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Re: BrikTrak 2002 - beta testers wanted...
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:23:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Richard Morton writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Sorry if this message is in the wrong group, but I guess this may be of
> interest not just to Bricklink.com buyers and sellers, but also to
> LDraw/MLCad modellers and pretty much any AFOL with a largish LEGO
> collection.
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> The reason for this message is that I am almost finished development of a
> computer application which I have called BrikTrak 2002 and I have decided to
> release this for BETA testing to the larger AFOL community.
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> BrikTrak is actually a ground up re-development of a tool I developed over a
> year ago for my own purposes. Like many of you, I spend way too much money
> on LEGO sets at clearance prices. The only trouble with doing this is I can
> only use approx 30% of the pieces I get in the sets (I tend to do larger
> scultures and artwork pieces rather than minifig scale so only really need
> bricks and plates etc), so I sell the pieces I can't use on my Bricklink.com
> store.
> Well, using just online tools wasn't as fast as I needed for such a large
> inventory, so I decided to develop an offline stock administration
> application that gave me pretty much all the information in needed at my
> fingertips.
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> I don't want to go into too much detail in this post about what it does, but
> if you go to the BrikTrak website at http://www.briktrak.com you will see
> screenshots, feature overviews and more.
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> It is much more than just for Bricklink.com stores - MLCad modellers may
> find it useful as it can take a .dat model and work out not just the piece
> inventory, but the average selling price of each piece if you need to
> actually buy some of the pieces.
>
> Now, the beta release won't be out until July 12th, but I am wanting to get
> as many people as possible involved ahead of time. I have created a forums
> area on the BrikTrak.com website for all feedback, tips, communication and
> pretty much everything to do with the application and so I am inviting
> anyone who is interested to take a look at the site, read the feature
> overview and view the screenshots, sign up for the beta program and pretty
> much lets start the communication going in the forums area. Tell me what you
> think so far, what you would like to see or whatever else you may want
> BrikTrak to be.
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> The application is going to be free or donationware - I don't intend making
> money from it. It has been very useful to me, helping me manage my
> Bricklink.com inventory over the last few months, and if even only one other
> person finds it useful, then I will be happy.
>
> That URL again is http://www.briktrak.com
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> Many thanks,
> Richard (Britdog)
That looks *awesome*. I can't wait!
One question though. Will the program be able to detirmine if a part in a
specified color is avalible in that specific color (if LEGO actually made
that part in that color)?
Looks great,
--Kai
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| <SNIP> "Kai Brodersen" <kbrodersen@comcast.net> wrote in message news:GyAJzJ.FnE@lugnet.com... (...) Hi Kai, Yes, BrikTrak has this functionality already. What happens is this; You select a part from your inventory grid and click the 'check (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi everyone, Sorry if this message is in the wrong group, but I guess this may be of interest not just to Bricklink.com buyers and sellers, but also to LDraw/MLCad modellers and pretty much any AFOL with a largish LEGO collection. The reason for (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-02, to lugnet.general) !!
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