SPTK

SPTK (Simply Powerful Toolkit) creates an easy-to-use, compact and effective library of controls to extend the abilities of FLTK library. Most of the controls are database-bound. If you place them on the CDialog-derived window they can load and save information from/to database. (See my SPDB library description for the ODBC classes). For more information about FLTK please open FLTK home page.

This is the list of the classes included into the library: · CButtton class Allows to create predefined buttons from internal images. Every image is created only once for all the buttons using it. I didn't create too many of them but so far it was enough for most of my programs. · CRadioButtons, CListView, CInput etc. classes Created to build the data dialogs (see CDialog class below). While being placed on CDialog window, these controls may use it as a data source to load or save the information. It's very useful when you have to edit some data in the database. All these controls (widgets) have a special method fieldName() to define the table field name the control (widget) should be associated with. · CComboBox, CDBListView classes Allow to fill their content from the database. It's necessary to define an SQL text and a key field name, and then call the refreshData() method. The controls (widgets) of this kind also have a fieldName() method to work with CDialog' database connection. · CDialog class Allows to edit data from the particular database table. If the data are coming only from one table it takes very few lines of code (see the example in distribution) to create this dialog. It will manage the load, insert or save data automatically.