Thanks for the welcome. I guess I'm just fortunate that I have a very strong programming background because of my own interest. I wonder how many users here have an Android phone? Would be nice to be able to justify uploading my beta onto the marketplace.

Vulpix,
I have an andriod phone..will you be adding the barcode scaning feature too?

The problem of course with locally generated databases is that it's usually someone's 'baby' and they're quite precious about it. Therefore, when they go they tend to keep things like passwords to themselves and you end up stuck again (in my experience).

Yes ... we've heard about that sort of thing before, Jocky.

But I would say that your experience has been unfortunate, as not all "home grown" stuff is password protected, and some it may not protected at all (that is, can include source code for others to fiddle about with).

Anyway, why aren't you writing your own?

"Precious"? "Anal" you mean? There's no reason to password protect software unless you're selling it (and not even then, in my opinion). The only valid reason for password(s) is to protect access to the data.