laddr 1.0.4
Congratulations on downloading version 1.0 of laddr, the Lesstif Address Book! You are now well on your way to peace and tranquility... Or something like that...
laddr is a nice simple little address book written using the Lesstif widget set. Why an address book? Because I looked all over for one that I liked, and came up empty handed each time. So, I decided to write my own. Why Lesstif? Because it was free, available, and I had a big fat book about programming in Motif already. Why not (choose one: gtk, qt, athena, [insert other widget sets])? Because I had the big fat book about Motif sitting here, and could find very little documentation about those other sets anywhere. Anyway, Motif is the standard, right? (Notice I said "is", not "will be", "wants to be", "should be", etc, as I would have to with many other widget sets.)
So, what's it do? Well, it holds addresses and any other information you want to know about a person. It also looks pretty, and is fairly small both in executable size and screen real estate size. It basically acts like a pile of alphabetized 3x5 cards on which you can write whatever your little heart desires. It will then save them on exit so you can load them up over and over. Of course, adding and deleting cards is a simple task, and with a couple clicks, the information is right back at your fingertips. To save your changes, be sure you use teh "Quit" button when exiting. When version 1.1 comes along I will have that fixed, but at the moment that is how it works. Overall, I think it is wonderful. (Although, I am probably a little biased...)
The internals of the program rely on a database that consists of a linked list as written by Matt Fisher. I am eternally in debt to him, and now will have to learn to program stuff in Windows just so he can use it, too. :) Thanks Matt!
Ok, that is all I have to babble about. The latest version of laddr will probably be available at http://cse.unl.edu/~cluening/laddr at all times. I should also be contactable at cluenin1@bigred.unl.edu at about all times. So, let me know what you think and what new stuff should be added/fixed.
Cory Lueninghoener
cluenin1@bigred.unl.edu