A Win32 circulation client (beginning stages)
Firstly: let me apologise - I posted this to koha-win32 as well. I've only come across Koha in the last few days, and am certainly excited by what I see: it's about time there was an opensource project like this. My one thing is: I'm not entirely sure I like the idea of doing Circulation type things through a web browser. So, here's the bit where I risk being unpopular: I've started writing a Windows client, for now I've only just started, but intend to do at least issueing/returning of materials. It's written in VisualBasic, so unfortunately probably won't be easily ported anywhere else, but so far doesn't use any non-standard controls, so it could be possible. It's currently sitting at a measly 132kb. (Plus, of course the VB stuff). It access the Koha system by connecting directly to the mySQL database using Microsoft Remote Data Objects and the myODBC connector, and authenticates based on the auth table. (I'm not sure how passwords are protected in there at the moment, as I just made up that part of my application - it md5's them, and stores them that way). Would any one else find this useful? If I release it, it will be under the GPL - it's not really based on Koha code, but I think it's only right. Just a little bio on me: I'm an 18 Software Engineering student at Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand) - 2003 will be my second year, did all the Library Automation software stuff at my old High School - there we used the MUSAC Library Manager software, so have a reasonable understanding of at least the areas I'm working on here :-). If you want to try a really really early version of it, I'll put one up on my website (just need to recompile). Thanks for your reading time! Patrick.
In article <000501c2bedd$eb5f81f0$5800a8c0@pftqg.com>, Patrick Quinn-Graham <lists@pftqg.com> wrote:
My one thing is: I'm not entirely sure I like the idea of doing Circulation type things through a web browser. So, here's the bit where I risk being unpopular: I've started writing a Windows client, for now I've only just started, but intend to do at least issueing/returning of materials.
There is also an (existing) telnet client. So perhaps it would seem to be time to thinking about making at least the circulation 3-tier. (I think someone else mentioned about this some time ago too.) Would you like to hold developing the Windows client until Koha gets to version 2.1, when it will be modularized? Perhaps you would even want to get involved in getting it modularized to faciliate making the Win32 client? -- Ambrose Li <a.c.li@ieee.org>
Quoting "acli@ada.dhs.org via news-to-mail gateway" <news-misc@ada.dhs.org>:
In article <000501c2bedd$eb5f81f0$5800a8c0@pftqg.com>, Patrick Quinn-Graham <lists@pftqg.com> wrote:
My one thing is: I'm not entirely sure I like the idea of doing Circulation type things through a web browser. So, here's the bit where I risk being unpopular: I've started writing a Windows client, for now I've only just started, but intend to do at least issueing/returning of materials.
There is also an (existing) telnet client. So perhaps it would seem to be time to thinking about making at least the circulation 3-tier. (I think someone else mentioned about this some time ago too.)
Hello, how can i access to the circulation process by telnet??? thanks, Pablo
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, acli@ada.dhs.org via news-to-mail gateway wrote:
In article <000501c2bedd$eb5f81f0$5800a8c0@pftqg.com>, Patrick Quinn-Graham <lists@pftqg.com> wrote:
My one thing is: I'm not entirely sure I like the idea of doing Circulation type things through a web browser. So, here's the bit where I risk being unpopular: I've started writing a Windows client, for now I've only just started, but intend to do at least issueing/returning of materials.
There is also an (existing) telnet client. So perhaps it would seem to be time to thinking about making at least the circulation 3-tier. (I think someone else mentioned about this some time ago too.)
This is one of my big goals in getting things better modularized. I'd love to be able to divvy out Koha into a set of services which could be distributed over some number of servers (for the very large, high-end library) or run entirely locally on a single server for the low-end library. I think that we should be able to scale easily to both ends.
Would you like to hold developing the Windows client until Koha gets to version 2.1, when it will be modularized? Perhaps you would even want to get involved in getting it modularized to faciliate making the Win32 client?
If you're willing to wait, I think this would be the best course. If you've gotta work on it right now, be aware of the upcoming modularization. In either case, please do jump in on the modularization project once 2.0 is out ... i think we're going to want all the coders we can get. -pate
-- Ambrose Li <a.c.li@ieee.org>
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