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Old 01-06-2010, 05:37 AM   #139
Jim Chapman
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Originally Posted by David Marseilles View Post
I'm no programmer, but instead of building a database, couldn't you just create a dropdown menu for subfolders, limit the initial list to books in the root book directory, and then display a new list when I select a different subfolder? I'm happy to manage the files in explorer. It's just that scrolling through a list of hundreds of books, even when properly grouped, is a little rough on the brain.
Hmmm. That might work. One complicating factor is folders-within-folders (for instance, consider someone who has such an unreasonably large number of books that they keep their books in separate folders according to author's first letter, and then for some authors also also split by series - so the whole path to a book might consist of "\Storage Card\Ebooks\H\Harrison, Harry\SSR\01 - The Stainless Steel Rat.epub"). So I'd potentially need a cascading list or tree structure of folder names.
Anyone fancy mocking-up a GUI design for that? Ideally one that uses only .NetCF2 components

Thanks for using Freda,

Jim

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