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- The documentation of
-
- ADDRESSMANAGER for MUI V1.3
-
- Chapters:
-
- 1) IMPORTANT!!!
- 2) WHAT IS ADDRESSMANAGER FOR MUI
- 3) INSTALLATION
- 4) USING ADDRESSMANAGER FOR MUI:
- I) GENERAL INFORMATION
- II) STARTING
- III) CONFIGURATION
- IV) EDITING
- V) SAVING, LOADING, PRINTING...
- VI) SEARCHING
- 5) HISTORY
- 6) FUTURE-PLANS
- 7) CREDITS
-
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-
- 1) IMPORTANT
-
- - AddressManager for MUI and the files which belong to the program may be
- copied if they are not changed. All changes concerning the program, the
- catalogs or the documentation have to be allowed by the author.
- - AddressManager for MUI may be copied and used freely.
- If you think that AddressManager for MUI is a good program and its
- development should be continued, you can send me some money, a small gift,
- a letter or a postcard. In this way you can show me, that there are people
- using this software, and I will be more motivated to keep on developing it.
- (see also CREDITS)
- - Commercial usage or distribution without a licence from the author is not
- allowed!
- - AddressManager for MUI may be distributed on Public-Domain-Disks and through
- E-Mail if the program and all files of the distribution-package are included
- and not changed.
- - The program and all files which belong to it were developed and tested very
- carefully, so you should have no problems using them. But anyway:
- THE AUTHOR CAN NOT BE MADE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE ON YOUR SOFT- OR
- HARDWARE CAUSED BY ADDRESSMANAGER AND THE FILES COMING ALONG WITH IT.
-
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-
- 2) WHAT IS ADDRESSMANAGER
-
- AddressManager is an utillity which makes it easier for you to master all the
- information you have about your friends, familly, business partners or pets.
-
- AddressManager for MUI is different from most other similar programs, because
- it uses Stefan Stuntz`s Magic User Interface. This great user interface gives
- you the possibilty to configure you application as you like it.
-
- AM is not a professional Data-Banking-System, but it has a lot of advantages
- if you just want to manage names, telephone numbers etc. of some people:
- - AddressManager is very easy to use.You can learn all the functions in a few
- minutes.
- - AddressManager supports MUI and therefore you can configurate its user
- interface
- - AddressManager for MUI has:
- - AppIcons and AppWindows
- - Commodity support
- - Online-Help
- - Asl- or Reqtools-Requester
- - if you own WB 2.1 or higher you can use it in English or German language
- - AddressManager for MUI is PD. You can copy and use it freely.
- If you want to "reward" me for my work and increase my motivation to keep
- on developing this software, you can send me something nice (letters,
- postcards, money, gifts etc.). (see also CREDITS)
-
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-
- 3) INSTALLATION
-
- To use AddressManager for MUI you will need an AMIGA with Kickstart and
- Workbench 2.0 or better. You also need MUI 2.0 or better. It should already
- be installed on your system-disk.
-
- If you don`t have MUI you can:
- - get MUI (more abou this in the file ReadMe.MUI)
- - get AddressManager 2.2. This is a program which has almost all features of
- AM for MUI, but works without MUI. You will have to do without some user-
- interface-features like online-help or font-sensitivity.
-
- AddressManager for MUI supports the Reqtools.library (v38 or higher). It will
- be used automatically unless you wish to use asl instead. (read CONFIGURATION
- for more)
-
- If you own the Commodore-INSTALLER, you can use one of the scripts in the
- INSTALL directory. It will do all the work for you.
- Otherwise:
-
- AddressManager for MUI and the docs can be copied to any directory.
-
- If you have WB2.1 or better, you can also use AddressManager in german. In
- this case you should copy the file
-
- Catalogs/deutsch/Am_Mui.catalog
-
- to
-
- Locale:Catalogs/deutsch
-
- If the amigaguide.library is installed on your system you can use AM`s online
- help. Then you should copy the file
-
- Help/xxx/Am_Mui.help
-
- to
-
- Help:xxx
-
- XXX should be replaced by the language you want to use. (english or deutsch)
-
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-
- 4) USING ADDRESSMANAGER FOR MUI
-
- I) General information
- When you work in the main window of AddressManager for MUI you can use the
- online-help. (If you have the amigaguide.library and if you installed the
- AM_Mui.help file)
- If you need some information about a gadget, just place the mouse-pointer
- above this gadget and press HELP. Now a new window appears, in which you can
- read a description of the gadget. After you finished reading, just close the
- window to come back to the AddressManager-window.
-
- AddressManager for MUI is a commodity. It can be manipulated with the program
- EXCHANGE.
-
- AddressManager`s main window is an AppWindow. That means that you can "throw"
- files (data-, parameters- or preferences-files) into this window to load them.
- If you iconify the program, there is an AppIcon which has exactly the same
- function as the AppWindow.
- The AppIcon can be defined by creating a file called "env:AMM_AppIcon.info".
- Otherweise either AM_Mui1.3.info or the default icon will be used.
-
- II) Starting
- - from the WB:
-
- Just double-click the AddressManager-icon to start the program. If you want
- to load some data at the same time just click the AM-icon once, press SHIFT
- and double-click the icon of the data-file.
-
- - from the Shell:
-
- AM_Mui1.3 [FILE]
-
- FILE can be some data-file which you want to be loaded together with AM.
-
-
- III) Configuration
- There are several possibilities of configuring AddressManager for MUI:
-
- - MUI-Prefs
- Here you can set up many features of the application, such as which font is
- used, how the gadgets look like and many more... (included in the MUI
- archive)
-
- - WB-Prefs
- AddressManager for MUI uses the same Locale,Printer,Screen etc. preferences
- as the Workbench
-
- - Tooltypes
- If you click on the Am_Mui1.2 icon and then select INFORMATION form WB`s
- ICON-menu you can set up the tooltypes. Additionally to standard tooltypes
- as DONOTWAIT, AddressManager for MUI has 2 own tooltypes:
- - ASL_FILEREQ forces the program to use asl-filerequester even if the
- reqtools.library is there.
- - STD_MSGREQ does the same with message-requesters.
-
- - intern prefs:
- On the PREFERENCES-page you can set up lots of features. If you want the
- program to use the new prefs you have to press USE or SAVE. The differnce
- is that in the second case the prefs will be also available after you
- reboot the system. If you want to save the prefs to use them later and not
- immediatly you can do it by pressing SAVE AS. If you want to use the saved
- prefs you have to load the file with the LOAD gadget.
- The gadget RESTORE resets the prefs to the values which existed when you
- pressed SAVE or USE for the last time.
- Now the different things you can set up:
-
- - DIRECTORY. Here you can define the working directory of AM for MUI. This
- directory will be activated automatically in all requesters until you
- select an other drawer.
-
- - the part HOW TO PRINT consists of 4 gadgets:
- - HORIZONTAL
- Here you can decide if you want horizontal, for example:
-
- Surname Name | Street City | Telephone
-
- or vertical, for example:
-
- Surname Name
- Street
- City
- Telephone
-
- output.
- - SURNAME FIRST decides whether the surname or the firts name is printed
- firts
- - HEADERS decides whether every line/column begins with NAME:, STREET...
- - ONLY EXISTING... (only in VERTICAL-mode) makes the program NOT print
- empty lines like
-
- Remarks:
-
- - The part WHAT TO PRINT changes the way items are printed.
- The first gadget selects the item (NAME,SURNAME...) you want to set up.
- The next gadget decides whether the item is printed and in which style.
- If you activate SEPARATE, the item will be separated from the next one
- by " | " otherwise only by " ". (only in HORIZONTAL-mode)
- CHARS (only in HORIZONTAL-mode) decides how many chars of a line will
- be allocated for this item. The total of all items and the chars
- separating them cannot be higher then the lenght of a line of your
- printer (which can be set up in the PRINTER-prefs).
-
- EXAMPLE:
- Your PRINTER-prefs look like this:
- Pica (10cpi)
- Left margin : 2
- Right margin: 78
- So there are 76 columns free for AddressManager output.
-
-
- Surname Name | Street City | Telephone
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Xxxx Xxxxx | Xxxxx Xxx x XXXXX XXXXXX | XXXX/XXXXXX
- Yyyyyyy Yyyyyy | YYYY Yyy y YYYYY Yyyyyyyy | YYYYY/YYY
-
- 10 10 ^ 20 15 ^ 12
- | |
- Separation Separation
-
- To get this output you have to set the PRINT gadget to "Do not print" in
- BIRTHDAY, COUNTRY and REMARKS. You should set CHARS to the following vallues:
- Surname : 10
- Name : 10
- Street : 20
- City : 15
- Telephone : 12
- Also you should activate Separate in NAME and CITY.
-
- CHARS FREE shows you how many chars are still free.
-
- IV) Editing data
- - Adding new entries: Enter the data in the string-gadgets on the MAIN-Page.
- If you finished editing them just press NEW PERSON. The person will be
- added to the list and you will see the name in the listview-gadget.
- - Viewing data: Just click on the name of the person in the listview-gadget.
- - Changing data: Click on the name of the person in the listview-gadget. Then
- edit the data in the string-gadgets. After finishing it just press UPDATE.
- - Deleting data: Select one or more entries and then press DELETE.
- - CLEAR deletes the contents of the string-gadgets without removing the entry
- from the list. Useful if you want to enter a new person.
-
- V) Loading, saving, printing...
- - NEW delets all data.
- - With LOAD you can restore saved data. If there are already some entries in
- the list you can select whether you want to add the new data to the old or
- to replace the old by the new.
- - SAVE AS and SAVE write the data into a file. The difference is that SAVE
- tries to save under the old filename,while SAVE AS always opens a requester
- Also SAVE AS is able to save only the selected entries.
- - PRINT lets you choose whether you want to print all data or only the
- selected entries. What the outputs looks like you can be set up on the
- PREFERENCES-page.
- You can also "print" into a file by clicking on "In file..." in the
- requester.
- You can also print on a letter envelope. The printing is than centered and
- consists only of the name, and the address. Also the country is printed
- unless you have selected DO NOT PRINT for it on the PREFERENCES-page.
-
- IV) Searching
- - on the page called SEARCHING PARAMETERS you can edit the parameters in the
- string-gadgets. The parameters may contain jokers like #? (more about this
- in your AMIGA-manual). The capitalization is ignored.
- On this page you can also save and load the parameters and CLEAR the string
- gadgets.
- - To start searching using the parameters you have edited on the PARAMETERS
- page just press SEARCH. The program always starts with the first entry. If
- a person which fits all parameters is found, it will be displayed in the
- string-gadgets, otherwise the message "NOT FOUND!" will be shown. If you
- want to continue searching, just press GO ON.
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-
- 5) HISTORY
-
- - AddressManager for MUI 1.0 (04.07.1994):
- - first release
- - AddressManager for MUI 1.1 (27.07.1994):
- - fixed a major bug in the print-function and some minor in the prefs
- - AddressManager for MUI 1.2 (20.08.1994):
- - fixed a major bug in the name-list
- - the list is now built up faster
- - improved the Installer-script
- - AddressManager for MUI 1.3 (27.09.1994) (all changes suggested by Eirik
- Bogsnes):
- - fixed a bug in the print-function
- - you can print into an ASCII-file now
- - env:AMM_AppIcon.info can be used as the AppIcon-image
-
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-
- 6) FUTURE PLANS
-
- - use good ideas, which I hope to get from you
- - a complete AREXX-Port
- - editing of several files at the same time
-
- I will of course double my efforts if I know that there are people who use the
- programm. You can show me that you use AddressManager for MUI by sending me
- some money, a small gift or a letter (see also CREDITS).
-
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-
- 7) CREDITS
-
- AddressManager for MUI and all files coming along with it were developed by:
-
- MICHAEL SCHIKORA
- CHEMNITZER WEG 1
- 53119 BONN
- GERMANY
-
- Send all bug-reports, ideas, letters, postcards, money, gifts etc. to this
- address.
-
- Testing:
- THORSTEN SCHULZ
- MICHAEL SCHIKORA
-
- Thanks to:
- NORBERT PÜSCHEL for his help
-
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- ©1994 Michael Schikora
-