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This is an awesome idea! In fact, I've begun the very same project a couple
times, but never run it to completion.
One feature that I wanted the most in my version, and would very much like
to see in your version is integration with BrickLink.
Ideally, you would be able to do the following:
* Calculate the rough value of a person's collection by using pricing
information from BrickLink (say fair/average market value).
* Click on a set and determine if you have all the pieces. If you don't you
could click a link to BrickLink which would allow you to purchase the parts
as necessary.
Obviously there is a lot of opportunity here for shopping features:
* find a store that can fulfill your entire parts shopping list, so you
don't have to shop multiple stores.
Also, integration with CAD applications - specifically LDraw and MLCAD
* Allow importing/reading of dat files which will add the MOC/set to the
BLdb file and automically list the parts used. It would be pretty nice to
have check marks next to the parts when your collection has all the parts to
build it also.
Does your application allow you to mark a part as used? It might be
interesting to track "unused" parts, versus ALL parts in your collection.
In a similar vein to the "storage location" suggestion, it would be nice to
know if the part is used in a MOC, unused opened, or still in the sealed box.
Can you further explain what you mean by database for MOC data?
Have you contacted the respective web hosters to find out if they mind your
tool banging on their servers. Presumably it's not too much bandwidth, but
they might not want unofficial tools running against it (hope I don't rain
on your parade!).
Looking forward to using it!
-Stephen
In lugnet.announce, Luis Baixinho writes:
> BLdb version 0.1 announcement
> An application to register and manage your LEGO collection data (parts,
> sets and
> MOCs)
>
> After several attempts to design a database that could help manage my LEGO
> sets' collection and another one to manage my parts' collection, with
> Microsoft Access, I understood it might be a better idea to join both
> applications in a single, larger one.
>
> What I intended was that such program updated both the parts' and sets'
> collections every time I bought a new set.
> Then adding this the possibility to download Peeron's Set Inventories, import
> my own inventories from Parts Catalog (by Bob Kojima), and also the
> possibility to import parts from a Ldraw/MLCAD file, as well as from
> Lugnet's and Peeron's sets/parts databases.
>
> After a while behind the keyboard, I already have a program that works to
> some of the components I wish; missing still is the MOC part and the
> shopping one.
>
> Screenshots are available at:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=11852
>
> As you can see, besides the first window where every utility is, there is
> a second one for the parts collection where we can make several searches
> (includes filters). On the right chart we insert colours and quantities
> available from the selected part (this is updatable with every purchase)
> Below are the sets/MOCs in which the selected part is (being) used. This
> is useful when I need one particular part, and I dunno in which MOC it is
> being used.
>
> In the set collection window we have the options "Sort", "Search" and
> "Filter". Also depicted is the parts list for that set, comparing the
> proportion of every part in the totals you own - this way you know if you
> can build a given set even if you don't own the original (when this
> happens, the checkbox below is checked).
>
> Of course this work is not yet complete; I expect to launch a beta version
> for evaluation next week, and have a complete version around April
> (assuming everything runs smoothly!).
>
> This is what I would like to hear:
>
> - Comments to the preview;
> - Ideas;
> - And someone that can provide space on-line to host the program, so that
> anyone can download it (around 5 Mb). If download numbers could be
> tracked, it would be just perfect (for statistical purposes)
>
> Thanks go to the owners/administrators from Peeron, Lugnet, Parts Catalog,
> Ldraw, MLCAD and LDaddon, whose resources enable this program!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Luís Baixinho
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