[Alexandria-list] CueCat and the Acquire from Scanner dialog

[Joseph Method]

Hi,

Just tell me your Rubyforge username and I'll give you commit rights.
If Alexandria is useful to you and you want to extend its
functionality, that's great. As you can see from the mailing list,
though, it's a very sleepy project. The ambitious refactoring plans
won't happen for a long time if ever, and if/when they do, your code
wouldn't be affected.

One thing that would be cool is if you thought about how the code
you'd be adding could be made into a Rspec test, to be run with the
`rake spec` task installed in the Rakefile in svn (requires the spec
gem). Probably you can't because, uhh, nothing else is being tested
ATM, but that will be the real future of Alexandria if it has one,
test-driven development.

I'm tristil in IRC if you have any questions.

On 8/19/07, Cathal Mc Ginley <cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm new to the list, but I've been interested in Alexandria for a while.
> I recently hacked up some initial support for CueCat ISBN barcode
> scanning in the acquire_dialog; barcodes are accepted and added to the
> TreeView. I'd like to proceed to do online provider lookups and image
> download, and adding the results to the selected library and all that,
> but I think the majority of the code for that is in the new_book_dialog.
> Before I mess up my code too much, what's the plan for refactoring out
> that functionality? (I've seen on the list archive that some further
> separation of core and user-interface code is planned.)
>
> A quick chat with a developer should be all I need to proceed. Perhaps
> over IRC? (I'm on Irish time, but late nights are the norm for me anyway.)
>
> By the way, I have a USB CueCat and it works perfectly with the
> one-at-a-time new_book_dialog with the current SVN Alexandria.
>
> Thanks,
>
>    -   Cathal.
>
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-J. Method