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- HandyWare International
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- S M A R T S H O P v 1 . 1c
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- Legal Notice
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- HandyWare International reserves the right to make improvements in
- the product described in this text at any time and without notice. This
- application will perform substantially in accordance with the published
- specifications and the documentation. Handyware International, when notified
- of significant errors within 90 days of purchase, will, at its option
- correct demonstrable and significant program or documentation errors within
- a reasonable period of time or provide or autorize a refund.
- Registering this software provides you only a single-user lifetime
- license for using this product with the full features, the Handyware
- International internet support and update rights for this product. You won't
- be allowed to copy, modify or distribute the registration number nor the
- registred file in any way.
- By using this software you will be accepting all the terms above.
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- I. Introduction
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- Thanks for trying our product !
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- We hope SmartShop will help your lives like it help ours. We, users
- before everything, always wanted a way to organize our shoppings in super-
- markets and other convinience stores. Did you remember when you had that
- sensation that the prices were a little higher? SmartShop will help you
- prevent this situation, since it keeps track of all prices. If you think
- that the shop is raising the price too much, you simply start buying in
- other places. And about forgotten products ? How many times you wanted to
- eat something only to realize you forgot to buy it ! You only realize it
- when it's too late !
- We tried to make our product as easy as possible to use. It's so
- easy to use that you can walk at the supermaket with the Pilot in hand, and
- record all the items you buy in a practical and painless way. Forget those
- old-fashioned paper lists! You payed for your PDA, now it's time to use it
- and make your life easier (this is what PDAs are intended for, aren't they?).
- If don't want to walk with your Pilot, you can also use our program just
- to record everything when you arrive home. A missing product can always be
- inserted in next week shopping. You can also record the items you are buying
- in the shop and them record the prices at the commodity of your home, so
- minimizing shopping time.
- If you want to say anything to us, don't wait any more and contact
- our homepage at "http://w3.openlink.com.br/handyware". We're waiting to
- hear about your experiences with our product. Your feedback is what will
- make us add a feature in future versions.
- And remember: updates are free ! If you want to make any suggestion
- for future releases, feel free to do it! Maybe the solution you need is the
- same of other user's, and we can make your desires come true !
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- II. Using SmartShop
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- SmartShop is made of 3 sections:
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- - Product Window : it's here where you register the name of the products you
- buy. The product window shows a database of all the products currently
- registered. When you want to buy something, the first thing you do is add
- the name of the product to this window, if it isn't already registered.
- If you want to buy a product (Beer, for example) in more than one place,
- you have to register it's name just one time. In the other windows you will
- be able to distribute the products in shops.
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- - Shop Window : The "Shop" is an abstraction of "Product Container". You
- register here not only the shops you use to buy your products. You can
- also register something like "HandyMart, Weekly" and "HandyMart, Monthly", so
- you will able to register the products you buy weekly (like cheese,milk) at
- HandyMart and the products you buy in the end of the month (like soap).
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- - Buy Window : Here is where you register the products contained in a shop.
- Here you can register if you already bought the product, the quantity, last
- month price (LP) and current price (CP) . It's the window you will use the most.
- When you add a product to a shop, you will be able to choose from the list of
- products already registered in the Product Window. The prices and quantities
- you assign to each product are absolutely independent in each shop, like
- the flag telling if you already bought the product, so you can keep track
- of prices in many shops and compare them later.
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- Now we will describe the options of all windows in a simple tutorial
- to make easier for you to handle our software.
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- III. Product Window
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- Every time you run SmartShop, you will be in the Product Window.
- Note a list in the screen (empty when you run SmartShop for the first time)
- and 3 buttons. From here you control everything in this window. Let's add
- some products. Click with the pen in the "New" button in the bottom of the
- screen. A Window will popup and wait for you to write the product name. When
- you finish writing the name, click on "Ok". Clicking on "Cancel" will abort
- the operation without adding anything to the list.
- Add 3 products: "Beer", "French Fries" and "Eggs". If you want to
- edit the names, click on the product name and select "Edit". You will be able
- to edit the product name. Note that changing the product name will change
- this product in ALL shops that have the product. The prices, quantities and
- the flag will be unchanged, however.
- Cliking on "Delete" erases the item selected by the pen, removing
- it of all shops. A confirmation is asked before the delete process happens
- effectively.
- Now that you added 3 products, let's go to the Shop Window. Click
- on the "Menu" button on your Pilot. Select the "Product" Menu, and click on
- the "Shop List" option.
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- IV. Shop Window
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- Now you will be able to create shops to hold your products. The
- workings of this window are absolutely identical to Product Window's. Let's
- add a shop. Click the "New" button and add write "HandyShop". You can edit
- and delete this name like you do with the products. Now let's add the
- products to this shop. Click on the "HandyShop" entry and the click on the
- "Menu" button. Select the "Buy" menu and you will see 2 options:
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- - New : Choosing new, all the flags telling if you buyed a product will be
- reset, so the next time you enter the shop, all the products will be in the
- "Not Bought" state. The prices registered for the "Current Price" entry will
- be copied to "Last Price" (see later), so you will be able to keep track of
- the prices. The quantities stay unchanged.
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- - Resume : You resume a shopping. Nothing changes in the products registered
- in the shop.
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- Since the shop has no products, you can choose any option. Choose "New", for
- example.
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- V. Buy Window
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- When you choose "New" or "Resume", will be brought to this window.
- You will see 3 buttons in the bottom of the screen, a column of boxes and
- 2 lists. The bigger list in the center of the screen hold the names of the
- products. The narrower in the right show the quantities of each product. The
- boxes are the "Buy Flags", telling if you bought or not a specific product.
- Since you have no products in the list, everything is disabled. Let's add
- some products to the "HandyShop" (note the title in the top of the window).
- Click on the "New" button and a small version of the Product Window will
- popup. Choose "Eggs" and click on the "Ok" button. The "Cancel" button would
- abort the operation and no products would be added.
- Now you will see the name "Eggs" and the quantity "1" in the right.
- The default quantity of any product is 1. Now let's change some things. Click
- on the "Eggs" name and the click on "Edit". In this window you will be able
- to edit the quantity and the price. The starting price defaults to 0.0. You
- see the "Last price" , defaulted to 0.0. Change the quantity to 3, clicking
- on the quantity field and the change the price to "1.00". Click on the "Ok"
- button to confirm the changes. The "Cancel" button would ignore your changes
- and keep the old values.
- You are seeing now 3 as the quantity. Notice that the new value
- appears below the ListBox. Click on the box left of the "Eggs" entry.
- Now the box is checked. It would mean that you bought eggs. Like the
- Product and Shop Windows, you can delete the entry or add more entries
- in the list.
- Now, if desired, you can see the total spent for all the
- products purchased in that shop by clicking the "Menu button" and
- choosing the "Total" option.
- Click on the "Menu" button and choose the "Exit" option on the "Buy"
- menu to return to the Shop Window.
- When you arrive at "Shop Window", click on the "HandyShop" name and
- then on the "Menu" button. Choose the "New" option in the "Buy" menu.
- Now we are again in the Buy Window. Note that the checkbox is reset,
- what wouldn't happen if you choosed "Resume" instead of "New". Now select
- the "Eggs" entry and click on "Edit". Note that "1.00" become the Last Price.
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- VI. Backing-up your database
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- Backing-up your lists follows the same regular procedures of other
- programs. When you HotSync with the desktop, all the databases of the current
- installed applications are automatically backed-up. The only detail for
- SmartShop is that it splits your data in 3 databases. When you want to install
- the backup data, you use the Install Tool of the Pilot Desktop and install the
- following files which will be located in your default backup path:
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- PRODUCT_DATABSE.PDB
- SHOP_AUX_DATABSE.PDB
- SHOP_DATABASE.PDB
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- VII. Registering the software
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- At first, visit our homepage at "http://w3.openlink.com.br/handyware"
- to know the procedures to be done in order to get the software with its
- full features.
- Then, click on the "Menu" button in the Product Window. Click on
- the "Register" option in submenu "Options". The Register Window will ask
- for your name and your code, which will be sent by e-mail to you after
- the payment.
- If you don't register it, the program will work with a built-in
- limit of 10 products, 3 shops and 6 products per shop. If you do, the
- release version raises all limits to 255.
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- VIII. Known limitations
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- - The prices currently only accept the "." character as a separator. This
- funcionality probably will be extended in the future.
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- XI. Keep in Touch!
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- Check out the HandyWare site periodically at
- "http://w3.openlink.com.br/handyware" to get the free updates to this
- version and new products, or e-mail us to make any suggestion :
- handyware@openlink.com.br
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