> Easy to set the system time while calling your local time operator.
> Phone logs may contain job codes.
> Phone logs may be viewed, printed and saved to another file.
> Password protection.
> Quick notepad for each address book and one if no name selected.
> Prints envelopes on LaserJet.
> Functions as a stop watch.
> Features an alarm clock.
> Programmable 6-City world clock.
> Lots of Help data - with output (print, etc.) capability.
> Create your own Help files, recipe books etc.
> Search Address Books.
> Import Address Book data.
> For all DiaLog does, it is very easy on your hard disk storage requirements. (It has been generated with the "KISS" principle in mind.)
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Search Books:
Will search the selected address book for the desired data. More than one field may have search data. The search data may be a partial string - no wild cards are permitted. To find non-blank fields, enter: ~* into the desired field.
Any matching records will be placed into address Book4. If Book4 is not empty, the data in it will be saved temporarily. The data in Book4 may now be manipulated with all the address book utilities. Book4 cannot be searched because it is used to store searched data.
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Save/Restore Books:
- Save Books - is intended to permit the temporary saving of one of the address books. The book so saved, can now be manipulated in any way without effecting the original data. It is best to restore the original book as soon as possible, before you forget about its contents.
'Save Books' differs from 'Copy Books' in that the first saves the entire book to a temporary book, while the latter permits selective copying of names from/to any of the four books.
- Restore Books - restores to any book the temporary book saved with the 'Save Books' feature.
Note:
Before manipulating any address book data, be sure you have backed up files of the address books. They are DialLstx.dat, where x = 1 to 4.
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Calendar:
Displays one of 3 convenient appointment calendars/diaries. You may double-click the date on the main display to easily bring up the calendar. In 'DiaLog Options' you can set the default calendar. It is the one that will be loaded automatically. From the calendar File menu you can bring up the other ones, but the default remains until you change it. Empty books require no storage on your system.
You enter (edit, delete, select, copy etc.) text as with any other Windows editor, such as Notepad. Once you enter text into the day's notepad, that day will be highlighted in red on the calendar as soon as you leave that date. Delete the text and the highlight will disappear.
Click on any day to bring up the notepad for that day.
Click on the scroll bar arrows to change the month - click in the area between the arrows to change the year. You may also drag the center knob to change many years at once.
DO NOT manipulate the appointment book files directly, they must remain unaltered.
- Output Book Entries -
Enables you to output book entries to the Windows Write program, from where you can print or otherwise manipulate them. It is also a method of finding out what forgotten items are still taking up space in your book. The data is presently in a temp file which will be deleted, therefore you must save the data in another file if you wish to keep it.
Select 'Entire Book' and 'Output' to output the entire book.
Select 'Range of Dates' to output a range of dates only. Then click on the calendar for either the start or end date as instructed on the panel. Select 'Output' to output the data.
Note:
In the interest of speed and program size, the size of each appointment book is presently set to approx. 20,000 characters. You will be told when you are getting close. A later version of DiaLog (after Windows 95) will overcome this limitation. (You will most likely never reach that limit!)
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Select Delete Range:
Select 'Range of Dates' to be deleted. Click on the calendar for either the start or end date as instructed on the panel. Select 'Delete' to delete the data.
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World Clock:
Note: Upon installation, the World Clock is initialized for the Los Angeles time zone. Unless you live in that zone, you must first adjust it for your local time. See below on how to accomplish that. Times are displayed according to your international setting in the Windows Control Panel.
- Spin (Up/Down) control -
Use this control to temporarily slew to other times to perform 'what if' lookups. (What time must I call my customer in Tokyo to reach her/him at noon?) Press 'Reset' to return to your local time.
- Reset -
Resets the clocks to match your local time.
- Setting the Clocks -
The World Clock displays 6 locations, 5 of which are programmable by you. To make any changes to the clock settings, select 'File' and 'DiaLog Options' from the main DiaLog menu. Then click on 'World Clock Setup'. You may also simply double-click on any City label on the clock.
All settings are based on London (G.M.T.) time. We use Los Angeles in California, USA as an example. Checking a world time chart, Los Angeles is 8 hours West of London. Therefore we enter '-8' into the offset location next to the 'Los Angeles' title. (Had we wanted Germany, we would have entered 'Germany' as the title. Germany is 1 hour East of London, therefore we enter '1' into the offset.) Repeat this procedure for any other location you wish to change. Just remember, going East from London, numbers are positive, going West they are negative.
Next we must set the offset from London to our location. Since we are in Los Angeles, we enter '-8' into the last box.
Be sure to press 'Set' when done, and again press 'Set' after getting back to the DiaLog Options menu.
The Los Angeles clock now displays your computer clock time and you can see the local time of all the other selected locations.
To program a location that is not an even hour from London, like New Delhi, proceed as above, but since New Delhi is 5 hours and 30 minutes East of London, enter 5.5 next to the New Delhi title. Only 30 minute locations can be handled in that fashion.
Offsets from G.M.T. for some world cities:
Anchorage, Alaska ......... -9
Bangkok, Thailand ......... 7
Beijing, China ............ 8
Berlin, Germany ........... 1
Buenos Aires, Argentina ... -3
Caracas, Venezuela ........ -4
Cairo, Egypt .............. 2
Chicago, IL USA ........... -6
Dacca, Bangladesh ......... 6
Denver, CO USA ............ -7
Dubayy, United Arab E. .... 4
Helsinki, Finland ......... 2
Hong Kong ................. 8
Honolulu, Hawaii .......... -10
Jakarta, Indonesia ........ 7
Johannesburg, S. Africa ... 2
Karachi, Pakistan ......... 5
Lima, Peru ................ -5
Lagos, Nigeria ............ 1
Los Angeles, CA USA ....... -8
Moscow, Russia ............ 3
Nairobi, Kenya ............ 3
New Delhi, India .......... 5.5
Newfoundland .............. -3.5
New York, NY USA........... -5
Paris, France ............. 1
Perth, Australia .......... 8
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ...... 3
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil .... -3
Rome, Italy ............... 1
Solomon Islands ........... 11
Sydney, Australia ........ 10
Tokyo, Japan .............. 9
Toronto, Canada ........... -5
Wellington, New Zealand ... 12
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Change Colors:
This feature is accessed from the 'File' menu.
Enables you to change the colors of DiaLog. You can preview the changes on the little sample form. Select OK if you wish to implement the new colors, select Cancel to keep the colors you had before entering this mode.
The color of buttons and some of the panels cannot be changed.
The four selections are:
1. Form Background changes the background color of forms
2. Form Foreground changes the text of items on the form
3. Panel Background changes the background of 3-D panels
4. Panel Foreground changes the text of items in the panel
You may click on one of the four buttons or directly on the form or text of the sample display.
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DiaLog Version Changes:
- Version 3.2.5 1/16/95
1. Version 3.2.4 introduced a bad bug. If the calendar was exited via the exit button or the menu File Exit, all data in the appointment book was lost. Exiting from the upper left corner control box worked alright.
- Version 3.2.4 1/1/95
1. The telephone titles (home, office, Fax) next to the phone number on the main display are not visible with the default colors - only after colors have been changed. This bug has been fixed.
2. The phone logs may now be sorted by Name.
- Version 3.2.3 12/23/94
1. Modified the "Log Seconds" option to round the first 59 seconds to 1 minute.
- Version 3.2.2 12/22/94
1. Under the main Help menu the buttons on MyHelp display were accidentally left inoperational. Only a double click worked.
- Version 3.2.1 12/17/94
1. Log files are now displayed and printed using the Windows Write program.
2. You may now set your own DiaLog colors.
3. All forms were changed to always have the Cancel button to the left of the OK button. (It had not been consistent.)
4. You may now set a delay time between redials from the DiaLog Option menu.
5. Fixed bug in "AddName" mode which caused an "Illegal Function" if a duplicate name was entered followed by a carriage return.
- Version 3.2.0 11/01/94
1. Each record holds up to 6 phone numbers (Use spares for anything).
2. Up to 4 BBS ID's (Use spares for anything).
3. Added one additional address field.
4. Now has up to 4 address books.
5. Up to 3 Convenient popup appointment books/calendars.
6. 6-City world clock
7. Added 'Stay-On-Top', 'Maximized' and "Log Seconds" to the DiaLog Options menu.
8. Empty books appear dimmed on menus.
9. You may double-click on Name, Date, Time, Modem status line, Padlock and World Clock 'City' field.
10. Program flags if you attempt to add duplicate name.
11. Phone Log uses your international time and date setting.
12. Phone number may now be up to 25 characters.
13. Feature to copy names from one phone log to another.
14. The 'Name Delete' feature now allows multiple name selections.
15. 'Quick Notes' uses international date and time.
16. 'Quick Notes' displays person's name if one is selected.
17. There now is a note book for each address book, and a general one if no name is selected.
18. Printout of selected fields from address books.
19. Uses a better functioning Spin (Prev/Next) control.
20. Ability to output selected help topics. (Handy for your recipes)
21. Other enhancements.
- Version 3.1.6 9/29/94
1. Fixed bug in main menu "Addr" feature. If the address feature was selected and a change was made to the data, the data change would be lost and the DiaLog program would be exited. (Feature "View Addr Book" from the File menu worked just fine.)
2. The time display window may now be double-clicked.
- Version 3.1.5
Cosmetic changes
- Version 3.1.4 - 4-19-94
1. Added ability to access the address book from the main menu for the selected phone number and name. In this mode it is not possible to move back and forth in the address book.
2. Modified import feature to place the company name into the Name field if the Name filed is blank.
3. Added padlock icon to password display. This icon may be double-clicked to access password.
4. Require verification before deleting records in Addr Books.
5. The Com Port line may be double clicked.
- Version 3.04 - 1-21-94
1. Added Address Book import feature.
- Version 3.03 - 12-04-93
1. If "Hi Redial Volume" is set to 0, "Lo Redial Volume" is now used to set the modem speaker volume. (See ComPort Setup from the main DiaLog menu.)
2. You may now control whether DiaLog comes up minimized or maximized. If the second parameter in the Command Line Parameter = max, then DiaLog comes up maximized. The first parameter determines if the minimized DiaLog icon stays on top of other forms. To stay-on-top and to come up maximized, the command line in the Program Manager 'File', 'Properties..' should read: DialLog -1, max.
- Version 3.02 - 11-01-93
1. Alarm clock now considers any time entered prior to the current time to be for the next day.
2. A clear button has been provided for the Time Set and Alarm Set windows. Each time interval (hr, min, sec) can be cleared individually.
3. The "days used" for unregistered versions now counts correctly.
4. File MSAFINX.DLL is required but not present in the Windows\System\ directory on everyone's computer. It is now part of the FoneW.exe file.
- Version 3.0 10-24-93
1. Converted program to run under Visual Basic 3.0. Program now requires VBRUN300.DLL.
2. Added alarm clock feature.
3. Fixed minor bugs.
- Version 2.11 5-31-93 -
1. Some combinations of modem and computer created a speed problem which caused the auto-redial-on-busy feature not to work properly.
2. Changed the DialRead.txt file to work with the Help system. It is now named DialRead.Hlp. You should delete any old DialRead.Txt file.
3. Added ability to keep the minimized DiaLog icon "On Top". See "StayOnTop" in the Main Help feature of DiaLog.
- Version 2.1 5-12-93
1. Added auto-redial capability.
- Version 2.01 3-22-93
1. Fixed bug with Jobcode logging.
2. Fixed bug which effected only users who let version 2.0 change their version 1.14 address books, and who had no entry for "State". The bug occurred when printing an envelope for an address without state.
- Version 2.00 2-10-93
1. Re-compiled with VB version 2.0 - Requires VBRUN200.DLL.
2. Fixed minor bugs.
3. Changed the way the help files display on the screen.
4. Users may now create their own Help files.
5. Address book entries for "State" may now be up to 20 characters.
6. Address books and Help files are compatible with the DOS version of DiaLog.
7. The DiaLog execution file has been renamed to DialLog.exe. There has been at least one reported problem with the single "L" version.
8. There may now be consecutive entries in the address books for the same person with different phone numbers. They may be accessed from the front panel by pressing <Prev> or <Next>.
9. The registration form is now available from the main DiaLog help menu.
10. The address books may now be printed out.
- Version 1.14 6-23-92
1. Windows 3.1 had problems closing DiaLog via the Program Manager if DiaLog had executed the help file. Windows reported General Protection Fault. Closing DiaLog directly caused no such error. Got around the erroneous error reporting by deleting the unloading of the Help form before closing DiaLog.
- Version 1.13 6-18-92
1. Made Log Title processor check for max characters.
2. Do not allow logging mode change while logfile present.
3. Added pulse dialing.
4. Added notepad.
- Version 1.12 5-30-92 -
1. Fixed problem in help processor by changing pointer from Integer to Long.
- Version 1.11 5-27-92
1. Changed logging scheme to text format to allow editing of file.
2. Provided normal and extended logging.
3. Let operator determine title for log output.
4. Added optional "Timer-Running" beep.
- Version 1.10 5-20-92 -
1. Added envelope printing.
2. Added password protection.
3. Program now loads minimized (icon).
- Version 1.01 5-7-92 -
1. Clear "Special Features" flag when number is entered from keyboard.
- Version 1.0 4-9-92 - *** uploaded as Fonelg.exe ***
Original program.
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DiaLog To Others:
The best way to pass DiaLog to others is by providing the compressed file, either FoneW.zip or FoneWL.zip. (The first contains the minimum required files, the second contains VBRUN300.DLL.) Optionally you may unzip the files to a diskette and pass on that diskette. You are *NOT* permitted to copy the files from your DiaLog directory to give to someone.
Please see the VendInfo.diz file (a text file) on your installation disk for more info.
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Remove DiaLog:
1. Simply delete all files in the DiaLog directory.
2. Remove the DiaLog directory.
3. Remove the DiaLog icon from the Program Group
4. Remove the Program Group if it is only for DiaLog
5. DiaLog did NOT change any of your files such as Win.ini etc.
6. DiaLog added the following files to your Windows\System directory:
VBRUN300.DLL, CSCALNDR.VBX, CSSPIN.VBX, CURTIME.VBX and THREED.VBX.
You may delete any of them if you are sure they are not used by
other applications.
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The Shareware Concept:
Shareware is copyrighted software which is distributed by authors through bulletin boards, on-line services, disk vendors, and copies passed among friends and acquaintances. It is commercial software which you are allowed to try before you pay for it. This makes Shareware the ultimate in money back guarantees.
With Shareware you get to try a program for a reasonable limited time (30-45 days), without spending any money other than perhaps for downloading from a bulletin board or paying a Shareware distributor a small fee for his disk. You are able to use the software on your own computer, in your own work environment. If you decide the program is not for you, you remove it from your computer and erase all copies, including the data files. If you do decide to keep it, then - and only then - do you pay for it.
Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. Shareware is produced by accomplished programmers, just like retail software. There is good and bad Shareware, just as there is good and bad retail software. The primary difference between Shareware and retail software is that with Shareware you know if it's good or bad before you pay for it.
The Shareware system and the continued availability of quality Shareware products depend on your willingness to register and pay for the Shareware you keep. The registration fees you pay allow Shareware producers to support and continue to develop their products. Please show your support for Shareware by registering those programs you actually keep and use and by passing them on to others. Shareware is kept alive by your support!
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DISCLAIMER:
DiaLog COPYRIGHT (c) 1992-1995 WOLFGANG JOHN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS REGARDING THE USE OF, THE RESULTS OF, OR PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM, ITS APPROPRIATENESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR CURRENTNESS. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM IS ASSUMED BY THE USER. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHOR OR HIS EMPLOYEES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL, RESULTING FROM ANY DEFECT IN THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS DISCLAIMER SHALL SUPERSEDE ANY VERBAL OR WRITTEN STATEMENT TO THE CONTRARY. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS YOU MUST CEASE AND DESIST USING THIS PROGRAM.
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Help:
This help file.
To see other topics, click the desired topic at the left.
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Display SubTopics:
'SubTopics' / 'No SubTopics' is a toggle control. Pressing it will alternately display and not display the subtopics. This comes in handy when there are many topics and subtopics.
Displaying only the main topics makes it easier to zero in on the desired topic. If a main topic is selected now, the main topic will move to the top of the topics display (unless you are at or near the end of the topics) and the system will revert to the 'SubTopics' mode.
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OutPut Topic:
The text of the selected topic will be placed into the Windows Write program. From here it may be printed, saved to another file, or otherwise manipulated. Don't forget to exit from the Write program when finished with it.
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VendInfo:
The file "VendInfo.diz" on your installation disk is a text file with more information about DiaLog installation, distribution, requirements, list of files, etc.
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Other Programs:
The author has the following programs available as Shareware:
***** MyCDplayer *****
MyCDplayer offers the following features:
-- Plays your Audio CDs while you are performing other tasks.
-- Lets you create a library of all your CDs.
-- Library entries include an index to easily find your CD in storage.
-- Lets you exclude certain tracks every time you play that CD.
-- Has a Program, Shuffle and Sample mode.
-- The programmed mode may be saved to the library.
-- The library may be searched.
-- Library data may be saved to a text file for printing etc.
-- Individual tracks or the entire CD may be automatically repeated.
-- Displays elapsed and remaining times of tracks and entire CD.
-- Displays number of enabled tracks and their total playing time.
-- Offers up to 3 appointment books/diaries.
The program is available as MyCD.zip on CompuServe forums IBMSYS, WinShare, WinUser and EURForum. You may also request it directly from the author for $3.00 on this continent, $4.00 from everywhere else. (See registration form for address.)
