Re: Dry Run Mode, + W9X

[Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>]

Serguei Mokhov wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> What do you people think of adding a so-called
> "dry run" mode to pgAdmin? Basically, what I want
> is to be able to step through all the dialogs and forms and
> the rest of the UI in some test mode so that I can
> see all the GUI elements and their appearance w/o
> actually performing any underlying operations.

This seems a good idea to support translators. But it has some caveats 
which have to be considered while implementing. E.g. a dummy server may 
not be written to the registry when exiting the app.
Many strings which are not easily understandable without context are 
probably error messages. A translator would still have the problem "when 
is this string xyz used".

Win9x support is still not implementable. Our weak 9x support is not a 
database connection issue; it's the operating system lacking proper 
unicode support, which is unfortunately *the* limiting factor for your 
"dry mode" target audience.

Regards,
Andreas