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- (Please excuse any spelling mistakes.)
-
- Changes: REMEMBER RUN THIS THING FROM A RAM DRIVE OR HARD DRIVE ONLY.
- IT DOES NO BUFFERING SO IT'S EXTREMELY SLOW OFF FLOPPIES.
-
- MAIN MENU:
- ---------
- - Slightly enlarged the button gadgets.
- (Looks best on a non-interlaced 640 x 400 screen).
- - Window now makes adjustments for large system fonts.
- - Forces TOPAZ8 for gadgets.
- - If available it will use the font "System8" for the status/report line
- text. As well it will print that text in another colour if an 8 or 16
- colour workbench is used.
- - Now sports a HELP gadget. This is currently not implemented, however
- the program will indicate on the CLI or CON window that HELP is either
- ON or OFF.(I plan to have a point and click help feature in the near future.)
-
- - The sort algorithm is faster. For a speed comparison check below in
- version 2.09 for details.
- - Calling the sort routine now automatically saves the new index.
-
- EDITOR:
- ------
- - Support for System8 font, however will default to TOPAZ8 if it cannot
- find the System8 font. (It's included in the ARCHIVE).
- - Stepping through each comic using '-','+' or the left/right arrow keys
- is now extremely fast. Hold down the keyboard key and watch it GO!!!!
-
- - the FIND function allows for multiple wild cards:
- IE: just*lea*eur* will find Justice League Europe in my collection.
-
- - COPY and NEW edit functions are activated in the same way as before,
- IE: press the "Copy" or "New " button or pressing 'C' or 'N'
- - However EDIT can be activated by the "Edit" button, 'E' on the keyboard,
- and (this is *NEW*) by pointing the mouse at a data line,
- (EG: the name: Marvel in the publisher field), and pressing the left
- mouse button.
- - Once in any of the 3 editing modes (EDIT, COPY, NEW) you make move the
- cursor around by using the arrow keys, by pressing return, or by
- pointing with the mouse and clicking the left mouse button.
-
- - The line buffer commands (Stor and Rtrv) have been improved slightly:
- - To store a line from the comic fields, make sure the cursor is anywhere
- on the line which contains the data you wish to store.
- Then select the stor button with the mouse and then the buffer you wish
- to store the line in. If a store has successfully been completed, the
- line which was stored will appear in the Status Box.
- (The buffers are the 6 gadgets boxes to the right of the Rtrv box.)
-
- - To copy or retrieve the contents of a buffer and store it in a data
- line, make sure the cursor is on the line where you want to put the
- data. Next press the Rtrv button and then the buffer which contains
- the data you want to fetch.
-
- - To cancel a buffer operation, click on any area of the window which
- does not involve or contain a buffer gadget.
-
- - To empty a buffer, position the cursor (using arrow keys or mouse)
- on an empty field. Next select store, and then the buffer you wish to
- empty.
-
- - To view the contents of a buffer, simply click on it.
- (You may not view a buffer if you had just clicked on the Stor or Rtrv
- gadgets.)
-
- - You may exit the editor with out making any changes (IE a cursor is still
- in the data fields) by either clicking on the eXit gadget or by pressing
- the ESCape key.
-
- - I plan to add support for the Amiga C and V clipboard device.
-
- LOCATION KEYS GADGETS ACTION TAKEN
- -------- ---- ------- ------------
- MAIN MENU E Edit comics Calls the comic editor.
- " S Sort Sorts and saves the comic index.
- " I Issue Report Creates an ISSUE report.
- " T Total value Counts the entire collection.
- " X CloseBox,eXit Quits the program.
- " HELP HELP Currently just indicates it was selected.
-
- EDITOR X eXit Returns to main menu.
- " F Find Locates a comic title.
- " E Edit Allows you to edit currently
- displayed comic. Also you may
- point & click with the mouse on
- a data field to start the edit.
- " C Copy Makes a copy of the current comic
- in memory and allows you to make
- changes and then save those
- changes as a new comic.
- " N New Starts you off with clean data
- fields, and allows you to enter
- information for a new comic.
- " D Del Will ask you if you want to delete
- the current comic.
- " - -prv Skips back to the previous comic.
- " + nxt+ Skips ahead to the next comic.
- " LeftArrowKey <<-- Jumps back to the previous title.
- " RightArrowKey -->> Jumps ahead to the next title.
- " HELP HELP Currently just indicates it was selected.
-
- IN EDIT,COPY, or NEW mode.
- ESC,CTRL x eXit Jumps out of the mode and restores
- any changes that were made.
- CTRL s Save Saves any changes and jumps out
- of the mode.
- Stor Activates the store a line of text
- command. The next button pressed
- should be a buffer button.
- (IE: ---- or data)
- Rtrv Activates the copy a line of text
- from a buffer to a data line
- command. The next button pressed
- should be a buffer button.
- CursorKeys Point & Click While in either of these modes
- you may move the cursor around by
- using the arrow keys or by
- pointing and clicking the mouse
- at a new location.
- DEL & BacKSPC Delete forwards and backwards.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The below is extracted from the main .c source file. It lists the changes
- in version and function.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 2.07 09/14/91 Changed the date parsing routine in CBEDIT.c to now accept 3
- different types of date. EG: early mar 1991, jan 1964, 1959
- 2.08 11/26/91 Removed the routines to sort by value and generate a value
- report. Recompiled under SAS 5.10b. EXE ->19596
- 2.09 12/13/91 Made some changes to the sorting routine. Now faster.
- Previously if the database had been sorted with the old value
- sort routine and then sorted again with the alphabeta routine
- , it would take up to 27 minutes to sort (on the Amiga 3000).
- With the new changes it takes approximately 7.5 minutes to
- sort. (On the A3000 with 1621 comics). Major change in
- CBEDIT.c, the editor now fetches the text for each of the 13
- text fields only if the text has changed from the last
- displayed comic. This makes the database several times
- faster as well as making use of floppies more feasible.
- EXE -> 19728
-
- 2.10 12/23/91 The main menu gadgets now support the gadtools.library. This
- version requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or Revision 37+.
- EXE -> 20272
- 2.11 01/18/92 The editor's string gadget's text is now replaced with
- IntuiText string make for a smaller EXE as well as faster
- operation, being that the text only need printed once when
- the editor is first called. EXE -> 20128
-
- 2.15 02/23/92 Display now adjusts itself at startup for screen fonts
- higher than 8 lines. Program forces Topaz8 font for regular
- text writes. Slightly changed the look of the editor, and
- increased the size of the gadgets to give greater eye appeal.
- Program now automatically saves the index after sorting.
- Fixed a bug in the save change in date line in the editor.
- It would not properly convert a date which did not consist
- of a month. Removed the Alert function for missing file
- errors, and replaced it with a fprintf to stderr so as to
- indicate which files are missing. This means the program
- needs a CON window for the error output, so the program
- is currently compiled with c.o and no tinymain.
- Now also compiled for any 680x0. EXE -> 21980
-
- 2.16 02/25/92 The program now uses the font System8 for fonts writes,
- however if it can not find the font then it defaults to
- Topaz8. The user may now use the mouse to initiate an edit
- on a comic. EXE -> 22328
-
- 2.17 03/05/92 The editor now allows the user to change lines by using
- the mouse to point and click on a new line.
- EXE -> 22484
-
- 2.18 03/20/92 The editor's line buffers have been restored with an easier
- way of selecting them. The HELP key now shows HELP activation
- by check marking the HELP box. Added a HELP function, which
- for now merely indicates if HELP was requested.
- EXE -> 23184
-
- (BUG FIXES)
- 2.18e 3/28/92 Yikes fixed bug with sort routine. Would not sort because
- variables where changed from signed ints to unsigned ints.
- Also reduced flicker with editor. It was updating the
- data fields too much. (Introduced small bug where when
- locating a title the '*' character does not appear under
- the cursor, but shows up when the user types something).
- EXE -> 23252
- 2.19 03/28/92 Fixed the missing '*' bug as well the search function now
- stays at the current comic if the search failed. No more
- jumping to the start of the database. EXE -> 23240
-