The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91460   Message #1740043
Posted By: GUEST,Jon
13-May-06 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Digital Tradition Programmer Needed
Subject: RE: Tech: Digital Tradition Programmer Needed
Dick had and been and presumably still is using AskSam for the DT. It's not clear in this thread what he is asking for but I would guess programmers to produce Windows and Mac versions (I think Dick does the DOS version himself).

Driftinng but... I had a play with (the DOS version I think) DT a few moths ago and found I could export it to a plain text file using a free trial download of AskSam. I chose to make a MySQL database from the text and found it quite easy to do.

I must admit to have been toying with the idea of producing yet another version of the DT but rather than using MySQL as I don't think many would really want a client-server database, investigating HSQL or maybe SQLite as the database and using Java.

It's way down on my list of things I want to though - I might never get round to it - but it may be an idea someone would like to try - a cross platform version.