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- New features in ShopList 1.11
-
- This version adds AutoList, a feature which automatically adds
- regularly-purchased items to the shopping list.
-
- The Find function has also been upgraded so that items containing
- the search string embedded in the middle of a word are excluded.
-
- To upgrade to version 1.11, it is only necessary to copy the new
- files to \APP and \APP\SLIST. Note that there is an additional
- file, SLISTUPG.OPO, which automatically upgrades the .LST files
- to the new format. It is strongly recommended that you make a
- backup of your list files before first opening/upgrading them
- using the new version. If you have already registered, it is not
- necessary to re-enter the registration code.
-
-
- New features in ShopList 1.10
-
- This version adds handling of cash discounts per item. A couple of
- minor points have been clarified in the Help file.
-
- To upgrade to version 1.10, it is only necessary to copy the new files
- to \APP and \APP\SLIST. If you have already registered it is not
- necessary to re-enter the registration code.
-
-
- New features in ShopList 1.09
-
- This version adds handling of Multibuy discounts. You can now buy
- N items for the price of M, or specify a cash discount when purchasing
- N items. The price per item is automatically calculated on the basis of
- the specified discount, held internally as a floating point number, but
- is rounded for display purposes to the nearest penny.
-
- To upgrade to version 1.09, it is only necessary to copy the new files
- to \APP and \APP\SLIST. If you have already registered it is not
- necessary to re-enter the registration code.
-
-
- New features in ShopList 1.08
-
- This version introduces five new features over the original release.
-
- The first relates to "once-only" and "each trip" purchases. You can now
- define categories as containing "repeat purchases", "once-only
- purchases" or "each-trip purchases". "Repeat purchase" categories
- operate as before, with items in "Pick" being updated at "checkout". In
- contrast, items in "once-only" categories are erased from both "Pick"
- and "Tally" at "checkout". This allows the shopping list to include
- items like books and videos which you will only buy/rent/borrow once.
- Suppose that you have a "once-only" category called "Videos". You might
- put in "Pick" all the videos which you might be interested in
- buying/renting at some point in the future, transfer one or two to
- "List/Shop" when you wanted to rent them, and following "checkout" these
- would be expunged from the list altogether. Items in "each-trip"
- categories are added back onto the shopping list on "checkout" ready for
- the next shopping trip, thereby ensuring that you don't forget to buy
- them. For example, you might define a category called "Staples"
- containing such items as bread, milk and other perishables which you buy
- every week. These would always stay on the shopping list. Items can
- readily be moved to and from this category by using the "Update item"
- command (Psion-U).
-
- The second is to allow a default store and aisle to be defined for each
- category. For example, you might buy almost all meat products in aisle 1
- of your local supermarket, so you would want any new items added to the
- "Meat" category to automatically default to that store and aisle.
- However, you can override these defaults for any particular item if
- desired when it is originally added or purchased. This feature is also
- useful for "once-only" categories, whose items would otherwise never
- have an aisle.
-
- The third is to provide an alternative means of changing categories or
- stores, via a dialog box opened by pressing <Tab>.
-
- The fourth new feature allows items in the current category or store to
- be rapidly selected by pressing the first letter of the item name.
-
- The fifth is an automatic check of file structure when a list file is
- opened. This is implemented as an optional module (SLISTCHK.OPO), which
- can be omitted to save space if desired.
-
- These changes are backwards-compatible with existing .LST files, all of
- whose categories will initially be set up for "repeat purchases" and
- contain a null default aisle. However, the default store for existing
- categories will default to the first store which you defined, so on
- upgrading to version 1.08 you should update the properties of each
- category in turn using "Modify" (Psion-M).
-
- Apart from than these changes, the other alterations to the program
- since its original release relate to the fixing of minor bugs, as
- detailed in the History.txt file.
-