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- Welcome to the Docs for Phonebook V1.8
-
- January 12, 1994
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- How the Heck Do I use this Program?
-
-
- PhoneBook is a fairly straight forward program to use, I'm sure you've
- already tried the program before bothering to read the documentation
- anyways!
-
- Okay, Here how to use the program. There are several String Gadgets
- at the bottom center of the screen labled: First Name, Last Name, Phone,
- and Address. You just enter in the information that you desire and it
- will show up on the big dark grey box in the middle of the screen under
- a highlight bar. There are 5 lines for the address, the 5th is usually
- used as just an information gadget.
-
- To move the Highlight bar just move the mouse pointer inside the big
- box and click the LEFT mouse button to scroll DOWN the list, and the RIGHT
- mouse button will Scroll UP the entries. When the Top or bottom of the
- list is reached and you try to scroll past it, it will loop around to
- the Beginning if you tried scrolling past the End, and will loop to the
- End if scrolling past the Beginning was Attempted.
-
- On the lower right side of the screen there are buttons for A-Z, and
- 1st and Last. Clicking on a letter will bring the Highlight bar to the
- first entry in the PhoneBook with a Last name beginning with that Letter.
- And clicking on 1st will of course, bring you to the first entry, and the
- last will bring you to the Last Entry.
-
- To Put a new entry in the phonebook the Highlight bar has to be on the
- Empty Entry, which is always the last entry in the PhoneBook. So, by
- clicking on LAST will allow you to immediately enter a new name.
-
- The Sort Button will sort the Names Alphabetically by the last name,
- and the Remove Button will remove whatever entry the Highlight bar is
- currently on. A Requester will pop up asking if your sure you want to
- delete that entry.
-
- A requester will also pop up asking if your sure you want to Quit
- when the Quit Button has been pressed.
-
- To Load or Save a PhoneBook data file just click on the respective
- gadget and the standard ASL file requester will pop up. Just enter the
- filename and click OK.
-
- The default file name for the phonebook datafile is S:PhoneNumbers, if
- this file exists it will be automatically loaded up each time you startup
- the program.
-
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- That's about it, Enjoy.
-
- Brian Olson
-
-
-
- Information on Updates that PhoneBook has gone through to reach it's
- current state of Version 1.8.
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- "Version 1.1 updates"
-
- Used to have to Click on EAch consecutive Gadget for entering data
- on your entry. Now you can just hit return and the Selected gadget will
- move onto the next.
- First Name -> Last Name -> Phone -> Address Lines -> First Name
-
-
- "Version 1.2 and 1.3 updates"
-
- Just messed around with IDCMP detection, I finally got it
- to work better. Version 1.2 and 1.3 are just improvements on the detection
- of Gadget clicking.
-
-
- "Version 1.4 updates"
-
- - I Put another gadget in the Address Box (supports 50 characters, I
- think?) as requested by a user of this program (Thanks Eric!)
- Use it for whatever you want, I think Eric wants it to put little
- notes in.
- As a Result of this I had to add an extra line in the PhoneBook
- data file for each entry so the older data files wont work, But don't
- worry, It can be Upgraded Easy. See Below.
-
-
- "Version 1.5 updates"
-
- - The nicest update to this version is the addition of the buttons
- A through Z, 1st and Last. Clicking on one of the letters will
- move the Highlighter Bar to the first Entry with a Last name starting
- with the letter you selected. If there is no match the Highlight bar
- will not move. The 1st button will bring you to the first entry, and
- the Last button will bring you to the last entry (The Blank Entry
- Actually)
-
- - When you Scroll past the Last Entry (The Blank one) it now loops up
- to the first entry, As with the First entry going to the Last one
- when trying to scroll before it.
-
- - The program now checks to make sure it is indeed it's own data file
- that you are trying to load, as it used to crash if it wasn't. Do do
- this I had to add one line to the beginning of the datafile. The
- included program, datafile1.4to1.5 will make the change for you. If
- you have a version before 1.4 then use the program datafile-to-1.4
- followed by datafile1.4to1.5.
-
-
- "Updating your PhoneBook Data file"
-
- If you have an Older version of a PhoneBook Datafile, you DON'T have
- to enter it in again. I have included two update programs in this
- archive.
-
- If you have a datafile from a version of Phonebook before 1.4, then
- you have to first use the program called "datafile-to-1.4". From CLI, just
- type
- datafile-to-1.4 <old version name> <new version name>
-
- where <old version name> is the name of your old data file and
- <new version name> is what you want to call the new version
- of your datafile.
-
- Your datafile is now of version 1.4. Now you have to update it
- again to 1.5.
-
- If you have a datafile from version 1.4 use the program
- "datafile1.4-to-1.5" From CLI, type
-
- datafile1.4-to-1.5 <old version name> <new version name>
-
- Now your datafile should work with Version 1.5 and Version 1.6.
-
-
-
- "Version 1.6 updates"
-
- Since the Remove and Quit Gadgets, are a bit Final, I decided to
- put some "Are you sure?"'s in.
-
- Whenever you Click on the Quit gadget a requester will pop up asking
- you if you're sure you want to Quit. Just Click on Yes to quit and NO to
- get back to the program.
-
- A requester also pops up when you click on the Remove gadget. Again,
- click on YES to delete the Entry, or NO to leave the entry in the
- Phonebook.
-
- "Version 1.7 updates"
-
- The Program used to open up it's own screen and colors, I decided
- to have it just open up a window from the workbench screen. As a result of
- this the colors are now the same as that of the workbench, and not the
- custom colors like before. Therefore I redesigned a couple of the graphic
- displays, for the better i hope! heh. It looks really nice now!
-
- The BEST improvement to this version is that it now has file
- requesters, it uses the standard ASL requester. Makes Saving and Loading
- much nicer then before!
-
- "Version 1.8 updates"
-
- PhoneBook now looks for a file called "PhoneNumbers" in the s:
- directory when it is executed. If the file is found then it will be
- automatically loaded up for you, if the file is not found the program will
- start up blank just like before. So if you already have a phonebook data
- file rename it as follows
-
- rename <old phonebook data file> s:PhoneNumbers
-
- Now you don't have to bother loading it up each time you run the program.
-
-
-
-
- The Author
-
- Well Hello. I'm Glad to see that your atleast taking a look at my
- program, not necessarily liking it! I'm sure you will.
-
-
- Why Did I write This? There are a LOT of other Phone Book programs
- around already!
- I wrote it because I wanted to learn how to use Gadgets
- in C, and I was sick of using my term program to store my phone
- numbers!
- This is actually my first attemp at writting such an indepth program
- in C. I've had to learn most of it by myself, and a Lattic C instruction
- manual written by a C Users Group that I don't recall at the Moment. But
- Thanks a LOT to those who wrote it!
- There is no one in my area to ask questions so i've had my share
- of problems getting things to work. But I've learned a LOT writing this
- program, I'm glad I wrote it! I hope you Enjoy it.
-
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- If you Like this Program, Please Send $10 to encourage updates to
-
- Brian Olson
- 11 Limetree Lane
- Liverpool, NY 13090
- USA
-
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