MySQL Launcher 1.3

Last update 24/04/2009

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MySQL Launcher 1.3 comes with many changes inside and outside the code. I solved many problems related to the dynamic loading of the official MySQL libraries. Now, MySQL Launcher is compatible with i386 and x86_64 architectures and is indipendent from the MySQL version installed on your system.

I’ve added many features:

• display real time information about the running server;
• execute any kind of query and display the result in a dynamic table;
• coloured dolphin in the status bar, that changes colour exactly as the application icon in the dock if the server is running or is stopped;
• display a history list of all the executed queries available from the main window and in the status menu.

MySQL Launcher 1.3 uses BWToolkit, created by Brandon Walkin.

Note that the main difference between MySQL Launcher and the official preference pane released with any OS X MySQL distribution, is that MySQL Launcher doesn’t query the server, because it works on a operative system level. The preference pane, instead, queries every second the server. You can see this by using MySQL Launcher and observing the number of executed query when the preference pane is open and when it’s closed. This means that leaving MySQL Launcher opened you don’t overload the server.

NB: this application is not optimized for queries that returns big results, because the main purpose of MySQL Launcher is to execute administrative queries.

Screenshots

A query has been executed.

Retrieving the last executed queries from the status menu.

The server is stopped, and MySQL Launcher makes it impossible to execute queries.

Starting and stopping the server requires administrative privileges.

The status menu with the green dolphin: the server is running.

The status menu with the red dolphin: the server is stopped.

Contextual Dock icon. Server stopped / Server running.

Credits

I must thank Ivan Arsenijevic to being the kind of person he is and to gave me several feedbacks and many suggestions, and to be a good tester and supporter.

Known “bugs”

MySQL Launcher 1.3 doesn’t fully support MySQL Server 6.0.9 alpha, probably duing to a fork process problem.

It appens that MySQL Launcher crashes for unpredictable reasons, many times related to the functions implemented in the official MySQL library, like mysql_stat().

MySQL Launcher 1.3 uses BWToolkit, created by Brandon Walkin, and the unique graphic bug (represented by an incorrect managing of the hide/show action of the results query area) is caused by this framework. Hope that Brandon and the community will solve the problem as soon as possible

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