goossen

Ruben, is not the place to talk about you programming preferences. I personally like C# and I have deployed many solutions with mono at my workplace. We could discuss it infitely, but as I said, its not the place.

BullionBox, I would like to see your software. I've developed one for my personal use too. Maybe we can share some ideas.

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bullionbox

Sure.

rdo

Here is a screenshot of an app I was working on... I lost interest and decided to just keep using open office calc instead. Written in C# using an MS-Access db to store the data.

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bullionbox

Nice. I should add a save button like you have.

I'm thinking about adding an ajax-type search function that automatically updates the search result as you type in the query. If it's possible. Also, I don't think it's a good idea to store the thumbnails in the xml file like I'm doing now...

rdo

My images are small enough that I did not use a thumbnail... I don't notice any performance degradation unless I am loading from a usb thumb drive... the images were stored in "some" directory with the path to the image stored in the db.
double clicking the image would display it in full screen mode.

bullionbox

Looks like I can't edit my initial post anymore:

mrbrklyn

Open Office Calc actually has a database backend engine which I once hooked up to MYSQL. There was a lot of problems with it though and it ended up easier to generally use embperl which creates tables in HTML automatically. For one thing, OO was owned by Sun for a long time and the OBDC driver was Java, and they debated this for a long time. But the biggest problem was that the Open Office Macro language seemed to have almost no documentation, which is so stupid. WHat is the point of spending thousands of manpower hours creating a completel macro language for OpenOffice and then create no documentation for it?

Anyway, there are decent GTK widgets that can more easily be used or Perl-GTK

Ruben
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rdo

Speaking of MySQL.. wonder what's gonna happen with it now that Oracle owns it.

mrbrklyn

Good question. They can't kill it because the code base is licensed under the GPL.

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mruetz

Oracle doesn't own MySQL yet but looks like it will happen

bullionbox

Here's a new version.

[+] You can now export to excel.
[+] Added a few buttons for simplicity.
[+] "Search coin on ebay" option added.
[~] US coins now loaded by default when adding coin.

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CoinKeeper

Those two look great!

and mrbrklyn is a bully...

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Phil Ham

I catalog my coins in Excel and use the various Excel special functions to put everything into a neat order by tabs.

mruetz

I like the program. Simple and easy. A few ideas/suggestions:

- Suggest adding an Add Coin, Delete Coin buttons (you can right click to do this but more intuitive if you see a button)
- Probably need to add some capability to print out the inventory

mruetz

Nice changes, thanks!