Look4How is a Knowledge Management Application to store & retrieve, from a database, information for a topic which is organized by themes with items, being categories and related memos. The items are sorted alphabetically. Look4How has been developed for personal use but open to share the source code.
The application is developed with B4J. For those interested, the B4J source code is included for Look4How (Look4How094.zip) and the Look4How uploader (Look4HowUploader102.zip) = a lot to explore (enjoy). The B4JHowTo database is part of the master. Load into Look4How via File > Open.
The application has been created for personal use only. If planned for commercial use, ensure to comply to the Oracle JDK License Agreement.
Note Status Dec 2018: This application is not developed further as decided to create a new version based on Lazarus.
Steps to install the Look4How Zip package for Windows (tested with Windows 10).
- Unzip Look4How.zip to a folder of choice, i.e. Look4How. Following files are extracted:
- Look4How.jar – Core application.
- Look4How.pdf – Help file.
- Look4HowUploader.jar – Tool to upload theme files.
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Check Java Runtime Environment To run Look4How, the Java JRE must be installed. Recommended is Java 8. Check installed Java version, run from the command line: java –version. Result,i.e. java version "1.8.0_192".
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Start Look4How From the command line run command (Java must be on the path): java –jar look4how.jar or double click on the Windows Explorer with Look4How.jar selected.
While starting, Look4How creates additional files and the export folder. The main screen appears, in full screen mode first time, with the status information, that no themes are defined for the default database “Look4How.l4h”.
More information in the Help file.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS for A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .