About a month ago I started making the conversion from Tsunami database to the new SQLitening engine from Fred Meier and Paul Squires. In order to really get a handle on things, I thought I'd focus on writting an application that I've long wanted but never quite got around to doing. I've now complete the first releasable version and I'm making it available for my fellow PBer's out here.
The program is called CodeClips and it's primary purpose is to provide an organized, central depository for all those little 'snippets' of code we collect over the years. Although there is no reason why you can't store entire applications, I mainly wanted to be able to quickly locate code for reuse in various projects. Also, If you're like me, you see something posted here and you think "That could come in handy someday...." only to save it to your disk and promptly forget it exists!
CodeClips uses a SQLite database to store a large amount of information about the source files, including the actual source code itself. When you need to find something, you can search the entire code text, your own comments about the file, a set of user-defined keywords, and more. Each file clip can be assigned to a user-defined category which makes finding "like solutions" even easier.
For each clip, you can categorize it, save the source code, author, copyright info, required compiler, minimum compiler version, free-form comments, and as many 'keywords' as you want to minimize searching later on. The source code can be sent to your favorite editor of choice automatically, and there is a facility to do a 'bulk' import of files that already exist on your computer.
There are more options that I have in mind, but for now, I find the program very helpful as is.
I retain the copyright to it, but you are free to use the program for either personal or commercial use free of charge. The program was written with EZ-GUI and a few other commercial add-on products so I can't release the source code at this time. I may rewrite it with PBForms or FireFly 3 at some point and if that happens, I will make the source code available as well.
I welcome comments of all kinds. I'm most certainly interested in improving the basic application, so if you have ideas for improvements, please let me know.
The install file can also be downloaded from here. No registry entries are made and all files are contained within the application's folder. I haven't tested this on Vista and have no plans to make it "vista compliant" so if you have Vista, you have my sympathies but not much more
The program is called CodeClips and it's primary purpose is to provide an organized, central depository for all those little 'snippets' of code we collect over the years. Although there is no reason why you can't store entire applications, I mainly wanted to be able to quickly locate code for reuse in various projects. Also, If you're like me, you see something posted here and you think "That could come in handy someday...." only to save it to your disk and promptly forget it exists!
CodeClips uses a SQLite database to store a large amount of information about the source files, including the actual source code itself. When you need to find something, you can search the entire code text, your own comments about the file, a set of user-defined keywords, and more. Each file clip can be assigned to a user-defined category which makes finding "like solutions" even easier.
For each clip, you can categorize it, save the source code, author, copyright info, required compiler, minimum compiler version, free-form comments, and as many 'keywords' as you want to minimize searching later on. The source code can be sent to your favorite editor of choice automatically, and there is a facility to do a 'bulk' import of files that already exist on your computer.
There are more options that I have in mind, but for now, I find the program very helpful as is.
I retain the copyright to it, but you are free to use the program for either personal or commercial use free of charge. The program was written with EZ-GUI and a few other commercial add-on products so I can't release the source code at this time. I may rewrite it with PBForms or FireFly 3 at some point and if that happens, I will make the source code available as well.
I welcome comments of all kinds. I'm most certainly interested in improving the basic application, so if you have ideas for improvements, please let me know.
The install file can also be downloaded from here. No registry entries are made and all files are contained within the application's folder. I haven't tested this on Vista and have no plans to make it "vista compliant" so if you have Vista, you have my sympathies but not much more

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