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Rasi

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Stuffkeeper - Flexible Catalog program

*Update: 0.10 released*

Hi there, first of all, this is not my own Project, i just help testing it, so credit where it belongs!

You probably know apps like WhereIsIt, Tellico and others. Stuffkeepers goes a compareable direction, but with one major difference: It is not bound to any pre-defined types of things you want to catalogise.

This is why the program might look very empty on 1st start, as you will have to create a type (e.g. Audio CD).
You define what this type should consist of and have several options to do so. (Strings, lists, textfields, sliders, checkboxes, images, Integer, Date & Time, Link)
You will see what those fields do, once you used them one time (Or check out the Beginners Guide on the webpage)
You can set up as many types with as many entries as you want.

Furthermore Stuffkeeper lets you define tags, which can be associated with every Database entry that is present. This helps to find things easily alot and combined with the filter, that lets you search for specific fieldnames/content you should have your desired results very fast.

Another feature is the possibility to export the database (or parts of it). At the moment it can only output css and html, but using a general template should make it easily output to anything else too.
Plugin support is also planned, but not sure when this will be done.

The program is using sqlite3 as a backend and is pretty fast. Altho its titled pre-alpha at the moment, it runs fairly stable on my machine.

So try it out! Have a look at the webpage: http://www.sarine.nl/stuffkeeper
and get my PKGBUILD at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16000

and join us on #stuffkeeper on the network you are on anyway

Last edited by Rasi (2008-04-27 20:27:38)

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qball

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Re: Stuffkeeper - Flexible Catalog program

To make suggestions and or reports bug, here is the bugtracker located: http://bugtracker.sarine.nl

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Re: Stuffkeeper - Flexible Catalog program

Yay! You finally released it qball! Oh wait, it's been released...oh ha ha, I'm a blind fool. I've been using some old git release, not updating...ah screw it. PKGBUILD time

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Rasi

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Re: Stuffkeeper - Flexible Catalog program

Just wanted to let you know, that Stuffkeeper has its own Home now at www.stuffkeeper.org

Its still a bit untidy there, but we'll be getting there
Feel free to get the newest version, report bugs and bug Qball with feature suggestions and money offers!

Last edited by Rasi (2008-04-17 10:53:40)

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Rasi

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Re: Stuffkeeper - Flexible Catalog program

Stuffkeeper is getting advanced display features... In the vsplit branch of git, stuffkeeper can now add vertical and horizontal splits, which can give you something like this:

Last edited by Rasi (2008-04-19 14:12:19)

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Re: Stuffkeeper - Flexible Catalog program

Update:

Stuffkeeper has a new Type Editor now, which makes it easier to set up the Layout you want.
Still dirty, but it works nicely already:

http://stuffkeeper.org/index.php/DevNews

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Rasi

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Re: Stuffkeeper - Flexible Catalog program

After some longer time, a new fancy test-release. This release is the last release before the release with major feature changes to the core of the program. This release however includes many, many additions:
Working translation support, including a German translation.
Generated title support. You can now have the title of an item build up from fields in the item.
Improved item layout, you can now pack fields in a horizontal/vertical box and nest these. This includes a basic layout viewer.
Locking of the interface. This protects you from making accidental edits.
Basic Plugin support. This is very early stage, so plugin api is not stable yet.
Framework for installing a few basic types on first-run.

It fixes the following things:
Plugged several memory leaks.
Fixed incorrect rebuilds, by moving to autotools instead of waf.
Speedups, stuffkeeper starts in less then a second with 3500 items.
Several usability fixes in Data list.
Remove blue color from data-link, as it breaks dark themes.
Fix text color when editing an item and the edit color shows.
lot off small things.

Download it here: http://download.sarine.nl/Programs/Stuf … 0.0.tar.gz

Last edited by Rasi (2008-04-27 20:31:03)

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Rasi

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Re: Stuffkeeper - Flexible Catalog program

This is a great day for Stuffkeeper! Took a while, but now you can finally enter
your Audio CD's in no time at all! Just chose "Tools -> Musicbrainz" to search for
a query and its in your database!
And as videos say more than words:
http://random.sarine.nl/stuffkeeper-mus … plugin.ogv

The Plugin is not in Stuffkeepers main branch yet tho. For the brave ones:

git clone git://git.sarine.nl/stuffkeeper-musicbrainz.git

This also means you are welcome to code support for your wanted service from now on

Last edited by Rasi (2008-05-20 10:15:37)

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Re: Stuffkeeper - Flexible Catalog program

Because a very very busy time this release is later then I planned it, but it is here now. Enjoy.

Added features:
For debugging you can now get more info about timing, how long it took to load the db, load the items, etc.
Shadow and border around the images.
Images smaller then the maximum image size are no longer scaled up.
Allow dragging and dropping images from any (gio supported) location. With progress bar and cancel button.
New date widget. The widget no longer supports time, it does however support "no date" and obeys localization. Also allows for custom markup.

Bug fixes:
Improved plugin api.
Icon support.
Fallback functions implemented.
Cleaned up the public api used by plugins.
Make the internal dependencies correct.
Don't force plugins to compile against sqlite for the sqlHandle.
Hide internal functions.
Added README and INSTALL file.
Localization on the date field.
Show image preview in the file-chooser.
Add file-filters to the file-chooser.
Code Cleanups.
More Code Cleanups.

Download: http://download.sarine.nl/Programs/Stuf … 1.0.tar.gz

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