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IMPORTANT:- DO NOT PRINT the User Documentation on a 3820 printer. The black images used in the Graphics Appendix can cause the printer to jamb. IMPORTANT:- The Diary, ToDo-List, and Note-Pad Files used by PMDIARY versions 1.16 and later are different to those used by earlier versions of PMDIARY. In order to convert your files you must run the program PMD180.EXE provided with the package. This program will convert all the Diary, ToDo-List and Note-Pad files it finds in the current directory. The new files are given a different file extension to avoid confusion between the different formats. ie: Diary File - Old Extension: D$$ - New Extension: $D$ ToDo-List - Old Extension: $$T - New Extension: $T$ Note-Pad - Old Extension: $$N - New Extension: $N$ WARNING:- If you have previously down loaded the package and created your own set of Alarm Tunes using the Customiser program, do NOT down load the Sample Tunes file provided with the package - it will simply overwrite your customised file and you will loose all your hard work. IMPORTANT:- IF YOU HAVE CREATED A DIARY FILE USING EARLIER VERSIONS OF THE PMDIARY PACKAGE (1.07 OR LESS) - PLEASE READ THE HISTORY SECTION OF THIS DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS OF HOW TO CONVERT YOUR PMDIARY.$$D FILE TO THE NEW FORMAT PMDIARY.D$$ FILE. INTRODUCTION ============ PMDIARY consists of the following components:- (1) An Analogue/Digital Clock with an Alarm facility. (2) Monthly Calendar display. (3) Diary display - invoked by clicking the mouse pointer on the required day on the Calendar Display. If required alarm can be sounded up to 59 minutes before appointment. (4) Note-Pad. (5) Mini-Base. A simple Database facility for Telephone Numbers and Addresses, etc. (6) A Calculator. (7) Mini-Spread. A simple Spreadsheet. (8) ToDo-List. If you require any help in using the package, find any bugs you wish to report or would like to put forward suggestions for improving the package - please use the PMDIARY FORUM where-ever possible. Jeff Kerr (KERRJL at WINVMJ or WINVMB) KNOWN RESTRICTIONS/BUGS ======================= - Using the enter key to exit from either the Calendar Help panel or the Diary Help panel can cause an abend. Exiting using the mouse works fine. ============================================================================== HISTORY ======= Version 1.21 - 3rd April 1990 ------------------------------ - Alarm - Added new colours. The Alarm Panel Icon Foreground and Background colours each have their own colour which can be customised using the Customiser. - Clock - Corrected problem where use of Escape Key on the Options Panel caused the last selected option to be invoked. - Corrected problem where wrong text could appear after use of the Alarm function. - Style of hands on Analogue clock customisable - they can be drawn in either outline or solid format. See new option added to Custimser - Customise Clock Heading Dialogue. Default is solid hands. - Corrected problem where clock was not being repainted after "Snooze" option was selected on Alarm Panel. - Added new "Cancel Snooze" option to Options panel. - Calendar - Added "File" option menu - Combined "Month" and "Year" option menus. - Corrected problem where Day Buttons no longer worked when calendar was resized. - Entries ending at midnight are now displayed correctly on the Monthly Summary display. - Stopped Monthly Summary appearing at midnight. - Note-Pad - Corrected incorrect "split line" action. - Corrected incorrect "insert line after" action. - Mini-Base - Corrected reading files longer than 64000 bytes problem. - Corected file creation/update problem (I hope!). - Reworked List Box. Should now handle any size file correctly. - Improved File search facility - up to 6 character search keys can now be entered. Use "Escape" key to clear Search Key area. - Added Page-Up and Page-Down keyboard support. - Calculator - Tally Roll text colour now has it's own colour which can be customised using the Customiser. - Utilities - Correctly Resort problem on View Diary and View ToDo-List Archive options which caused the Year fields to move one character to right each time file was resorted. - Customiser - Moved Colour option into Defaults menu. - Added a second lines-per-page count. There is now one page count for use with print lines less than 73 and one for use with lines greater than 72. - User Guide - Corrected Clock graphic Stored/Printed symbols. - Changed Solid Black character used in the Graphics Appendix to a shaded character. - Added Warning to AVAIL file and to header of document not to print document on a 3820 printer. - General - Accelerator keys should now work with Caps Lock on. Version 1.20 - 7th March 1990 ------------------------------ - Alarm - Reworked Alarm Panel - now shows an enlarged version of the first two characters of the Alarm message. - Added ability to use a "Graphic" when setting an Alarm. Graphic character will be appear as the first two characters in the Alarm message. - Corrected "snooze" problem - now adds 5 minutes to current time rather than the original alarm time. - Added "snooze" option to Vio-PopUp screen. - Complete Alarm Message re-displayed after a "snooze" operation rather than just the first 30 characters. - Clock - Added Digital Clock option. Select to "Format" option on the Options panel to toggle between Analogue and Digital format. In Digital mode the lower/smaller time is the "next Alarm" time. If required the startup parameter "/1" can be used to start the clock in Digital mode. Note: The Digital Display stops working when the Clock size is increased above a certain limit (an "Insufficient Memory Error" occurs - no idea why!). - Added new colours. The Hour, Minute and Second Hands each have their own colour which can be customised using the Customiser. - Calendar - Added ability to have more than 1 Diary. Current Diary Filename is shown in the Calendar Title Bar. Note: the program will only use the file called "PMDIARY" for Alarm purposes (People may want to view/update other peoples/department Diary but do not want to pick up Alarm settings that do not concern them). - Corrected Month+/- & Year+/- button active areas. - Corrected mouse Day Selection on Monthly Summary Window - it assumed the Calendar Window was showing the same Month as itself and so could show a completely wrong Diary page when was not the case. - Corrected problem of text appearing in the wrong place when the Calendar window was resized. - Added ability to iconise the Monthly Summary window. Icon shows the next two hours of the current days summary line - display scrolls to right as day progresses. Minimising the Calendar window no longer closes the Summary window. If required the "/F" or "/f" startup parameters can be used to start the Summary display in Normal/Minimised state. - The two default colours used as background to activities shown on the Monthly Summary are now customisable. - Diary - Altered Archive to output one long line. - Added Day Name to Archive lines. - Corrected Archive problem - it was writing multiple lines out when an alarm setting was present even if rest of line was blank. - Altered File Open routine to correctly open for Read Only or Read/Write access as required. Thus if an attempt to write to a Diary file is made for which you only have read access, an error message will be issued and the write process aborted. Before the program always opened file for read/write access even if file was only to be read. - In 12 hour mode, if a time is entered with no "am/pm" indicator then the program will insert one using the following rule:- - If the hour is in the range 8 thru' 11 - AM is assumed - Otherwise PM is assumed. - Corrected Propagate "delete" action problem. - Altered program to check for a completely blank Description rather than just the first character before it assume line is empty. - If more than 18 lines present for a particular day, program issues a warning stating later entries are not shown. - Diary page now updated at midnight. - Note-Pad - Corrected Print/Spool problem with long lines. - Corrected Insert Lines Before/After problem - Page was not being repainted after the operation. - Filename now appears in the Print/Spool Title Box. - Reworked Clipboard operation:- - The area to be cut or copied can be marked using the mouse, Alt+B (for a block) and Alt+L ( for line(s) ). - Use Alt+U or double-click left mouse button to unmark an area. - Line breaks taken into account during the paste operation. - Marked area colour is customisable. - "New" file option now clears Note-Pad pages at creation time. - Added Line Join (Alt+J) and Line Split (Alt+S) functions. - ToDo-List - Altered Archive to output one long line. - Added a Today key/Edit Menu Option - Ctrl+"C" - puts Todays Date in date area. - After a Sort File operation the update flag was not being set. This would have let you quit without saving the new ordered file. - A warning is now issued if 50th entry in the file is about to be lost - only applies when the Add After/Added Before options are used. - Correct incorrect default time format appearing during a Copy-To-Diary operation. - Calculator - Added Tally Roll. Use the scroll Bar to view the last 200 calculator entries. Tally Roll can be Printed or Spooled to the PMDIARY.$$$ file as required. - Altered "All Clear" action - the Memory is no longer cleared. - Mini-Base - Added "Statistics" option. New options placed at the Bottom of the "View" menu. - Increased width of List Box. - Increased number of fields to 8. - Altered program to use variable length records. Old "fixed length" files can still be used but any saved Sort Sequence or Print Layout will be need to be reset as will the headings for lines 7 and 8. See the documentation for a description of the new file format. To convert existing files (if required), place a "|" character between each field and then remove all trailing blanks from each field. eg: Before: Field1 Field2 Field4 , etc. After : Field1|Field2||Field4| , etc. - Added "Hang-up" facility. Program dials as before but now hold the COMMS port open until a key is pressed. The program then writes a "hang-up" string to the port and closes it. The "hang-up" string should be customised using the Customiser. - Copy to Clipboard function now works without having to enter "edit" mode. - Reworked Paste operation to take notice of line breaks. - Altered Dial function to allow "," and "W" characters in a phone number. - Mini-Spread - Added ability to use brackets ("(" and ")") in a formula. - Changed save file format to be an editable ASCII file. No conversion required - just save existing files as normal and they will be saved in the new format (see documentation for details of the format). - Utils - View Diary and ToDo-List Archive routines now assume 1 long line per entry. - Added ability to sort Diary/ToDo-List Archive files. - Added ability to save sorted Diary/ToDo-List Archive files. - Added a "copy" line to Clipboard function to the View Diary and ToDo-List Archive functions. - Added View Diary Archive Menu Item to toggle Diary View Colours On and Off. - Added ability to move Archive Date on ToDo-Lists to the front of the display line - thus allowing easier comparison of the actual date (Date Archived) and the target Date (Date on the ToDo-List entry). - Customiser - Added new Printer Setup Panel. This enables two pairs of Prologue/Epilogue strings (used to initialise/reset the printer before/after a print/spool operation) to be specified together with a Lines-per-Page setting. These settings will be used by all the PMDIARY programs. One pair of Prologue/Epilogue strings is for use with printed output with a line length less than or equal to 72 (default strings are "13 10" and "13 10" ); The second pair are for use with printed output longer than 72 (default strings are "15 13 10" and "18 13 10" ); - General - Added "Mark as Completed" Accelerator key - Ctrl + "M" - to ToDo-List and Diary functions. - Added the following key functions to the Diary, ToDo-List and Note-Pad functions:- - Ctrl+'E' - erase to end of line. - Ctrl+Left Arrow - move to beginning of previous word. - Ctrl+Right Arrow - move to beginning of next word. - Added Clipboard Accelerator keys (Ctrl+Ins - Copy, Shift+Del - Cut, Shift+Ins - Paste) to the Diary, Note-Pad, ToDo-List and Mini-Base functions. - Reworked Virtual Key operation of all functions. - Added Ability to save current window positions for future use. Either use the "Save Position" options in the Clock, Calculator, Mini-Base, Mini-Spread, Utilities and Customiser System Menus or OS/2 1.2 users can use the "Save..." option on the Desktop Manager to save all the window positions in one go. - Removed option to close windows using function key F3 except for the following three "sub" windows, the Diary Page, the Monthly Summary and the Mini-Base Statistics. - Reworked some of the icons. - Included version 1 of the PMDIARY User's Guide. Use Bookmaster to script the document. If this is not possible I can provide a DWSCRIPT version that can be scripted/printed on a PC. Version 1.19 - 9th January 1990 -------------------------------- - Calendar - Added Accelerator key for Monthly Summary - Ctrl+S. - Added "Jump to current day" button. Clicking on this button (the one at the bottom of the Calendar Display) will cause the Calendar to display the current Month and the current days Diary page to be displayed. Added menu entry to perform same function - Accel Key = Ctrl+T. - Fixed flashing "Now" marker positioning problem on Monthly Summary Window when current day was in the second half of a month - it always appeared on the left panel. - "Out of Office" marking now behaves the way as Holidays on the Monthly Summary display (ie: the whole day is coloured if no Start/Stop times are present. - Corrected Diary Page selection problem on Monthly Summary. Wrong day was selected when the Calendar was showing a different month to that being displayed on the Summary window. - Clock - Added "Utilities" to option panel. - Added ability to kill alarm immediately while in Vio-PopUp mode. Just press any key. - Corrected problem where Alarm Indicator was not being refreshed if the Set Alarm panel was moved off the Clock Face during the setting of an Alarm. - Reworked Alarm Panel. Panel now has 3 buttons:- "Cancel" - cancels Alarm. "Snooze" - causes Alarm to resound 5 minutes later. "Reset" - invokes the Set Alarm Dialogue enabling a new Alarm time to be set. - Customiser - Reworked Icon. - Diary - Added to new options to the "Tidy" menu:- "Archive then Delete ALL earlier Diary entries" "Archive then Delete COMPLETED earlier Diary entries" All Diary entries prior to the Date shown on the Diary page you selected the Tidy option from will be processed. - Added 4 new options to the "Mark" menu:- "Mark ALL lines as Completed" "Mark ALL lines and Archive" "Mark ALL, Archive then Delete" "UnMark ALL as Completed" - Added System Menu to Diary Window. - Altered Diary Archive filename from PMDIARY.ARC to PMDIARY.$DA. Rename your current Diary Archive file to the new name if you want it to continue to be written to by the Diary function. - Altered Archive line layout to include an indicator showing whether the Holiday or Out of Office marking was present. If required any existing Diary Archive file can be reformatted using a text editor - just add 5 blanks following the "DD MMM YYYY" field at the start of each line. - Diary program no longer writes out Archive headings or converts any graphics to printable characters. Both these functions are now handled by the new "Utilities" program. - Reworked "Duplicate Mode" - now works in either Duplicate or Delete mode. In Duplicate Mode, a Diary Line is added to each day selected on the Calendar. In Delete Mode, program attempts to delete any matching entry found on the days selected on the Calendar. - Added "Propagate/Delete" option to Edit menu. In "Propagate" mode a selected Diary entry can be copied to other days in the Diary (up to 50 times) at either Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly intervals. - Corrected Personal/National Holiday flagging problem when printing or spooling - National Holidays were not flagged! - Mini-Base - Corrected problem where adding a record always added Field 1 to the list box regardless of which "view" was currently selected. - Note-Pad - Corrected problem where the "New" file option allowed an existing Note-Pad filename to be specified. - ToDo-List - Corrected problem where "Add lines" actions bypassed the date edit. - Changed ToDo-List Archive Filename to be same as current ToDo-List Filename but with .$TA extension. This means that each ToDo-List will now have its own Archive File. In the past all ToDo-Lists wrote to the same Archive File. - Added new option to the Sort Setup. Completed items can now be sorted to end of ToDo-List - if required. - Corrected problem where the "New" file option allowed an existing ToDo-List filename to be specified. - Added a mini-Statistics panel to display. Panel shows 3 counts, - ToDo - count of items not completed but with a Date less than or equal to the current Date. - Other - count of items either no Dated or with a Date greater than the current Date. - Done - count of completed items. - Utilities - New program providing the following facilities:- - Rename/Delete any of the various PMDIARY Data files. - Ability to view, search, print or spool Diary Archive files. - Ability to view, search, print or spool ToDo-List Archive files. Note:- This program assumes Archive files have an extension of either .$DA (Diary) or .$TA (ToDo-List). The Diary function always writes to the PMDIARY.$DA file but this can be renamed at any time (using the above rename facility) - the Diary function will simply create a new PMDIARY.$DA file to write to. Version 1.18 - 8th December 1989 --------------------------------- - Clock - Clicking the left button over a non-button area of the Alarm Message Box cancels the current playing of the Alarm Tune plus any further plays. - Altered the Alarm Message Box to contain a 'Cancel' and a 'Retry' button. Pressing 'Cancel' will result in the alarm being cancelled as normal. Pressing 'Retry' will result in the Alarm re-sounding in 5 minutes time. Note, with this "sleep" function only the first 30 (maximum) characters of the Alarm message will be re-displayed. - Added ability to customise the Clock Title. Run the Customiser Program and invoke the appropriate option in the Clock Menu. - Added ability to customise Clock startup size and position. Run the Customiser Program and invoke the appropriate option in the Clock Menu. - Closing down the Clock (PMDIARY) when there are any updates not saved will now result in the normal "Diary Updates not saved" and/or "ToDo Updates not saved" message boxes being displayed, giving you a chance to abort the closure. Any outstanding updates on the Note-Pad are now automatically saved. - On entering the Set Alarm panel, display is positioned at first unset Alarm and the Alarm is set to ON position ready for use. This will not be effective unless the "enter" option is selected to exit the dialogue. - Calendar - Added Monthly Summary Window. Either click the right mouse button over the Calendar Window, or select the "Summary" option in the Day Menu to invoke it. The summary window uses the first two characters of each Diary entry in order to build up the display. If a day contains any "Holiday" markings then the complete day will be drawn in the appropriate holiday colour unless the marked entry contains a start time - in which case only the time zone indicated will be coloured (this allows half days to be displayed correctly on the summary window). The Diary Page display can be invoked by clicking the left mouse button on the required day entry shown on the Summary Display. - Diary - Corrected bug resulting in the Completed and Vacation/Out of Office attributes not being copied to new entries while in "Duplicate Diary Entry" mode. - Altered Alarm routine to include the full description field rather than just the first 30 characters. - Added new "Mark" option. The previous "vacation" mark has been changed to "Personal Holiday" mark and a new "National Holiday" mark has been added. Note: the some of the default colours have been altered as a result of this change - see "*" items in Appendix "A". - Altered "Updates not saved" processing. Message Box now states "Diary has changed. Save current changes?" and gives three choices of action "Yes", "No" or "Cancel". "Yes" will save changes and exit. "No" will exit without saving. "Cancel" will return to the Diary enabling further processing. - ToDo-List - Added ability to set a default Start Time and Alarm Tune for any lines copied over to the Diary function using the "Copy to Diary" option. Use the new option placed on the Defaults Menu of the Customiser program in order to set the defaults. - Entries with a Date less than or equal to the current date are now coloured (see "ToDo-List Entry - Outstanding" colour within the Customiser - default is DARK RED). - Altered "Updates not saved" processing. Message Box now states "ToDo-List has changed. Save current changes?" and gives three choices of action "Yes", "No" or "Cancel". See Diary details above for an explanation of the possible actions. - Note-Pad - Altered Print Routine to avoid blank part lines being written out. - Added new menu options - "Print (or Spool) with Blank Lines" This is to enable people to carry on using the Note-Pad as a method of producing quick and simple foils. - Mini-Base - Added a Dialling function. The Control String and the Communication Port used can be customised using the Customiser program. Once selected, the current record is scanned for possible numbers - ie: program starts at the beginning of each line and extracts all numeric characters up to the first non-numeric character is found - the characters Blank, '.', '-', '(' and ')' are ignored. The program then lists the possible numbers so the required number can be selected. - Mini-Spread- Altered "Updates not saved" processing. Message Box now states "Spreadsheet has changed. Save current changes?" and gives three choices of action "Yes", "No" or "Cancel". See Diary details above for an explanation of the possible actions. - Customiser - Increased the range of possible Tune Tempos that can be used in the Alarm Tune Designer. - General - Added 16 new Graphic Characters. - Program now checks and makes allowance for any "End Of File" character found at the end of Archive and Spool files. Version 1.17 - 1st November 1989 --------------------------------- - Clock - Added current Date string onto Clock title entry. - Added "Customise" to Options Panel - Note: Any changes made with the Customiser will not take effect until the PMDIARY program is restarted. - Diary, Alarms, etc. now refreshed at midnight. - Diary - Fixed bug preventing Diary entries being archived. - Fixed bug causing blank lines to be written to Diary printouts. - Fixed bug in Copy-To-ToDo - caused the date to be placed 1 character to left if current date format was MM-DD-YY. - Fixed bug allowing non-numeric or space to be entered in the Tune field. - Fixed bug which caused "funny" results if any Diary activity was attempted (eg: Printing, updating, etc) when the Calendar display was showing a different Month to the one shown on the Diary page. - Altered "/e" option (only show Diary page if entries present). If no entries, Calendar is started minimised. - Corrected "Backspace" Key operation. - Altered "End" key action - now positions cursor after last character in current line. - Added "Archive ALL Completed Lines" option to Mark Menu. - Added "Archive ALL Completed Lines then Delete" option to Mark Menu. - ToDo-List - Fixed bug preventing "Done" appearing on the ToDo-List printout for completed entries. - Fixed bug preventing Graphic characters being used in the description field. - Fixed bug preventing a Description with leading blanks being correctly copied to the Diary using the "Copy to Diary" function (Description is now left justified during the move). - Corrected "Backspace" Key operation. - Altered "End" key action - now positions cursor after last character in current line. - Added "Archive ALL Completed Lines" option to Completed Menu. - Added "Archive ALL Completed Lines then Delete" option to Completed Menu. - Note-Pad - Fixed bug where if complete Note-Pad was "cleared" only the front page was re-painted. - Altered "End" key action - now positions cursor after last character in current line. - Warning Message and a chance to stop function continuing now issued if the "Clear Page" or "Clear Note-Pad" functions are selected. - General - Added "PMDIARY" string to front of any string Cut or Copied to the Clipboard. This enables strings Cut or Copied from non-PMDIARY applications to be recognised and processed correctly (modules affected Diary, Note-Pad, ToDo-List and Mini-Base). Version 1.16 - 21th September 1989 ---------------------------------- - Clock - Altered program so it should start with a "round" clock regardless of the display being used. - Calendar - Moved "Help" option from Action Bar to join "Exit" option on the "Day" pull down menu. Action Bar on an 8514/A now uses only 1 line. - Now places an entry into Task Manager List. - Diary - Added '/e' Startup Option - similar to the '/E' option but Diary page will only appear if there are entries present for the current day. - Moved "Day Description" from Header Area to Frame Title. - Increased length of Description field from 30 to 180 characters. - Changed Diary Filename Extension from ".D$$" to ".$D$" to prevent "old" format files being incorrectly processed. - Added a Scroll Bar to the Header box to enable viewing and/or editing of the longer Description field. - Added facility to view a complete Diary entry in a window - either position mouse pointer over line to be viewed and press mouse button 2 (the right one) or position the cursor on the line to be viewed and select the "View" option added to the "Edit" action bar menu. - Altered "Archive" and "Print/Spool" routines to handle long Description field. - Added "Copy to ToDo" button. Selecting this option will place a dated copy of the current line in the currently selected ToDo-List. If current line is blank or ToDo-List is not active, no copying will take place. For Keyboard users a new menu item has added to the Edit Menu. - Diary altered to use 12/24 hour time format ie: the Time specified in the OS/2 "Control Panel" dialogue. - Now places an entry into Task Manager List. - ToDo-List - Changed check used during printing to detect when to stop outputting lines - it used to check for a blank description, it now checks for a completely blank entry. (ie: Priority + Date + Description) - Increased length of Description field from 50 to 180 characters. - Changed ToDo-List Filename Extension from ".$$T" to ".$T$" to prevent "old" format files being incorrectly processed. - Added a Scroll Bar to the Header area to enable viewing of the longer Description field. - Added facility to view a complete ToDo-List entry in a window - either position mouse pointer over line to be viewed and press mouse button 2 (the right one) or position the cursor on the line to be viewed and select the "View" option added to the "Edit" action bar menu. - Altered "Archive" and "Print/Spool" routines to handle long Description field. - Added "Copy to Diary" button. Selecting this option will place a copy of the current line in the Diary File. If current line is blank or the Date Field is blank, no copying will take place. For Keyboard users a new menu item has been added to the Edit Menu. - Increased size of "Priority" field to 2 characters and removed check on contents - any characters can now be entered in this field. - Now places an entry into Task Manager List. - Added "Next File" Button and Menu Option. - Note-Pad - Increased length of Line from 40 to 180 characters. - Changed Note-Pad Filename Extension from ".$$N" to ".$N$" to prevent "old" format files being incorrectly processed. - Added a Scroll Bar to enable viewing of the longer Lines. - Added facility to view a complete Note-Pad line in a window - either position mouse pointer over line to be viewed and press mouse button 2 (the right one) or position the cursor on the line to be viewed and select the "View" option added to the "Edit" action bar menu. - Altered "Print/Spool" routines to handle longer lines. - Now places an entry into Task Manager List. - Added "Next File" Button and Menu Option. - Mini-Base - Added Copy and Paste a "Complete Record" options. - Added "Next File" Button and Menu Option. - General - Graphic Characters now stored as non-control characters in all data files (see Appendix B for details). - Added warning "Beep's" to indicate a Cut, Copy or Paste action has taken place. Version 1.15 - 18th August 1989 ------------------------------- - ToDo-List - Corrected problem where the Date in lines 11 thru' 50 was not being edited. This resulted in the program not inserting the Date separator characters which could result in an incorrect sort by date result. Version 1.14 - 17th August 1989 ------------------------------- - Clock - Added ability to cancel an Alarm "mid-tune". Note: this only works when the Alarm produces a PM Pop Up window. - ToDo-List - Corrected problem where it was impossible to remove the Date separators if a date was subsequently blanked out. Version 1.13 - 16th August 1989 ------------------------------- - Clock - Digital Clock Display format in Title Bar now based on the format as specified in the OS/2 "Control Panel" dialogue. - Alarm Times altered to use 12/24 hour format as specified in the OS/2 "Control Panel" dialogue. - ToDo-List - Date Format now based on the format as specified in the OS/2 "Control Panel" dialogue. - Altered ToDo-List Heading to show Date Format currently in effect. - Altered Date Edit and Sort routine to cope with different Date formats. - Altered Description Sort to use Collating Table for current Country/Code Page. - Added new "mark" option - "Mark Item and Date Stamp". Current Item is marked as completed and the Date associated with the item is altered/set to the current date. - Customiser - Added new Colour option - ToDo-List Heading "Date" Colour. Version 1.12 - 7th August 1989 ------------------------------ - Clock - Corrected problem where 12 hours digital display showed 00:15 pm instead of 12:15 pm. - General - Corrected DosExecPgm problem - if either the Calculator, the Mini-Base or the Mini-Spread were started - an incorrect error message box was displayed. Version 1.11 - 7th August 1989 ------------------------------ - Clock - Altered wording on "Sound" dialogue panel to:- "Use Scroll bar to select the number of times an Alarm will sound before shutting off during the current PMDIARY session." - Altered digital display in Clock Title Bar to be in 12 hour format with "am/pm" suffix. - Altered Pop Up Display from showing 24:mm (occurred when "every hour" setting was used" to show the current time in the message. - Altered Hours setting in Alarm Dialogue panel to show hours in "am/pm" format. - Altered "About" wording on system menu to read "About (and Help)". - Instead of just sounding Alarm if a second invocation of either Calendar, Note-Pad or ToDo-List list is attempted program sets the focus on the previous invocation window and restores window from its iconised state, if required. - Attempted (again!) to stop windows being brought up behind other windows. - Calendar - Accelerator Key "Function Key 3" now works - used to exit Calendar. - Diary - Corrected problem where more than 127 Diary entries were present - programming error caused new entries to overwrite old ones and entries with a record number above 127 were not retrieved correctly - a completely different entry with a record number less than 128 would be displayed. - A "Beep" is now sounded when a character is typed in the last character of a line - warning line is full. - Altered Quit Button Message to read "Exit" - use Function Key 3 as Accelerator Key. - Added a "Save & Quit" button to the Diary window. - Added Save & Quit Accelerator Key - Ctrl+Q. - Added a "Print" button to the Diary window. - Any Diary "Alarm" updates for the current day are now used to update the "Alarm Marker" on the Clock face as soon as they are saved. Note: No notice is taken of "Alarm" Diary entries until they are saved. - ToDo-List - A "Beep" is now sounded when a character is typed in the last character of a line - warning line is full. - Altered Sort Accelerator Key from "Ctrl+S" to "Ctrl+R" (Re-Sort). - Added Save Accelerator Key - Ctrl+S (now consistent with Diary and Mini-Base). - Altered Quit Button Message to read "Exit" - use Function Key 3 as Accelerator Key. - Added a "Save & Quit" button. - Added Save & Quit Accelerator Key - Ctrl+Q. - Added a "Print" button to the ToDo-List window. - Note-Pad - A "Beep" is now sounded when a character is typed in the last character of a line - warning line is full. - Calculator - Stopped slight movement of button markings (in rows 2 to 5) first they were "clicked". - Customiser - Altered wording on "Alarm Sound Limit" dialogue panel to:- "Use Scroll bar to select the PMDIARY "Startup Default" number of times an Alarm will sound before shutting off." - Changed "Enter" button on Colour Customiser panel to read "Save & Quit". - Changed "Enter" button on "Alarm Sound Limit dialogue panel to read "Save & Quit". - Removed "File" option from main Customiser Window (all saving is now done from the various sub-function panels). - Corrected problem where "Trap D" occurred after first using "Selecting Tune to Edit" Dialogue, not selecting a Tune, pressing enter, then trying to play resulting Tune displayed. - General - Corrected problem where 8 character Note-Pad and ToDo-List files were not read when used in the /N or /T Startup commands. - Altered DosExecPgm Error Message produced when trying to invoke the Calculator, Mini-Base or Mini-Spread to read:- "Program not found! Please place following program in the PMDIARY Work Directory or in a Library specified in the PATH statement in your CONFIG.SYS - XXXXXXXX.EXE" where "XXXXXXXX" is the name of the program not found. Version 1.10 - 19th July, 1989 ------------------------------ - General - Corrected problem where Note-Pad and ToDo-List files were not being read by the program (I think this only happened if there was no Diary file present in the current directory). - Clock - Alarm Marker made larger. - Corrected problem where Clock was not being repainted after an Alarm has sounded (so showing the new Alarm Marker position - only happened if "No Pop Up" option was selected, or Alarm Sound was cancelled by pressing "enter"). - Note-Pad - Corrected "Clear Note-Pad" problem (although all 5 pages were cleared correctly - only the front page was then displayed as being cleared). - Tune File - Changed Tune 7 - Largo to Happy Birthday. Version 1.09 - 17th July, 1989 ------------------------------ - Clock - Added 'Alarm Marker' - a mark is placed on the Clock dial showing the approximate time the next Alarm (if any) is due to sound. - Changed exit key for Vio-PopUp screen (used when the alarm sounds and the current session is not a PM one) from "=" to 'Enter'. - Diary - Holiday/Vacation Marking no longer requires a Description. - Calendar - Diary file now re-read each time Calendar Function started. This allows external updates (eg: from PMDPROFS) to be picked up without having to re-start PMDIARY itself. Can also be used to reset Calendar if PMDIARY left running overnight. - ToDo-List - Corrected bug that prevented Archiving of a ToDo-List entry beginning with a blank. - Corrected Archive and Delete action - used to only "clear" line rather than delete it! - ToDo-List records now "archived" to a separate file (they were written to the Diary Archive file) called PMDTODO.ARC. - Added Sort Accelerator Key (Ctrl+S). - Corrected incorrect /T:Filename operation. - Mini-Base - Corrected List Print problem - Break Line and Line Spacing selections were ignored. - Single key presses (when not in Edit Mode) now used as a 1 byte search key to scan Mini-Base looking for the first record beginning with the character entered. - Corrected problem with created/updated Headings being over-written. - Added "Delete Record" function to Add/Update Menu. - General - All printed output can now be "spooled" (ie: written to a disk file) if required. Spool file is called "PMDSPOOL.$$$". Version 1.08 ------------ - Clock - Added "Options" entry to System Menu - enables Options panel to be invoked using a mouse while clock is minimised. - Added /i and /I Startup parameters allowing clock to be started iconised. - Calendar - Changed file layout. Diary Data file is now an flat ASCII file that can be viewed/extracted using a normal editor. NOTE: ANY DIARY FILES CREATED BY EARLIER VERSIONS OF PMDIARY MUST BE CONVERTED TO THE NEW FORMAT BEFORE THEY CAN BE USED WITH THIS VERSION! TO CONVERT YOUR FILES SIMPLY RUN THE PROGRAM PMDCONV.EXE PROVIDED WITH THE PACKAGE (IN AN OS/2 SESSION). CONVERTED FILE WILL BE CALLED PMDIARY.D$$. ORIGINAL FILE (PMDIARY.$$D) IS LEFT UNTOUCHED. - Changed "-Yr -Mth Mth+ Yr+" buttons at bottom of calendar to actual state the Month or Year they refer to (eg: If June 1989 is the current month, wording on the buttons will be "1988 May Jul 1990"). - Calendar now sizable - Display is drawn using the Top-Left corner of window as the origin. - Added /E Startup parameter - causes Calendar to be started un-iconised with the current days Diary Page displayed. - Added Keyboard support. When the Calendar Window has focus, typing 2 consecutive numbers ( 01 -> 31 ) will cause the Diary Page for the corresponding Day Number to be displayed. - Diary - Changed the Action Bar item "Completed" to "Mark Entry". - Entries can now be marked as referring to either:- (a) Holiday (default colour is PINK) or (b) Out-of-Office activity (default colour is RED) using new options added to the "Mark Entry" Menu. Entries marked in this way are given the appropriate colour background on the Diary display. Any day containing such an entry is given an appropriate button centre colour on the Calendar display. The default colours can be "adjusted" using the Customiser program. - "Enter Duplication Mode" option added to Edit menu - used to quickly copy the current Diary Entry onto other days throughout the year. Operation:- (a) Select Diary Entry to be duplicated (by placing the somewhere on the line). (b) Select the "Enter Duplication Mode" on the Edit Menu. A Window will appear as a reminder that program is in "Duplicating Mode". This window shows a copy of the line to be duplicated and two buttons - "End Duplication Mode" and "Delete Duplicated Entry". (c) Select the required day(s) on the Calendar Display, entry is to be copied to. Each time a day is selected, entry will be copied onto that days Diary Page, the file saved and the resulting Diary Page displayed. (d) Use the "Delete Duplicated Entry" button to delete a copy of the duplicated Diary Entry from the currently displayed diary page. (e) Select the "End Duplication Mode" button to exit Duplication Mode. - Added ability to specify a particular "tune" when the Diary Alarm function is used. Either enter the number of the required tune ( 0 -> 9 ) or use the "Select Tune" option on the Edit Menu. Note: A Blank Tune Field is treated as being equal to zero. - Added Completed ("Done") and Out-Of-Office ("Out") wording to Diary Printouts where appropriate. - Fixed (I hope) "Tidy" function not working problem. - ToDo-List - changed to check for a completely blank entry in order to determine end of ToDo-List entries during print out. - Reworked "Sort" option. Once a Sort sequence has been selected it can be saved ready for use in any subsequent sorts. - Added Completed ("Done") wording to ToDo-List Printouts where appropriate. - Note-Pad - Added "Clear Note-Pad" option to Edit menu - clears all 5 pages of a Note-Pad. - Converted Note-Pad File to flat ASCII format ( ie: each line is 40 characters of data followed by a "Bar" character + Carriage Return/Line Feed). This makes the file editable by a Text Editor. Conversion will take place automatically - each time an "Old Format" Note-Pad file is saved (Note: Old Format Note-Pad files have a file length of 2400. New Format Note-Pad files have a file length of 2580.) - Mini-Base - Reworked "Ghosted" Action Bar items. - Changed "View" Action Bar Menu Items to show line Headings (if present). - Print Option (Box Format) changed to print records in the current "View" order. - Print Option (List Format) added. Selecting this option results in the Mini-Base List Format Panel being displayed. Use this panel to design the required list layout. (a) Layout area consists of 3 lines with 4 field positions per line. (b) Each of the 12 fields positions can be selected to be either blank or contain any one of the 6 lines of a Mini-Base record. (c) List Headings will be the Line Headings for the Mini-Base lines assigned to Line 1 of the format. (d) A break line can be printed between each printed record if required. (e) Once a layout has been designed it can be saved ready for use in future List prints. (Layout is saved in record 1 of a Mini-Base file immediately following the Line Heading Fields - so each saved layout is unique to a particular Mini-Base). - Mini-Spread- Re-instated "Recalculation" Accelerator Keys. Use Ctrl+C for normal "column order" and Ctrl+R for "row order". - Customiser - Added support for Sharps and Flats to Tune Customiser. - Added Holiday/Out-of-Office Colours to Colour Customiser. - General - Added "Music" and "Clock" symbol to list of available graphic characters. - "Exit" option now placed as last item in "File" Action Bar menu list. - Suppressed File Extension in the Open File Dialogues. Version 1.07 ------------ - Calculator made into a stand alone program. Although this was done in order to reduce the size of the PMDIARY program, it does also have the benefit? of allowing other Calculator programs to be invoked from PMDIARY - simply rename the required Calculator program to PMDCALC.EXE. - Enhanced Alarm facility featuring:- (a) 10 independent Alarms. (b) Can be programmed to repeat at a specific hour or every Hour and/or on a specific Day or every Day. (c) Each Alarm can play a different "Tune" if required. (d) Alarm settings stored on disk to enable them to be reloaded each time PMDIARY is invoked (actually stored in the OS2.INI file). (e) Pop Up Action can be suppressed - in which case Alarm action will be to sounded once and finish. (f) Alarm "Pop Up" action should now occur even in non PM sessions. A Vio-PopUp routine invoked if, at alarm time, current session is not a PM one. (g) Removed "seconds" option from Alarm times. This caused Alarms to be missed. It appears that under certain circumstances, it can be several minutes before the PMDIARY program gets another time slice. - Added a Alarm "Tune" Customising facility to the PMDCUST.EXE program (look under "Alarm" option on Action Bar). 10 different "tunes" can be edited and stored in a file called "PMDIARY.$$A" for later use by the Alarm facility in PMDIARY. Note:- Any Alarms sounded as a result of a Diary entry will always use Alarm "Tune" zero. - Replaced "Alarm Off" message in Clock Title Bar with a display of the current time (ie. HH:MM ) - this allows Clock face to be resized down to just a title bar showing the time digitally. - Calendar - added "Year-", "Month-", "Month+" and "Year+" buttons to the bottom of Calendar display. - ToDo-List changes:- (a) Corrected "Complete" Colour wrongly appearing. (b) Removed left justify of ToDo descriptions. (c) Removed sort action when file saved. (Sort now only performed if requested. (d) Reset Focus after Scroll/Save/Quit action. (e) Added multiple sort option. ToDo-List can now be sorted, on request, into any order using the 3 variables Priority/Date/Description. (f) Added the word "Done" to any line marked as being completed. (g) Added "Insert Before", "Insert After" and "Delete Line" edit options. (h) Corrected wrong file extension named on Open File Dialogue box. (i) Filename now appears in Title Box of printed output. - Mini-Base changes:- (a) Changed "Next", "Back" buttons to "Add", "Edit" buttons. (b) Invalid Menu options now "shadowed". (c) Cursor Up/Down can be used to move selection Up/Down. (d) "View" option added. Any of the 6 Mini-Base lines can be selected as the Key/Sort field for viewing purposes. At entry time, the program still uses line 1 for this purpose. - Mini-Spread - Added additional "Re-calculation" option. Re-calculation can now be done in either:- (a) Top->Bottom, Left->Right order or (b) Left->Right, Top->Bottom order. - General:- (a) Warning Beep issued if an attempt is made to invoke more than 1 copy of a sub-function (eg: ToDo-List, Note-Pad, etc). This does not apply to the "stand alone" functions (eg: Mini-Base, etc). (b) File Extensions no longer appear in Title Bars. Version 1.06 ------------ - Clock Hands/Face markings made scalable. - Clock can now be minimised. - Mini-Base split off into a separate program. Can be run as a stand alone program, invoked from the clock options panel or invoked as a result of the options passed to PMDIARY program. This now permits multiple Mini-Bases to be started. - Added ToDo-List function. A ToDo-List entry consists of a Priority Code (1->9 or Blank), a Date (Target? - format = YY/MM/DD or Blank) and a 50 character description. ToDo-List entries can be sorted into Priority/Date/Description order. Once an item is completed it can be:- a) Marked as Completed. b) Marked as Completed and copied to Archive File. c) As b) but item is deleted from ToDo-List after writing a copy to the Archive File. - Mini-Base, Diary, ToDo-List and Note-Pad converted to use a "real" clipboard for Cut, Copy and Pasting of one line. - Fixed Diary Alarm problem - Alarm requests in Diary were either ignored or sounded on incorrect day. - Fixed print problem - routine to convert Graphic Characters to printable characters was also changing characters greater than ASCII 128 (ie: the box characters). - Warning now given if updates "not saved" on PMSPREAD. - Fixed (attempted) handling of accented characters. - Clock should now start "round" on 8514/A. - Adjusted Customiser start position for EGA. Version 1.05 ------------ - Clock made sizeable. - Attempted to cater for EGA - used screen size to adjust the window start positions. - Reduced re-painting when swapping pages on Note-Pad. - PMDIARY and PMSPREAD now add an entry into Task Manager List. - Diary page display now destroyed if Calendar display closed or minimised. - Customising program option - allows users to select colours and the startup default number of times the alarm sounds. Just run the program PMDCUST.EXE and saved to required colour/alarm setting. Then the next time PMDIARY is started the new values will be used. Values stored in the OS2.INI file. Version 1.04 ------------ - Added "Day" selection Menu entry to Calendar to enable non-mouse users to access diary. - Added new option "Sound" to Options Menu invoked from Clock. This allows the number of times the alarm tune? will sound before shutting off. The allowed range is from zero (no alarm sound) through to 30 tunes? (Note: This adjustment is for the current PMDIARY session only). - Change Text colour of "hidden" pages to Black instead of Dark Grey. - Error Message displayed if PMDIARY.DLL not loaded correctly. - Multiple Note-Pad files facility added. New option added to Note-Pad allows user to work with more than one Note-Pad file. Each File contains 5 "pages". The default Note-Pad filename at startup time is still "PMDIARY.$$N" but this can now be changed, if required, by specifying a filename following the "/n" or "/N" option (same format as already used for specifying Mini-Base or Mini-Spread startup filenames). Version 1.03 - Not released. ---------------------------- - Added "@" function to Mini-Spread. This is an Area-Summation function. eg: A1@C3 is the same as A1+A2+A3+B1+B2+B3+C1+C2+C3. A1@A8 is the same as A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+A6+A7+A8. A1@G1 is the same as A1+B1+C1+D1+E1+F1+G1. - Added "Completion" facility to Diary. Diary Activities can now be:- (a) Marked as being completed. When marked the Diary Entry changes from Black text to Blue Text. (b) Marked as being completed and a copy of the line placed on an "Archive" file. This file is a straight ASCII file that is viewable/editable by a text processor eg: PE2. (c) A copy of the line placed on the Archive File and the line then deleted. (d) If required, the line can be "unmarked" - Note: This action does not remove any place of the line previously place on the Archive file. The Archive Filename is "PMDIARY.ARC". - The Calendar Option was changed to support the above completion activity. Now only if any uncompleted Diary entries are present for a particular day will the Day Button surround will be coloured "yellow". If only completed activities are present for a particular day, the Day Button surround will be coloured "blue". - Tidy Function on the Diary now allows either ALL Diary entries with a date less than the currently selected one to be deleted or just the "completed" ones. - Increased Maximum Number of Diary Entries to 1024. This limit applies to the total Diary. Version 1.02 - Not released. ---------------------------- - Added Mini-Spread option. To move cursor position within Input area use either the mouse or shift+cursor keys. Unshifted cursor keys move the current cell position within the Spreadsheet. Note: Although this option can be invoked in the normal way from the Options panel, it is a self contained program so it can be run directly on its own. Version 1.01 - Not released. ---------------------------- - Added CUT, COPY and PASTE options to Note-Pad, Diary and Mini-Base. Single Line Cut, Copy and Paste facility allows a line to cut or copied from one option and pasted either in a different position in the same option or into one of the other two options supporting this function. Version 1.00 - 25th April 1989 ------------------------------ - First release.