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Welcome to the GCDCollector wiki!

This project is just getting underway, so there isn’t much here yet. But if you’re interested in helping out, give me a shout.

Goal

• Create an easy-to-use application to manage my small, but growing comic collection.
  • Similar to collectorz.com or ComicBase, but with a UI that doesn’t remind me of Windows 3.1. (Not to mention free.)
  • Pull comic information & images from GCD
  • Must be able to easily add multiple copies of the same issue at different grades.
  • Preferably cross-platform, or easy to port. (Primary development will be on Windows, but I’ll use portable technologies, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to port to Linux or the Mac.)

Tools

I’ve decided to build GCDCollector using Qt, which was just recently released under the LGPL license. This should allow me to create an attractive UI, while at the same time satisfying the cross-platform requirement. Plus, it gives me a good opportunity to learn Qt.

All code will be in C++. Sorry. Despite all of C++’s rough edges, I pretty much hate every other language.

Data will be stored in SQLite databases. It’s small, fast, self-contained, and already supported by Qt.