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- Home Manager Updates
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- Version 1E - December 24,1991
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- Bug Fixes
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-
- -modem will now initialize at 1200 baud. Previously was at 4800 (I don't know
- why I did that!!)
-
- New Features (There's lots of them!)
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- Opening - No changes.
-
- Appointments - Auto searches for appointments on disk when first loading or
- when moving from month to month or year to year. Removed Find
- Appt. due to this change.
- - Scrollable appointment window. Now enables full 24 hour period.
- - FP in lower right-hand corner of appointment window will give
- you full page mode when clicked.
- - HP in lower right-hand corner of full page will return you to
- half page mode when clicked.
-
- ToDo's - Whole new interface.
- - Database-type format.
- - Entering a number in the first field, Priority # and Lead Line,
- will allow for prioritizing list. List will be automatically
- sorted according to this number.
- - Added Phone field for inclusion of a related phone number.
- - Dialing button for phone to the right of Phone field. Hangup
- button to the right of diia button.
- - Added large, scrollable notes area for each ToDo entry.
- - Added search procedure. Search by Priority #/Lead Line, Phone
- or Notes.
- - Three print options; Current Entry, Short List (Priority/Lead and
- Phone) of complete list of ToDo's or Full list (All info for each
- entry in complete ToDo list)
-
- Inventory - Larger Description area.
- - Added Short List and Full List print options.
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- Address Book - New print features. See online Help File for full description.
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- Important #'s - Larger notes area.
- - New print features. See online Help File for full description.
-
- Notepad - Major interface change.
- - 80 column width.
- - Macros added - F1 to F10 - edit file HM.Macros in
- Home:Resources/Macros
- - Shift F1 to F10 - Each function key has a
- corresponding text file in
- Home:Resources/Macros.
- eg. F1 = F1.Txt, F2 = F2.Txt
- Use whatever text file you wish.
- Just name it accordingly.
- - New Insert button. Insert any text file at the current cursor
- position.
- - Added bottom bar with buttons:
- UP - page up
- DOWN - page down
- ^
- | - single line up
- |
- V - single line down
- T - Top of document.
- B - Bottom of document.
- S - Search for text in document. (Moves cursor to selected
- text). Click Search again to continue.
- R - Search and Replace text in document.
- G - Global replacement. Click after search and replace text is
- selected in S&R window.
- M - NOT IN USE YET. Future config file for macros.
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- - The S or R button will make a small window appear in the upper
- menu bar. This will allow you to enter the text of your choice.
- To clear this from the screen, just click your Right mouse button.
- - When the Search and Replace window appears and you have entered
- your chosen text, clicking the word Replace willl continue to do
- one Replace function at a time. The same is true for the Search
- procedure. Choosing G will do a complete global replace in the
- document. This is NOT case sensitive.
- - Editing functions added (a few);
- Control - C = copy the current line cursor is on
- Control - I = inserts current line in buffer to line cursor is on
- Control - DEL = Deletes current line cursor is on.
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- Overall changes
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- - All Help screens can be exited by hitting the spacebar or clicking the screen
- with the left mouse button.
- - All print features are now enabled in the 'Demo' version.
- - All print output has a better 'form' look to it with proper headings and
- column structure.
- - Control - DEL key combination will delete characters to the right of cursor til
- the end of the line. This ONLY works in document windows. Also ONLY works in
- Full Page mode of Appointments.
- - Tried to fix up memory management but a 1 meg Agnus and 1 meg of memory is
- still needed. Sorry but this has to do with the use of so many Hi-Res screens.
- I highly recommend users to get the 1 meg Agnus installed. It will prove useful
- for many other programs as well as Home Manager.
- - Added 'Nagger' screen to Demo version but I at least have the program running
- fully functional now, even for non-registered users. All my programs, from now
- on, wll have the 'Nagger' screen but will NOT be crippled.
-
-
- Well, that should be about it. I have done extensive changes to this program and
- I will get to work on doing new documentation for it. I hope the 'old' users will
- like the new enhancements and I hope it will now attract more 'new' users.
-
- Len
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-
- Version 1D-1 - November 27, 1991
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- Bug Fix
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-
- -Found a bug in the ToDo's area. If you tried to change to Business ToDo's,
- the program would take a trip to LaLa land. Found the bug and fixed it.
- This was ONLY in the Demo version. It was looking for a print function which
- was, obviously, disabled in the Demo version of Home Manager. This little bug
- had no effect on the Registered version.
-
- Version 1D - November 25,1991
-
- Bug Fixes
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- - If serial port not found by program or being used by another, HM would
- either lock up at startup or further into the program. This has now been
- fixed. A warning now appears on the screen and alarm sounds. You can
- continue to use the program but dialing features are disabled. You must
- still have the modem on to run the program.
-
- New features
- ------------
-
- Opening - Alerts now appear if you have Appointments or ToDo's that
- are active for that day. Alarms also sound.
- - If HM cannot find the serial port or if it finds another
- program is using it, an alert appears and warning sounds.
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- Appointments - Now separate from ToDo's and has a larger input window.
- - Saves only appointment files.
-
- ToDo's - Totally new and separate from previous version.
- - Has two windows for 'Must Do's' and 'Could Do's'
- - Choose between Personal and Business. Defaults to Personal.
- - Up to 52 total double-spaced entries.
- - Prioritize items. If an item is done, click mouse pointer
- to first character, first line of entry then hit
- Control-DEL. This will delete both lines of the entry and
- move all others up one position.
-
- Dialer - If serial port is being used, large X will disable Phone
- and warning sound comes on. Prevents lockup of program.
-
- Address Book - Added disable feature to dialing functions. Preventing
- lockup if serial port being used by something else.
-
- *Note about sounds
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- There are now two sound files being used as alarms. I have included
- two rather small but effective files. The first one, BAD, is used to
- warn about the failure of serial port recognition. You can replace
- this with any sound file of your choice BUT it MUST be named BAD.
- The second, ALARM, is used to alert you to the presence of either
- Appointments and/or ToDo's on your disk. This can also be replaced with
- any sound of your choice BUT it MUST be named ALARM. These sound files
- are located in the Resources subdirectory and MUST be there.
-
-
- Well, that's about it for now. I have added and fixed quite a few things
- and I might consider adding more to the program. I would also like to
- thank Charles Figureido and David Spiro (the first two to register) for
- their suggestions and help.
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- Version 1C - October 18,1991
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- Bug Fixes
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- - Requester for 'My_Stuff' will no longer appear.
- - Fixed use of blank filename in save feature. Before it crashed the
- program, now it prompts you to give the file a name.
-
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- New features
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- Appointments - Appointments and ToDo's can now be cleared individually
- - Added a time template to Appointments window
- - Appointments window now has both vertical and horizontal
- scrolling
- - Added clock below today's date
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- Dialer - Added Personal and Business databases. Defaults to
- Personal.
- - Added Hangup button to abort dialing.
- - Added to more fields for Business Contact names or
- additional phone numbers.
- - Added clock.
- - Removed '911' feature. (Kind of useless)
- - Added Search ability in case of large databases.
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- Address Book - Added ability to load either Personal or Business
- databases. Defaults to Personal file.
- - Added clock.
- - Added Hangup button to abort dialing.
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- Version 1B - October 9,1991
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- There have been a few bug fixes and a few additions made to this version
- of Home Manager. They are as follows;
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- - Added Important Phone Numbers area with Dialer (Need Hayes compat modem)
- - Added dialing capabilities to Address Book (Need Hayes compat modem)
- - Improved size and looks of icon when iconizing the program
- - Added more print features to Registered version of program
- - Fixed icon bug in Inventory and Address Book areas
- - Expanded Notes area to 73 columns in width
- - Enlarged Address Book
- - Rearranged buttons in Inventory area
-
- Plus a few other minor cosmetic changes.
-