Marvel at the wonders of our GUI!
The WraggeLabs foundry has been working long and late to fashion custom-tailored, gui-enabled binaries of our Trove Newspaper Harvester.
We are still testing and tinkering, but could wait no longer to share our excitement with our loyal followers.
Those of the Windows persuasion can now download a beta version. Please poke, prod and put through its paces.
No more grappling with Python or submitting to the tyranny of the command line. WraggeLabs is fighting hard for your right to double-click.
Welcome one and all to the WraggeLabs Emporium, suppliers of hand-crafted digital tools to the discerning historian.
Now with even fewer bugs! Version 0.9.1 is available from GitHub (under downloads):
http://github.com/wragge/Trove-Tools
I’ve also updated the link in the post above.
Just did a quick test of the app not knowing much about it up till now. I am running this from the Curtin Library staff network. We are behind a firewall but no proxy.
Works well apart from one minor usability concern. The ‘Browse for folder’ dialog doesn’t allow you to create a folder. I had to leave the app, create a folder on the file system and come back to the app. This should be easy to add if this is a Microsoft language based app (.net, etc).
Michael, thanks for trying it out. The way the ‘select directory’ widget is rendered is dependent on the OS. But it should be possible to create a new folder. Try right clicking on an existing folder — you should get a New > Folder option in the menu.
I should probably add something to the help to make this clearer.
Hi Tim,
Did a quick test on PC behind a firewall and proxy server and it works a treat. It would be good to have ‘new folder’ option – I stopped and created one.
Also a ‘Cancel’ button? My first search result set was too big and it would have taken hours to download. Does it work on Mac or PC?