Looking for a 'grid' data entry tool for sqlite (or maybe mysql)

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 16:28 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 06:13:36AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > I *could* just use a text file arranged in columns but that gets clumsy
> > > for resizing columns etc. plus I'd have to write code to extract the
> > > data in ways I wanted it.  A database provides much of the basic tools I
> > > want but without simple data entry I'm a bit stuck.  I guess I might
> > > look into ways and means of converting from some other format (e.g. a
> > > table in a wordprocessor) which makes the editing easy, to and from the
> > > database. 
> > ----
> > not that I would recommend this as practical but PgAdmin3 is a full GUI
> > interface to postgres tables and you can edit in grid view but like
> > above, it's overkill (and a little buggy).
> > 
> I've installed and played with PgAdmin3, it's very nearly what I want
> but has one major disadvantage and one minor disadvantage:-
> 
>     There's no direct way to the table data editing mode, one has to
>     click through several menus loading the database etc.  There aren't
>     command line options to take one directly to the editing grid.
> 
>     There's a stupid splash screen that you can't turn off that wastes a
>     couple of seconds every time you start the program.
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CLI launch

pgadmin3 -s $SERVER_NAME

Craig



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