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- Your Money v0.01
- Doc v0.02
-
- An expanded 'checkbook' program. Complete enough to keep track of each
- financial transaction but lacking in the areas of reports and budgets.
- The initial plan was for a more comprehensive program but the realities
- of working for a living leave far too few free hours to do much programing.
-
- The program design is to divide your money into folders, accounts and
- transactions. A folder could be all your finances, an account is the same
- as a single bank account or credit card. For file handling a folder is a
- subdirectory, an account is a file and a transaction is a record in a file.
- The best way to learn to use it is to follow thru the menus.
- If much more explaination is needed than what is presented here then I
- failed in my efforts to produce a easy to use program.
-
- Limitations
-
- The current program design requires a stack of 10000. If you start the
- program from the Icon included the stack will be set for you. If you use
- the CLI interface then check your stack size first or input
- stack 10000 before starting. A related memory limitation allows no more
- than 100 accounts in a folder and no more than 500 transactions in an
- account. These will all be fixed some day.
-
- Running Configuration
-
- At startup YourMoney will look for 1 file and 1 directory in the same
- directory as the program itself. The file is your category names and the
- directory holds your accounts. If they aren't found the program will prompt
- you to create them. Answer the first 3 requesters with OK, YES and YES.
- This will create the needed files, then use Edit Categories to define
- your categories, then send them to me, I'm to lazy to create a set myself.
- Don't create the account directory yourself or delete all the files in it.
- Let the program create, edit and delete it. Lastvisit is a file in the
- directory that if not found will crash the program. (First v01 bug).
-
- The menus
-
- The Project Menu
-
-
- About
- My hello to the user.
-
- Sleep
- Closes the program down to a minimum configuration. This mode frees about
- 30K of ram.
-
- Quit
- Just what it says.
-
- The Folders Menu
- Folders are subdirectories that contain your accounts. You won't need more
- than 1 active folder but will need several to keep BACKUPS. This is an
- early release of a lightly tested program and bugs will occur. Every
- attempt has been made to keep your data straight, even the sacrifice of
- some speed but still BACKUP YOUR DATA. Oh, by the way, did I tell you to
- KEEP SOME BACKUPS.
-
- Archive
- Makes a backup copy of a Folder. Specify a full path name or the folder
- will be relative to the active folder. It's also good to copy your folder
- into ram: when searching the transactions. It speeds things up but does
- risk data loss if you do data entry with your folder in ram:, vd0: is
- better but still a risk.
-
- Delete
- Completely, totally and forever deletes a folder and all the accounts
- and transactions the selected folder contains. I should remove it, it's
- too permanant.
-
- Open
- Create a new folder or change active folders.
-
- The Accounts Menu
-
- Balance
- Reconciles your bank statement against the account. Select the
- transactions to clear with the mouse or numeric shortcuts. When DONE
- is selected the file will be updated and a balance sheet shown, it can
- be printed by selecting the YES gadget or entering 'y'.
-
- Create
- Builds a new account file.
-
- Delete
- Deletes an account file. Very permanent.
-
- Edit
- Change anything about an account.
-
- New Year
- Carry forward any uncleared transactions and start a new account file for
- the new year.
-
- ReThink
- Checks an account file for reasonableness. Do start and end balance match,
- is the number of transactions and file length correct? It will also
- correct the balances if they are changed by edit.
-
- View
- View an account.
-
- The Transactions Menu
-
- Auto
- Build any of ten fixed transactions to be used repeatitivly. Can be used
- by entering a0, a1 etc. as the transaction type during transaction entry.
-
- Edit Category
- Edit the text for any Category. Categories are allowed from 100 thru 599
- each having a 10 character discription. There are currently no predefined
- meanings to any range of cats. At some point the 100s will be expenses
- the 200s assets etc.
-
- Enter
- Enter new transactions. There are currently 7 types of transactions.
- 4 are debits, 'c' for check, 'ic' for interest charged, 's' for a
- service charge and 'w' for a withdrawl. 2 are credits, 'd' for a
- deposit and 'ie' for interest earned. The last type is an automatic
- transaction 'a#' where # is a number 0 - 9.
-
- Print
- Sets a flag that will print each new transaction as entered.
-
- View
- View, edit or void an existing transaction. The search gadgets allow the
- selection of search and sort criteria. The '*' and '?' characters can be
- used as wild cards for the text field searches. The category field is
- considered as a numeric field. The alpha fields will fold upper and
- lower case letters together so 'A' is equal to 'a'.
-
-
-
-
- Some general editing comments.
-
- The right and left arrow keys move 1 character left or right.
- The up and down arrow keys move from field to field.
- The shifted arrows move to the start or end of line.
- ESC or CTRL/X erases the line completely.
- DEL and back space work normally.
-
- Requesters and gadgets.
-
- Most requesters can be answered with either a mouse selection or by
- entering the first character of the requester Text.
-
- Folder names are entered as text into a plain string requester. Everything
- is relative to the current directory (active folder).
-
- The account requester allows selection of an account by either selecting
- the account with the mouse or entering the small number to the right. The
- account will appear in the bottom.
-
- The transaction requester will select a transaction with either a mouse
- select or the right hand number. The balance req. will highlite the
- selected trans., the other tran reqs will expand the one liner into the
- complete transaction.
-
- Some idle, random comments.
-
- My plans are for this to become a more complete financial management tool
- and not just a record keeper. My plans oft go astray but that's another
- story.
-
- I've tested this version enough to know I don't see the bugs but
- they are most certainly there. I'm sure that some fix broke something
- that I tested earlier. I hope you will tell me where so I can
- correct them. Bug reports, comments and suggestions are most welcome.
- Remember not to trust any answers you get from this until some bugs are
- found and fixed. My answers in testing have been correct but who knows
- what lurks in the depths of your processor.
-
- I plan on keeping the file structure basically the same, or at least
- including a utility with any upgrade to allow you to keep any records
- you may enter intact.
-
- The ability to split a transaction into multiple categories and automatic
- credit and debit from one account to the other is next on the list. Can I
- use real soon now to tell you when it will be done ?
-
- I would like this version released as a shareware program. If you like it
- and use it send me some of the money your keeping track of. If you don't
- like it, send me your reasons (and money if you want to). It's only a
- record keeper now so don't expect a comprehensive program. The backbone
- is there but it's not complete.
-
- Donald L. Wahl
- 2710 Apple Way
- Dunkirk MD.
- 20754
-
- CIS 76515,1510
- BIX dwahl
-