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Address+ v1.19 (c) Copyright 1997-2000 by Paul Taylor ----------------------------------------------------- Address+ is distributed via the shareware scheme. You can try it out and if you like it, you should buy it... You can get the full registered version at www.palmgear.com for only $8.00 (US). Each time you run Address+ you will be greeted with the Address+ splash screen. There is a 5 second delay on this screen before you can select the OK button to continue into the application. This is to encourage registration. Other than that, the unregistered version of Address+ has no other restrictions. Whats new in 1.19? ------------------ - Added "Remember last Highlight" feature. This feature allows you to exit Address+ and upon re-entering it, you will be presented with the last highlighted record again, allowing you to easily work your way through the list. This feature is enabled by default. - Added ability to totally disable the "AutoSort after Hotsync" feature, which was added way back in version 1.18. Contents -------- 1. Introduction & Overview 2. Disclaimer 3. Content of the Zip archive 4. System Requirements 5. Installing/Upgrading 6. Uninstalling 7. Using the Program 7.1 The main Address list screen 7.2 View Record screen 7.3 Edit Group screen 7.4 The Letter Bar 7.5 Record Duplication 7.6 Track Last Edit feature 7.7 Sort at Startup 7.8 Font Support 8. Future Enhancements 9. Bug Reporting 10. Registration 11. Versions 1. Introduction & Overview Recieved a 5 star rating from ZDNET ! An Address Book enhancement featuring 4 commonly used sorting methods, record duplication, an optional letterbar, a robust group manipulation feature to ease your record maintenance, the optional ability to timestamp a record each time you edit it, 100% compatibility with your existing address database, and now with Font and Beaming support. Now with Group Beaming! 2. Disclaimer This program is provided without any warranty and the user accepts full responsibility for any damages, consequential or otherwise, resulting from its use. This archive is freely redistributable, provided it is made available only in its complete, unmodified form with no additional files. 3. Content of the Zip archive The following files are included: - AddrPlus.prc - Readme.txt (The file you are reading) - Registered Users - Read 4. System Requirements - PalmOS v2.0 through Palm OS 3.3. Not compatible with Palm OS 3.5. (Which includes PalmPilot Personal or Pro, Palm III, Palm IIIx, Palm IIIe, Palm V, some early Palm Vx units, as well as the various Visor products) 5. Installing/Upgrading - Delete previously installed version of Address+ from your Pilot. - Install this program using your Palm device install tool and then Hotsync. 6. Uninstalling - Delete the Address+ application from your device. - On your first run of the built-in application, resort your database by selecting options, Preferences, then selecting whichever sort method is not currently highlighted. Then, just tap the "OK" button. - Any changes you have made with Address+ will still be in effect on the data, so don't worry about losing anything. 7. Using the Program NOTE: Only changes from the standard application are discussed here. Otherwise, it is probably identical or very similar to the built-in app. 7.1 The main Address list screen - Address+ now has a Quick Bar in the bottom of the screen made of the English alphabet. (This feature defaults to off. To enable it, check the "Show Letter Bar" option on the preference screen) - The lookup function has been renamed "Find". It operates just as before, with the only exceptions being when the letterbar is used. You may, for example, select "S" with the letterbar. "S" will show up in the Find field. If you tap on another character on the letterbar, it will replace the "S" in the find field, however if you enter "M" in using graffiti, it will be appended, making the Find field display "SM", and you would be moved to the appropriate entry in your database. - Four buttons labeled "L", "CL", "F", and "CF" are in the bottom center section of the screen. These allow you to easily select the sort order of your database. "L" is for Last, First sort, "CL" is for Company, Last sort, "F" is for First, Last sort, and "CF" is for Company, First sort. 7.2 View Record screen - Duplicate button which allows you to duplicate the currently viewed record. Selecting the Duplicate button will place you on an Edit screen for your newly created duplicate record. - "-" and "+" buttons allow you an easy way to advance or work your way back through your database. (Within the currently viewed category) The hardware up and down buttons function similarly, except that they also page down through a record, and will only move to the next record when no more data exists in the current record. 7.3 Edit Group screen - To get to this screen, select Options from the main Address list screen, then select "Edit Group" - The screen layout is pretty self-explanitory. There is a box, in which the name fields are displayed, each next to a check mark. The find field and the sort buttons are also available at the bottom with the category selection being at the top, just below the title bar. NOTE: In version 1.0, when changing sort orders, you clear all current selections. Keeping previously made selections is a feature I'm looking into. For now, it's best to do group operations on one category at a time, unless you don't require resorting the database. - Select any category, and the data for that category will be displayed in the box. To the right of the name will be the one character that represents the default phone number that is displayed. - By tapping on the "Phone" icon/button at the top of that row, the icon will change to a "Key". At this point, the data shown directly below the key will change to either a blank spot, or a "P" is the record is a private record. Note that in order for this to show up, you must have already used the security application to allow you to view private records. - Tapping on the row below the "Phone" icon will toggle through all of the *available* phone numbers for that record. For example, if your record has your Home, Work, and Pager number, and you tap on the "W" in this column, it will change to the next number, either a "P" or a "H". It will not attempt to change it to a non-existant number. - Tapping on the row below the "Key" icon will toggle the records private status. Note that if you are set to *NOT* show private records, as soon as you tap the spot below the key, the record will become private, therefore disappearing from the list. - By tapping on either the record name, or on the checkbox next to the name, you will toggle it's selection. You may also select records with the menu. The Edit menu shows the following options: Select all in Category, Invert selection in Category, Unselect all in category, and Global unselect. - Once you have selected all of the records you wish to perform an operation on, you use the "Action" menu item. It's options include: Delete Selected, Change Phone # Shown (in the main address view), Move Category, Toggle Private Status, and Beam Selected. These options allow you to perform a similar action on a number of records at once. 7.4 The Letter Bar NOTE: The letter bar is disabled by default. To enable it, go to the Preferences screen, and select "Show Letter Bar". The Letter Bar allows you easy & fast access to your records. By tapping a letter on the letter bar, the first record with the same letter in the current sort is highlighted. For more accurate access to a record you can add letters to the "Find" field using Graffiti strokes or the built in keyboard. 7.5 Record Duplication In the Record view a "Duplicate" button has been added. Tapping this button causes a new record to be opened in the Edit view with all the details of the previously selected record. You may now edit the new record. In the Preferences screen, you can select "Copy Names when duplicating". If this is selected, the entire record is duplicated when the "Duplicate" button is pressed. If it is not selected, the entire record is duplicated with the exception of the name fields. 7.6 Track Last Edit feature In the Preferences screen, the option "Track Last Edited Time" allows you to select a field, either Custom1-4 or None (to disable the feature). The selected field will be updated with a date/time stamp each time you edit the record. Note that just going into Edit mode is *NOT* considered editing the record, only if some data is actually modified. (However, deleting a character and replacing it with the same character *IS* considered editing) 7.7 Sort at start-up Selecting this feature makes Address+ resort your database each time you start the application. This is useful because the default address book application sorts the data in a different way. Also, the address database is resorted after each Hotsync automatically by the default application, so Address+ resorting at startup fixes that problem as well. I only recommend disabling the Sort at start-up to users who have several hundred contacts in their database. (There will be a noticable delay to users with very large databases) If set in this mode, however, it will be neccesary to manually resort your database after hotsyncing and after running the default application. 7.8 Font Support - Address+ 1.0 supports different fonts, *EVEN FOR OS 2.x DEVICES*. - For OS 2.x devices, the selections are Large, Bold, and Standard. - For OS 3.x devices, the selections are Large Bold, Bold, and Standard. *NOTE* Currently, Fonts are not supported on the "Edit" and "Group Edit" screens. 7.9 Enhanced Keyboard Support This enhanced Keyboard support is disabled by default starting in version 1.17. It can be enabled via the Preferences screen. Address+ Stowaway Keyboard support ----------------------------------------- Fn + Up (or Down) - Scrolls by the page on most screens Up / Down arrow - (on main Address+ view) Scrolls by the individual record, highlighting the currently active selection. Enter - On the main Address+ view, goes into View mode for the highlighted record Phone button - Cycles through all categories, except empty ones and the Unfiled category TAB - Cycles through all on-screen buttons (Reverse Video on the "current" button) SHIFT-TAB - Cycles backwards through all on-screen buttons (Same as above) Enter - When a button is in Reverse Video mode, selects that button Up / Down arrow - (On the Edit View screen) Moves through all editable fields Note that TAB support isn't implemented on all screens, but on almost all of them. 8. Future Enhancements - Considering a "Filter" feature, which would allow you to display only selected categories. So, if you have a category with all your co-workers, for example, you could have a filter set called "Not Work", which would include all categories except your "Work" category. Still not 100% sure how to handle this, but it's something that's in the back of my mind. - Looking at doing a Group Sycronization feature. This would allow you to select a bunch of records on the Edit View, then select a field, write in the text you want to be in that field on all records, then hit a "Ok" button, and have it change the desired field to equal the text you entered.. on ALL records that are selected. - Thinking about adding a "Lock Selection" feature. This feature would let you lock in your current selections. This way you could make a change that would normally remove your selections, then make another change to that same group without having to reselect the records. This would not allow you to exit the screen or application, however. This feature would be extremely useful with the above enhancement, allowing you to change address, city, state and zip fields one after the other, for businesses that moved, etc. 9. Bug Reporting - To report a bug, make a suggestion, or make a comment, you can contact me at: ptaylor@mediaone.net 10. Registration This program is shareware. The unregistered version is fully functional but will show a registration reminder every time you start the application. If you like the program and wish to get the full version, please register with the author for the nominal fee of $8.00 (US). Registering will provide you the following: - the fully registered version which is not limited in any way. - Free upgrades of the software. Registration is available through two services: www.PayPal.com PayPal allows you to send money directly to any email address in the US. They accept credit cards and bank account transfers. I highly recommend this service for users who do not have credit cards. When signing up, please put down ptaylor@mediaone.net as your referal. or Register at Palmgear HQ : - online via: www.palmgear.com - via phone: 817.640.6558 - via fax: 817.640.6614 The author's Web site can be found at: http://www.jacksonville.net/~ptaylor/ 11. Versions 1.19- 05/15/00 - Added ability to disable "AutoSort after Hotsync" and added "Remember last highlight" feature. 1.18- 04/12/00 - Added AutoSort after Hotsync feature. 1.17- 03/24/00 - Added preference option to disable Keyboard support. This gives non-keyboard users back their "Next Field" and "Previous Field" graffiti functions. Also, made it so that Address+ will no longer crash an OS 3.5 device, only display a screen saying that it is incompatible, and advertising "Address Plus", my Palm OS 3.5 version. 1.16- 03/16/00 - Fixed a bug that caused a Fatal Error when paging down in the View Record screen. 1.15- 03/15/00 - Group Beaming added. Optimized some code to save a few KB of memory on your Palm. 1.11- 02/28/00 - Fixed a bug that occured when changing categories on individual records. Only occured if you changed it twice. Also, when changing the category, of a record, Address+ would "forget" where in the list you were, and default to the top record. 1.1 - 02/24/00 - Fixed RegCode issue that caused palms to sometimes come up with different RegCodes that I intended. Added code to handle "online" registration. 1.09- 02/18/00 - Not Released to the public. Fixed a fatal error bug related to highlighting a record (keyboard related problem). Also made top record highlight upon changing categories, to make it more consistent. 1.08- 02/13/00 - Not Released. Added enhanced keyboard support. Added support for ZipCode+ and PostCode+. 1.05- 02/08/00 - Not Released. Added the function of turning off numbers on the main view. (Pref is also in place) 1.01- 02/08/00 - Not Released. Fixed a minor memory leak when sorting. Improved efficiency related to sorting. (minor) 1.0 - 01/13/00 - Initial Shareware release. All previously released versions were freeware. Several major improvements. 0.9 - Pre-release. Fixed some focus issues with the Find field (related to sorting). Changed the way that preferences were read to make A+ more compatible with older versions. 0.61- 10/09/99 - Minor bug fixes 0.6 - 09/06/99 - Major revision. 4 sorts via buttons, First appearance of the Edit Group screen, lots of other changes. 0.3D- 06/15/99 - Minor Bug fixes 0.3C- 06/06/99 - First attempt at changing around the sort orders. This was the first work on Address+ in almost 2 years! 0.2 - 09/02/97 - Beta - First major release. Basically, very similar to the default application, with a "Copy to New" button and few other minor features. 0.1 - ???????? - Beta - Very first version. Only out for a few days before it was replaced with 0.2 because of a major design flaw. Known bugs/Issues: Problem: Address+ can not receive beams. Hypothesis: (Not 100% sure that this is what is going on, but it seems logical) When Address+ is the active application, it has the Address database open. The Palm OS sees that the incoming record is an address, and assumes that the default address book application should process the incoming beam. Therefore, it passes control to it, and you get the "Do you want to accept" dialog. However, upon saying "Yes", it quickly aborts. The default application has found the Address database to be already opened, thus it has aborted the process. Workaround: Simply exit Address+ whenever you wish to accept an Address via Beaming. Running any other application will do, even the launcher...