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Contents
The Little Black Address Book - Help Contents

Overview

Menu Choices and Buttons

Information Entry

Special Features

Other Topics

I need Beta Testers
----Select Other Topics for ----more info


Overview
A Quick Overview of Features

The first thing you may notice when beginning a session with The Little Black Address Book is the list of names on the left hand side of the main form.  This is where you'll find the entries you will add to, view or change, or remove.  The corresponding buttons for each of these actions are Add New, View/Edit, and Remove, respectively.

The menu selections at the top include all of the features for which there are buttons and a couple more.  One menu choice not also a button is File|Exit which closes the application.  Another menu choice is Help.  Selecting Help will begin this help session.


Features
Special Features

The Name List

Information Display


Other Topics
Other Topics of Interest

Beta Testers

Future Features

Author! Author!


Menu
Menu Choices and Buttons

File

The Data Menu Selection and Buttons

Add New

View/Edit

Remove

Help


File
The File Menu Selection

The single choice from the File menu is Exit.  Choosing Exit quits the Little Black Address Book.  All information in your address book is preserved for the next time.


Add New
The Add New Menu Selection and Button

You may add a new entry in one of two ways:

1) Choose Data|Add Entry from the menu at the top left of the main window

--- or ---

2) Click the Add New button to the lower left of the main window.

Either method will take you to a second window where you may enter information for the new entry.

See Also

Information Entry


View/Edit
The View/Edit Menu Selection and Button

In order to view and/or edit an existing entry in your address book you may either click the View/Edit button or choose Data|View/Edit from the menu.  This will take you to a second form where you view or change the selected entries information.

See Also

   Information Entry


Remove
The Remove Menu Selection and Button

In order to remove an existing entry in your address book you may either click the remove button or choose Data|Remove from the menu.  This will remove the highlighted entry from your Name List and delete the entry from file.


Help
The Help Menu Selection

This selection brings you to the contents page of The Little Black Address Book's Help file.  Here you will find help with every aspect of the application as well as other useful information .


The Name List

For each entry on file in The Little Black Address Book you will find a corresponding listing in the name list, or the list of personal and business names on the left side of the main screen.  Here you may click to highlight a name.  Double click on a name or press enter on a highlighted name to view/edit that entry.

To move about inside the list you may use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the mouse to click on an entry of interest.  You may also type the first letter or series of letters in the desired entry to highlight that entry.  Also try typing the first letter repeatedly to get to the desired entry.


Information Entry
Entering Item Information

An entries information is added or changed on a secondary form brought up when adding a new entry or view/edit-ing an existing entry.  On this form an array of information fields is presented allowing the entering of information.

To begin, choose whether this is to be a personal or a business entry by selecting the corresponding button at the top left of the form.  Then, go on to enter information into the various fields that are available.  You may leave any field empty as you desire.  Note, however, that the name field(s) are unique in the list and you may only use a business name or a first/last name combination once.

Move between fields with the tab key to go forward or shift-tab to go back.  The notes box allows for a maximum of 250 characters and as many lines as that allows.  Of these text lines only the first four lines diplay when the entry is selected from the main form.

When you are done, choose the no update button or the update button at the bottom of the screen to return to the main screen.


Information Display
The Information Display

When an entry is highlighted in the name list, it's associated information is displayed in the information display, the area to the right of the name list.

See Also

   The Name List

   Information Entry


Bet Testers
Beta Testers Wanted

Beta testers who will tear this baby apart and let me put it back together again are needed.  I need people who will give me suggestions more than anything and test the results.  I intend for what you see here to move in promising directions.  I am going to be working on it fearlessly in my off hours.

In return for your work you will receive the full registered release of the latest version you have had input toward.

Not only would I be very grateful to you but you get to see the benefit of your work as I may choose ideas you have suggested or implement fixes to bugs you have found when new versions are released.

The whole point of releasing this version of The Little Black Address Book is to find Beta Testers for it.  I am not planning on leaving it as freeware as it is now.  I want to market it and distribute it.  I think it could be a swift product if I can get some help with testing and innovative ideas going towards the next release which will be version 1.0.

Please lend me a hand in my quest.  I would be very thankful.

e-mail me at:

scooper@laplaza.taos.nm.us


Future
Future Features and Enhancements

Forgive me, for what follows are miscellaneous ramblings pouring forward from ideas I've had at times that just needed to have a place to live for a while, this page, at least in this format will not be a part of the final product

A Full Search Feature.  I'd like to search through any and all
fields and any combo for any text.

place a call feature
USER HITS spacebar once the number is dialed and the 	physical telephone has been picked up by user.

therefore a modem/port setup

possibly a method for user's of voice modems and/or 	speaker phones on computers to dial out and use this
program to do so

Keywords field for searches

User defined categories
Move and Copy between categories

Unlimited number of entries.(now set at 200)

more entry fields and existing ones better defined
city state and zip instead of all in one

an install program with user setup questions

Path to data file set up in options or setup menu
selection

options for defaults
for instance there is no prompt before removing an entry
that could be an setup option


Author! Author!

I began my computer programming career in high school where pascal programs were typed on large key punch machines. Punch cards were submitted to a large off-site main frame. If luck was with you the simplest programs would return from a batch process the same or the next day.  This was not so very long ago.

Today I live and work in Angel Fire, New Mexico where I program full time.  I enjoy what I do, and I have enjoyed working on The Little Black Address Book.  It is my first project level work in Delphi, which is, by the way, an incredible programming tool.

Many plans are in the works for this project and if you have any suggestions or comments about what you see here, please write or Email me at:

Scott Cooper
PO 465
Angel Fire, NM
87710

or

scooper@laplaza.taos.nm.us


The Little Black Address Book
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