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Addenda -- WCS 1.0
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: File Structures
Condition file: condit.ION
list
Templates: *.DEF
picklist name
collection name
user integer name
list
Database Files: *.WDB
DEF filename
description
value
cost
user picklist pointer
condition pointer
text / photo filename pointer
User Text Files: *.CST
User Photo Files: *.BMP
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WDL Hook
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A new Alston Software Labs product for Windows is being released in
Summer 1992 -- Windows Disk Labels. This program allows object
oriented label manipulation, and unlike the name may suggest, does
far more than disk labels.
WCS has a DDE link to WDL built in. What this means to you is that
you can use the *.CST text files to hold J-Card information, for
instance, in a CASSETTE template, and use WCS to feed WDL to print
the labels directly. You now can use more general purpose tools like
WCS to record MUSIC database information with rather than purchase
or use specialty programs that specifically make J-Card printing a
special 'feature.' This also works likewise in other WCS 'database'
templates as well: Video tapes, software on disk, etc...
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SO WHAT'S THAT WIERD ICON OVER BY THE PHOTO ICON?
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That's supposed to be a shuttle launching.
It is a launchpad. The file LAUNCH.INI holds the information that
can be used by a 3rd party Windows program which is started from
WCS.
LAUNCH.INI
icon name to place on the WCS screen ( * .ICO)
path and name of program
The icon is whatever the 3rd party program uses.
What do you do with it?
Well, the general idea is that someone could create add-ons to WCS
files to make life a little easier.
Take the case of a collector of baseball cards, as a 'for instance.'
This collector has his '91 Fleer cards in a file and has scanned
photos of his cards. What he would like, however, is a more full
featured card program that manipulates statistics...
Well, a 3rd party could easily provide 2 text templates, like
BATTING.TXT and PITCHING.TXT as follows:
(Example of BATTING text statistics template)
BATTING.TXT:
AB:_____
SB:_____
BB:_____
SO:_____
HR:_____
Essentially, at each record, the user clicks the notebook icon,
chooses IMPORT TEXT, and imports batting or pitching as needed.
Then, he can fill in the statistics. Either that, or the 3rd party
may have included a ready made statistics file.
Now when the 3rd party icon is clicked (say they use a baseball bat)
the 3rd party program comes up ON TOP OF WCS and reads in the WCS
text files; the user can now manipulate his statistics as needed.
The nice thing is that WCS still has all of the BASIC information
inside it, plus all of the scanned photos. Not only that, maybe
this same user has a STAMP collection, some old beer cans, etc...
(Heck, prod us enough an WE may add a baseball add-on!)