Hi Chris,
Bad news in general, I'm afraid.
1] I just haven't been able to get my head around importing and exporting in
Eclipse - I
was hoping I could just open the .jar file, change the connected
WebExporter.java and
save, but it's not quite that simple and I never seem to get all the necessary
files in the
project to begin with, which means the final .jar fails, the errors suggesting
it's because
the .java file is then referring to other package files that it can no longer
find... Based upon
my hour or two of trying to work it out unsuccessfully, I've now pretty much
given up on
that approach, even though it would be a time saver.
2] One of the reasons why the barcode option doesn't seem that crash hot is that
you can't
actually do much with the barcodes output on screen. I can't actually scan them
off the
screen, so from a practical point of view, it's only useful when printed out.
And printing
out a page per barcode would only seem useful in a very limited set of
circumstances.
3] I did, however, scan in some of my library and upload it with barcodes today.
It was a
rather painful process - I imported the books from Delicious Library, changed
each
barcode field to "<img src=barcode.php..." etc., ran the normal WebExporter and
then
opened up the resultant .xml to edit back out the ISBN changes in it before
uploading... My
library is currently at http://www.orgburo.com/library/ , with the barcodes
simply
appearing in place of the ISBN number when there was one.
4] Given the trouble I had with java and my lack of expertise, I think I might
stick with a
MySQL approach for future web uploads of my library, exporting to a
tab-delimited file.
Sorry I couldn't be any help in developing even a slight change to the plugin
for other
users.
Regards,
James.