Though database applications are evolving there are presently only very few system for rapid development of more general interactive visual front-ends. Tailoring non-standard graphical user interfaces to different views of a database is always anerror prone and time consuming activity.Database frameworks like Microsoft Access, Borland Paradox, or Visual dBase come with basic graphical user interface toolkits for rapid development of limited client applications. A couple of systems provide so-called reports for data representation andadditional forms with a limited set of tool-specific user interface controls for data manipulation. Data aware controls in form of text fields or combo boxes support additional, mostly text-oriented, data input and manipulation.
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