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DIARY: April 15, 1998 06:10 PM Wednesday; Rod Welch

Revised function key profile, menu assignments for SDS and Editor.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Problem - Maintain Smooth User Interaction with Program
3...000008 - Make F1 F2 Alternate Save, Instead of F1 Alt F2
4...Diary Summary Changed to F1 F3 from F1 F2 in SDS Records
5...File Access in SDS Changed from F1 F3 to F1 F5
6...SDS Change F1 F5 to F1 Alt F2 to Print a Record
7...Editor Change F1 F2 to F1 Alt F2 to Print a File
8...050405 - Call HTML Save Function from "File" Menu
9...022A02 - Changed Help For Diary Summary
10...011F02 - Added Help for Alternate Save
11...0504041 Change Help for Print to Show F1 Alt F1


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SUBJECTS
Save, F2, macro 142, 0702051
Save, F1 F2, No Archive
Diary, 022A02
A02   Open Diary Summary in SDS record
F02 Alternate Save in SDS
System Design

1008 -    ..
1009 - Summary/Objective
1010 -
101001 - Follow up ref SDS 7 0000, ref SDS 3 5808.
101002 -
101003 - Decided to change function keys so they are more efficient to use in
101004 - the program, based on changes made to the "save" function for SDS
101005 - records.
101006 -
101007 -     [Work on new "save" function is in the record for today 980415.
101008 -     ref SDS 8 0000]
101009 -
101010 -     [On 990530 reviewed function assigments. ref SDS 9 0763]
101011 -
101012 -
101013 -  ..
1011 -
1012 -
1013 - Progress
1014 -
101401 - Problem - Maintain Smooth User Interaction with Program
101402 -
101403 - The new F2 save function for SDS has delayed performance.  The screen
101404 - goes away to execute the dose secondary session, completed today at
101405 - ref SDS 7 0000, that is being accepted in order to avoid memory
101406 - failure that causes inaccurate citations. ref SDS 7 6619
101407 -
101408 - Additionally, when Medit gets tired, the regular save can crash, so
101409 - we need an alternate way to save content without running all of the
101410 - features of the regular save.
101411 -
101412 -
101413 -  ..
101414 - 000008 - Make F1 F2 Alternate Save, Instead of F1 Alt F2
101415 -
101416 - To mitigate the delay to the user, there is an alternate save function
101417 - to skip the dose operation that does all of the record management
101418 - stuff. ref SDS 7 4340
101419 -
101420 - It was created on 971205 to minimize the impact on local memory. see
101421 - ref SDS 4 0000  That effort has not proved effective, which led to the
101422 - work on 980413, ref SDS 7 0000, however, we can now use the alternate
101423 - save feature avoid the delay caused by the new F2 save feature that
101424 - calls macro 145 and macro 1314.
101425 -
101426 - Line 1960, ref OF 1 3149, -entry 158 since this function will be
101427 - called often, decided to change it from F1 Alt F1, which is relatively
101428 - awkward to apply, to simply F1 F2, which is very easy.
101429 -
101430 - Line 2200, ref OF 1 6196, -label sav1t, moved this label, called by
101431 - entry 149, so that the alternate save function now updates the line
101432 - numbers.
101433 -
101434 -
101435 -  ..
101436 - Diary Summary Changed to F1 F3 from F1 F2 in SDS Records
101437 -
101438 - Line 1920, ref OF 1 6314, formerly, the Diary Summary was called in an
101439 - SDS record using F1 F2 because it is very simple and direct.
101440 -
101441 - The SDS record save function is used constantly to avoid losing
101442 - changes, so it needs to be very simple and fast to apply.
101443 -
101444 - Therefore, I think we can improve the program by making the alternate
101445 - save function F1 F2, and making the Diary Summary F1 F3.
101446 -
101447 - The Diary Summary is called often in SDS records, so it, too, needs to
101448 - be simple and fast to apply.
101449 -
101450 - This requires changing F1 F3 to F1 F5.
101451 -
101452 -
101453 -  ..
101454 - File Access in SDS Changed from F1 F3 to F1 F5
101455 -
101456 - Line 2040, ref OF 1 4562, -entry 158, about 90 lines below, changed in
101457 - SDS only F1 F5 to do File Access, instead of printing the current SDS
101458 - record.
101459 -
101460 - This frees up F1 F3 in SDS to do the Diary Summary, per the change
101461 - above. ref SDS 0 1188
101462 -
101463 - We have striven to maintain continuity of function keys between
101464 - applications, principally SDS and the Editor.  F1 F3 and F1 F4 have
101465 - been the same for about 15 years.  However, it looks like necessity of
101466 - having introduced important new functions the past few years, now
101467 - dictates a change.
101468 -
101469 - In the Editor, F1 F5 is the function to look for -goto and other macro
101470 - commands.  This is used very rarely now because we have fixed up enter
101471 - and clicking the pointer to accomplish these tasks.  So we could move
101472 - File Access to F1 F5 in both environments to maintain continuity.
101473 - However, there is not an evident common task in the editor that is not
101474 - needed in SDS to use for F1 F3.
101475 -
101476 - In SDS the File Access menu is used very rarely, because the files we
101477 - need are generally available in the record.  It takes memory to run
101478 - it, so in Windows, we can open an editor session to use File Access
101479 - and find any file we want, then identify it in the SDS record
101480 - Reference field.
101481 -
101482 -
101483 -
101484 - SDS  Change F1 F5 to F1 Alt F2 to Print a Record
101485 -
101486 - Line 1980, ref OF 1 3753, -entry 158, about 20 lines below, since F1
101487 - F5 is now the File Access menu in SDS, ref SDS 0 2279, I am assigning
101488 - the function to print an SDS record to F1 Alt F2, which correlates to
101489 - the change in the editor today.
101490 -
101491 -
101492 -
101493 -  ..
101494 - Editor Change F1 F2 to F1 Alt F2 to Print a File
101495 -
101496 - Line 570, ref OF 1 2154, -entry 155, formerly F1 F2 did the print the
101497 - document function in the Editor. This is not used very much anymore
101498 - because most communication is done via the Internet.  Therefore, I
101499 - made the print function in the Editor F1 Alt F2, just so there is less
101500 - chance of confusion, even though F1 F2 has been used in SDS records
101501 - for calling a Diary Summary.
101502 -
101503 - F1 F2 in SDS is now an alternate save feature. ref SDS 0 5647
101504 -
101505 - F1 F2 in the Editor calls 0122 to convert to HTML. ref SDS 7 5427
101506 -
101507 -
101508 -
101509 -
101510 -
101511 -
1016 -

SUBJECTS
SDS Records
Editor
F02 Save
F02 Alternate Save in SDS

1607 -
160701 - 050405 - Call HTML Save Function from "File" Menu
160702 -
160703 - Follow up ref SDS 5 1386. ref SDS 2 4064.
160704 -
160705 - Line 220, ref OF 4 2577, -label diary, changed the assignment for the
160706 - Diary Summary from F1 F2 to F1 Alt F2.
160707 -
160708 -
160709 - 022A02 - Changed Help For Diary Summary
160710 -
160711 - Line 20, ref OF 7 4653, changed Help for Diary Summary in SDS records
160712 - from 022F02 to 022A02.
160713 -
160714 - Deleted help file 022F02.  We do not need it because help for the
160715 - alternate save function is put in the help file for F2.
160716 -
160717 -
160718 - 011F02 - Added Help for Alternate Save
160719 -
160720 - Line 30, ref OF 6 4782, added explanation of the alternate "save"
160721 - function F1 F2 for SDS records, discussed above. ref SDS 0 5647
160722 -
160723 -
160724 - 0504041  Change Help for Print to Show F1 Alt F1
160725 -
160726 - Line 30, ref OF 3 4020, change assignment for printing a file in the
160727 - Editor from F1 F2 to F1 Alt F2, per ref SDS 0 2629.
160728 -
160729 -
160730 -
160731 -
1608 -
1609 -