Household Shopper (ver. 1.05b)
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by Charles R. Vass, 27 Feb 88

Certain portions by THINK Technologies, Inc.
Portions created using the PROGRAMMER’s EXTENDER™
by Invention Software.

    Household Shopper (HHS) was written to help make managing shopping lists easier and more efficient.  In its current form it can handle up to forty (40) separate categories with each category containing forty items.  Though it could easily handle more categories I can’t imagine a household needing to manage a shopping list of over 1,600 items.  If you need to manage a list that big contact me and I’ll customize one just for you.

    The present features of HHS are by no means final.  I have tried to include all those features I thought a shopper would want.  I’m not infallible.  There may be a list management feature that I haven’t thought of that should be included.  If sufficient demand is made for a new feature I will add it.  So please give me feedback on HHS.

This version (1.05) improves screen updating, corrects two error conditions, and adds screen buttons to go to the next or previous category and command keys for those buttons.

    HHS was created on a 512KE running system 3.2 and finder 5.3.  I have not been able to test it on an SE or Mac II.  If it has problems on one of these models please let me know and I’ll try to figure out how to fix it.

    If you are a programmer and would like to have a copy of the pascal source code it is available for $5 if you provide the disk and SASE, $7 if I do.

Feature review:
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•  Maximum file size is 40 categories.

•  A category size is 40 items:

•  An item consists of:
   •• Need to buy button.
   •• Name (25 Characters max.).
   •• Brand (12 Characters max.).
   •• Quantity/Size (12 Characters max.).
   •• I have a coupon check box.

•  File Menu
   ••  “New”
   ••  “Open”
   ••  “Close”
   ••  “Save”
   ••  “Save as…”
   ••  “Print…” (Prints a list of the selected items.)
   ••  “Print everything” (Prints the entire database.)
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   ••  “Quit” (Automatically saves when seleted.)

•  Edit Menu
   ••  “Cut”
   ••  “Copy”
   ••  “Paste”
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   ••  “Add a new category…”
   ••  “Change this category’s name…”
   ••  “Sort this category”  (Items sorted alphabetically by name.)
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   ••  “Clear all selections” (ALL selected items unselected.)
   ••  “Clear coupons in this category”
   ••  “Delete items…” (Delete one or more items from a category.)
   ••  “Remove separations” (Blanks separating items removed.)
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   ••  “Delete this category”

•  Keyboard shortcut:
   ••  All command key equivilants are marked on the screen or in the menus except three.  The TAB key will normally select the edit field to the right.  The combination of Command-TAB will select the edit field directly below the current one.
Command-< is the same as pressing the “Prev” category button, Command-> is the same as pressing the “Next” category button.
   ••  This help screen can be navigated with the arrow keys and the < and > keys.  Use of the Command key in combo with these will scroll the screen a page at a time instead of a line at a time.