Copyright: Pinboard '98 V2.02 - Online Help: Copyright 1997 by Georg Geenen
Citation: Pinboard '98 V2.02 - Copyright 1997 by Georg Geenen


Table of Contents
Pinboard '98 Version 2.02 for Windows 95*

(Last updated: 12.12.1997)

Table of Contents

0. What's new ?

1. The Installing Routine SETUP.EXE

    1.a. Installing the program to your harddisk

    1.b. Uninstallation - remove pinboard from your system

2. The Pinboard

    2.a. The main program window

    2.b. Password security

    2.c. The background image

    2.d. Exiting the running program

    2.e. Language used for menus and messages

3. The Notes

    3.a. Posting and changing notes

        3.a.1. Inserting and editing a notes text

    3.b. Moving and removing notes

    3.c. A notes characteristics

        3.c.1. Font and text color

        3.c.2. Shape and background color

        3.c.3. Timestamp on notes

    3.d. Defining default settings

    3.e. Extended characteristics

        3.e.1. Pictures and icons on notes

        3.e.2. Linking programs and documents to notes

        3.e.3. Declaring alarm notes

        3.e.4. Password security for notes only

    3.f. Printing, exchanging and sending notes

4. About Shareware

    4.a. Shareware registration and the authors address

    4.b. Limits when using without registration

* Because I have no access to Windows NT, I couldn't test this program under that environment and I can not guarantee the programs full compatibility with Windows NT. Therefore I recommend not to install Pinboard '98 under this operating system!


What's new?
What's new since Pinboard '97 Version 1.09?

1. You can define notes as Alarm Notes now.

2. The program supplies password security for the pinboard and/or for each note.

3. There are three different shapes to use with notes.

4. A note may show a Bitmap or Icon.

5. Each note can be linked to a program or document werden.

6. You can predefine default settings as much as you like.

7. There is a function implemented now, to find lost notes.

8. The additional question before removing notes can be prevented.

9. You can minimize the Pinboard by pressing [F12] now.

10. You can choose your individual text to be displayed in the windows title bar.

All registered users may update without additional fee, of course !

Hint: The most actual version of all my programs (press [Shift] + [F1] to check the versions number) can be downloaded from my homepage:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GeorgGeenen


The Installation Routine SETUP.EXE

The Installing Routine

The program SETUP.EXE shipped together with Pinboard '98 should used to install the program to your harddisk as well as to remove it from your system, when you don't like it no longer. Because of this reason SETUP.EXE will be copied to the target directory during the installing process, too.

Updating a former version

If you run a former version of Pinboard '98 you should use the newest SETUP.EXE from the new floppy disk instead of the old one from your harddisk.In this case it is not necessary to remove the old version before and all settings will be saved if possible, especially all notes and the registration information.

When removing the program instead, all settings and informations will be deleted !!!

In all cases it would be good to have backups of the following two files from the pinboards directory before updating to a new version:

PW.PWD	-	The file with the notes.

PWF.FMT	-	The file with the predefined default settings.

All registered users may update without additional fee, of course !

Hint: The most actual version of all my programs (press [Shift] + [F1] to check the versions number) can be downloaded from my homepage:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GeorgGeenen


Installing Pinboard to your System
Installing Pinboard '98 using Windows 95*

During Installation of Pinnwand '98 the following files will be copied to your harddisk:

PINBOARDD.EXE	- the program itselfes

SETUP.EXE	- the Installation routine

KORK.BMP	- a Windows bitmap, you can use as background image

README.TXT	- a text file with first remarks to the installation and the program

PINBOARD.HLP and/or PINNWAND.HLP - an English and a German version of this online help

If you start Pinboard '98 the first time after the installation some other files will be created:

PW.PWD - a file to store all the notes data in

PWF.FMT - a file to store the predefined default settings in

During the Installation you can enter a target directory to copy all files to. Setup will suggest one, but you may overtype it, if you like. But you should know that the installation program cannot create a chain of subdirectories, only the last one.

So if you want to select C:\PROGRAMME\TOOLS\DESKTOP\PINNWAND as target, C:\PROGRAMME\TOOLS\DESKTOP must exist already. Only \PINNWAND can be created.

You also can choose English or German as Language used for menus and messages. This selection will be valid for later use of Pinboard '98, too. But running the pinboard, you can change between them at any time.

Ofcourse, if you want to use the English and German version of the online help you must install them both during the installation.

Some settings like the choosen language will be stored in the Windows 95 system registry. So if you later want to remove the program from your system, you should run SETUP.EXE again instead of deleting the programs files manually, because SETUP.EXE will remove those entries as well, but removing them manually could be riscy and complicated.

* Because I have no access to Windows NT, I couldn't test this program under that environment and I can not guarantee the programs full compatibility with Windows NT. Therefore I recommend not to install Pinboard '98 under this operating system!


Uninstalling Pinboard '98 - Removing the Program from your Harddisk
Removing Pinboard '98 from your system

Because there are some settings stored in the Windows 95 system registry during installation and while running the program, in case of deinstallation you should run SETUP.EXE again. This program can remove those entries, but removing them manuelly could be complicated and sometimes risky.

Because of this reason SETUP.EXE will be copied to your harddisk during Installation together with the other files needed to run Pinboard '98 and can be launched from the choosen target directory by using the Windows 95 Explorer.

ATTENTION: When removing Pinboard '98 using SETUP.EXE all stored information about notes and predefined default settings will be deleted from your system and cannot be restored !!!

If you like to have them restored later, you should backup the following to files to a floppy disk or another directory on your harddisk and after newly installing the program to your system, copy them manually into the new pinboards directory:

PW.PWD	-	The file with the notes.

PWF.FMT	-	The file with the predefined default settings.


The Pinboard - a short introduction

Most functions used to manage the pinboard can be found in the programs two context menus. All functions can be activated by using the mouse, the most important ones by keyboard shortcuts, too.

In the following sections of this online help, the text color will show, in which way you can activate the discussed function::

"Exit Pinboard"	to be found in the pinboards menu
"Edit Note"	to be found in the notes menu
[F12]	accessable through shortcuts keys

The Pinboards Menu can be opened by single rightclicking with the mouse to a free area on the pinboard where no note is posted to at clicking time.

The Notes Menu can be accessed by single rightclicking an already posted note with your mouse. If you choose any function from this menu, it will concern only the one note, you clicked on to open it.


The programs main window

On your display the Pinboard appears like a window known from most other programs designed for Windows 95, which you can be moved around, resized, minimized and maximized.

There are only two special functions, I want to discuss at this point:

1. For your convenience, you can minimize the pinboard by pressing  [F12]

2. You can force the minimized pinboards Icon to the SystemTray

	If you check the "Icon in SystemTray" option in the pinboards menu, the minimized pinboards button will not appear in the Windows 95 taskbar, but is shown in the SystemTray near the clock. To restore the windows size again, you can click this icon once with your left mouse button. If you click it with the right one, simultaneously the pinboards menu will open.


Password Security for the whole Pinboard
"Password Security" for the whole pinboard

You can activate and deactivate the whole pinboards password security by selecting the menu command called "Password-Options ..." from the pinboards menu. The first time you have to enter the desired password, ofcourse, and any time you enter and change it, you have to enter it again to detect input errors.

If password security is activated you have to enter the right password every time, you start the program. In case of entering an invalid one, the pinboard won't be displayed.

IF YOU DID NOT ALREADY ENTERED A PASSWORD WHEN ACTIVATING THE SECURITY FUNCTION, IN CASE OF ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION, YOU CAN LEAVE THE PASSWORD DIALOG BY CLICKING THE "CONFIRM" BUTTON WITHOUT ENTERING ANY WORD !!!

Attention: Testing of the password is case sensitive, so you have to enter it in the same manner, when you have choosen it first !!!

Hint: If the program was launched and the password entered correctly, all notes are visible, but for each note you may activate the separate notes password security additionally, to hide its contents until the password is entered for the note, too (see also: Password Security for single Notes ).


The Background Image

"Change Background-Image ..."	or	[F2]

"No Background-Image "	or	[F3]

As background image a cork surface is selected, when launching Pinboard '98 at the first time.

Choosing the "Change Background-Image ..." command in the pinboards menu you can replace it by another Windows bitmap (file with extension.BMP, created using Paint for example, which is integrated part of Windows 95).

The selected image will be displayed as often as the whole programs window is filled.

You can decide to display no image as well, so that the windows background will appear just in plain gray. To do so, check the option "No Background-Image" in the pinboards menu.


Leaving the Pinboard
Exiting Pinboard '98

Choose the command  "Exit Pinboard '98"  from the pinboards menu

or simultaneously press  [Alt]  +  [F4]  on your keyboard


The Language used to display Messages and Menus
The Language used for messages and menus

All messages and menu entries can be displayed in English or German. To switch between this languages select "Change Language"  from the pinboards menu or press  [F4]  on your keyboard.

This online help is available in German, too, but during the Installation of the program you have to choose it to be installed.


The Notes - a short introduction

Most functions concerning a specific note, are accessable through the notes menu.

The Notes Menu can be opened by clicking a note once with the right mouse button. If you choose a function from this menu it will only affect the note clicked !!!

In the following sections of this online help you will find commands from the notes menu colored like this: "Edit Note" .


Posting and changing Notes
Posting new notes or changing existing ones

Posting ne notes:

[ Single leftclick on the pinboard ]

Changeing existing notes:

[ Doubleklicking the note ]

To create a new note click with the left mouse button in a free area of the pinboard where no note is hanging, now.

To change an existing note doubleclick it with the left mouse button or open it's notes menu and choose the command "edit note".

In both cases a dialog box will open, containing all functions to change the notes characteristics and edit it's text as described later in this online help.

The can be devided into two groups:

1. The general characteristics, you can arrange in as many default settings you like.

2. The extended characteristics, which must be choosen for each note seperately.

See also: Limits when using Pinboard '98 without registration


Entering and editing a Notes Text
Entering a notes text and editing it later

At any time, you create a new note, you can enter it's text, and later when opening the note to change it, you can edit it again.

In both cases a dialog box will open which contains a text control used to enter the text desired. In case of creating a new note, this control is empty and the blinking text cursor will show that you can enter your text now.

But when opening an existing note to change it, the control will contain the notes former text, so you can edit it easily. But be aware for the text selection. As the color shows, all text is selected and when typing just a single letter on your keyboard, the whole text is replaced by it.

If you want to make some little changings only, you first should move the text cursor to the position, where the changings are to made, by using the keyboards cursor keys or by a single leftclick with your left mouse button, which will remove the selection simultaneously.


Moving and removing Notes
Moving notes on, and removing them from the pinbaoard

To change a notes position on the pinboard:

[ Leftclick the note an drag it without releasing the mouse button ]

To remove existing notes from the pinboard:

Choose " Discard Note"  from the notes menu

Moving Notes

Using "Drag and Drop" you may position each note on the pinboard by desire. If you click the note to move, and hold down the mouse button, the cursor will drag the notes shadow to show its new position, it will be moved to, when you finally release the mouse button.

Hint: Under some circumstances it may be happen, that a note is moved out of the visible area of the pinboard and not longer accessable by the mouse cursor. In this case run the "Find lost Notes" from the pinboard menu, which is able to detect such notes and reposition them into the pinboards center!

Removing Notes

To remove a note from the pinboard, you have to open its notes menu and to select the command "Discard Note". Because this action can not be undone, you will be ask to confirm the note really to be deleted for ever. This will give you the chance to abort removing the note if you have choosen a wrong command from the menu for example.

If you don't like this question, you may deactivate it on its first occurence, but think good about doing so, because you cannot reactivate this question later!


General Characteristics of a Note

You can define a notes characteristics when creating it and later redefine them, when opening a note to make changings (see also Posting new notes and changing existing ones).

A notes characteristics can be devided into two groups:

1. General Characteristics

2. Extended Characteristics

The now described group of general characteristics enclose:

- The font

- The text color

- The notes shape

- The notes background color

- The notes time stamp

All general characteristics may be arranged in as many predefinable default settings you like.


Font and Color used to display a Notes Text
The font and text color used to display a notes text

Font and text color belongs to the group of the general characteristics of a note and therefore they can be arranged in as many predefinable default setting you like, to easily let you create new notes with the same appearance.

Ofcourse, you also may choose individual settings for each note. To do so, the dialog box "Change selected note" has to be opened, which bears a button titeld "Change format options". Clicking this button will lead you to the next dialog box, which allows you to access all functions for changing the selected notes general characteristics and the preview box will show you immediately the changings, you made.

To change the font and text color, click the button titled "Change font" and the default fonts dialog will be started as known from most applications designed for Windows 95, where you can change the following aspects of the font:

- the font itselfes	(e.G. Times New Roman or Arial)

- the style	(e.G. bold or italic)

- the weight	(in points Pt)

- the appearance	(e.G. underlined or stroke out)

- the text color


A notes shape and background color

Shape and background color belongs to the group of the general characteristics of a note and therefore they can be arranged in as many predefinable default setting you like, to easily let you create new notes with the same appearance.

Ofcourse, you also may choose individual settings for each note. To do so, the dialog box "Change selected note" has to be opened, which bears a button titeld "Change format options". Clicking this button will lead you to the next dialog box, which allows you to access all functions for changing the selected notes general characteristics and the preview box will show you immediately the changings, you made.

To change the selected notes background color, click the button titled "Change Papercolor" and walk through the default color dialog as known from many applications designed for Windows 95.

As shapes for the note you may select one from the three supported styles by checking the corrsponding radio button:

- Rectangle

- RoundRect	(a rectangle with rounded edges)

- Tear off	(a rectangle with its upper border seems to be teared of)


Time stamps on Notes

A note can display time and date of its creation or last changing, automataically. This option belongs to the group of the general characteristics of a note and therefore they can be arranged in as many predefinable default setting you like, to easily let you create new notes with the same appearance.

Ofcourse, you also may choose individual settings for each note. To do so, the dialog box "Change selected note" has to be opened, which bears a button titeld "Change format options". Clicking this button will lead you to the next dialog box, which allows you to access all functions for changing the selected notes general characteristics and the preview box will show you immediately the changings, you made, except the time stamp setting!.

If you check the "Show date/time" box, the time stamp will be displayed in the lower left corner of the note, beneath a black line. As font, the notes setting is used, but the fonts hight is choosen two points lower, always.


Defining Default Settings
Defining the Default settings

All aspects of the general notes characteristics may be arranged in as many predefined default settings, instead of setting them individually for each note. So you can create groups of notes with the same appearance for a better organization of your pinboard.

For example you could divede your notes by importance and the most important one gets a red note with a big font but the less important one could be displayed unobtrusively. Or how about deviding your notes in private ones and such concerning business?

Each deafault setting can be named individually and easily assigned to a note by selecting it from a combo box.

To define a new one or to change a former defined one, select "Default-Settings" command from the pinboards menu or press  [F6] on your keyboard.

So a dialog box will open, which upper part give you access all functions for changing the default setting to be defined (see also: The general characteristics of a note).

The preview in this dialog box immediately will show you the results of most changings you make.

ATTENTION: All changings made won't effect any note just existing on the pinboard! But the same dialog box can be accessed by clicking the button "Change format options" in the dialog for changing a note. If you accessed the "Format Options" dialog in this way, all changings will effect the choosen note when you close it by clicking the button titled "Accept"!!!

The lower part of the dialog box encloses the functions to decide in which way the settings made in the upper part should effect the default settings. The settings as seen in the preview will effect a default setting not before you select a command in this lower part:

1. Pressing the "Make default" button

In the list of existing default settings in the combo box laying beneath this button, one setting has to be choosen before. By clicking the button, all options as shown in the preview will be copied to the selected default setting. The former choosen options stored under this name will be replaced and are not restorable!

2. Clicking the button "Add new Format"

A new default setting will be added to the list of the available ones and all existing ones remains unchanged. But before clicking this button you have to enter a name into the text box titled "New defaults name", which should be added to the list to identify the new set.

Additionally, with already existing sets you can proceed the actions listed below, but in all this cases the name of one default setting must be choosen from the list before:

1. "Delete entry"

The selected format will be removed from the list and all settings are gone.

2. "Rename entry"

This will change the name of the selected set, but does not effect any of the settings stored under the former used name.

3. "Copy to actual setting"

All settings stored under the name selected from the list, will be copied to the upper part of the dialog box, so you can make changings for creating a slightly different new set or to copy the changed set to the former default.


Extended Characteristics of Notes
Extended characteristics of a note

You can define a notes characteristics when creating it and later redefine them, when opening a note to make changings (see also Posting new notes and changing existing ones).

A notes characteristics can be devided into two groups:

1. General Characteristics

2. Extended Characteristics

The now described group of extended characteristics enclose:

- Showing bitmaps and icons on notes

- Linking a program or document to a note

- Defining alarm notes

- Password security for single notes

The extended characteristics can NOT be arranged in the default settings.


Displaying Bitmaps and Icons on notes

Each note can display one bitmap(file extension .BMP) or one icon (file extension .ICO). This possibility belongs to the notes extended characteristics.

If you access the dialog box for changing a note, you can leftclick the checkbox named "Merge picture" to open the default file dialog as known from many other applications defined for Windows 95. This will allow you to select the bitmap or icon desired.

If the extension of the selected file is .ICO, Pinboard '98 tries to handle the file as Icon, in all other cases, it tries to handle it as a bitmap. If no one of this tryings will succed, the "Merge picture" action will be ignored.

In case of success, a bitmap will be centered horizontally above the notes text and an icon will be displayed left aligned above the text.

Removing Bitmaps and Icons

If there is a bitmap or icon assigned to a note, you can release it by clicking the corresponding check box again in the dialog box for changing a note. This will uncheck the box and untie the link to the picture, but the note remains on the pinboard.

ATTENTION: If you want to display bitmaps on your notes, your display settings should be set to at least 16 Bit color resolution (HiColor) because using palettes of 256 colors or less will create horrible color effects when the palettes of different bitmaps will disturb each other. The background image like the cork surface is also a bitmap...

Displaying icons doesn't raise such problems, because the just use the 16 default colors supported by the system at any time.

Remark: Displaying bitmaps (especially from big size images) will need many capacity from your system and may slow it down. And any time Pinboard '98 has to update the screen, processing is slower the more bitmaps the notes showes.


Linking Programs and Documents to Notes
Linking Programs or Documents to Notes

Each note can be linked together with one program or one document to be started respectively to be opened through Pinboard '98 as doubleclicking it in the Windows 95 Explorer or doubleclicking a links icon on the Windows 95 Desktop.

This possibility belongs to the notes extended characteristics.

If you access the dialog box for changing a note, you can leftclick the checkbox named "Add link" to open another dialog box letting you enter the desired command or by clicking the "Browse" button, opening a default file dialog as known from many other applications designed for Windows 95 to search for the program or document you want to link to the note. Closing this dialog will automatically fill in the necessary entries to the text boxes "Path" and "Program/Document".

Additionally you can decide the program/document to be started minimized, maximized or in its normal window size.

The text box "Additional Parameters" is used for more experienced users to run somewhat complicated commands. E.G. you may enter the following:

Path: 	C:\WINDOWS

Program/Document:	NOTEPAD.EXE

Additional Parameters:	/p C:\PINBOARD\README.TXT

When activating the notes link, The pinboards readme-file will be loaded using the Windows 95 text editor, send to an attached printer and closed immediatly again. (Ofcourse, a printer has to be installed and all directories must be named in the same manner).

How to activate a link?

To run the program or to open the document linked to a note, just leftclick it while pressing down the SHIFT key on your keyboard or choose the command "Execute Link"  from the desired notes menu.

Removing a link

If there is a program or ducument assigned to a note, you can release it by clicking the corresponding check box again in the dialog box for changing a note. This will uncheck the box and untie the link, but the note remains on the pinboard.

Hint: If a note containing a link, is defined as alarm note, the link will be activated at the defined time and the linked program will be launched respectively the linked document will be opened.


Defining Alarm Notes
Defining Notes as Alarm Notes

Each note can be defined as alarm note, which will remind itselfes at a given date and time:

Reminding has the following effects:

- If the pinboard is minimized or hidden by other windows, it will be forced to be displayed in the foreground of your display.

- If the reminding note is hidden by other notes, it will be move to the top of a pile of notes.

- An icon showing an alarm clock will be displayed on the note. It disappears again, if you click the note or if the pindboards window is to be updated.

- If there is a sound card installed to your system and the audio messages are activated, a default audio file will be played (Asterisk under Audio Signals in the Windows 95 System Settings).

- The computers build in loudspeaker will beep a single time if existing.

The notes alarm functionality belongs to its extended characteristics.

If you access the dialog box for changing a note, you can leftclick the checkbox named "Set alarm" to open another dialog box which allows you to define the date and time for the alarm desired.

If you check the box named "Every day", you cannot define a date, just a time and the alarm will be activated each day at the same time, until you deactivate the alarm function for this one note again (see below).

If you deefine a date instead, the alarm will be activated just a single time and after this, the notes alarm function will be resetted automatically to undefined.

Deactivating a Notes Alarm Function

If there is an alarm set for a note, you can deactivate it by clicking the corresponding checkbox in the dialog box for changing a note again, which will remove the defined alarm and uncheck the box, but remains the changed note on the pinboard.

ATTENTION: A defined alarm can only be activated, if the computer is turned on and Pinboard '98 is running, ofcourse!

If you start Pinboard '98 at a time, a defined alarm is passed already, the attached note will remind itselfs belated, but if the "Every Day" option is checked for it, it won't rimind for passed dayes.

Hint: If an alarm note is linked to a program or document in addition, at alarm time the attached programm will be startet respectively the attached document will be opened at alarm time.


Password Security for single Notes

In addition to the whole pinboards password security each note can be individually be secured by password.

Both forms of the password security uses the same Passwort. If it concerns the whole pinboard you will asked for it when starting the program. If entered correctly, the whole pinboard and all notes will be displayed. But each note secured individually shows only a few stars on it but its true contents remains hidden, including an attached bitmap or icon. Also a linked program or document can be launched respectively can be opend just after the right passwaord was entered for the note again.

The alarm function is still effective for a secured note, too. But if it reminds itselfs it just shows the stars and the password dialog will be opened to allow access to an attached program or document if defined.

To have a look on the real contents of a secured note, you have to activate the "Password on/off" command from this notes menu and to enter the correct password into the password dialog which will open then. In addition, you have to enter the password any time, you want access a note to make changings or to remove it from the pinboard.

Both forms of password security can be activated at the same time.

IF YOU DID NOT ALREADY ENTERED A PASSWORD WHEN ACTIVATING THE SECURITY FUNCTION, IN CASE OF ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION, YOU CAN LEAVE THE PASSWORD DIALOG BY CLICKING THE "CONFIRM" BUTTON WITHOUT ENTERING ANY WORD !!!


Notes and Printers, Clipboard and E-Mails
Printing notes, exchanging them by using the clipboard or sending them as E-Mail

Pinboard '98 is thought to help you to organize your notes and to save paper, but sometimes it is necessary to access a notes text from the pinboard in a different way, too.

For this reason Pinboard '98 supplies some functions to do so, without typing the whole text again:

1. Sending it to an attached printer

2. Exchanging it with other programs using the Windows 95 Clipboard

3. Sending it as E-Mail

1. Printing a Note

You can send a note to an attached printer by selecting the "Print Note" command from this notes menu. But the text will be printed without using the settings for font and color.

2. Exchanging by using the Clipboard

If you choose the command "Copy Note" from a notes menu the plain text of the clicked note will be copied to the Windows 95 Clipboard without considering the format settings as font and color. So you can access it through outher programs like a text editor for example.

Most programs designed for Windows 95 can access the clipboards contents by pressing [Ctrl] + [V] on the keyboard or by choosing the "Paste" command from the "Edit" menu.

If you want to copy the clipboard contents to your note, the dialog to change a note has to be opened. If the blinking text caret shows the text box to be ready to receive text, pressing [Ctrl] + [V] will copy it to the carets position, if it contains plain text.

3. Sending a note as E-Mail

Each note can be send as E-Mail if you have installed Microsoft Exchange together with Windows 95.

To send a note, open its notes menu and activate the option "Send Note" to create a new Microsoft Exchange message containing the notes text.


Shareware Notes
About Shareware

This Program is shareware. That means, you will suffer a few program limitations until you register as a user. But you can test the program as you like and when you decide you dislike it, you may remove it from your harddisk.

After registering, automatically all limitations are negated. A new installation is not necessary nor a new start of the program.

Anybody is free to give a shareware program to other persons, but it must be guaranteed that the original files remains unchanged and be are delivered in the original bundle. Also it is not allowed to sell them for money.

But do not share your registration code with others! You may not enable other people to gain full program functionality. Each user must register for himself.

If stored in a shareware collection of any type please inform me with a short note about it.

PS: Thanks for all response given to the former versions of Pinboard '97. I am always glad to hear from the users and about ideas for increasing the programs functionality.

See also:

Shareware Registration and Address to contact the Author


Shareware-Registration
Shareware Registration and Address to contact the Author

It is easy to register as regular user:

Send me a fee of 10 DM of German currency or the same value in any other currency (for example 8 US Dollar) and I will send you your personal registration code.

Because most people do not send anything when they got the code before, I send it not before the fee arrived, sorry! But if you get no reaction a short time after sending the fee, please contact me again, because I try to answer all registartions immediately and sometimes an E-Mail don't reaches me for example.

I accept the following ways to send me the fee:

- transfer via bank account

- Bills in all currencies

- (please do not send coins, better round off the fee)

- german stamps

- cheques

- (if no other way is possible, I accept cheques from out of Germany, too, even it costs a high charge)

In all this cases please think about to tell me your full poatal address or a valid E-Mail address, so I can contact you to tell you the code.

Even more convenient would be the registration via CompuServe:

GO SWREG. The Programs ID then would be 16514.

(But unfortunately this way would cost you 10 US Dollar, because this is CompuServes minimun fee for shareware registration.)

Entering the Registration Code running Pinboard '98

Press [F5] at your keyboard to open a dialogbox to let you enter your name and this code. But ensure to enter both correctly because the code depends to the name and the registration will only be completed when both, name and code, corresponds together. When ever possible, I will take your full name to calculate the code, first letters of all names written with capital letters.

If the registration was completed successfully, automatically all the programs limitations are negated without need for a new installation nor for a new program start!

The Pinboards Title in its Main Window

In addition to the text boxes for entering your name and registration code, in the registering dialog you will find a box to enter the title, which should appear in the pinboards titlebar. The one limitation to the choosen text is, that the name, the program was registered for, appeares in all cases in the title.

But you can position it by desire, if you replace it by typing a Star ( * ). If you don't enter one, your entry will automatically be completed by ( * ) at its end. And if you want stars to appear in the title, too, please type in for each star to be displayed two stars in your entry. Som examples:

Dialog boxes entry	Appearence in titlebar
Pinboard	Pinboard (Peter Smith)
Pinboard for *	Pinboard for Peter Smith
*'s Pinboard	Peter Smith's Pinboard
****** * ******	*** Peter Smith ***

And now my address and bank correspondent:

Georg Geenen

Fraubachtal 4a

D-56154 Boppard

Germany

E-Mail: GeorgGeenen@msn.com

or CompuServe: 113204,1765

or AOL: G Geenen

Bank correspondent:

Postbank Cologne, Germany, Bank-ID: 37010050, Account-No.: 4775 85 500

Homepage:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GeorgGeenen


Limitations when using without registering
The programs limitations when using without registering

Until registration as regular user the program suffers one limitation to guarantee that it won't be used with full functionality, just be tested to decide if you like it and want to register or not.

This is because the program is shareware! And if you don't like to register you should remove it from your harddisk after testing it.

Without registration you only can post new notes up to a maximum of four onto the pinboard

All other functions are available without any limitations to test Pinboard '98, even if you don't decide to register.

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