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lardman is offline lardman
2010-05-01 , 18:30
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Hi, have just downloaded this application (not sure which version) and I want to check that everything I see is as it should currently be:
Yes, this sounds like the latest (Qt) version.

When I load the application I can scan a chosen barcode which then leads me on to three options:

1. Give opinion with informed individual
2. Search with Google
3. Get opinion from informed individual

If I select option 1 or 3 nothing happens but I see there is some configuration possible on selecting the 'informed individuals' plugin from the main menu although currently those buttons do not seem to produce any 'individuals' when I select them.

If I select option 2 the numerical output from the barcode scan is placed into the search field for Google.

Is this all as it should be currently (fully appreciate this is still under development)?
I'm not sure how "Informed Individual" is supposed to work, nor how far along Dragly's plugin is. But yes, that's probably what should happen.

Really we need some more plugins to search and parse e.g. Google, barcodepedia, etc. and return information about the scanned product. In the GTK+ version I had a plugin that would itself perform the Google lookup and do some parsing, but it was rather buggy and as often as it returned the name of your CD it would segfault.

If anyone fancies doing some plugin writing, that would be great

The plugin architecture is also designed so that people can write "provider" plugins, which do things like Google lookups, need not have any UI at all, and can be used by "sink" plugins (such as the CD/DVD/book database I'm finally getting round to writing).

The idea being that once someone has written a lookup+parsing tool for some website, the data it provides can be used by all other plugins.