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- About JAICNV
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- JAICNV is a general conversion calculator for the Psion 3a.
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- This is version 1.0 of JAICNV.
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- JAICNV is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
- License. A copy of this is included in the distribution as file
- COPYING.GPL. Please read it!
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- In this distribution
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- COPYING GPL 12737 9-12-92 Text of GNU General Public License
- README TXT 3826 26-08-94 This file
- JAICNVEN TXT 27071 14-08-94 The English User Manual
- JAICNVNL TXT 30099 14-08-94 The Dutch User Manual
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- JAICNV OPA 8686 13-08-94 The program
- JAICNVEN DBF 10650 20-08-94 The conversion database with english texts
- Almost 250 conversion specifications
- allowing more than 6500 conversions.
- JAICNVEN HLP 4212 12-08-94 The help database with english texts
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- JAICNVNL DBF 10607 20-08-94 The conversion database with dutch texts
- Same as jaicnven.dbf, but in dutch.
- JAICNVNL HLP 4580 12-08-94 The help database with dutch texts
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- JAICNV OPL 18462 13-08-94 The source code
- JAICNV PIC 608 28-07-94 The icon picture
- JAIEMPTY DBF 454 6-08-94 An empty conversion database, for your
- convenience if you want to create your own.
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- Revision history
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- Version 1.0 First release
- Known bugs:
- - Code is not very efficient in memory usage
- - Category unit names are searched case insensitive
- but at some places compared case sensitive.
- This can give problems. Therefore always use same
- case for category unit name on all cards.
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- Wish list
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- - Use variable length strings (through library calls) for the
- choice lists, so they can contain more items. Current
- maximum length of all choices in a list is 255 characters.
- - If I know how, I like to use a dialog for the main window that
- can change field protections (and field lists) by just changing
- one of the lists (so not having to press Enter).
- Some of the dialogs on the Psion can do it.
- - Maybe I should use something else than a dialog for the main
- window, so the menu, help and fast keys can be used while
- the main window is shown.
- - Think about making Jaicnv a type 3 application, so the database
- can be selected when starting. This probably requires a
- separate directory or file extension, which makes changing the
- database with Data less easy. Its a trade-off.
- - Maybe try to find out the language of the psion and choose the
- corresponding database.
- - If I know how, use the help viewer as used by the standard
- Psion 3a applications, so there can be more than 8 items
- and longer descriptions, because the window contents can
- scroll.
- - If I know how, try to minimize memory usage (if at all
- possible). At the moment it uses about 28 k when run, which
- is much more than the 8.5 k of the executable size and the
- (estimated) 5 k of variables. Maybe this is due to the use of
- OPL, or for buffers for databases?
- - Many more different language versions (but I can not do that
- myself, because I don't know other languages good enough).
- - Many more conversion (who has some).
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