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Re: Inventory Helper app
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lugnet.db.inv
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Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:11:47 GMT
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Hi,
Assuming (from the last paragraph of his mail) that he intended
this for our small group here, I'm forwarding Dave's mail to the
group. I'll respond to the content in my next posting.
I hope, since he subscribes via email to this group, Dave will
be able to follow our discussion.
Regards,
Hakan
> Dear Dan, Hakan, et al.,
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> I have watched with interest the discussions here (lugnet.db.inv) about
> inventory
> accumulation, data formats, and methods. Since it seems that the effort to
> centralize and standardize set inventories is reaching a critical mass, I
> thought I might pipe in with some ideas.
>
> It appears to me that the main obstacle to standardization of a format that
> is easily integrated with existing data is the dual necessity of legibility
> (in browsing) and automatic parsing. For example it would be easy for a
> script or applet to parse the data if all submitters wrote their entries
> with no spaces and all line items separated by semicolon, right? But
> that's not exactly user-friendly when it comes to looking at the inventory
> later. One solution that I have toyed with is the use of a "mark-up
> language" style format, with angle bracket tags to designate the different
> fields in each record. I wrote a little data-entry app in VB to assemble
> inventory data in this format as it is recorded. I worked on the project
> as a means of mastering VB more than anything, but the end result works
> tolerably well as a proof-of-concept, anyway. Ideally a function to export
> the data in other formats, especailly user-friendly browsable, sortable
> lists would be added.
>
> I would be happy to make available the alpha-app and source code if you
> would be interested. There're many more features I'd like to add,
> including the ability to auto-generate HTML table versions of combined,
> inline inventories. Also some sort of plug-in architecture for adding
> filters to import different formats would be nice. Maybe this would be a
> good candidate for open-source, group collaboration? I know there's
> several AFOLs on RTL and LUGNET who dabble in VB and other languages.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Dave L.
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> P.S. I would be posting this to LUGNET if I had posting priveleges, but
> since I don't feel comfortable with the requirements, I have never set up
> an "account". I do subscribe by email, though, to the lugnet.db.inv and
> .general mailing lists, among others.
>
> immortus@iname.com
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| (...) Welcome. Another brain analyzing a problem never hurts ;-) (...) Actually, as maybe Dan too, I'm more of a unix-centered guy. My application (most of it still sits on the local CVS repository on my laptop, but I'm in the process of migrating (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
| | | Re: Inventory Helper app
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| I see a nifty program that looks like the "select piece" part of MLCad (perhaps Ldraw too, never tried that one). When you select the piece you want it get's added to a list in the main window where the user can specify number of pcs. and color. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
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