voodooflux]

Game like interface = Fancy looking but simple to use?

Have a look at WPF (Desktop/Windoze) and/or Silverlight (Internet Windoze/Mac)

That would be my suggestion too - it's very easy to knock up something with plentiful eye-candy in no time at all.

(And there's probably a double entendre in that statement somewhere.)

[EternalOptimist]

silverlight supports a database as well as providing an interface ?

[voodooflux]

silverlight supports a database as well as providing an interface ?

Yes (indirectly) but it's more straightforward with a straight WPF application (which essentially uses the same UI technology as Silverlight) rather than a Silverlight application hosted in a browser.

Are you after an application or something browser based?

[EternalOptimist]

Yes (indirectly) but it's more straightforward with a straight WPF application (which essentially uses the same UI technology as Silverlight) rather than a Silverlight application hosted in a browser.

Are you after an application or something browser based?

possibly both

but the users would have their own seperate dicrete db. not shared.

[Pondlife]

Not wanting to go to far off topic EO but this sounds like it will be a nightmare for your client's planning dept to manage if they're on separate databases.

[Not So Wise]

silverlight supports a database as well as providing an interface ?

Yes via Web Service or ADO.NET Data Service.
Have a look at at http://silverlight.net/showcase/ to see what type of interfaces are possible

Not wanting to go to far off topic EO but this sounds like it will be a nightmare for your client's planning dept to manage if they're on separate databases.

When client ask's for a "games type interface" for a business application someone is in for a nightmare from the get go and the only way from there is down

[VectraMan]

Yes via Web Service or ADO.NET Data Service.
Have a look at at http://silverlight.net/showcase/ to see what type of interfaces are possible

Doesn't look very game like to me. I was expecting to run through a maze looking for the red key to open the red door.

There's Flash as well of course.

[NickFitz]

Left-Right-Fire?