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Old 15th November 2004, 10:06 PM
KennyVictor KennyVictor is offline
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In broad terms Gui just means a windows type interface where you point (with a mouse) at things, copy and paste, move stuff around, etc. As opposed to character based which is what older Dos type programs were. You entered in your numbers or whatever and the program showed the answer on the next line down.
I had a quick look using - "open source" database - on Google and it showed some languages which might be suitable to program what you are proposing. MYSQL is pretty popular I believe but I'm not familiar with it so I really don't know if it has all the capabilities (web access etc). I'd be surprised if it didn't.
The basic idea of an object oriented approach with a central module which has databases to store races, prices, etc and other add on modules which access and download data from tab sights, send bets, transfer data to excel or whatever seems pretty sound and very do-able to me.
Unfortunately, my area of expertise is not with object oriented programming. I work with the old fasioned character approach still and haven't had much to do with the sort of languages which we need here.
I'd say anyone with the right area of expertise could make the central module from what's been said on this thread.

KV
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