In October of 2004, I decided to take on a new project at college. I was determined to write software that could be used in the Computer Science Major’s Lab to monitor who came in and out. I originally began the project in an attempt to learn how to write software that could interpret the data that was received from a card-scanner via a COM port. Then my interest grew and I decided to write a fully functional Log Manager. I knew a variety of other labs wanted a way to log who was coming in and out of their lab, so I figured it was a good project to take on.
Download Log Manager Version 1.3:
Installer | VB 6 Source Code
Log Files:
A new log file is created each day. Log Manager writes the log information to text files in the specified Log Destination. It’s capable of saving the log files to a certain folder on a server if necessary. By default Log Destination is set to “C:\INSTALL_PATH\LogDestination\”. Here is an example of the automatic file creation:
Below is an example of the contents of a log file. It is a comma delimited file, so it can easily be opened in Excel or similar program.
