2. Welcome to MUIbase
MUIbase is a fast and flexible database system. It is targeted for
advanced desktop users who want to manage data in a comfortable and
powerful way. MUIbase is able to manage any kind of data, e.g. addresses,
music collections, movies, photos, your family tree, your income and
expense, and much more. The power of MUIbase lies in its graphical user
interface and its programming capabilities. Programming MUIbase allows
you to process data in various ways, e.g. automatic calculations upon
user input, generation of reports, import and export of data, etc.
For example MUIbase can be used for calculating the total amount of income,
or to automatically create and print serial letters to your customers.
MUIbase offers the following features:
- Graphical user interface for defining the database schema and
the graphical layout for entering and browing data.
- Admin and user modes.
- Shared access to a project from multiple instances of MUIbase running on
the same or different computers.
- Fields can be of type string, memo (multi line text),
integer, real, date, time, boolean, choice (one item out of many items),
reference (easy way to reference a record of another table),
button (for starting MUIbase programs), and virtual (compute value
on the fly).
- The string type can also manage lists of strings, files, and fonts.
A string can refer to an external image
which is displayed in the graphical user interface.
- Programmability. With the easy and powerful MUIbase programming language
complex tasks can be implemented. The language also includes
a SELECT FROM WHERE query for comfortable and fast data retrieval.
- Ordering of records by any combinations of fields.
- Query editor which allows entering and managing of SELECT FROM WHERE
queries. The queries can be saved and the results can be printed.
- Optional logging of changes (adding, deleting and changing of records)
into a system log table.
- SQLite3 file format, and import and export facility.
- Full documentation including user and programming manual in
HTML and PDF.
- Operating system independence.
MUIbase is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Amiga.
The source code is available as part of a SourceForge project.
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