Coin organizer, a small software project

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

 

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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
Ruben

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Nice changes, thanks!