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- Manual Addendum for version 1.85
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- Contents
- 1. Whats new? (history)
- 2. Known Bugs
- 3. Life, the Universe, and Everything (paying homage)
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- Section 1: Whats new?
-
- 1.85:
- --------
- Decimal preferences (0-4) when creating new account
-
- Balances are now custom datatype (can be 100 times larger
- than amounts, excluding the decimal fractions even).
-
- New save button on amicheck "you will lose your changes"
- prompt.
-
- New date preference format: DD/MM/YY
-
- Many internal changes
-
-
- 1.80:
- --------
- New GUIFront library integrated. Offers public
- screen preferences from GUI Preferences editor.
-
- removed wordwrap from amigaguide document for
- os 2.x and 3.0 users (3.1 users should still
- have it).
-
- Fixed silly AREXX bug where asking for the account closed
- date gave you the opened date :)
-
-
- 1.74:
- --------
- Some dinky new features such as the new ASLHEIGHT tooltype.
-
- Keyfile system adopted.
-
- On-line context sensitive AmigaGuide help, also main amiga
- guide file has been slightly improved with wordwrapping and
- more up-to-date documentation.
-
- Full AREXX port. See the section on AREXX in the guide
- file as well as the arexx.doc file for a description of
- the individual commands
-
- "Edit/apply order" menu item ("burn" in your sort
- as the official entered order. This will make the
- running balance work for you).
-
- You can now un-do a sort by turning off all options
- in the sort panel. I don't know what I was thinking
- by preventing this :)
-
- The "amicheck freezes" problem has been identified
- and avoided. Edit your GUIFront preferences and
- turn on smart refresh (it only occures if you have
- simple refresh).
-
- Install scripts and a logical directory structure.
-
-
- 1.60:
- --------
- Budget groups
-
- All up/down/top/botton list buttons now move the list to
- follow the moving item
-
-
- 1.55:
- -------
- Filter cycle gadget for the template window helps
- to reduce clutter for those with large template lists.
-
- Date preferences
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- Tooltypes for ASL pattern requesters
-
- Improved functionality of quick-dates
-
- Import now no longer tries to update register in real-time
- (much faster).
-
- New "save and exit" menu item
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- Section 2: Known Bugs
-
- Below list bugs that are either AC's fault, a quirk in the user's setup
- or the fault of another program. I don't know which in some cases.
-
- * one user has problems with powerdata now and then corrupting the database.
- who is at fault and what is going on need to be addressed. According
- to the author of powerdata, amicheck has no problems with the program.
- I have no idea to date.
-
- * Occasional cosmetic issue with listviews on os2.x.
-
- * MagicCX will crash amicheck if all MagicCX features are turned on, and the
- user sorts or filters twice. Not entirely clear on this one either but I have
- replicated it.
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- Section 3: Life, The Universe and Everything
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-
- Third party thanks
- -------------------------
-
- amiCheck makes full use of the following libraries
-
- -easyrexx.library © 1994,1995 Ketil Hunn for aid in style-guide compliant ARexx support
- -guifront.library © 1994 Michael Berg for gadget layout and general interface assistance
-
-
- Beta testing thanks
- -------------------------
-
- Special thanks to the following people for their assistance in my questions or
- general helpfulness.
-
- - Paul Jan Sadlik (beta tester)
- - Dale Ferrier (beta tester)
- - Mark Freemantle (beta tester)
- - Dan Stein (beta tester)
- - Gary Witscher (beta tester)
- - Ketil Hunn (arexx questions)
- - Michael Berg (guifront questions and general OS compliant help)
-
-
- What is in a name?
- -------------------------
-
- It has just recently come to my attention that there was a program years ago
- by Jeff Hoag called "Ami-Check". This is a different program, and I appologize
- to Mr. Hoag as I did not mean to steal his (IMHO good ;) program name. Therefore
- I will be very strict on how I write it: amiCheck.
-
-
- Thanks for your patronage.
- Don't forget to send me your comments/suggestions!
-
- Douglas M. Dyer
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