Welcome between the customers of pgDesigner!

pgDesigner it is a program open source for the graphical design of database for
PostgreSQL. The code is written with the version of development of the Gambas
language.

Ulterior information on http://pgdesigner.sourceforge.net

For the customers of Italian language a forum is present also on
http://www.ldrweb.net

For the references on the Gambas language, to make reference the situated
official http://gambas.sourceforge.net
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** IMPORTANT NOTES

To read the attached ChangeLog carefully, in particular the version of Gambas2
with which it has been compiled the program pgDesigner. Since the Gambas2
version is still considered in phase of development, every new release often
involves the rewriter or the modification of some functionalities of the
ruotines, for which it becomes necessary to use the correct indicated version
like in the ChangeLog. Probably it is possible that the application has
problems of compilation also with versions of Gambas2 beyond to that one
indicated.

For the operation of pgDesigner the following components of Gambas2 are
necessary:

  gb
  gb.compress
  gb.db
  gb.draw
  gb.eval
  gb.form
  gb.gui
  gb.qt
  gb.qt.ext
  gb.qt.kde
  gb.qt.kde.html
  gb.settings
  gb.xml
  
Therefore it is necessary to install all the necessary libraries, containing
these components.
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** DISTRIBUTIONS LINUX

Beyond to the rows compressed, for Fedora the package is available also rpm, so
as to to facilitate of the installation on this type of distribution.

For the installation on Debian to make reference to the guide, written from the
Piotr friend, on http://www.ldrweb.net

For the other distributions, I do not have way to test of the functionality,
for which I would be much pleasing one to who could relatively supply useful
councils to the modalities of installation or problems of compilation.

For relative problems you to the Gambas language, to make reference the
situated official http://gambas.sourceforge.net
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** LANGUAGE

Instructions for the formulation of the language in pgDesigner.

pgDesigner it has been written in Italian, for which the language of default he
is the Italian. All the labels and the messages will come visualize to you in
this language. For being able to select delle previewed languages it is
necessary to define it nella variable of atmosphere LANG. In the case it is
wanted to be used pgDesigner in a various language, as an example English
(USA), is necessary to set up this variable one with the identified of the
language, "en_US", as from example as an example following:

# LANG=en_US gbx2 ./pgDesigner.gambas
or
# LANG=en_US ./pgDesigner.gambas

The following commando, thanks to the friend Tomasz Krzeminski, is necessary on
Debian in order to start pgDesigner in English language:

# LANG=en_US LANGUAGE=en_US gbx2 ./pgDesigner.gambas
or
# LANG=en_US LANGUAGE=en_US ./pgDesigner.gambas

From version 0.0.40 it has been added an introductory window of dialogue, that
it allows the customer to select one of the languages previewed from the
program. For default, the language of default comes obtained from the
configuration of the shell of the customer; if this is not possible, comes
proposed the language of default that he is the Italian.
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** HELP

Instructions for the installation of the Help package.

Given the dimensions caught up from the package pgDesigner, I have believed to
make what good to separate the manual customer online from the rest of the
program.
The access to the manual in issue is always possible through access to the web,
in this case will come carried out a connection to the situated official
http://pgdesigner.sourceforge.net.
In order to install the manual on just the computer simple procedure is
necessary to follow one:
1) to install the package with the binaries;
2) to move itself in the directory where it has been installed the package of
   the program (normally /usr/share/pgDesigner);
3) to decompress the compressed file pgDesigner-help-<version>.tar.bz2
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** NOTES

Instructions for the start of pgDesigner from commando line.

From version 1.0.2, it is possible to start pgDesigner with automatic opening
of existing rows of plan.
In this he is sufficient to write the commando of start of the program,
followed from or the rows that are desired to load during the start; these
rows, if problems are not taken place, will be endured available after the
start:

# ./pgDesigner.gambas /<path>/<filename.[ini|xml]> ...

Is possible to define more than rows, everyone will come in the same way loaded
with the loading from the menu of the application.
Every rows must be complete of the directory on which it resides and of the
extension, while between rows and the successive one must be present at least a
space.
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Bye !

Luigi Carlotto.
