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Daily Log Book Version 1.31 Copyright 1990 by John Haynes Sequential Software Ltd. Release Date-December 03, 1990 Site License Agreement This program is distributed by the Shareware concept. It is not free. You are granted limited license to use Daily Log Book on your system for 30 days to determine its suitability. You are encouraged to give Daily Log Book to your friends and upload it on your favorite BBS provided you adhere to these terms: You cannot charge a fee for the program. You may charge a distribution fee if you advise users this fee is for distribution purposes only and not for the program itself. You must include all the files included with this package in complete and unmodified form. If you find this program helpful and plan to use it on your system, please register your copy. Registration provides complete support for this program, update notices, and the latest version on disk. The registration form is in the text file REGISTER.TXT included with this package. Disclaimer This program is supplied as-is, with no warranty of any kind either written or implied. Sequential Software Ltd. and John Haynes can assume no liability for any damages (either real or imagined) resulting from the use of this software. Furthermore, we make no guarantee as to the suitability of this software for any purpose. Table of Contents Overview of Daily Log Book......................... 3 Starting Daily Log Book............................ 3 Using online Help.................................. 4 Editor............................................. 4 Changing dates with the Calendar................... 5 Searching for text................................. 5 Printing selected text............................. 6 Multiple Log Books................................. 6 Customizing with Setup............................. 7 Data Encryption.................................... 7 Macros............................................. 8 Appendix A (editing keys).......................... 9 Appendix B (packing list).......................... 9 Overview of Daily Log Book Daily Log Book was created to serve as a daily log or diary. Text is entered and viewed on a day by day basis. An on screen calendar is provided for moving to a different day. Any date range may be searched or printed. Multiple log books can be used to separate subjects. Other features include customizing of screen colors, support for 43 and 50 screen lines, data encryption, and macros. Daily Log Book's easy of use make it simple for even beginners to learn. The edit window, a large window on the right of the screen, is where text associated with a day is entered, viewed, or edited. The calendar is displayed in the upper left of the screen. When the date is changed in the calendar, text for the new day is displayed in the edit window. A status line at the bottom of the screen shows what function keys are available during a specific operation and context sensitive help is only a single key press away. Daily Log Book may be ran from a single floppy or hard drive. With a low memory requirement of 150K, it can be ran on virtually any system using MS-DOS 2.0 or higher. Starting Daily Log Book To begin Daily Log Book type LOG and press ENTER at the DOS prompt. A copyright screen is displayed until a key is pressed or ten seconds have past whichever comes first. A Program Information File is provided for use with Windows 3.0 users. The file LOG.PIF contains the correct settings for running Daily Log Book from Windows 3.0. To add Daily Log Book to a Windows-Program Manager group, select New from the File menu. Then, after entering a description, enter A:LOG.PIF as the command. The above example and LOG.PIF assume you will be running Daily Log Book from drive A:. To run it from a hard drive you will need to change the 'A:' to the drive:directory containing Daily Log Book in both the example above and the LOG.PIF file. See your Windows manual for information on using the PIF Editor to change LOG.PIF. 3 Using Online Help Context sensitive help is accessed through the F1 key. Anytime F1 is pressed a help screen is displayed that deals with the part of the program you are currently in. For example, pressing F1 while at the Setup Menu will display a help screen explaining the Set Menu options. One exception to this is when help is activated while in the edit window. Pressing F1 in the edit window will pop up the help Table of Contents. Help screens may have links to related topics. Text with bold arrow characters < > around it denotes a link to another screen. If a help screen contains linked text, the cursor will be located on the first link on the screen. The link at the cursor will also be shown in inverse colors to aid in seeing where you are on the help screen. To display help associated with a link, press ENTER while the cursor is on the desired link. If a screen has more than one link the ARROW keys are used to maneuver the cursor to the different links. Press ESC to exit help and return to where you were in Daily Log Book when help was activated. Editor The edit window is the large window on the right of the screen. The editor is used to enter, view, or edit text for a selected day in the current log book. Daily Log Book begins in the editor. The default log book is the A (first) log book. Today's actual date will also be shown by default. Text may be entered in the same manner as any other word processor or editor. When typing reaches the right edge of the window it is wrapped downward to the next line. All standard editing keys are supported. See Appendix A or online help for a list editing keys. Any text entered will be saved in the current log book for the date shown on the calendar. The date is also shown in the upper right corner of the edit window's border. The day's text is saved when the date is changed in the calendar, the current log book is changed through F5, or F10 is used to exit Daily Log Book. When the date or log book changes the edit window is updated to show the text for the different date or log book. All of Daily Log Book's other functions are accessed while in the editor. The function keys used to access these other functions are shown on the status line at the bottom of the 4 screen when the editor is active. Changing dates with the Calendar While in the editor, F2 activates the calendar. The calendar allows you to change the date of text that will be shown in the edit window. After activating the Calendar with F2, ARROW keys are used to navigate around the Calendar. The current date is highlighted and moves as the ARROW keys are pressed. Press ENTER to load text for the highlighted date into the editor. Press ESC to leave the Calendar without selecting a new date. To change the month or year, press F2 again or TAB. Then the up and down ARROW keys will change the year. The left and right ARROW keys will change the month. Press ENTER when on the desired month and year. This will return you to day selection. ESC will leave the month and year change function without changing the month or year. The SPACEBAR may be used to quick jump to today's actual date. Searching for Text The ability to quickly search for a word or phrase is one of Daily Log Book's most powerful features. The search range is defined by the user. After the search text is found, the date containing the text is displayed in the edit window. The search may be continued to look for more occurrences or aborted. To use search press F3 while in the editor. A pop up window is displayed asking what text you want search for. Enter the desire search text. The search is case insensitive. Therefore, if you search for 'Hello', all occurrences of 'hello' would also be found. After entering what to search for, a second pop up window displays. Enter the starting and ending dates of the range you want to search in this window. Today's date may be entered automatically by pressing CTRL-D. This makes it easy to enter a search range from a past date to today. When search text is found, the date it was found on is shown in the editor. The line in that date which contains the search text will be highlighted. Three course of action can then be taken. Press ENTER to quit the search and jump to the date where the text was found. ESC is used to abort the search and return to the editor without going to the date the text was found on. 5 Pressing the SPACEBAR continues the search looking for the next occurrence of the search text. Printing selected text Any selected range to dates may be printed to a printer or disk file. Text is neatly formatted with the date shown before each days text when printed. Press F4 while in the editor to print a range of dates. A window then pops up asking whether to send the output to printer or disk file. Use the ARROW keys to select then press ENTER. If disk file is selected the output will be stored in the current directory under the filename LOGBOOK.TXT. If that file already exist its contents are overwritten. After entering where to send output, a second pop up window displays. Enter the starting and ending dates of the range you want to print in this window. Today's date may be entered automatically by pressing CTRL-D. This makes it easy to enter a print range from a past date to today. Upon entering of the date range text for each day will be send to the printer or disk file. Multiple Log Books Daily Log Book can manage more than one log book. This allows you to keep different log books for separate subjects. Press F5 to bring up the Log Management Menu. From this menu you can select a different log book for viewing and editing. Also, function keys allow you to create, delete or the change the description of a log book. To select a different log book to work with, use the ARROW keys to hightlight the log book of your choice then press ENTER. The Log Management Menu is removed and the log book you selected is loaded into the edit window. Also the Calendar is reset to today's actual date. To add a new log book, press F2 from then Log Management Menu. You are then asked for a description for the new log book. The newly created log book will be added to the end of the list of log books. To change the descrption of a log book use the ARROW keys to highlight the log book you want to change the descrption of and press F3. Then enter the new description in the pop up window. 6 To delete a log book use the ARROW keys to highlight the log book you want to delete and press F4. You are asked if you really want to delete the selected log book. This is done to prevent accidental log book erasure. If you answer the prompt yes, all data files for the selected log book will be deleted from the disk. The description of the log book is changed to 'Deleted'. To exit the Log Management Menu without selecting a different log book to view or edit press ESC. ESC will also abort any of the Log Management functions listed above. Customizing with Setup Several parts of Daily Log Book's operation may be customized to suit personal preference or equipment. Colors, screen lines, tiling, printer port, and date format may all be customized thought the Setup Menu. From the editor, press F6 to display the Setup Menu. Up and down ARROW keys are used to select the option. Each Setup Menu option is explained below. When finished in the Setup Menu press ESC to return to the editor. Any Setup Menu options that have been changed will be saved to disk. Encryption When encryption is turned on Daily Log Book will ask for a password. When the password is typed, asterisks are shown rather the letters you type. This prevents someone from learning your password by seeing it on screen. You are prompt for the password a second time for verification. After the password has been entered and verified, all data files are encrypted making them unreadable. When Daily Log Book is started with encryption on, you will have to enter your password at the beginning of the program. Daily Log Book will not let anyone into the program who does not know the password. If you use encryption, REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD. Printer Port Daily Log Book will support two printer ports. You may select the port you want to use with the Setup Menu Printer Port option. Screen Lines The Setup Menu Screen Lines option refers to how many horizontal screen lines of text will be shown on your screen. Daily Log Book supports 25, 43, and 50 screen lines. You are limited on the option by the type of video hardware used by your system. Monochrome and CGA users must use 25 screen 7 lines. EGA users can use 25 or 43 screen lines and VGA users can use 25, 43, or 50 screen lines. The number of screen lines used only affects the edit window. The edit window will span from the top to the bottom of the screen using all available screen lines. This allows more of a day's text to be viewed in the higher numbered screen lines. Date Format Setup Menu's Date Format option allows the selection of European DD/MM/YY or US MM/DD/YY date formatting. Colors Virtually every color used by Daily Log Book may be changed. On a system with a color monitor, selecting one of the color selection options displays a chart of 128 available color combinations. Use the ARROW keys to move the selection pointer to the color you wish to use then press ENTER. Selecting an unviewable color combination such as blue on blue will result the color not being changed. Monochrome systems select their screen attributes in a similar manner. Only four attributes are available on a monochrome system. These are normal, underline, inverse, and bright. Tile Pattern Tile refers to the background texture used by Daily Log Book. You may select from one of three tile patterns. When selecting Tile Pattern from the Setup Menu the three available patterns are shown. Use the ARROW keys to select a pattern then press ENTER. Reset Default Colors If you have been experimenting with some of the color options and have created something really ugly, reset default colors will quickly restore Daily Log Book to the default colors. Macros Macros store a number of keystrokes and allow you to replay them by pressing a ALT-letter key combination. Any editing task you repeat often is a good candidate to be turned into a macro. To make a marco you must first record the keystrokes. Turn on the macro recorder by pressing F7. Then type your keystrokes. Daily Log Book can record a huge number of keystrokes but if it does run low on memory it will warn you. Press F7 again when you've typed the last keystroke you want included in the macro. A pop up window is then displayed. Type the letter key you wish to invoke the new marco with when used in conjunction with the ALT key. After a macro is 8 recorded it is saved to disk. You may replay the macro anytime by holding down ALT and pressing the letter key you saved the macro under. Appendix A - Editing Functions Arrows - Move cursor Home/End - Move cursor to start/end of line Ctrl-Home/End - Move cursor to top/bottom of screen PgUp/PgDn - Display previous/next page Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn - Display first/last page Ctrl-Left/Right - Move cursor by whole words Ctrl-Y - Delete the current line Ctrl-N - Insert a new line above Ctrl-T - Insert current time at cursor location Ctrl-D - Insert current date at cursor location Alt-Alpha key - Invokes macro Appendix B - Daily Log Book file packing list LOG.EXE Daily Log Book program LOG.CFG Configuration file LOG.HLP Contains online help LOG.DOC Documentation LOG.PIF PIF for Windows 3.0 only CONVERT.EXE Old version 1.0 data convertor REGISTER.TXT Shareware registration form 9