Book Tracker

What will the application do?

Track reading progress in books

Who will use it?

People who:

read lots of books
want to track their reading progress

Why is this project of interest to you?

I read lots of books and keep forgetting where I was at.

User Stories

As a user, I want to be able to:

add a book to my reading list
view the list of books in my list
remove a book from my list
see the number of chapter I've read
edit the number of chapters
edit the title of books
have the option to save my book list to a file
have the option to load my book list from a file

User Instructions

To edit books, click on the "Edit" button to enable editing, the double click on the field the user wish to edit.
To add books, click the "Add" button to add new rows. Once that is done, click on the "Edit" button to enable editing, then enter the titles and chapters for the new books in the new rows.
To remove books, first select the rows by dragging the mouse. Then click the "Remove" button.
The visual component is in the folder images, and are icons for pop up messages. They appear when saving or loading is successful.
The user can save the state of the application by clicking the "Save" button.
The user can load the state of the application by clicking the "Load" button.

Example Log

Wed Mar 29 21:36:05 PDT 2023
The book list is loaded from file.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:05 PDT 2023
A book is added.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:05 PDT 2023
A book is added.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:05 PDT 2023
A book is added.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:06 PDT 2023
A book is added.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:07 PDT 2023
A book is added.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:07 PDT 2023
A book is added.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:11 PDT 2023
A book chapter is changed.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:38 PDT 2023
A book title is changed.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:41 PDT 2023
A book is removed.
Wed Mar 29 21:36:43 PDT 2023
The book list is saved to file.

junhma / BookListManager