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Project: AYeah!Catalogger
This little project started a long time ago, created to make a
searchable catalog of my CDRoms. Finally I've made something that
seems to work pretty OK.
Currently I use the ASCII datafiles to create CD lay-ins as well
and that works great.
Tip: this little gadget is ideal for catalogging
your MP3 CDRoms !
Note: Read the Disclaimer
first!
This is FREEWARE, read details in the About of the
program.
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Using AYeah!Catalog
AYeah!Catalog is a pretty easy to work with program.
It basically reads a disk ("Read" button) and can store
it as a catalog on harddisk either in text format ("*.txt"
- tab formatted) or compressed ("*.cat").
| The entire catalog currently in use (this can
be of 1 or more disks, harddisks, CD's, etc.) |
| Well,... the regular about the program and about
the programmer story ... |
| Quit the program. |
| The dropdownbox let's you select the drivre to
read. |
| Read the content of the disk (set in the "Disk
Directory Tree" dropdown). |
| Deletes the currently selected (in the "Current
Catalog" field) disk tree from the catalog. |
| Reads only the program-names of a Twilight disk. |
| Exports the currently selected (in the "Current
Catalog" field) disk tree from the catalog. |
| Loads (and replaces the current one) an entire
catalog. |
| Loads (and merges with the current one) an entire
catalog. |
| Save the entire current catalog. |
| Clears the "Current Catalog"
field. |
| If this is checked, AYeah!Catalog will load
a default catalog at startup. The catalog path and filename must be
entired in the field below. |
| Used for making it easier to select a default
catalog. |
| If checked, hint ballons will show for all options. |
| Search string - this must be an exact string. |
| Start the search. |
| Saves the search results to a text file. |
| Normally (if not checked) searches are case
insensitive. Check it if you want to search with a matching case. |
Programming language, Components and Download
Written in Borland Delphi 3.0 (yes I bought a license
for that, to bad upgrades are shit expensive) on a Monday-evening. Uses
the standard Borland components and:
· THKStreams v1.5 by Harry Kakoulidis, for compression, homepage:
http://kakoulidis.homepage.com
· TURLLabel from Petrus van Breda
· TversionLabel by Marc Evans
These can also be downloaded at the Delphi
Superpage as well.
Current release:
0.9.1.15 Executable
Current release: 0.9.1.15
Sources
A snapshot:
History Version Details
Current status: sleeping.
0.9.1.15 Removed little bug in find option (twilight
disklabels where not displayed)
0.9.1.14 Added compression support for single disks.
0.9.1.13 Added compression for export and append as well. More efficient
load code.
0.9.1.12 Implemented ResizerPanel, resizing works better (still not perfect)
0.9.1.11 Removed animation stuff, still looking for a way to change the
mouse
0.9.1.10 ScaleBy too buggy - removed. Changed Date/Time to locale settings.
0.9.1.9 Implemented ScaleBy function
0.9.1.8 Automatically adding '.txt' or '.cat' when saving catalogs or
disks
0.9.1.7 Added URL labels for e-mail and homepage and removed some typos
0.9.1.6 Included version number in main-window caption
0.9.1.5 Improved window refresh (added proper repaint statements)
0.9.1.4 Improved Disk reading speed
0.9.1.2 Added optional compression (.CAT files), using THKStreams, for
Saving and loading the entire (!) catalog. Single exports and additional
Loading of catalogs/disks is not (yet) supported.
0.9.0.2 Added option to import a Twilight LIST.TXT and VARIOUS.LST
0.9.0.1 First public release
0.8.0.x Treeview replaced with Toutline, which seems to work better
0.7.0.x Improved directory reading, adjusted sorting
0.6.0.x Added import and export of a catalog of a single disk
0.5.0.x Added registry support for display location and default catalog
0.4.0.x Added search option
To be done (any help is welcome)
· Enhance the find option. I'd like to see the
path where the file/directory was found.
· Enhanced TOutline, so I can display icons like a CD, ZIP or diskette
to indicate it's source.
· Enhanced information on the media catalogged, like bytes used, disk
space remaining etc.
· Enhanced sorting of the TOutline data. I'd rather see the folders before
the files.
· Support for icons that come with the applications (not required, but
cute =)
· Option to rename disk-labels.
· A good solution to print a catalog. I'm currently exporting the catalog
to Corel Draw.
· Make the drive-dropdownbox update so newly inserted discs are recognized.
· Any enhacements you can think of or can make,... (please contact
me!)
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