[PLUG-Devel] Qontacts!

[Darrin Chandler]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:27:22PM -0700, Tuna wrote:
> So I had this book lying around, "A Beginner's Guide to Gambas". I 
> wanted something that I could apply what I'm learning in my VB class to. 
> So I picked up the book, flipped through the pages, and found a nice 
> little address book-type program.
> 
> So I followed the tutorial, having to fix a couple bugs along the way 
> that the author neglected. I finished the program, and realized it was 
> pretty bad. It was impossible to know which buttons did what as there 
> were no labels, tooltips or a help dialog. The "Search Contacts" dialog 
> popped up as soon as you clicked anywhere on the form. So if you click 
> the Quit button, it pops up. The "Delete a contact"  feature didn't 
> delete contacts, but rather just changed the name on the contact to 
> <Record Deleted>. Apparently this was supposed to be a feature as "the 
> user can use this space for another contact!"
> 
> So I fixed it. I made it so that when you first launch the program, a 
> little dialog pops up telling you what the buttons do. I moved the 
> search feature from a form_click() subroutine to a SearchBtn_click() 
> subroutine. I made it so that when you click "Save", it wouldn't save 
> contacts with "<Record Deleted>" in their names. That way, when the file 
> was reopened, that contact would not be there.
> 
> I decided that I had changed the program enough that I could 
> redistribute it. So I called it Qontacts because it uses the QT toolkit. 
> I put it on Softpedia just this morning, and it has four downloads 
> already! :D I mean, that's not a whole lot, but 4 > 0 :).

Yay! Nice job. Now you are helping some people!

> http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Qontacts-33910.shtml
> 
> There's the URL. If you have the Gambas2 runtime, please download 
> Qontacts and tell me what you think of it!
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