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Clarion Help
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1991-10-11
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Welcome to Comic Book Library! With this program you
can keep track of your comic book collection. Whether
you are a casual buyer or a serious investor, this
program will help you keep track of all the important
pieces of data on each book. You can sort your
library by title, writer, artist, hero, or villian.
Also, print out detailed reports on each title or an
overall listing of the library. The Appraiser keeps
you up to date with your collection's overall value.
Have fun and, if you find this program useful, please
register it for future updates, etc.
Here you can select by which sort field
you wish to access the data base. Also
for easier data entry, access the title
base and fill out all the requested info
on each title. This will make the regular
updating of your library less of a chore.
You may also query the data base by first
selecting a title, and then an issue. This
makes searching through a large library
a lot faster.
This is a record selection table. It assists you in
finding a book by the sort field you have selected.
You can use the arrow, PgUp, or PgDn keys (Cntrl-PgUp
for top of list, Cntrl-PgDn for bottom of list) to
highlight the book and press enter, or type in the
first few characters in the search string and the
program will jump to that record. Then press Enter.
To delete a record, highlight it and press Delete.
To add a record, press Ins for a data input form.
Once you are finished, the program will automatically
insert it in the proper sort order.
This is the data input form for Comic Book
Library. The basic fields are required to
be filled out (and will beep if you try to
skip them) but the rest are there to be used
if you wish to track that information. For
easier data input (if you have filled in the
Title Data Base) press F5 at the title field.
You will be given a list of titles to choose
from. Select one as you would from a query
table. The publisher, artist, writer, price,
and value will be filled in as defaults. You
can still change these if you wish. Also, press
F2 if you wish to enter free form comments.
Type in the three letter abbreviation for
the month of this issue. If it is a biweekly
issue, use EDEC & LDEC for Early and Late
December, DEC1 & DEC2, or whatever you wish.
Some issues are a part of a titled series in
the comic. If that is so, type in the name of
the story and issue within that story in the
next two fields. If there is no title, you
can make up your own to remind you of the plot.
This is the cover price for the book.
It is NOT the back issue price you may
have paid in the store. This data is
used to track appreciation in value.
This is the current appraised value of
the book. This figure is used in the
overall appraisal of your collection.
Change this field as your book appreciates
in value.
This is the report menu. You can either
print a report on your entire collection
which lists Title, Issue, Publisher, Value,
Amount of each Book, and Total Value on
each book (totalling the last three columns),
or on one title which lists Issue Number,
Story Title, Book in Story, Value, Amount,
and Total Value (again totalling the last
three columns).
This is the Title Data Base. To select a
record, just point and shoot. To delete,
highlight and press Delete. To add, press
Insert and fill out the form. The record
will be automatically inserted in sort order.
It is recommended that you fill out this data
base early to make future data entry less
tedious.
This is the Query Table for the Library.
It is not to be used for initial data
entry, only for looking up a book or
changing the data. Select the title.
The program will then list all books in
your library with that title in issue
number order. Then select an issue
number and press enter. The record form
will then appear.
CSERIES :
HACCESS
HCPRICE
HCVALUE
HMONTH
HREPORT
HSAGA
HTABLE
HTITLE
MAINMENU
QTABLE 1