Looking for thoughts on a windows prog.

Discussion in 'Programming' started by RichardPG, Nov 18, 2008.

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    Hello, just after advice and maybe a quote.

    I am writing a proof of concept program which is mainly web based and scripted in perl. However there is one part of it which my skill set doesn't cover and if the price isn't too high, I'm prepared to pay for.

    I don't want to go into specifics but what I want is a small icon which has the option to be 'always on top' and re-positionable on screen (like you can do with winamp). There would need to be a possibility for a user editable string that the user could enter (their userId)

    On clicking the icon the userId is sent to a script via GET (getItems.cgi?<userId>) the script returns an array of of itemId's and itemTitle's. These are displayed as a popdown list and each item on the list is clickable. On clicking the item on the list the itemId along with the userId is sent to a logging script using GET (projectSwitch.cgi?userId=<userId>&itemId=<itemId>) and the list closes again leaving just the icon (my script would then note the userId and itemId they clicked)

    There's a rough mockup of how it might look below and I would like some ideas of advice on the best language to use, how much work might be involved and if someone can do it for me an indication of how much they would charge.

    It's to be used on a handful of windows computers here in the office hence the ability to set a userId. There is no reason for the users to mess around so there is no reason to verify the userId is correct or anything.

    Ideas of how it'd look....

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    Program at rest

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    The program after the icon has been clicked, and the drop down is displayed showing clickable links of the item titles.

    Many thanks in advance.

    Richard
     
    RichardPG, Nov 18, 2008 IP
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    Richard I am not sure wat help u need.... any way it was nice 2 read abt tat
     
    nirajkum, Nov 18, 2008 IP