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As mentioned in the first post, seeing as our reason for packing up early had disappeared, Jake and I decided to bash on with the project and try and get the four Select/Edit/Delete/New buttons finished. The code for the Select button itself was mercifully short and sweet, and the code for the GetTrack procedure was also reasonably straight forward, thanks partly to our increased understanding after working through the steps for the delete button, but also in no small part thanks to Rachael's very detailed examples.

The Edit button started off quite well ... until some silly person (ok, I think it was me) suggested that if the user would be able to edit the Track Name and Artist Name, shouldn't they be able to edit the Album Name and Artwork as well? Hmmmmm. Adding in the Album Name was pretty straight forward, and the creation of the Edit form went pretty well (or so we thought) until we tested it out. Everything went fine until we tried to update a record without selecting a new picture. When we did that, instead of the original picture remaining associated with the record, no image would be displayed at all. It also didn't help matters that Jake and I had decided to approach this part of the project in a slightly different way to each other. To cut a long story short, after much head scratching and playing around with various bits of code, Jake managed to get his working and between us we also managed to figure out a line of code that would get mine working too, so at about 6.30pm we called it a day ... sorry night. That left just enough time for Jake to get his revenge at pool of course!!

However once back home, and refreshed after dinner, I thought I would spend a little time making my Add New Track and Edit Track forms look pretty - how long could that possibly take I thought ... Well, once I got over my OCD tendancies of not having to have EVERYTHING perfectly aligned, not that long as it turned out. They are not the most fantastic looking interfaces in the world, but hopefully they are reasonably user friendly and I like the gimic of having the logo I "created" in the background of each form.

Having done that, and seeing there was nothing on TV, I thought I would then wind Jake up by making a start on the Media Player :o). At this stage I was still unsure as to whether the Media Player should be in a form of its own or not, however I personally would prefer it do be on the main form if possible so I spent a little time arranging my original interface to fit it in. I then added the Stop/Pause and Volume Buttons and coded them up, although I will be leaving the rest of the coding til tomorrow when I am heading back to Jake's so that we can work on as much of the rest of the assignment as possible again.

So, to sum up, the list of jobs done can now include:
• Select Button
• Get Track Procedure
• Edit Button and Form
• Windows Media Player (majority of buttons)

Jobs we hope to complete tomorrow:
• The rest if the Windows Player buttons
• The 4 Favourite buttons, etc.
It sounds so easy ...

Ok, definitely signing off for the night now.

Deb.