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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: December 28, 89 01:58 PM .......; Rod Welch

Visited Morris re Medit improvements.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Microsoft Windows386
3...Profile - DOS set command
4...Other
5...Setcolor n n
6...Other
7...Medit address single file at line numbers without loading entire file
8...Error message or menue system
9...Morris Set Up His Computer to Run SDS


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SUBJECTS
SDS Improvements
Record id key, add seconds
& data entry person id
Data base dir structure

0506 -    ..
0507 - Summary/Objective
0508 -
050801 - SDS record uniqueness.
050802 -
050803 - Discussed with Morris today.
050804 -
050805 - He proposed a very simple solution to include the User ID as part of
050806 - the filename.  Since a single User cannot make more than one record
050807 - per second, there will be absolute uniqueness of records no matter how
050808 - many there are, and Users will be able to cull just there own records
050809 - from the data base.
050810 -
050811 - This should not be very difficult to implement.
050812 -
050813 -
050814 -
050815 -
0509 -

SUBJECTS
Medit Development
User interface/Menue
commands
Color, run in color
for different fields

0808 -
080801 - Microsoft Windows386
080802 -
080803 - Received Microsoft Windows 386 setup files that we can install.
080804 - Morris also completed and modified a program he has been working on to
080805 - do disk searches for text strings called rfind.exe.
080806 -
080807 -
080808 - Profile - DOS set command
080809 -
080810 - Decided today that further programming is not needed on this matter.
080811 - About 98% of the time files are opened from SDS under profile 04702
080812 - which in turn applys macro 150 to files opened internally.
080813 -
080814 - The rest of the time, can simply enter macro 150 from the command
080815 - line to establish the function keys.
080816 -
080817 - As a result of this understanding, I eliminated this item from the
080818 - pending tasks to perform under ref OF 1 regarding changing the
080819 - profile thing.
080820 -
080821 -
080822 - Other
080823 -
080824 - Did no work on Medit, but explained to Morris how he can locate this
080825 - information for an agenda of things needed on SDS.
080826 -
080827 - Call Morris to see how he is doing with SDS.
080828 -
080829 -
080830 - Setcolor n n
080831 -
080832 - Fix this so it is compatible with monochrome mode.
080833 -
080834 -   Cursor needs to show all the time in monochrome mode.
080835 -
080836 -   Cursor needs to stop blinking when "Insert" key is on in both
080837 -   color and monochrome modes.
080838 -
080839 -   Make cursor blink when not on a character in color mode.
080840 -
080841 -     This one is marginal.
080842 -
080843 -
080844 -
080845 - Other
080846 -
080847 - Color bars at tos should not occur.  Color should only extend to
080848 - eof, not to bottom of screen.
080849 -
080850 - STATUS line should be color field.
080851 -
080852 - Make color controllable on screen line 1 extend across full width
080853 - of screen, or be off entirely.
080854 -
080855 - How can we put a message in field 3 without having the file name
080856 - show up when the message is ended by an action key?
080857 -
080858 - We would like to be able to set the color of the characters entered
080859 - by the cursor.  That way we can have alternate colors to allow some
080860 - stuff to set out.  This is helpful in doing depositions because the
080861 - basic entry is entered at standard mode.  Questions however would
080862 - be entered by colored text so they quickly stand out visually.  We
080863 - could use a function to scroll through a range of choices to set
080864 - the color of text entry.
080865 -
080866 - How can we access underline attribut, so it shows on the screen and
080867 - will justify along with the characters.  How can it be made to
080868 - print as underline.  Probably need to make a function that can read
080869 - the attribute and convert to PCL, or possibly, some fonts simply
080870 - support this character condition.
080871 -
080872 - Similar with intense white for the bold feature.
080873 -
080874 -
080875 -
080876 - Medit address single file at line numbers without loading entire file
080877 -
080878 - This would facilitate transporting program, if we could put all
080879 - macros into a single file.  It seems too difficult to accomplish,
080880 - because there would need to be a means to figure out how much of the
080881 - code within the large file to load.  Possibly a special "-exit"
080882 - command could be created that would inform the macro processor when
080883 - to stop drawing in code from the large file.
080884 -
080885 -
080886 -
080887 - Error message or menue system
080888 -
080889 - This is main focus of effort.
080890 -
080891 -
080892 -
080893 -
080894 -
0809 -

SUBJECTS
SDS Marketing, Product Evaluation
Individuals, organizations

0905 -
090501 -  ..
090502 - Morris Set Up His Computer to Run SDS
090503 -
090504 - Downloaded a current version of SDS with color scheme to Morris'
090505 - computer.
090506 -
090507 - He can use it to evaluate the current status and develop some ideas
090508 - on what needs to be done in the way of menue system  and possibly a
090509 - start-up front end to get people started with the thing.
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0907 -