The Application

The program pgDesigner comes in either source (such as from open-source policy), both in binary format, to allow easy installation, both source and binaries are provided in the form of RPM, whose system is widely used on most Linux distributions.

These packages are available on the site http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgdesigner/, updates will be reported through the classic story of the site.

At http://pgdesigner.sourceforge.net this is the web of documentation that reflects that provided in this guide, provided in other languages.

For users Italian is also active site http://www.ldrweb.net, where there is a forum where you can exchange chat, get information and assistance on pgDesigner, or even propose features for improving application.

But now we move to the description of pgDesigner.

The execution can be carried out in different ways, depending on type of installation done. As described in the above lines, pgDesigner comes in either source binary form (ie ready to run) if the operating system allows the installation of RPM, it becomes quite easy, given that the installation creates is the directory in which the application will reside and related files, is the necessary link in the /bin directory structure of the operating system, and its entry in the menu GUI (eg KDE). If the operating system does not allow this type of installation, then you must manually unpacking the compressed file containing the source of pgDesigner, compilation and deployment, these steps are described in the documentation attached to the compressed file.

It should be borne in mind, however, that pgDesigner requires mandatory library Gambas2 you, and you need to run the installation of Gambas2 before proceeding to install pgDesigner.

Once installation is complete, pgDesigner can be run from a terminal, run the following command:

# ./pgDesigner.gambas

With the current version of pgDesigner you can start automatically uploading existing projects, in this case it is sufficient to indicate the names of files complete path, following the command, for example:

# ./pgDesigner.gambas /home/test.ini /home2/test.xml

At the end of the boot process, pgDesigner launch functions loading files, making them available and visible to the user.

If, as described above, the installation was carried out by the RPM, for the launch of pgDesigner just click on the menu item on the desktop.