TLCFone.exe and its associated files are Copyright (C) 1996 Version 2.0 Terry L. Conkright, Software Engineering and Fabrication, All Rights Reserved. What does it do This program is designed to call numbers listed in a data base, provide a perpetual calendar, and a method of logging telephone contacts that is quick and convenient. Installation Run the Setup.Exe program in the Windows environment. 1. Select the directory on which you want the program to reside. 2. You may select any of the current Groups (to hold the start icon) as indicated by the list box or you may create a new group. If you select OK, the icon will be placed in the group currently displayed in the Text Box. If you select Cancel, no icon is added to any group of your program manager. This means that you will have to launch the program from the Run option in the program manager, from the file manager, or whatever Windows desktop or shell you use. If you decide later that you want to create an icon, execute this program with an "/S" option. That is, select Program manager Run, type "TLCFone /S" and select OK. General Use The default empty data base provided is named TLCFone.MDB (and TLCFone.LDB). Before using the program you must: 1. Enter data into the data base See Tutorial below. 2. Specify the phone and port connection parameters. Before you can make a call, you have to select the desire phone type and comm port. Select pulse for rotary or Tone for touch tone type phones. Select the comm port that has a modem connected between it and the phone line. If you want to have your local area code in the data base, but do not want to dial it, enter your area code. The connect information is maintained in the TLCFone.ini file. Thus the information only has to be entered once. 3. Set the prefix information. If your phone requires that you dial a sequence of numbers to get an "outside line", use the prefix box to enter those numbers. If you have to dial a 9 and then Wait for a dial tone, use 9w (lower case w) in the Prefix box. If you have to dial 8 to get a line but there will be no dial tone, use 8, (that is an eight followed by a comma). Each comma in the sequence will cause the program to delay for 2 seconds before dialing the next number. The prefix may be up to 9 characters long. The connect information is maintained in the TLCFone.ini file in the windows directory. 4. Select a range of the data base to be viewed. If you wish to display part of a database, select a specific pair of letters from the list to the left of the list box. Only one pair of letters can be selected at one time. To display all information, select *. 5. Select a specific record in the data base. Double-Click on the name of the person to be called. 6. Select Home, Office,or Memo The Address and Telephone number can be selected for the Home or the Office by selecting the Home or Office button. Click on the radio button as desired. The Memo field can be selected by selecting the Memo button. When the Memo field is being displayed, the Memo button is blackened. When an address and phone number is displayed, the corresponding button will be blackened. To dial a number directly from the Memo field, simply double-click on that number. 7. Select Call to call the number listed in the number box. Click on the call command button labeled Call. A dialog box will be displayed. As soon as the dialing is complete click on ok and pick up the telephone. Calling Select Call to dial the number shown in the telephone number window. To Dial an extension enter an x (lowercase x) in the number prior to the extension, ie: 13035551212x345. This will call the phone number 1-303-555-1212 . Pick up the phone when the dialog box appears. When you are ready to dial the extension press . Alternately, if you know that the extension should be dialed after receiving another dial tone, then place a w (lower case w) prior to the extension. For example: 1-303-555-1212 w 345. If no extension is selected, a dialog box tells you when to pick up the phone. Uppercase letters may be used in place of numbers, i.e. - 555-HELP. would dial 555-4357. Tutorial The first time TLC Phone Book is run, you must enter your contacts in the phone book.. Select New (type ALT+W or click on the button). This will allow you to enter the first name. Type in a name -- I recommend using the format of Last Name Comma First Name. After you have entered the name press the TAB key, this will move the cursor to the Address at Home box. Type in as much information on each line as you desire and press the Enter (or RETURN) key to type the next line of the address. You may have as many lines as you want. When you have typed the full address, press the TAB key to move the cursor to the Phone at home box. The phone numberCall can include up to 20 characters. You may include spaces, parentheses or dashes to make the number more readable. Do not include a common prefix prefixnumber in this box. To enter a work address and phone number, select the radio button Work. (ALT+R) This will cause the Work radio button to darken and the cursor to move to the Address at work box. Type the address and press TAB or ALT+P to move to the phone number box. Enter the number. Select the Memo radio button to add notes to this record. This is a free form field (type whatever you like). When you are done typing, select oK (ALT+K) to save the record. Repeat the above to add as many new records as you wish. Before you make a call you must set up the modem. Select Windows|Modem from the menu (ALT+DM) to bring up the Modem Setup dialog. Use the group of four radio buttons in the upper left section to select a Comm Port 1 -4. The next set of two radio buttons is used to specify if your phone is a pulse (rotary) style or touch tone type. The group of three radio buttons allows you to select the delay that allows your modem to work with your system -- usually zero is correct. You may enter your 3 digit area code in the Local Area Code text box. The program selectively eliminates the Local Area Code from the number before dialing. The last selection to be made in this dialog is the type of modem. Usually Hayes - Compatible will work. There is an extensive list of modems in the combo box to chose from if your modem is not Hayes Compatible. After making these selections, select OK Your system now contains all of the information needed to make a phone call. And that's all there is to it. New Data Base To create a new data base select File|New from the main menu. The disk and directory selected will be the directory from which TLCFone is running. Type a name into the box under "File Name" such as MyPhone. Any word that is from 1 to 8 characters long and contains only numbers and letters (no punctuation) will work. Select Ok to save that name and exit the dialog box. You may want to have separate databases for different purposes. Menu Selections File | Exit This option closes the data base and exits the program. Open a data base Open a data base using the File|Open menu option. A list box will provide the names of the currently available databases. Highlight the one you want to use and choose Select. Remove a data base To Remove a data base from the list of possible databases, chose File|Remove from the menu. Highlight the data base to delete and chose Remove. This action does not delete the database from the hard drive. It simply removes the database name from the list of available databases. To delete a database from your phone book, you must use File Manager, or the appropriate DOS commands. Change Fonts You may select the font displayed by the List of contacts list box and the Record text boxes. Choose Edit|Fonts from the menu, and click on the desired font in the list box. Set the appropriate size by clicking on the Size (up or down) arrow. Select Bold or Italic, if desired from the associated check box. The Sample text displays the currently selected font. Update a Record To update a record in a data base, select the name from the List of contacts list box, make any required changes, and select Edit|Update (ALT+E U) from the menu or click on the button labeled Update. Delete a Record To delete a record from a data base, select the name from the List of contacts list box and then select the menu item Edit|Delete. Add New Record To add a new record, click on the New button or press ALT+W. Type in the new name, addresses, and telephone numbers. Then press ALT+K (or click on the OK button) or select Edit|AddNew from the menu. If you change your mind, click on the Cancel Button to stop the add new operation. After entering Name, Home Address, and Home Phone; press ALT+R and enter Work Address and Phone number. Enter any notes by pressing ALT+M. Enter your information in the memo field. When finished, press ALT+E A to add the new record. Copy From Clipboard Selecting Edit|From will copy the contents of the clipboard into the memo field. Copy Use Edit|CopyToClip to copy the currently selected name and address to the clipboard. Smith Jr., Mr. Robert This name when copied to the clip board would unwind as Mr. Robert Smith Jr. Help Menu Help|About Shows about box. Help|Context Press F1 to get context sensitive help. Help|Help Brings up Microsoft's help on help file. Help|Index Brings up the table of contents for this help file. Help|Tutorial Give step by step instructions. Press ALT+B or click on the button labeled Blank to insure fields contain blanks. Set all fields to blank before adding a new record or defining the data to Seek a record. Press ALT+S or click on the button labeled Seek to find a record in the data base that matches the text box fields. If you want to search for a person named John who lives in Colorado, you could type *John* in to the Person text box field and *, CO* in the Address at Home text box field and select Seek. Only the text box fields that contain data will be used in the search. The asterisk wild card character can be used to substitute for 1 or more of any character. Thus, in the above query, you would get Johnson, Bill as well as Smith, John. But only if their address field contained the characters comma space and CO together in that order. After the Seek, if a record was found, the button command changes to Again. If Again is selected, the next record in the data base that meets the original criteria will be found. Press ALT+P or click on the button labeled Prior to make the previous name in the list box active. Press ALT+N or click on the button labeled Next to make the next name in the list box active. Record Select a record by highlighting the name in the List of Contacts list box. The information for that name is then displayed. Define the Data base to be used The names and directory paths of the available data bases are maintained in TLCFone.ini file which must be in the local directory. Initially, you must elect to create a new database. Select File|New from the menu. When you first define a data base, that data base becomes the default data base. To use a different data base, open the data base by using the File|Open menu option. Highlight the desired data base and choose Select. Calendar To see a calendar of the current month, select Windows|Date or press ALT+DD. The calendar shows the current date in the window caption bar, the selected month and year above the calendar, and the days in the month under their Day-of-the-week header. If the current day is in the selected month, that day is highlighted. New months can be selected in forward or backward increments of months or years. Use the vertical scroll bar to change months in the selected year. Use the horizontal scroll bar to select the year. Years can be selected in the range of 1000 years before or after the current year. To leave the calendar, select OK. Contact Manager The contact manager provides an easy way to log telephone contacts. From the main menu, select Windows|Contact to expose three sub-menu items; Automatic, Off, and Show. Automatic is the default. Clicking on (Automatic or Off ) will toggle between the two settings. Only one of these items can be selected at a time. Automatic opens the Contact Manager window when a call is attempted. In automatic mode, the phone number dialed and the name will be filled in and the Start and End Time command buttons are displayed. Clicking on a command button will insert the current time. The Show option immediately shows the contact manager window. In Show mode, the phone number and name are empty; the Start and End Time data boxes are regular text boxes. Double clicking on the Time text boxes will cause the current time to be inserted. The remarks box is a free formatted text area. Type whatever you want. When you finish the call, click on the End Time button and then on the Add button. After contacts have been logged and you enter this dialog box, you will see the previous 20 contacts in the top portion of the window. You may enter this dialog box to edit, add, or delete contacts. Records to be edited are copied from the top grid down into the current contact area for editing. To select a record for editing, click on the 1st column of the row containing the data to be edited. To edit that record, select File|Edit (ALT+FE). You may change any data you want (except the date). When you are done, select Update. To delete a record, select the row in the grid and chose File|Delete. Shareware and warranty details Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. 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