Terry’s Worklog

So I’ve been having a few folks ask about MarcEdit 5.0 and Vista — specifically, are there problems installing one on the other.  Well, I found myself a version of Vista (Enterprise Edition) and gave it a while.  Good news — no problems.  The only problem that I ran into was the install program.  In previous versions of Windows, you could install the program without administrator rights and the program would load components based on the user level.  So if a guest tried to install the program on Windows — it would work — it simply wouldn’t register the COM components, while if you installed as a power user or administrator — all components could be registered. 

Fast forward to Vista, it appears that the installation program, as its currently constituted, requires an administrator to install the program.  Fortunately, I should be able to work around this to accommodate users without administrator rights on their machine — I’ll just need to do a little more testing.

–TR

I uploaded a small change to the MarcEdit program.  It includes the following changes:

1. Stub code added to accommodate a new input interface.  It’s not finished yet — but I’ve started making some code revisions to make it easier to implement.
2. Setup File Changes
3. Additions to the language file
4. Custom Sort Feature in MarcEditor
5. Misc.

The custom sort feature in the MarcEditor is in response to a user request.  Basically, the user wanted to be able exclude groups of fields from the Sort feature.  This allows you to do that.  The tool lets you mark items for exclusion for sort, but will sort the group within the list of fields.  So for example (pseudo-code):

Original Field order:

LDR
001
050
200
245
090
300
650  banana
650  apple
600
650  coffee

These items will be sorted to the following order:

LDR
001
050
090
200
245
300
600
650  banana
650  apple
650  coffee

Anyway — the Custom Sort Wizard looks like the following:

To make it work — you just select the field that you want to exclude and move it to the Exclude Field list.

You can download and try this at: http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/software/development/MarcEdit50_Setup.exe

–TR