This is a legacy archive in the development of what is going to be Vault OS. It was nearly finished, it could use a bit of work and then it would be complete as I originally envisioned it at that time.
I release this source code as public domain, you can do whatever you want with it however you want. I would ask as a courtesy if you fix this source code up and decide to sell it, you present a small credit line to me as the original author. I would also ask you to consider making it freeware if you do so.
This program could possibly be completed in about four hours of work by a good Borland C++ Builder coder. It needs reporting features and some improvements in the query designer. There are quite a few features it could use like calendar scheduling, I cannot remember what the status of those features was when I abandoned it.
This was designed as a single user application using the SQLite database as it's storage repository. Making this multiuser would be next to impossible as it is now, but I would like to have seen some features like mass email for all personnel implemented. If you do not know how to do with with BCB4 I have some source code for it.
Note it uses a cut'n'paste XML format for the query designer so that people can share queries via email as text.
If you are serious about developing this further, you can leave a comment here and I will get in touch with you to give you some more information on what could be done to it. There are a number of free tools for BCB4 I collected with the intent of integrating with it, like "FreeReport," a print report layout tool. I can tell you where to get these if you know how to compile them in with BCB4.
I completely wash my hands of this version and encourage anybody who thinks they could do some good with it to consider it their property to do with as they like. The only favor I would ask of anyone is to make some version of this software free for those who might need it and could not afford it. Remember, you can always sell a manual for the program and in this particular case that might be in high demand for a tool like this.
2 comments:
A person has to have Borland c++ Builder in order to even try it. Can you please provide Borland's shared files in the project: borlndmm.dll, rtl40.bpl, vc40.bpl... at least those three are missing. I have on an older disc Builder 6 evaluation, but it doesn't have shared files for version 4 so I gave up looking.
I'm a software developer, but I have switched to Linux for good. Except that I still have Win on a laptop.
Sasha
My apologies. I did not compile this version previously with Runtime libraries included in the executable. I'll see if I can package up these files and send them and in addition I will recompile it with RTL included.
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