The Midius ProjectPlanner is a Macintosh program for making time schedules (Gantt charts).
The Project Planner folder contents:
- ProjectPlanner README 1.2 this file
- Midius ProjectPlanner fat version of the program
- User's manual the user's manual in pdf (Acrobat) format
- (HTML) folder that contains small GIF-files (pictures)
that are necessary to be able to view a Gantt chart
exported in HTML format.
- Register program for creating register forms to be sent to Kagi
Requirements:
System 7.1 or later
68020 or better
Colour display is required
Registering
To register use the Register program to create a register form which then shall be sent
to Kagi Shareware using mail, email or fax.
The price for a single license is 35 USD, there are also site and world licenses available for
600 USD resp. 2500 USD.
http://www.kagi.com
Email: shareware@kagi.com (1 to 3 day processing time delay)
FAX: +1 510 652 6589 (4 to 8 day processing time delay)
Postal address: (4 to 8 day delay plus transit time to Kagi)
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-MU
Berkeley, California, 94709-1405
USA
Please note that Kagi automatically rejects any electronic payment that come includes
a hotmail.com address. Refer to http://www.kagi.com/FAQs/hotmail.com
N.B. Kagi is a payment processing company and they are not the author/shipper of the
product. Any problems with receiving registration codes or any problems with the product itself shall be addressed to the author at m-arc@algonet.se or micke@kagi.com
Registration codes will be sent to you normally within a week after receive a
confirmation of your order from Kagi.
Disclaimer
This software is provided "as-is". I take no responsiblity in any damage caused by the
software, use of the software or any of its outputs. Use it at your own risk.
Changes in 1.2 (17 January 1999)
• The right hand pane is now updated (and adjusted) when an activity's start date
is set to a date prior to the current start date of the schedule.
• Removed a big memory leak in the drag-and-drop implementation. After doing
a few drag-and-drops, memory was exhausted causing all kinds of strange errors.
• Corrected a bug that caused messed up activity rows if you dragged a group of
activities and dropped them right below themselves (i.e. no actual move was
performed).
• Corrected a bug that caused the duration column of summaries to be left empty
unless the original start/stop dates had been set.
• Corrected a bug that caused the summary row to have a responsible after converting
an ordinary row into a summary row.
• Corrected a bug that cuased some problems when pasting an ordinary row (i.e. not a
sub-activity) into a summary group.
• Corrected a bug that made adjusted (due to links) activities start 5 pm instead of
moving them to the next day 8 am.
• Corrected a bug that could cause crashes if you entered activity names longer
than 100 characters.
• Added a simple report view where each team member's assignments are listed.
• Added possibility to lock an activity (either start or stop date is locked).
• Made it impossible to paste a row onto a summary header row.
• The Print preview picture is a bit more detailed, including the footer if present and
is correctly scaled.
• And some minor screen updating problems have been fixed.
Known Bugs
• When printing a time chart with a activity table spanning over two pages, horizontally,
the output is not as beatiful as it should be...
• You cannot make schedules with starting dates prior to 1986.
• Having a schedule spanning over a long period and displaying it with a high
"resolution" (e.g. timescale=days) will cut off some parts of the time schedule.
• When entering the year with only two digits, e.g. 14/12/97 the MacOS rules
are used to determine the century:
If the value of the input year is less than 100, StringToDate determines the year as follows.
1. If (current year) MOD 100 is greater than or equal to 90 and the input year is less than
or equal to 10, the input year is assumed to be in the next century.
2. If (current year) MOD 100 is less than or equal to 10 and the input year is greater than
or equal to 90, the input year is assumed to be in the previous century.
3. Otherwise, the input year is assumed to be in the current century.
If the value of the input year is between 100 and 1000, then 1000 is added to it. Thus the
dates 1/9/87, 1/9/987, and 1/9/1987 are equivalent.
Use the web-page http://www.softsys.se/ProjectPlanner/ to get new releases etc.
Questions concerning the program can be sent directly to the author at m-arc@algonet.se or
micke@kagi.com
This program should only travel in the complete folder.
Have fun,
Mikael Arctaedius
Stockholm, Sweden
email: m-arc@algonet.se
http://www.softsys.se/ProjectPlanner/
Release History
Changes in 1.1.3 (21 August 1998)
• Corrected a bug that sometimes caused a crash when doing an "Insert row".
• Corrected a bug that caused an erroneous menu item to appear in the help menu.
Changes in 1.1.2 (20 August 1998)
• Corrected a bug that made it impossible to actually turn off the print
option "Fit to page". (The checkbox in the Printer Options dialog was
unchecked but the output on the printer was still scaled to fit the page.)
• Made it possible to select (and delete) a link (between to adjacent activities)
consisting of a single vertical line.
• Corrected a bug that caused some problems with deleted dependency links.
When a dependency link had been deleted it was impossible to add a new link
between the same two activities unless the document was saved in between
the deletion and the creation of a new link.
• Corrected a bug that could cause some spurious crashes (especially when
Navigation Services extension is active).
• Added possibility to clear Original dates for activities.
Changes in 1.1.1 (6 August 1998)
• Corrected some crash bugs related to the date fields.
• Corrected a bug that got ProjectPlanner into an endless loop if entering a
duration of 0 days.
Changes in 1.1 (3 August 1998)
• Corrected some crash bugs related to selecting/deselecting the activity field.
• The Enter key (beside the numerical keypad) is now treated like the return key.
• When the "Completed" tool is selected the completed percentage value is displayed
in the lower left corner.
• The delete key can now be used instead of the Edit->Clear menu commmand to delete
a chart element.
• Corrected the behaviour of some OK buttons in dialogs.
• Corrected the saving of Page Setup settings.
• Corrected a bug that made ProjectPlanner freeze in a never-ending loop when
changing size of a column under certain conditions.
• Made it compatible with CustomMenus.
• Added an "Import data" feature.
• Modified the "Export data..." dialog so that it is possible to choose between exporting
all columns or only visible columns.
• Removed "Not registered" text on printouts.
• Added auto-completion of the responsible text field.
• Shift TAB can now be used to move backwards through the cells in the table.
• Added a new preference option: "auto-optimize activities". If it is enabled, all
linked activities will always be adjusted to produce the shortest possible duration.
• Better screen update of dependency links.
• Added simple HTML output.
• Corrected some problems with computation of work and stopdate when the duration
was changed.
• Changed to a newer version of the Mercutio API. The previous version did cause quite
a few repeatable crashes which now are gone.
• The date in the lower left corner is now updated also when you move or change
duration of an activity. In the case of mving an activity, the new start date is
displayed, and in the case of changing the duration the new stop date is displayed.
• Added support for Navigation Services (PowerPC only).
• And much more...
Changes in 1.0 (4 May 1998)
• The last of activity rows in a summary can be reverted back to a non-summary row
by positioning the textcursor at the Activity's first character position and then
using the backspace key.
• Entering 0 in the Work column will remove the time-bar in the activity-diagram
• Made ProjectPlanner Y2K-ready.
• And much more...
Changes in 1.0b6 (8 April 1998)
• Changed the implementation of selection of activity rows. Now it is more in line
