Jim’s Development Blog

Version 2 of the Museum Archive software project’s premium edition contains a new Query By Example (QBE) tool on the main archive browse window. Click here to see a video that shows you how you can use it to help you locate Objects in the database. Unlike the query procedure in the previous version, this [...]

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I am releasing another version of the premium edition of the Museum Archive software project. Version 1.8 contains a number of fixes/additions:

The name of the Object is now a part of the form window’s caption;
The accession number field is now easily visible in the browse list box;
The Location Reference field is now included on the [...]

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The Museum Archive software project is still going strong. 4,584 downloads so far..
I am currently working on two additions to the software: a way to import Objects from a spreadsheet (actually, from a comma delimited file), and a true client/server version that you can run remotely. Pretty exciting stuff; I’ll have more details available soon.

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When I first designed the Museum Archive software, I thought I might provide a method to play audio or video files from within the program. After playing with the idea, I realized that there were too many variables (codecs and so on) for me to spend time on, so I shelved the idea. Recently, some [...]

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