Copyright: Software by Pasquale Esposito 2000


Table of Contents
TrigItUp 1.0 - The Essential Organizer

Presentation

What is TrigItUp 1.0?

System requirements

Registration

Technical support

The 3 utilities

1. Contacts

2. Appointments

3. Web Sites

How to manage...

...your contacts

...your appointments

...your Web sites

Functions in detail

Maximum length of data

Zooming in on the text fields

Making backup copies of databases

Searching for telephone numbers

Trouble Shooting

Cannot print data in the Portrait mode

Cannot make the workspace fit the entire screen

Cannot recycle data after deletion

Cannot transport data to another PC

Cannot access Web pages

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Software by Pasquale Esposito 2000


TrigItUp 1.0 Overview
What is TrigItUp 1.0?

TrigItUp 1.0 is an information manager composed of three different utilities. The first allows you to store addresses and telephone numbers of people to contact, the second is a diary to manage meetings and visits, the third enables you to create your own collection of Web sites and record a description for each of them. It is also possible to access Web pages without quitting the program on condition that your computer is provided with an Internet connection and a Web browser properly installed.

The utilities are characterized by a very easy-to-use interface that gives you immediate access to all of the functions.

TrigItUp 1.0 may be an indispensable tool in your everyday engagements allowing you to get rid of cumbersome address books, loose pieces of paper and bursting folders.

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See also the 3 utilities:

- Contacts

- Appointments

- Web Sites


System requirements

To run TrigItUp 1.0 all you need is a PC equipped with at least a 486 processor and 8 MB RAM. As far as the operating system is concerned, your computer must use Windows 3.1 or later (Windows 95/98).

You also need an Internet connection and a Web browser properly installed if you want to take full advantage of the Web Sites utility.

To install TrigItUp 1.0 on your hard disk, you only have to create a folder whatsoever and put the following three files into it:

TRIGITUP.EXE

TRIGITUP.HLP

VBRUN300.DLL

It is to be noted that VBRUN300.DLL is not necessary if it is already present in the Windows System directory (usually, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM).

To launch the program, double-click on TRIGITUP.EXE.

When you start storing data, you will automatically create the following database files within the Windows directory:

CONTACTS.DAT

MEETINGS.DAT

WEBSITES.DAT

Moreover, when you insert the Program Password to register the software, another file called TRIGITUP.INI will be created in the Windows directory to remove the shareware limitations.

To uninstall TrigItUp 1.0 from your hard disk, just delete its folder and the above mentioned database files. If you have registered the software, also remove TRIGITUP.INI from the Windows directory.

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See also

- Registration

- Technical support


Registration

TrigItUp 1.0 is a shareware program. You have the right to test this software for a period of one month. Use after the 30 day trial period requires registration.

The registration cost for TrigItUp 1.0 is 25000 Italian Lire (Euro 12.50). Send an international postal money order to the author at the address below:

Pasquale Esposito

Via Ruggero Grieco 48

06087 Ponte San Giovanni PG

ITALY

Then fill in the Order Form (you can get it from the Copyright window) and send it to the same address via postal mail attaching a photocopy of your money order receipt.

When payment is received, you will be sent your personal license and the Program Password that will remove all limitations imposed on the shareware version (no more limits to the number of records, no more shareware reminders).

Please feel free to send the author questions, enhancement requests, and bug reports.

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See also

- Technical support


Technical support

If you have any questions about TrigItUp 1.0 and you cannot find the answer to them in this online help, you can obtain support from the author directly.

To report problems, send electronic mail to

pasquale.esposito@jumpy.it

Before doing so, please see the five sections titled Trouble Shooting for answers to common questions.

When reporting problems, please include your e-mail address to get a reply.

Alternatively, you can send postal mail to the author's address (see the Registration section).


The Contacts utility

This utility is a personal data organizer characterized by a comfortable and tidy user interface. You are given various text fields to store the person's name, his address, telephone numbers, profession, company, country of residence, e-mail account and Web site. You can also add your own notes to each contact.

It is possible to get a complete list of the contacts in the database or select only the people possessing a particular type of telephone (home, business, fax, cellular).

You can scroll the records from first to last or vice versa and zoom in on the text fields you are mostly interested in.

To perform all functions, you only have to click on the appropriate icons (there is no menu bar) and that makes the utility extremely easy to use.

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See also

- How to manage your contacts

- Searching for telephone numbers

- Maximum length of data

- Zooming in on the text fields

- Making backup copies of databases


The Appointments utility

In everyday life, engagements are so many that, even if you are endowed with a good memory, you may occasionally fail to keep an appointment.

This utility helps you keep your appointments under control enabling you to record them in a very easy way and retrieve them quickly by means of different search methods.

The main window is composed of three sections containing the necessary fields to jot down all you need to remember about your engagements. The first section includes the day, time and place of the appointment, the second allows to write name and telephone numbers of the person to meet, whereas the third serves to specify the reason for the meeting and take down notes.

There is also a search function to get the list of appointments of the current day, those of a specific day or time, the people to meet and their telephone numbers.

You can be sure that, if you rely on this utility, you will never fail to meet your obligations.

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See also

- How to manage your appointments

- Maximum length of data

- Zooming in on the text fields

- Making backup copies of databases


The Web Sites utility

This utility allows you to create your own database of Web sites giving you the possibility to add your comments to each of them and connect to them without quitting the program if you have an Internet access and a Web browser properly installed.

The main window shows a list of all the sites that you have stored in the database. To see the comments relevant to a Web site, select the URL from the list with a single click. To visit a site, double-click on it or use the "Go!" button.

You can print out data relating to a single Internet address or the complete list of Web sites in the database. Moreover, in this utility you can create links with HTML files on your hard disk by simply recording their path.

Shortly speaking, the Web Sites utility is an essential work tool to collect together your favourite URLs and recognize them immediately thanks to your own comments.

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See also

- How to manage your Web sites

- Maximum length of data

- Zooming in on the text fields

- Making backup copies of databases


How to manage your contacts

The icons within the Contacts utility allow you to perform the following functions:

(1) "New": Use it to clear the text fields before entering the new data.

(2) "Save": Use it to store the current data in the database.

(3) "Print": Use it to print out the current data.

(4) "Find": Use it to search for contacts in the database.

(5) "Delete": Use it to delete the current contact.

(6) "Help": Use it to consult the online help.

(7) "Close": Use it to exit the Contacts utility and go back to the program main window.

(8) Scroll arrows: Use them to browse the database scrolling the records from first to last and vice versa.

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How to add or modify a contact.

To add a new contact to your database, you must do the following:

1. Click on "New" to clear all the text fields.

2. Type in the new data filling in the text fields partially or completely.

3. Click on "Save".

To modify an existing contact, retrieve data on the screen, make your changes and click on "Save".

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How to print out data.

To print out data relating to the current contact, click on "Print" and confirm the operation selecting "Ok" in the message box.

To print out the list of contacts in the database, click on "Find", press the printer icon, and answer "Ok".

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How to delete a contact from the database.

To delete the current contact, click on the dustbin icon and confirm the operation selecting "Yes" in the message box.

After deleting the contact, you will see the data of the previous record on the screen.

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How to search for a contact.

To search for a contact, click on the "Find" icon and you will get the list of all the people in the database.

You can quickly select a person from the list by entering the first letters of his/her surname in the special text box.

Another search method consists of using the scroll arrows in the utility main window to browse the records from first to last or vice versa until you find the contact you are looking for.

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See also

- Searching for telephone numbers

- Maximum length of data

- Zooming in on the text fields

- Making backup copies of databases


How to manage your appointments

The icons within the Appointments utility allow you to perform the following functions:

(1) "New": Use it to clear the text fields before entering the new data.

(2) "Save": Use it to store the current data in the database.

(3) "Print": Use it to print out the current data.

(4) "Find": Use it to search for appointments in the database.

(5) "Delete": Use it to delete the current appointment.

(6) "Help": Use it to consult the online help.

(7) "Close": Use it to exit the Appointments utility and go back to the program main window.

(8) Scroll arrows: Use them to browse the database scrolling the records from first to last and vice versa.

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How to add or modify an appointment.

To add a new appointment to your database, you must do the following:

1. Click on "New" to clear all the text fields.

2. Type in the new data filling in the text fields partially or completely. Note that the date and time of the appointment, and the name of the person to meet must always be entered.

3. Click on "Save".

To modify an existing appointment, retrieve data on the screen, make your changes and click on "Save".

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How to print out data.

To print out data relating to the current appointment, click on "Print" and confirm the operation selecting "Ok" in the message box.

To print out the list of appointments in the database, click on "Find", select a search method, press the printer icon, and answer "Ok".

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How to delete an appointment from the database.

To delete the current appointment, click on the dustbin icon and confirm the operation selecting "Yes" in the message box.

After deleting the appointment, you will see the data of the previous record on the screen.

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How to search for an appointment.

To search for an appointment, click on the "Find" icon and you will have access to a search menu window.

Each icon of the search menu allows you to get a list of the people to meet in alphabetical order by name.

The available search methods enable you to see the appointments of the current day, those of a specified date or time, the people to meet and their telephone numbers and, finally, the places of the appointments.

You can quickly select a person from the list by entering the first letters of his/her name in the special text box.

Another search method consists of using the scroll arrows in the utility main window to browse the records from first to last and vice versa until you find the appointment you are looking for.

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See also

- Maximum length of data

- Zooming in on the text fields

- Making backup copies of databases


How to manage your Web sites

The icons within the Web Sites utility allow you to perform the following functions:

(1) "New": Use it to clear the two text fields before entering the new Web address and the relevant comments.

(2) "Save" (visible after clicking on "New"): Use it to store the new URL and the relevant comments in the database.

(3) "Print": Use it to print out either the current Web site with the relevant comments or the complete list of URLs in the database.

(4) "Delete": Use it to delete the Web site selected.

(5) "Help": Use it to consult the online help.

(6) "Close": Use it to exit the Web Sites utility and go back to the program main window.

To visit a Web site, double-click on it or use the "Go!" button.

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How to add or modify a Web address.

To add a new URL and the relevant comments to your database, you must do the following:

1. Click on "New" to clear the text fields.

2. Type in the new URL and the relevant comments.

3. Click on "Save".

To modify an existing URL and the relevant comments, click on "New", select the URL from the dropdown list, make your changes and press "Save".

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How to print out data.

To print out data relating to a Web site, select the URL from the list with a single click, press the printer icon and confirm the operation by answering "Ok" in the message box.

To print out the complete list of the URLs in the database, click on "New", press the printer icon, and answer "Ok".

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How to delete a Web site from the database.

To delete the current URL with the relevant comments, select it from the list with a single click, press the dustbin icon and confirm the operation by answering "Yes" in the message box.

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Quick selection of a Web site.

You can quickly select a Web site from the list by entering its first letters in the special text box.

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See also

- Maximum length of data

- Zooming in on the text fields

- Making backup copies of databases


Maximum length of data

When you save a new record in a utility database, you must consider that each text field cannot contain an unlimited number of letters and figures. Therefore, TrigItUp 1.0 will not allow you to enter more words than each text field can hold. The only exception is the Internet address field in the Web Sites utility where you must be careful not to type in more than 120 characters: any exceeding data will be cut off on saving the record.

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See also

- Zooming in on the text fields

- Making backup copies of databases

- Searching for telephone numbers


Zooming in on the text fields

Within all the utilities you can zoom in on the content of a text field by clicking on the icon at its side. You will get an error message if the text field is empty.

After the zoom, you can also copy the selected data to the Windows Clipboard.

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See also

- Maximum length of data

- Making backup copies of databases

- Searching for telephone numbers


Making backup copies of databases

In order to avoid any accidental loss of your data, you should get accustomed to regularly making backup copies of the three database files used by TrigItUp 1.0.

To do so, go to the Windows directory of your computer (usually, C:\WINDOWS) and make copies of the following files:

CONTACTS.DAT

MEETINGS.DAT

WEBSITES.DAT

To restore data, just put the same files back into the Windows directory.

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See also

- Maximum length of data

- Zooming in on the text fields

- Searching for telephone numbers


Searching for telephone numbers

If you are looking for the telephone number of a person recorded in your contacts database, you can use the appropriate search function by clicking on the "Find" icon within the Contacts utility.

The search window contains four icons standing for as many types of telephone (home, business, fax, cellular).

When you click on an icon, you get a list of all the people possessing the type of telephone you have chosen.

You can quickly select a person from the list by entering the first letters of his/her name in the special text box.

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See also

- Maximum length of data

- Zooming in on the text fields

- Making backup copies of databases


Trouble Shooting (Printing data)
Trouble Shooting

1. Cannot print data in the Portrait mode.

TrigItUp 1.0 is designed to print data in the Portrait mode but it does not change the printer orientation settings automatically.

Therefore, if the Landscape mode has been set as the default orientation on your computer, use your printer software or the Windows Control Panel to change it to Portrait.

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See also

- Cannot make the workspace fit the entire screen

- Cannot recycle data after deletion

- Cannot transport data to another PC

- Cannot access Web pages


Trouble Shooting (Fitting the entire screen)
Trouble Shooting

2. Cannot make the workspace fit the entire screen.

TrigItUp 1.0 windows are always displayed full screen, that is, they always fill the entire desktop.

The workspace in each window (i.e. the area of the window where you can see text fields and pictures) has been designed to be compatible with a resolution of 640x480 pixels or larger.

Selecting a screen resolution causes the display of the workspace to be contracted or expanded in width and height.

Since 640x480 pixels is the minimum possible resolution, the workspace used by TrigItUp 1.0 will never be larger than the screen.

If you do not like the way text fields and pictures fit the screen, you can change the size of the workspace and set the best screen resolution for your monitor. To see how to do this, consult the Windows online help.

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See also

- Cannot print data in the Portrait mode

- Cannot recycle data after deletion

- Cannot transport data to another PC

- Cannot access Web pages


Trouble Shooting (Deleting data)
Trouble Shooting

3. Cannot recycle data after deletion.

The dustbin used by TrigItUp 1.0 to delete records does not allow to recycle data after you have erased it.

To avoid any accidental loss of your data, get used to regularly making backup copies of the three database files.

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See also

- Cannot print data in the Portrait mode

- Cannot make the workspace fit the entire screen

- Cannot transport data to another PC

- Cannot access Web pages


Trouble Shooting (Transporting data)
Trouble Shooting

4. Cannot transport data to another PC.

If you want to install TrigItUp 1.0 on another computer, copying the program folder will not be enough since you will not be able to use the data previously stored.

To obtain a duplicate of the program, go to the Windows directory of the source computer and make a copy of the following database files:

CONTACTS.DAT

MEETINGS.DAT

WEBSITES.DAT

Then put them into the Windows directory of the destination computer and run the program. You will find your old data ready for use.

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See also

- Cannot print data in the Portrait mode

- Cannot make the workspace fit the entire screen

- Cannot recycle data after deletion

- Cannot access Web pages


Trouble Shooting (Accessing Web pages)
Trouble Shooting

5. Cannot access Web pages.

If you cannot connect to the Internet or open any HTML file on your hard disk after clicking on the "Go!" button within the Web Sites utility, make sure the specified address is a valid one. If it is not, any attempts to access a Web page will be ineffectual (nothing will happen). If the address is correct, check that your Web browser is properly installed.

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See also

- Cannot print data in the Portrait mode

- Cannot make the workspace fit the entire screen

- Cannot recycle data after deletion

- Cannot transport data to another computer