Breaker Panel Circuit Directories

[SMartin]

Do you have a burning desire to create new index cards for your forty-two slot electrical breaker panel?

If so, this program may help.

Here's a little PureBasic front end for a Microsoft Access database for storing and searching breaker and breaker box data, and most importantly, printing new Circuit Directory cards.

I originally wrote a slightly more full featured version of this in .net and decided to try it again in Pure, just for the fun of it, and to see how small I could get the executable.

It's a very specific thing so I doubt there's many out there that would have a need for it, but anyway, it's free.

Steve

http://members.cox.net/smartin1803/Pure ... Panels.zip

[electrochrisso]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

[byo]

Thanks. Looks good.

One question: did you code that report viewer on the right or did you use a pre-made report designer/builder of some sort? If yes, could you share how you used it with Purebasic, please?

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[dontmailme]

Looks nice...... I'm sure you have cornered the market with this.... but I have no idea what it's for

[SMartin]

Byo, I coded the report in Purebasic. At first I was tempted to use the report designer in Access, after all I already had it created, but I got lazy and just ported the .net code I wrote to do the report.

Sorry I can't help you with that. I do agree, easy access to a good report making software would be a real bonus.

Re. having the market cornered: Ain't that the truth! I think I also have the marketed on logging and time stamping incoming midi messages, another thing that there's very, very little demand for (but useful to me).

Steve

[yrreti]

SMartin, thank you very much for this well done program

I know that probably most of the guys here would probably never
need such a program. But I had redone a bunch of wiring in our
house, and was looking for a way to print out a nice set of labels
to reflect all the changes. When I saw your program, I down loaded
it to try later. Well I just finally got around to trying it, and it is a
really 'nice' program, and well thought out.
Thank you very much for sharing it with us.

[netmaestro]

and to see how small I could get the executable

Switch from MS Access to SQLite and your whole package will be incredibly tiny. Access databases are many times larger than they should really need to be, goodness knows why.

[yrreti]

netmaestro,
could you please point me to some info concerning setting up
and using SQlite. I have searched and looked at some stuff here already,
but I really am a newbe concerning using SQlite and could never
get it set up right to work. The program here would be a great one to play
with. I would really appreciate any input.

Actually there is a lot of information that can be found. It's just that there is
too much information that it's confusing. SQLite, SQLite3, Kiffi's stuff, TS-Softs stuff,
etc, and which is best to use with version 4.10? I also read about a lot of
various problems that different ones were having. But you seem to be quit
knowledgeable about it.

Thank you for your time.

[SMartin]

Well, I'm glad to hear that someone else has found this useful, and thanks for the tip on SQLite. I think I'll look into that.
I got a new laptop recently thats got Vista on it, and I think I remember that this program had some problems with it....or maybe it was with the new version of PureBasic.

Steve