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- Getting Started Quickly:
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-
- Documentation is in the amiCheck.guide file. You do not need
- the AmigaGuide program to follow the document (but AmigaGuide is freely
- available in most disk libraries).
-
- There is also an 18-page manual similar to the GUIDE file called
- amiCheck.ps.lha on the registered disk. Decompress the postscript file (the
- result being "amiCheck.ps" and print to any postscript printer (on any
- machine: an AMIGA, VAX, PC,MAC, etc).
-
- The example.AC account is for you to experiment with as you
- read the manual/guide file. To bring it up, double-click on it.
-
- Documentation
- ======================================================================
- There is documentation on:
-
- amiCheck: amiCheck.guide -> AmigaGuide hypertext
- amiCheck.PS -> postscript manual*
- Distribution: Distribution.readme -> ASCII text**
- Installation: Installing.readme -> ASCII text
- Preferences: GUIPrefs.Guide -> AmigaGuide hypertext
- Registration: Register.readme -> ASCII text**
-
- * registered version only
- ** demo version only
-
-
- Version information
- ========================================================================
- Welcome to version 1.35! Here are all changes from 1.07. Please read the last comment
- about the free upgrade coming to you soon.
-
-
- ********************* NEW STUFF *******************************
-
- * Range menu options: clear/unclear all entries in the filter
- (or void them, delete them, etc). AC will prompt you first
- since these are "dangerous".
-
- * New "unfilter" menu option to explicitly remove a particular entry
- from the filter (it doesn't get deleted!). Note that after
- doing so, any other function that must rebuild the filter will
- not know this transaction was "unfiltered" (it will show up again).
- For example, sorting the filtered database will do this.
-
- * Speed improvements for very large databases (the speed is now almost
- completely determined by the size of the filtered database).
-
- * slight improvement to the Net Worth GUI.
-
- * The QUICK TRANSACTIONS menu items all now bring up the data window.
- A new one, Use Transaction, will bring up the data window with
- the current template selection.
-
- * The select template window is now a "floating palette" type of window.
- Clicking on the items in it will instantly bring up the data window.
- Clicking on the select template button more than once will bring the
- template window to the front. The window shares the same menu as the
- main window. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CLOSE IT! (but its ok if you do).
-
- For keyboard control, the spacebar will open and close the template
- window (escape will close it too, Im just trying to be symetric).
- Pressing ENTER will also bring up the data window.
-
- * Double-click preference: Choose between toggling the clear state of a
- transaction,bringing up the Edit window, or "unfiltering" by double-clicking
- with Preferences/double click/xxxx options. A tooltype DCLICK=CLEAR
- if uncommented will default the doubleclick to clear/unclear transactions.
- Options for "DCLICK=" are CLEAR,EDIT, and UNFILT.
-
- * "2-line" entries: Choose between two register types, single-line entries
- and a new two-line style that includes the memo field. There is a
- tooltype USEMEMO to turn this on at startup. A menu item,
- preferences/window/use memo toggles the selection on the fly.
- When the swap is made, if a row was selected that row will be viewable
- in the new register (sort of like "jump to selected" during the process).
-
-
- * Net Worth summary. The Utils/net worth menu option now brings up a panel
- for you to describe multiple accounts and provide a general picture of
- how well you are doing financially. You may save the list of accounts
- as an ACnet file (similar to the script editor saving ACscript files).
- Double-clicking on these ACnet icons bring up your list in a text editor.
-
- The panel lists the current account info, and the summary info:
-
- Current Account info
- --------------------
- If you clicked on an account or used the keyboard arrow keys, the local account
- data updates to show the current and statement balances, and the tax deductible
- amount (reconciled entries checked with the "tax deduct" flag) of that account.
-
- You may change whether the account is a CREDIT or DEBIT account (the default is
- CREDIT). A credit account means that a negative balance is debt (your checking
- account is a credit account by my terminology). A DEBIT account is one such that
- a positive balance is debt (such as a credit card). You do not have to use this
- feature at all, but if you wanted to maintain positive balances for debt accounts
- such as credit cards, this feature provides you the means to explain it to amiCheck.
-
- Summary info
- ------------
- The summary info totals the credit accounts and debit accounts, displaying the results
- and amounts of each. The tax deductions field displays the summed total of all tax
- deductions.
-
- The balance type may be CURRENT or STATEMENT, meaning that the summary info either
- uses the current balance and current tax deductible amount (ie: all transactions,
- not just reconciled ones) or the statement balance and the reconciled tax deductible
- amount.
-
- Notes
- -----
- The tax deductions are always summed up positive (whether the account is a debit or
- credit and whether the transaction that was tax deductible is either a deposit or
- withdrawal.
-
- Also, before you can use this panel you must make a backup of your old accounts,
- load them into the new amiCheck and save them again. This is because the file
- format has been tweeked a bit to support this panel quickly. If you don't do this,
- amiCheck will warn you that it cannot summarize the account of interest.
-
-
- * Interactive graphical analysis now in amiCheck. The "Analysis" button brings up
- a bar-chart with three graph styles to select,
-
- Graph styles
- ------------
- Running Balance: Depicts the balance in your account at the time the transaction
- was posted. Notice that if you have filtered out some transactions
- or sorted the register, the running balance may not make sense.
-
- Filter Balance: Depicts the balance of the transactions in the register (ignores
- the running balances).
-
- Amounts: Shows the amounts rather than a balance.
-
-
- Getting around the panel
- ------------------------
- All deposits are white bars, while other transactions are black for visual reference.
-
- Balances may become negative, shown when a bar moves below the centerline (blue dashed line
- represents "0" balance).
-
- Clicking on a bar highlights it and displays the bar amount, double-clicking on the bar
- leaves the panel and selects that transaction.
-
- The "Scroll" gadget may be used to scroll through the transactions
-
- The "Scale" gadget is used to "zoom" in or out of the graph to make out finer details.
- amiCheck tries to pick a good initial value (one that shows the running balance
- without needing to scale) for you.
-
-
- Keyboard shortcuts
- ------------------
- UP/DOWN (and (CTRL/SHIFT) + UP/DOWN) arrows will scale the graph
- LEFT/RIGHT (and (CTRL/SHIFT) + LEFT/RIGHT) arrows will scroll the graph
- ENTER is equivalent to a double-click on the current transaction.
-
-
- * Filter panel gets more powerful
- You can now declare a filter range on the name (payee) and memo fields
- using AmigaDOS pattern matching (ie: (phone#?|power#?) )
-
-
- * New keyboard shortcuts
- The search panel is now completely operatable by keyboard. To select a string
- gadget, press tab.
-
- The template selection window now accepts the ENTER key as a double-click
-
-
- * New Check renumbering scheme
- To quickly renumber checks without the normal hastle, select the transaction
- by clicking on it once. Then hold down the left or right arrow keys and press
- a number from 1-9. If you held down the RIGHT arrow, your number is ADDED to the
- check. The LEFT arrow key SUBTRACTS the amount.
-
- The check is not re-filtered or re-sorted for safety. To re-sort or re-filter,
- click on the filter button and then click on the OK button in the filter panel.
-
-
- * New Menu Item "EDIT/Jump to selected"
- Now it is easy to find the selected transaction when you went browsing with the scroll bar.
- This item takes you right there.
-
-
-
- *********************** BUG FIXES ******************************
-
- * The filter balance in the main window goofed when you deleted a transaction
-
- * the version strings were not style guide compliant ;)
-
- * OS2.04 and up are now supported (for a while, it only worked on 3.x)
-
- * The net worth panel could only see accounts in the current directory
-
- * Some problems with the filter and clearing transactions was fixed.
-
- * Modifying the account default deposit did not update the current
- balance in the window properly.
-
- * date ranges now work (don't ask... :)
-
- * the refresh bug is gone. You may use simple refresh windows if desired,
- and zipped windows now unzip right (zoom, zip, whatever).
-
- * GUI got faster and smoother
-
- * reconciliation with no cleared transactions did not update the statement balance field
-
- * the script and net editors did not update the window title after doing a saveas
-
- * A bug in the keyboard movement through the register was fixed.
-
- * while editing templates it was possible to have printed/voided ghosted for check types.
-
- * the scroll bar in the register was not updated at times (or not updated right)
-
- * The main window title did not include the account name if amiCheck was started by double-clicking
- on an account icon.
-
- * Miscelaneous cosmetic improvements
-
-
- ************************ KNOWN BUGS ****************************
-
- * none (!)
-
- *********************** YOUR FREE UPGRADE **********************
-
- Coming to you soon will be the ability to print checks with almost any check form,
- and some other improvements.
-
- The documentation (manual and amigaguide) will also be enhanced from 1.07 to 2.0. Currently,
- this file is the only source of changes from 1.07.
-
-
-
- Thanks for your patronage.
- Don't forget to send me your comments/suggestions!
-
- Douglas M. Dyer
-
-