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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. About ForeWarn ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
FOREWARN was written to fill a void that appears to exist in the shareware
market. The goal of the program is to provide a means of producing
forewarnings whenever the program is run based on a data file which is
maintained in standard ASCII format similar to the Unix CRONTAB format. The
program should also allow for rollover dates for such data as birthdays.
Additional information may be found on the following topics:
File Disk File Operations.
Edit Record manipulation.
Options Program operation options.
General General information on operation of ForeWarn.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. File ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Description of File Menu
Reload Reloads the data file and discards current edits
Clear Deletes all records
Save Saves all records
About Displays information about the Author and WiSHware
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. ABOUT ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
o Select the File menu and choose the About command.
Information about the author and the version number will be displayed.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. RELOAD ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
o Select the File menu and choose the Reload command.
Use this command to discard all records and load the disk file into memory
again.
Warning: all changes made to any records will be lost when this command is
selected.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. CLEAR ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
o Select the File menu and choose the Clear command.
This command is used to clear all records from memory.
Warning: all changes made to any records will be lost when this command is
selected.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. SAVE ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
o Select the File menu and choose the Save command.
This command is used to save all data to the disk file. The program requires
that the user confirm that the data should be saved to the disk before
continuing.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. Edit ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The majority of the code for ForeWarn is centered around the editor. The
editor has been written to be as simple and logical as possible. The user
interface is designed to be as intuitive as possible and follows the OS/2 2.0
Application Design Guide
When the edit mode is chosen from the command line, the records of the datafile
are displayed in the following format:
mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss DELAY sound Message...
To select a record for editing, simply move the mouse pointer to the desired
item and click with button 1. A box will appear around the record to indicate
that the record has been selected. After selecting an item, the following
actions may be selected from the Edit menu:
Delete Deletes the current selected record
Add After Adds a record after the currently selected record or at the end
of all the records if none are selected
Change Used to change a record
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. DELETE ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
o Select the Edit menu and choose the Delete command.
To delete any record from the data file, select the record by moving the
pointing device to the desired record and clicking button 1. After selecting an
item, pull down the Edit menu and select Delete. The item is then deleted from
the records in memory. The data is not written to the data file on disk until
Save is selected from the File menu.
All data can be deleted by selecting Clear from the File menu.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9. ADDAFTER ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
o Select the Edit menu and choose the Add after command.
Data can be added in two ways. The first is to select an item and then select
Add after from the Edit menu. The data will be added immediately after the
selected record. If a record is not selected when Add after from the Edit menu,
the record is added at the end of all the records.
To add a record to the data file, select the record by moving the pointing
device to the desired record and clicking button 1. After selecting an item,
pull down the Edit menu and select Add after. The Edit Dialog will pop up to
fill in the data to be added. Selecting Cancel from the Edit Dialog will stop
editing the record and nothing will be added to the current records. Selecting
Change from the Edit Dialog will add the new record.
The data is not written to the data file on disk until Save is selected from
the File menu.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10. CHANGE ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
o Select the Edit menu and choose the Change command.
To add or change any records using the ForeWarn editor, the Edit Dialog is
used. This dialog box contains a total of twelve entry fields for the data in
a record.
Note: The four fields in the Advance group are combined to calculate the
number of seconds in the delay field of the data file. The dialog group is
intended to make it easier for the user to specify the delay time.
The Edit Dialog box is displayed when Add after is selected from the Edit menu
or when a record is selected for editing by double clicking button 1 of the
pointing device on a record or selecting Change from the Edit menu.
The data in the Edit Dialog box is divided into groups. These groups are
provided to functionally separate the purpose of the data. These groups are:
Deadline The six fields which make up the deadline are the Hour, Minute,
Second, Day, Month, and Year of the data file. These fields
define the actual date of the event to be defined in the record.
Leap years affect the number of days that are selectable when
the selected month if February.
Advance The four fields which make up the advance group are the Hour,
Minute, Second, and Day. These fields are combined to create
the delay field of the data file. The advance group also
contains Year and Month fields for symetry, but these fields are
not accessible.
Message This is the same field as the one in the data file and contains
a single field which is used to edit the message to be displayed
when an event is active.
Sound This field provides a list of the sounds which may be associated
with records. When DOS compatibility is selected from the
Options dialog box, this field is ignored.
The following table summarizes the method for editing records from the Edit
Dialog box:
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The data is not written to the data file on disk until Save is selected from
the File menu.
All data can be restored by selecting Reload from the File menu. Note that
reloading the data from the disk discards all edits made since the data was
last saved to the disk file.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11. OPTIONS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Description of Options
Use DOS Version Compatibility A checkbox used to select the type of file format
for saving and loading. When Dos Compatibility is selected, all
sound information is lost and the sound field is not saved in
the data file. When the data file is loaded, ForeWarn attempts
to determine the format of the data file. If DOS compatibility
has not been selected and the file is a DOS format file,
ForeWarn will automatically switch to DOS mode.
Backup data file A checkbox used to turn on or off backups of the data file.
Autosort on Load A checkbox used to force the data file to be sorted when it is
loaded from disk. This applies to Reload also.
Autosort on Save A checkbox used to force the data file to be sorted when it is
Saved.
Eliminate Expired Events A checkbox used to delete events which have expired
when Save is selected. A record expires when it is associated
with a specific year and the full date has passed.
Enable Sound A checkbox used to allow the program to play the sounds
associated with the records. Note that this only works if DOS
Compatibility is turned off.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 12. GENERAL INFORMATION ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ForeWarn has been designed using the IBM C/Set++ from the PDK and provides a
convenient method for providing alerts for important dates and times. The
following topics provide more information on the use of ForeWarn:
Parameters Details on command line parameters.
Colors Information on the use of colors to display events.
Variables Information on the required system variables for ForeWarn to
operate.
Data Format General information on the format of the data file.
Copyright Copyright Notice.
Liabilities Liabilities notice.
Future Enhancements List of planned future enhancements.
Known Problems List of known problems and limitations.
Author Means for contacting the author.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 13. PARAMETERS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ForeWarn accepts parameters on the command line to control the mode of
operation. The following command lines are supported:
-e Enter edit mode to change database records or options
-c Only check dates (default)
-? Display command line parameters
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 14. COLORS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
To enhance the user interface, Forewarn does not go through normal checks to
display the warnings in dialog boxes when the edit mode is chosen. ForeWarn
utilizes colors to indicate the status of events. There are three colors that
are used:
RED : Active dates which meet the criterion for advance notice (i.e. the
current date plus the advance is greater than or equal to the target date)
BLUE : Expired events. If the option to delete expired events has been
specified in the options dialog box, these lines will be deleted when the data
is saved. Expired events are events in which the deadline includes a specific
year and that year or the actual date has passed.
BLACK : Normal data that meets neither of the above.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 15. VARIABLES ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
To install the OS/2 version of ForeWarn you must have os/2 version 2.1 (beta or
GA release) installed on the target system. The following system variables
must be set:
FOREWARN_INI
FOREWARN_DAT
These two variables can be set in the system config.sys so that they will be
available to all OS/2 sessions by adding the following lines:
set FOREWARN_INI=d:\driectory\forewarn.ini
set FOREWARN_DAT=d:\directory\forewarn.dat
and replace the "d:" with the drive to store the respective files and
"directory" with the target directory. The file referenced by the variable
FOREWARN_INI is the file to store initialization information between sessions.
The file FOREWARN_DAT is used to store the data used by the program. The names
of the files can be anything legal to the file system used on the particular
disk. If the file system is of type FAT, the file name specification must be
limited to the 8.3 FAT format. If the file is HPFS the filename can be
anything legal to OS/2 HPFS format.
Note: If the destination for the data file is on a FAT formatted partition the
file cannot have an extension if the option for creating backup files is
selected. ForeWarn will not lose data, it will simply warn the user of the
problem and stop. In this case, select the Options dialog and turn off
backups.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 16. DATA FORMAT ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The datafile used by FOREWARN.EXE requires nine fields for every line of data
except for comment lines which must have a pound sign (#) as the first
character in the line.
The nine fields of each dataline are:
sec: +
min: | Expiration time for forewarning
hour: +
day: +
month: | Expiration date for forewarning
year: +
delay: Period of time to make forewarning before expiration
sound: Sound index
message: Message to be displayed when the forewarn period occurs
The limits of each of the fields are as follows:
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If a asterisk (*) is present in a field, the default value will be used. In
most cases, the default is the current date or time, and for the delay, the
default is 259200 seconds or 3 days. Each of the fields can be separated by
spaces, commas, or tabs. Every line must contain all nine fields.
Comments may be omitted, and if the file is edited with the editor provided,
all comments will be removed if the file is saved. The editor does place a
special header of comments at the beginning of the datafile whenever it saves
it. This header of comments is shown following
# sec min hour day month year delay(sec) sound message
#
# 1 day = 86400 seconds
# default delay is 3 days or 259200 seconds
#
# sec: 0-59
# min: 0-59
# hour: 0-23
# day: 1-31 (maximum)
# month: 1-12
# year: 80-?? (Year is express as a 2 digit number since
1900)
#
# A '*' in any field is substituted with the current day/time
# The delay cannot be left out!
# Fields can be separated by a space, comma, or tab
#
# Any line beginning with a '#' is interpreted as a comment
#
These comments are placed in the file to aid in editing a datafile with a
standard ASCII editor.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 17. COPYRIGHT ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
FOREWARN is a ShareWare product which is subject to all copyright restrictions
applicable to a product of this type. This program may not be included with
any other package without explicit written permission by the author.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 18. LIABILITIES ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The author of this program is not responsible for any damages incurred as a
result of failure of this program to perform as expected or stated. This
program is continually undergoing revisions and some bugs may be found. To the
best of the author's knowledge, this program works as stated in this
documentation and every effort has been made to insure that the program
operates accurately and without error.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 19. ENHANCEMENTS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
As with any useful program, ForeWarn is constantly undergoing change. Following
is a list of the planned enhancements:
MMPM MMPM support for realistic sounds will be added.
Threads This version of ForeWarn is single threaded. A future revision
will incorporate multiple threads.
Colors Rather than relying on specific colors for Active, Expired, and
Normal records, a furture release will allow the user to select
specific colors for these events.
Size/Position The current version does not store the current position and size
of the session when it is terminated. A future release will
have this feature.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 20. PROBLEMS ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The following is a list of known problems and limitations in the current
revision of ForeWarn:
Unknown There are no known bugs in this version
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 21. AUTHOR ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Comments for corrections and enhancements are welcomed by the author and can be
sent to:
William Scott Hiles
2 Savannah St.
King George, VA 22485-9331
or via email at:
whiles@relay.nswc.navy.mil
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Unix is a registered trademark of ATT laboratories
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By the IBM OS/2 2.0 Application Design Guide, references to the mouse buttons
are based on number. This is done to allow for the mouse buttons to be swapped
for left and right handed pointing devices. Button 1 is the button located
under the index finger. For a right handed mouse, button 1 is the left button.
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A Leap Year occurs every four years. Any year which is a multiple of 4 has an
extra day at the end of February. ForeWarn handles this from the Edit Dialog
box by allowing the spin box for the day to advance to 29 for February when no
year is specified or when the year is a multiple of 4. If a year is specified
and it is not a multiple of 4, the month of February is limited to 28 days.
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When DOS compatibility is selected from the Options menu, the sound field is
not included in the data file. The total number of fields is eight when DOS
compatibility is selected.