Super Fun GUI!

[numtel]

Likey or no likey? I need to know...

[SeaHag]

I like it..
1 thing. it would be awesome if you could round the right
side of the textboxes only..

Coo

Seahag

[numtel]

what do you mean round the right side of the textboxes?

[billwagnon]

"categories" is misspelled

gui looks good though

[SeaHag]

Originally posted by numtel
what do you mean round the right side of the textboxes?

JK

Looks good.
I find the gui the hardest part of my projects these days.

Good Job!
Hey! I estimate too.. what are you involved it.
construction? civil, ?? building?

Seahag

[numtel]

it's underground work, joint trench.

D'oh on categories, I thought something looked wrong!

[cafeenman]

Can more than one person access the same database at the same time? If so, you may want to get the estimate number last instead of first. I'm not sure how you're doing it though, so I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, the GUI looks good to me. Simple and efficient.

[James Stanich]

I like the look, but lose the drag grey...

[numtel]

I like the grey because it's not supposed to be too flashy. About the estimate numbers, all the files are stored in a folder and I just looped through each filename and added one to the last number. BTW, only 1 person really does estimating at a time, there's only like 5 people who work in the office and maybe 40 worker people.

[cafeenman]

Originally posted by numtel
I just looped through each filename and added one to the last number.

OK, well then I still think you should do it last. It might not be necessary now, but if your program is good, I'm sure you'll be asked to add more to it later. It could easily become a multi-user application.

So if you get a number at the start, but the file isn't created because the user may decide not to do it, and another user gets a number then the numbers will be the same, right?

So basically, don't return a number until the file is actually created. The last thing that should happen is a dialog that says:


"The Estimate number for this job is xxxxxxx."

By that time the file is written, so the other user who is in the middle of doing an estimate doesn't have to worry about it because they haven't requested a number for their job yet.

I learned this the hard way assigning case numbers in one of my apps.

[numtel]

i get what you're trying to say but it's not at all practical because even in the future not many people will be using it. if there does happen to be a conflict they can always go back and hit the button again.