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- The documentation of
-
- ADDRESSMANAGER v2.1
-
- Chapters:
-
-
- 1) IMPORTANT!!!
-
- 2) WHAT IS ADDRESSMANAGER
-
- 3) INSTALLATION
- 4) CONFIGURATION
- 5) USING ADDRESSMANAGER
-
- 6) HISTORY
- 7) FUTURE-PLANS
-
- 8) CREDITS
-
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-
- 1) IMPORTANT
-
- - AddressManager and the files which belong to the program may be copied if
- they are not changed. All changes concerning the program, the catalogs or
- the documentation have to be allowed by the author.
- - AddressManager may be copied and used freely.
- If you think that AddressManager is a good program and its development
- should be continued, you can send me some money, a small gift, a letter or
- a postcard. In this way you can show me, that there are people using this
- software, and I will be more motivated to keep on developing it. (see also
- CREDITS)
- - Commercial usage or distribution without a licence from the author is not
- allowed!
- - AddressManager may be distributed on Public-Domain-Disks and through E-Mail
- if the program and all files of the distribution-package are included and
- not changed.
- - The program and all files which belong to it were developed and tested very
- carefully, so you should have no problems using them. But anyway:
- THE AUTHOR CAN NOT BE MADE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE ON YOUR SOFT- OR
- HARDWARE CAUSED BY ADDRESSMANAGER AND THE FILES COMING ALONG WITH IT.
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-
- 2) WHAT IS ADDRESSMANAGER
-
- AddressManager is an utillity which makes it easier to you to master all the
- information you have about your friends, familly, business partners or pets.
- It is not a professional Data-Banking-System, but it has a lot of advantages
- if you just want to manage names, telephone numbers etc. of some people:
- - AddressManager is very easy to use.You can learn all the functions in a few
- minutes.
- - AddressManager needs WB 2.0 or higher, therefore:
- - it uses things like AppIcons and AppWindows
- - if you own WB 2.1 or higher you can use it in English or German language
- - it looks quite good
- - AddressManager is PD. You can copy and use it freely.
- If you want to "reward" me for my work and increase my motivation to keep
- on developing this software, you can send me something nice (letters,
- postcards, money, gifts etc.). (see also CREDITS)
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-
- 3) INSTALLATION
-
- To use AddressManager you need an AMIGA with Kickstart/WB 2.0 or better.
- AddressManager is rather compact, so you will have no problems using it with
- only one floppy, but a second one or a harddisk are of course also useful.
-
- If you have the Reqtools.library in your system,it will be used automatically
- unless you force AM not to use it (see also CONFIGURATION).
-
- If you own the INSTALLER you can use one of the scripts you can find in the
- INSTALL-Directory. It will do all the work for you.
-
-
- WB 2.0-installation:
-
- Just copy the AddressManager program and, if you want, the documentation to
- some disk. It does not need any special libraries or devices except the usual
- ones.
- The program will run in English only.
-
-
- WB 2.1 and better installation:
-
- Do the same as described for WB 2.0, but if you want to use the program in
- German language you should also:
- - have the usual locale-files (locale.library, german language-file etc.)
- - copy the file ADDRESSMANAGER.CATALOG from ADDRESSM2.1/CATALOGS/DEUTSCH to
- LOCALE:CATALOGS/DEUTSCH
-
- AddressManager will only run in German language if you have this language
- among you prefered languages (LOCALE-Prefs) BEFORE English.
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- 4) CONFIGURATION
-
- There are 3 methods of configuring AddressManager:
-
- - from the Workbench:
-
- - AddressManager uses the WB-Screen, and so all prefrences of the WB
- concerning resolution, colors, printer... will be taken over
-
- - using the TOOLTYPES:
-
- To change the TOOLTYPES just click on the icon of AddressManager once and
- call INFORMATION from the ICON-Menu of the WB. Now you can change the
- TOOLTYPES:
- - DONOTWAIT should always be there. If you have AddressManager in your
- WBStartup-drawer so that it is started everytime you boot, this tooltype
- makes the WB not wait for the programs answer.
- - POP_UP defines if the AddressManager window should be opened immidiately
- after starting or not. If it is set to NO the program will only create an
- AppIcon and wait until you activate it. This is useful if you want to
- have the program in the WBStartup-drawer. Otherwise this tooltype should
- be set to YES.
- - STD_MSGREQ enforces standard requesters for messages
- - ASL_FILEREQ enforces ASL-filerequesters
-
- - using the build-in-prefs.More about this in the chapter USING ADDRESSMANAGER
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- 5) USING ADDRESSMANAGER
-
- Starting:
-
- - from the WB:
-
- Just double-click the AddressManager-icon to start the program. If you want
- to load some data at the same time just click the AM-icon once, press SHIFT
- and double-click the icon of the data-file.
-
- - from the Shell:
-
- AddressManager [FILE]
-
- FILE can be some data-file which you want to be loaded together with AM.
-
-
- Now you have started AddressManager. First some important information:
-
- - AddressManager creates an AppIcon on the WB. If you double-click it the
- AM-Window will come to front.
- You can also drop an data-file-icon on the AppIcon to load it.
- - AddressManager creates an AppWindow. Just drop an file into it, and it will
- be loaded.
- - The number of people you can manage is only limited by the amount of free
- memory.
- - The name and the surname of every person will appear in the list on left of
- the window. Just click on a name, and the corresponding data will appear in
- the string gadgets on the right side of the window.
- - All gadgets have one underlined character. Just press the corresponding key
- to activate the gadget. The list of entries plays a special role here:
- - press just <x> to activate the next person
- - press <SHIFT>-<x> to activate the previous person
-
- Now some information about the functions of the gadgets, menus and so on:
-
- - CLOSE-gadget
- Ends the program after asking if you really want to end it and giving you
- a chance to save your data.
- - ZOOM-gadget
- This gadget iconifies the program. The window is closed, but the data is
- still in the memory. You can re-open the window by activating the AppIcon,
- which is still on the WB.
- - SURNAME,NAME...
- In these gadgets you just type in the data. You can jump from one gadget to
- an other with TAB (or RETURN) or SHIFT-TAB. If you click on a person in the
- list the corresponding data will also appear here.
- If you leave the REMARKS-Gadget, you can press RETURN to add the person in
- the string-gadgets to your list, clear the gadgets and activate the first
- gadget automatically. This makes it possible to enter several persons in a
- row very quickly.
- - EXISTING ENTRIES
- The names and surnames of all people can be seen here. Just click on them
- to recall the data.
- - NEW PERSON
- After you have typed all the data about a person into the string-gadgets
- you have to use this function to take it over into the actual list of
- people. The new entry will be inserted into the alphabetical list.
- - DELETE
- The last activated entry will be deleted.
- The entry above it will be activated automatically.
- - UPDATE
- If you want to change an existing entry, just recall it by clicking on it
- in the list of existing entries. Then change the contents of the string-
- gadgets. When you are satisfied with the new contents of these gadgets,just
- use UPDATE. The data in the actual list will be updated now.
- - SAVE/LOAD
- I suppose you already know what these functions are for!
- After calling one of them an ASL- or REQTOOLS-filerequester appears. Here
- you can select a directory and a file to load or save.
- If you use the REQTOOLS.LIBRARY you have also the possibility of creating a
- new directory in the SAVE-Requester. Just type the name of a directory that
- does not exist yet,and the requester will ask you if you want to create it.
- Before loading data AM checks if the previous data was changed since it was
- saved for the last time. If it was you have a last chance to save it now.
- Every saved file automatically gets an icon.
- If you want to load a file, and there is already some data in your list,
- you can choose, whether you want to add the new data to the old or to
- replace the old by the new.
- The saving-format is rather compact, so that you will need less place on
- disk the in memory for the same amount of data.If you want more information
- about this format because you i.e. want to make your own Manager-program
- compatible to AddressManager just write me.
-
- - PRINT
- After calling this function an requester will appear in which you can
- if you want to print all the data, only the activated person or nothing.
- More about the actual printing is to be found under PREFS.
- Additionally there is a possibilty of printing on envelopes.If you use this
- function only the name, the address and if you want also the country will
- be printed. The auto-centering of your printer will be activated
- automatically.
-
- - PREFS
- The program can be configured here:
-
- - DIRECTORY
- Here you can type in your working-directory. If possible it will be
- activated everytime you open a file-requester until you have selected
- some other directory there.
- The short cut has two meanings:`D` activates the string-gadget, `d` opens
- a requester in which you can select the directory.
-
- - THAT WILL BE PRINTED:
- You can select an item in the listview-gadget and then :
- - PRINT if selected the active item will be printed
- - BOLD if selected the active item will be printed bold
- - SEPARATE (only if HORIZONTAL activated) :
- - if activated the item will be separated from the next one by a line,
- otherwise by a space
- - CHARS (only if HORIZONTAL activated) : here you can say how many chars
- of the complete line belong to this item. The sum of all items and
- separations cannot be higher then the lenght of a line of the printer
-
- EXAMPLE:
- Your PRINTER-Prefs look like this:
- Pica (10cpi)
- Left margin: 2
- Right Margin: 2
- So there are 76 columns left for AddressManager-output.
-
- Surname First name | Street City | Telephone
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- Xxxx Xxxxx | Xxxxx Xxx x XXXXX XXXXXX | XXXX/XXXXXX
- Yyyyyyy Yyyyyy | YYYY Yyy y YYYYY Yyyyyyyy | YYYYY/YYY
-
- 10 10 ^ 20 15 ^ 12
- | |
- Separation Separation
-
- To get this output you have t o deactivate PRINT in BIRTHDAY, COUNTRY and in
- REMARKS. The values of CHARS should be:
- Surname : 10
- Firts name : 10
- Street : 20
- City : 15
- Telephone : 12
- Also the SEPARATE-gadget should be activated in FIRTS NAME and CITY.
-
- - If HEADERS is activated each line or column begins with NAME:, REMARKS:
- etc.
- - SURNAME FIRST makes the program print the surname before the first name
- - ONLY EXISTING... (only in VERTICAL-mode) makes the program NOT print
- empty lines like
-
- Remarks:
-
- - SAVE
- The new prefs will be taken over and saved in your ENV: and ENVARC:
- directories. Therefore they will be automatically activated next time you
- boot.
- - SAVE AS...
- You can save the configuration somewhere to use it later
- - LOAD
- Loads a saved configuration
- - USE
- The new prefs will be taken over and saved in your ENV:-directory. So it
- will be valid until you turn off your computer or reboot.
- - CANCEL
- The new prefs will neither be taken over nor saved.
-
- - PARAMETERS
- After activating this function a new window appears. Here you can type in
- the criterion after which a person will be searched. You can use all joker-
- signs like "#?" which you already know from the Shell. The searching
- algorythm does not make any difference between normal and capital letters.
- After finishing this just click on OK!.
- You can also switch between the gadgets by pressing TAB (or RETURN) or
- SHIFT-TAB.
-
- - SEARCH
- Now the list of people will be serched through from the beginning, and if a
- person fits all the conditions it will be activated and shown in the string
- -gadgets. Otherwise the message "Not found!" will be displayed.
-
- - GO ON
- This function continues searching from the position where it was last
- stopped under the same conditions. If you have not called the SEARCH-
- function before, or if the whole list has already been searched this gadget
- shows no effects.
-
- - NEW
- Clears the complete list.
-
- - CLEAR
- Clears the string-gadgets.
-
- - using of the menus:
- Some important functions can be called from the menu too.
- There are also functions only available from the menu:
- - ABOUT
- Shows some information about the program.
- - SAVE
- Saves under the old file-name without opening a requester.
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- 6) HISTORY
-
- - AddressManager V1.0 (07.11.1993) is the first released version.
- - AddressManager V1.1 (20.11.1993) :
- - if you leave any string-gadget (in the main window or in the SEARCH-
- window) by pressing RETURN the next gadget will be activated (suggested
- by Thortsen Schulz)
- - AddressManager V1.2 (10.02.1994) :
- - fixed a bug: the PUBLICSCREEN is now correctly unlocked after leaving the
- program
- - a lot of small changes in the user interface:
- - all windows are redesigned. They take less place on the screen now, so
- they even can be opened on a 640*200 screen (NTSC HighRes normal size)
- - ABOUT, PREFS and SEARCH windows are centered in the main window
- - if you use REQTOOLS.LIBRARY the requesters are better now:
- - all requesters are centered in the main window
- - the SAVE-Requester allows you to create new directories
- - AddressManager V1.3 (13.03.1994) :
- - the stack is now allocated automatically
- - removed an unnecessary string from the main window
- - changed the handling of the string gadgets in the main window,so that you
- can enter several persons in a row much faster now (see also "USING...")
- - AddressManager V1.4 (29.05.1994)
- - you can use a requester to select your prefered directory in the prefs
- - OS 3.0`s NewLookMenus are now used
- - fixed a minor bug: When iconified, AddressManager did not release the
- WB-Screen completely, so you could not e.g. change the screen mode until
- you left AM.
- - AddressManager V2.0 (13.06.1994):
- - new prefs, print and search functions
- - lots of intern optimizations
- - AddressManager V2.1 (04.07.1994):
- - the tooltypes are now more logical
- - you can add new data from a file to the existing list
- - rewriten some funktions (save,load...) to save some code (about 2K)
- - fixed a bug in the new print-function
- - the DEFAULT TOOL of the data-files is now set correctly
- - there are now 2 installer scripts: german and english
- - now PD, not SHAREWARE anymore
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- 7) FUTURE PLANS
-
- - use good ideas, which I hope to get from you
-
- I will of course double my efforts if I know that there are people who use
- the programm. You can show me that you use AddressManager by sending me some
- money, a small gift or a letter (see also CREDITS).
-
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- 8) CREDITS
-
- AddressManager V2.1 and all files coming along with it were developed by:
-
- MICHAEL SCHIKORA
- CHEMNITZER WEG 1
- 53119 BONN
- GERMANY
-
- Send all bug-reports, ideas, letters, postcards, money, gifts etc. to this
- address.
-
- Testing:
- THORSTEN SCHULZ
- MICHAEL SCHIKORA
-
- Thanks to:
- NORBERT PÜSCHEL for his help
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- ©1994 Michael Schikora
-