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!Addresses
v 1.26 (22nd September 1993)
This program is Shareware.
This means that you can copy this program to anyone you like, but if you
find the program useful, you should register, as explained below. This
entitles you to the latest version of this program, and of all my other
applications.
If you do copy the program it should be in its original format, with ALL of
the accompanying files. That is : !Boot
!Help
!Run
!RunImage
!Sprites
Code
MakeCode
Messages
Sprites
Templates
Purpose
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A powerful address book, featuring sorts and searches, and also with space
for up to 500 addresses.
To use
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[For this !Help file, a record is defined as an entire window-full of data,
i.e. name, address, post-code, and other, and an entry is defined as the
name, address (all 5 lines), post-code, or other details (both lines)]
Double click on the icon in the filer window to load the application.
This will install an icon on the icon-bar. Clicking menu (the middle mouse
button) on this icon will allow you to start a new file, look at the info
about the program, to save the current file, and to quit. To save the
current file, move the pointer across to the save dialog box, across the
'Whole file' entry and either enter a full pathname and filename in, e.g.
'adfs::0.$.Addresses', or enter just the filename, e.g. 'Addresses', and
drag the icon to a filer window. The other option : 'This record' allows you
to save the record which is being edited at that point in time. When using
this, it is necessary to specify which entries are to be saved, before
saving as above. The 'This record' option is greyed out if the 'Name'
entry in the current record is empty. (N.B. Ram transfer is supported for
this option)
Clicking select on the icon on the icon bar will open the main window, as
will double-clicking on a saved file, and as will dragging a saved file icon
onto the icon on the icon bar. When the main window is open, there is the
obvious space to enter the name, address, post-code, and any other details
about the person, e.g. telephone number. In addition to this, however, is a
space which allows you to keep records of any correspondance with the person
listed in the record. To use this, click on one of the icons in the
correspondance section. This should update the writeable icon at the top of
the section, should update the 'file' option, and indicate whether the mail
was sent or received. This can all be set up as is necessary by clicking on
the relevant icons. Also, to the right of the 'Sent'/'Received' icons are
two other icons. Clicking on these will open a window, asking for a date
when the mail was sent or received. Dragging a file icon onto the writeable
icon at the top of the correspondance icon will enter the filename as the
name of the correspondance, will set the file option, and this will ungrey
the 'Run' icon. Clicking on this icon will run the file which is specified.
Also note that in the section of the window from which the correspondance is
selected, green represents sent, and red represents received.
Clicking menu (the middle mouse button) on the main window will open a
menu, allowing you to open the control window, open the search window, open
the sort window, perform a specific action on the record currently being
edited, perform a specific action on the correspondance record currently
being edited, show the information about the program, save the current file,
and to quit the program. Also, when the main window has input focus (i.e.
when you can type into the window), F3 will open the save window, F4 will
open the search window, F5 will open the sort window, and F6 will open the
control window.
The control window, opened with F6 or by selection on the menu, allows
you to step through the records one at a time in either direction (the plain
left and right arrows), to go to the last record (the right arrow against
the line), to go to the first record (the left arrow against the line), and
to go to a specific record (the yellow writable icon). The control window
also shows you what record you are currently editing and how many records
there are in total. To add a record, click on the plain right arrow in the
control window, whilst editing the last record. This will check to see if
the 'Name' entry is blank. If it is blank it will not let you add another
record. (I entered this as a precaution against ending up with 500 blank
records, which would make for a very large file).
The search window, opened with F4 or by selection on the menu, allows you
to search through the database for a given string. The search text is
entered in the yellow writable icon. It is also possible to select how the
search is carried out : on all records, or just specific numbers;
on all entries, or just specific ones; with case-sensitivity on or not.
If the search is to be carried out on all records select the icon in the
window. If, however, you wish to be specific, select the icon starting
'from', and specify your starting record, and your ending record.
If the search is to be carried out on all entries, that icon should show the
green diamond in the black diamond. However, to specify, clicking select on
name, address, post-code, or other, will turn off 'All entries'. To search
two entries, clicking adjust (the right mouse button), will turn that option
on, and also keep the other ones on.
If the search is to be carried out with case-sensitivity on, i.e. an entry
with 'Neil' in it, would only be found with 'Neil', and not with 'neil', the
blue star must be showing in the case-sensitive box. If the search is not to
be carried out in a case-sensitive manner, then the star must not be
visible. N.B. A case-sensitive search is slightly quicker than a non case-
sensitive one.
Clicking on the icon marked 'Previous' enters into the writable icon the
last string which was searched for.
The search string includes wildcard capabilities. These are the (fairly)
standard ? and * wildcards. A ? represents a single character, and a *
represents any string. (N.B. At this time, mixing of wildcards is not
allowed. If you do try to do so, an error message will occur, reminding you
(politely of course!) that you cannot do so.)
The search is started by pressing return when the caret is in the search
text writable icon in the search window, or by clicking on the OK icon.
The sort window, opened with F5 or by selection on the menu, allows you
to sort the records. N.B. At the moment, it is only possible to sort the
entire database, and not just a specific area. The sort can be ascending,
e.g. 'A' before 'C' before 'E', etc., or descending, e.g. 'Z' before 'A'.
The sort can only be carried out on one entry at the moment, selected from :
'Forename' - the left-most text in the name entry
before the first space.
'Surname' - the right-most text in the name entry,
after the first space.
'Address 1' through to 'Address 5' - the five lines of the address entry.
'Post code' - the text in the post code entry.
'Other 1' and 'Other 2' - the text in the two lines of the other
details entry.
The sort is started by clicking on the OK icon.
To delete an address, open the main menu, by clicking menu on the main
window, move the pointer down to 'Address' and across. There you will see
'Delete', 'Insert', 'Raise' and 'Lower'. Selecting 'Delete' deletes the
current record.
Selecting 'Insert' from the same menu inserts a blank record before the
record that is currently being edited.
Selecting 'Raise' or 'Lower' from the same menu swaps the record
which is currently being edited with the one higher or lower repsectively.
A similar function is available for the corre