perl OOP question

2003-06-23 Thread David Christensen
new ISO::types::ILLString("This is a string"); Is there any way I can just say: use ISO::types::ILLString; my $s = new ILLString("This is a string"); Frantically learning about Perl OOP, David Christensen

Re: perl OOP question

2003-06-23 Thread David Christensen
Thanks, Andy... I'll chew on that awhile :-) -David On Monday 23 June 2003 08:43 pm, Andy Lester wrote: > >Is there any way I can just say: > > > >use ISO::types::ILLString; > >my $s = new ILLString("This is a string"); > > First, what you're talking about isn't object related. It's just > packa

Re: perl OOP question

2003-06-24 Thread David Christensen
You know, that is a very cool module. I never would have looked for that under 'Business', though guess I've got my library blinders on :-) And I think I "get" EXPORT now. Thanks. So much to learn, so little time -David On Tuesday 24 June 2003 03:51 pm, Andy Lester wrote: > >Whether y

Biblio::ILL::ISO

2003-09-07 Thread David Christensen
Hi all, I've just put Biblio::ILL::ISO up on the CPAN. There is still one major bit to work out (handling the ASN.1 extensions), and a whack of interoperability testing to do but my schedule is once again getting a little crazy, and I wanted to get this out there. Again, thanks for your c

MARC-Descriptions

2003-12-09 Thread David Christensen
escription"); You can get it at: http://www.textualize.com/~david/MARC-Descriptions-0.4.tar.gz (thanks, Ed!) Please feel free to let me know what you think - is this something I should put on the CPAN? David Christensen (that guy that was/is doing the ILL ISO stuff)

MARC-Descriptions

2003-12-09 Thread David Christensen
Already a suggestion - you folks are good! I tweaked the return-a-description/flags/shortname-string at the suggestion of Brian Cassidy - thank, Brian :-) Update at: http://www.textualize.com/~david/MARC-Descriptions-0.5.tar.gz -David

Re: MARC-Descriptions

2003-12-09 Thread David Christensen
Good call. http://www.textualize.com/~david/MARC-Descriptions-0.6.tar.gz -David On Tuesday 09 December 2003 11:24 am, Ed Summers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:01:35AM -0600, David Christensen wrote: > > Update at: > > http://www.textualize.com/~david/MARC-Descriptions-0.5.ta

Re: MARC-Descriptions

2003-12-09 Thread David Christensen
Another, cleaner get() routine (thanks Brian!) http://www.textualize.com/~david/MARC-Descriptions-0.7.tar.gz Just as an aside the power of this "Internet" thing is truly amazing! -David

Re: MARC-Descriptions

2003-12-09 Thread David Christensen
Ok, the MARC::tagdata (otherwise known as The Hash) has been renamed to MARC::Descriptions::Data, to more accurately reflect it's place in the universe http://www.textualize.com/~david/MARC-Descriptions-0.8.tar.gz I think another hour or so for comments (thanks for all your responses, by th

Re: MARC-Descriptions

2003-12-09 Thread David Christensen
Hi all - MARC::Descriptions is now up on the CPAN. http://search.cpan.org/~dchris/MARC-Descriptions-0.8/ Enjoy! -David

MARC-editing Perl/Tk widget

2004-01-16 Thread David Christensen
Hi all, I've been busy hacking away on a set of Perl/Tk widgets for MARC editing I'm planning on submitting to the CPAN soon (tonight? tomorrow?), but I thought I'd give anyone interested a chance to bang on it first, and let me know where it falls down :-) If anyone is interested, drop me

MARC-editing Perl/Tk widget

2004-01-16 Thread David Christensen
By the way... I've tentatively called the widgets: Tk-MARC-record Tk-MARC-field Tk-MARC-subfield Tk-MARC-indicators Tk-MARC-leader It seemed a reasonable namespace :-) If anyone can suggest a better/more-relevant namespace, I'd be glad to hear it. -David

Tk-MARC-stuff

2004-01-16 Thread David Christensen
Oop, meant to send this to the list: Actually, I *was* wondering how to package that all up as a single thingy. I image it would be something like "Tk-MARC-0.1", but I've no idea how to bundle packages I'm searching through docs as we speak :-) -David

Tk-MARC

2004-01-16 Thread David Christensen
Ok, I've got everything into one happy package. I hope. :-) Let me know if you want to take a look -David The more I learn, the more I learn I need to learn!

Re: MARC-editing Perl/Tk widget

2004-01-17 Thread David Christensen
Good call. I'll make the change. -David On Friday 16 January 2004 11:11 pm, Andy Lester wrote: > > By the way... I've tentatively called the widgets: > > Tk-MARC-record > > Tk-MARC-field > > Tk-MARC-subfield > > Tk-MARC-indicators > > Tk-MARC-leader > > I'd use initial caps, assuming that they c

Tk-MARC

2004-01-17 Thread David Christensen
Hmm. I uploaded Tk-MARC-1.1 to the CPAN and then the CPAN blew up. Hope it's just a coincidence :-o -David

Tk-MARC-1.3

2004-01-19 Thread David Christensen
Hi all, I've just uploaded Tk-MARC-1.3 to the CPAN. The only change is a whack of new test cases :-) -David

Re: MARC-related scripts and code

2004-01-22 Thread David Christensen
Good timing :-) I was about to start looking at doing some MARC field validation stuff, once I get some other stuff worked out for Tk::MARC. On that note - anyone on the list have access to a Sun(SPARC)/Solaris box, and willing to run a test script for me? Apparently one of the new Tk::MARC t

Tk-MARC-1.5

2004-01-22 Thread David Christensen
All tests are now happy on SPARC/Solaris :-) (Thanks, Charles) It'll be up on the CPAN soon. -David

More... stuff

2004-02-24 Thread David Christensen
Hi all, I've been working on building a cataloguing utility, currently under the working name "ALEX", but I'll be changing that so as not to conflict with Eric Lease Morgan's "Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts" . There's a few parts to it: ALEX-DB: a database abstraction layer. Currently work

Re: Using as_string() in Marc::batch

2004-02-25 Thread David Christensen
That might be something that could go into MARC::Descriptions another hash element to indicate punctuation. Then MARC::Field wouldn't have to worry about it :-) as_string() could check if MARC::Descriptions is available, and if so add any available punctuation. If not, just do it the cu

More fun....

2004-03-08 Thread David Christensen
Hi all, I've got all the bits in place for a "cataloguer's workshop": http://home.westman.wave.ca/~dchristensen/index.html (I still haven't settled on a final name for this thing - sorry, Eric! Soon!) The sample application, ALEX::Scaffold, works as a rudimentary (and not very pretty) workshop

Looking for beta-testers

2005-12-22 Thread David Christensen
- comments, criticisms, suggestions are all welcome! You can download the module here: http://maplin.gov.mb.ca/pub/util/Tk-MARC_Editor-0.4 (at least for now) (And a heads-up: In the module, the 'subfield' menu currently doesn't do anything...) Thanks, -David Christensen

Re: Looking for beta-testers

2005-12-23 Thread David Christensen
ou want with it. A button to scrap changes and revert to the original version of the record > might be useful (at least until some of the problems mentioned above are > fixed). Yep. I'll add that to the sample app over Christmas. Please keep up the good work. Thank you, Heh - thank *you* (and Andy, and Ed) for building the tools in the first place! -David Christensen

New version of Tk::MARC_Editor

2006-01-05 Thread David Christensen
... should I rename Tk::MARC_Editor to that (you can't just use one as a drop-in replacement for the other, though... so maybe not). As always, comments are appreciated. :-) -David Christensen

Re: New version of Tk::MARC_Editor

2006-01-06 Thread David Christensen
Thanks for the comment, Brad. Yeah, I was wondering about that. My reasoning is that Tk has a number of widgets, like Tk::Text for dealing with free-form text, or the Tk::DBI::Table for playing with SQL... so an argument could be made that Tk::MARC_Editor is a beast like that - a Tk widget specif

Re: New version of Tk::MARC_Editor

2006-01-06 Thread David Christensen
the shift key are fixed. I *think* I've fixed the problem with the editable leader bytes becoming uneditable and vice versa - I couldn't reproduce the problem, but it did lead me to redo the way that insert/overstrike mode was handled. It's a lot cleaner now... :-) Again, th

Extra record separators

2006-06-28 Thread David Christensen
Hi All, We get a lot of updates from our client libraries, to keep our union cat up to date. There isn't a lot of consistancy between the libraries regarding which ILS they use (they're all small rural libs), or which versions of a given ILS. The files of MARC records we get are often... strang

RE: Extra record separators

2006-07-04 Thread David Christensen
Curiouser and curiouser... Using just the following code: #!/usr/bin/perl use MARC::File::USMARC; my $cnt = 0; my $file = MARC::File::USMARC->in( $ARGV[0] ); while ( my $oldmarc = $file->next() ) { last if $cnt > 5; # Just for testing $cnt++; print $oldma

Re: MARC::Record on CPAN

2007-01-16 Thread David Christensen
A further +1 :-) -David On 1/16/07, Joshua M. Ferraro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Paul POULAIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edward Summers a écrit : > > Let me know what you think. > > what do I think ? > only 1 thing : APPLAUSE ! > and all koha developpers & users alike I'm definetl