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Home Manager Updates
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Version 1.27
- Name changed to Home Manager Professional
- Version sequence changed to numeric from now on.
- Two version available. Medium Res (640X200). Hi Res Interlaced (640X400)
- Added configuration module. Allows more personal setup.
- Tone or Pulse dialing.
- Different serial devices.
- Alert sounds now configurable.
- Data storage redirection.
- Clock format selection.
- Date format selection
- Iconize on startup if you want.
- Autosaving of data.
- Added requester when quitting.
- Added Macro configuration module for NotePad and Notes.
- No more request for NULL device. Runback is not used anymore. Instead
the ADOS command run is now used.
- In Appointments, text now lines up on hitting return. Makes it more
uniform.
- Now 3 phone fields. Line 1, Line 2, FAX
- Screen and text colour choices.
- Fixed empty ToDo's alert problem. If you don't have ToDo's, you won't
get the old alert as in previous versions.
- Smaller startup window with alerts for pending ToDo's or Appointments
for current day or next day.
- Added 24 hour alarm clock.
- Added dropdown menus.
- Selection of modules from WB icon of HMP.
- All notes areas of modules now expand to full 80 column on screen and
have features of NotePad.
- NotePad now has ASCII or ANSI mode. (Needs Sutchs font, supplied)
- Added on screen Help window. Just hit Help and click on the button or
dropdown menu of your choice and you get help.
- Print now gives requester for print to printer or file.
- Phone number data fields now 255 characters. Takes care of overseas,
non-Bell networks (e.g., Unitel in Canada and MCI in the US), other special
numbers, etc.
- Improved Search. Now searches in all fields of the current module.
- Added birthday field in Address Book. Hours of operation in Business mode.
- Shaved off 30k of code but added 90k for new features.
- Now works with 1/2 meg Agnes chip.
- New Info screen for Registered and Demo users.
- Flagging of current data to/from Address Book and Important Phones.
- Added My Computer module for database of Software and Hardware purchases.
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Version 2B - March 25,1992
- Fixed bug in Wallet module which affected non-modem users.
- Centred opening text of busy serial port announcement.
- Fixed page up and page down buttons in NotePad.
- Fixed Area Code bug which caused crashes.
- Fixed Macro function in Notepad. It now can find them on it's own. Before
it prompted for 'Home' assignment.
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Version 2A - February 22,1992
- A complete new interface!!!
- WB 2 look. It looks more professional (at least I think it does).
- All new 'Quick Key' combinations. Be sure to read the Documentation and
check all the new onliine Help files.
There is now complete new documentation with a listing of new features and
also the new Help files have some added discussion of features.
The one major bug fix was done in Personal Inventory. When you do a Print
Full List it will now print each individual article in the complete list.
Previously, it only printed the first item's description text to all the
other items.
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Version 1E - December 24,1991
Bug Fixes
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-modem will now initialize at 1200 baud. Previously was at 4800 (I don't know
why I did that!!)
New Features (There's lots of them!)
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Opening - No changes.
Appointments - Auto searches for appointments on disk when first loading or
when moving from month to month or year to year. Removed Find
Appt. due to this change.
- Scrollable appointment window. Now enables full 24 hour period.
- FP in lower right-hand corner of appointment window will give
you full page mode when clicked.
- HP in lower right-hand corner of full page will return you to
half page mode when clicked.
ToDo's - Whole new interface.
- Database-type format.
- Entering a number in the first field, Priority # and Lead Line,
will allow for prioritizing list. List will be automatically
sorted according to this number.
- Added Phone field for inclusion of a related phone number.
- Dialing button for phone to the right of Phone field. Hangup
button to the right of diia button.
- Added large, scrollable notes area for each ToDo entry.
- Added search procedure. Search by Priority #/Lead Line, Phone
or Notes.
- Three print options; Current Entry, Short List (Priority/Lead and
Phone) of complete list of ToDo's or Full list (All info for each
entry in complete ToDo list)
Inventory - Larger Description area.
- Added Short List and Full List print options.
Address Book - New print features. See online Help File for full description.
Important #'s - Larger notes area.
- New print features. See online Help File for full description.
Notepad - Major interface change.
- 80 column width.
- Macros added - F1 to F10 - edit file HM.Macros in
Home:Resources/Macros
- Shift F1 to F10 - Each function key has a
corresponding text file in
Home:Resources/Macros.
eg. F1 = F1.Txt, F2 = F2.Txt
Use whatever text file you wish.
Just name it accordingly.
- New Insert button. Insert any text file at the current cursor
position.
- Added bottom bar with buttons:
UP - page up
DOWN - page down
^
| - single line up
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V - single line down
T - Top of document.
B - Bottom of document.
S - Search for text in document. (Moves cursor to selected
text). Click Search again to continue.
R - Search and Replace text in document.
G - Global replacement. Click after search and replace text is
selected in S&R window.
M - NOT IN USE YET. Future config file for macros.
- The S or R button will make a small window appear in the upper
menu bar. This will allow you to enter the text of your choice.
To clear this from the screen, just click your Right mouse button.
- When the Search and Replace window appears and you have entered
your chosen text, clicking the word Replace willl continue to do
one Replace function at a time. The same is true for the Search
procedure. Choosing G will do a complete global replace in the
document. This is NOT case sensitive.
- Editing functions added (a few);
Control - C = copy the current line cursor is on
Control - I = inserts current line in buffer to line cursor is on
Control - DEL = Deletes current line cursor is on.
Overall changes
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- All Help screens can be exited by hitting the spacebar or clicking the screen
with the left mouse button.
- All print features are now enabled in the 'Demo' version.
- All print output has a better 'form' look to it with proper headings and
column structure.
- Control - DEL key combination will delete characters to the right of cursor til
the end of the line. This ONLY works in document windows. Also ONLY works in
Full Page mode of Appointments.
- Tried to fix up memory management but a 1 meg Agnus and 1 meg of memory is
still needed. Sorry but this has to do with the use of so many Hi-Res screens.
I highly recommend users to get the 1 meg Agnus installed. It will prove useful
for many other programs as well as Home Manager.
- Added 'Nagger' screen to Demo version but I at least have the program running
fully functional now, even for non-registered users. All my programs, from now
on, wll have the 'Nagger' screen but will NOT be crippled.
Well, that should be about it. I have done extensive changes to this program and
I will get to work on doing new documentation for it. I hope the 'old' users will
like the new enhancements and I hope it will now attract more 'new' users.
Len
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Version 1D-1 - November 27, 1991
Bug Fix
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-Found a bug in the ToDo's area. If you tried to change to Business ToDo's,
the program would take a trip to LaLa land. Found the bug and fixed it.
This was ONLY in the Demo version. It was looking for a print function which
was, obviously, disabled in the Demo version of Home Manager. This little bug
had no effect on the Registered version.
Version 1D - November 25,1991
Bug Fixes
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- If serial port not found by program or being used by another, HM would
either lock up at startup or further into the program. This has now been
fixed. A warning now appears on the screen and alarm sounds. You can
continue to use the program but dialing features are disabled. You must
still have the modem on to run the program.
New features
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Opening - Alerts now appear if you have Appointments or ToDo's that
are active for that day. Alarms also sound.
- If HM cannot find the serial port or if it finds another
program is using it, an alert appears and warning sounds.
Appointments - Now separate from ToDo's and has a larger input window.
- Saves only appointment files.
ToDo's - Totally new and separate from previous version.
- Has two windows for 'Must Do's' and 'Could Do's'
- Choose between Personal and Business. Defaults to Personal.
- Up to 52 total double-spaced entries.
- Prioritize items. If an item is done, click mouse pointer
to first character, first line of entry then hit
Control-DEL. This will delete both lines of the entry and
move all others up one position.
Dialer - If serial port is being used, large X will disable Phone
and warning sound comes on. Prevents lockup of program.
Address Book - Added disable feature to dialing functions. Preventing
lockup if serial port being used by something else.
*Note about sounds
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There are now two sound files being used as alarms. I have included
two rather small but effective files. The first one, BAD, is used to
warn about the failure of serial port recognition. You can replace
this with any sound file of your choice BUT it MUST be named BAD.
The second, ALARM, is used to alert you to the presence of either
Appointments and/or ToDo's on your disk. This can also be replaced with
any sound of your choice BUT it MUST be named ALARM. These sound files
are located in the Resources subdirectory and MUST be there.
Well, that's about it for now. I have added and fixed quite a few things
and I might consider adding more to the program. I would also like to
thank Charles Figureido and David Spiro (the first two to register) for
their suggestions and help.
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Version 1C - October 18,1991
Bug Fixes
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- Requester for 'My_Stuff' will no longer appear.
- Fixed use of blank filename in save feature. Before it crashed the
program, now it prompts you to give the file a name.
New features
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Appointments - Appointments and ToDo's can now be cleared individually
- Added a time template to Appointments window
- Appointments window now has both vertical and horizontal
scrolling
- Added clock below today's date
Dialer - Added Personal and Business databases. Defaults to
Personal.
- Added Hangup button to abort dialing.
- Added to more fields for Business Contact names or
additional phone numbers.
- Added clock.
- Removed '911' feature. (Kind of useless)
- Added Search ability in case of large databases.
Address Book - Added ability to load either Personal or Business
databases. Defaults to Personal file.
- Added clock.
- Added Hangup button to abort dialing.
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Version 1B - October 9,1991
There have been a few bug fixes and a few additions made to this version
of Home Manager. They are as follows;
- Added Important Phone Numbers area with Dialer (Need Hayes compat modem)
- Added dialing capabilities to Address Book (Need Hayes compat modem)
- Improved size and looks of icon when iconizing the program
- Added more print features to Registered version of program
- Fixed icon bug in Inventory and Address Book areas
- Expanded Notes area to 73 columns in width
- Enlarged Address Book
- Rearranged buttons in Inventory area
Plus a few other minor cosmetic changes.