Abroad! 2.3 (1997/09/20) by Yoshimitsu Kanai YOU MAY INSTALL THIS VERSION OVER THE OLD ONE. IF YOU ARE USING V1.8 or later, ALL YOUR SETTINGS AND DATA WILL WORK. ELSE, PLEASE REGISTER YOUR COPY AGAIN. IF YOU LOST YOUR ID, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME. Abroad! is a suite of three applications: Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion and World Clock, and a powerful Country Information Database, designed to help you when you go "Abroad!". Imagine you're travelling in Japan and you decide to have dinner at a sushi restaurant. Currency Exchange will tell you that your delicious "Tokujou Nigiri Set : 5,000 Yen" will set you back US$44, or the equivalent in many other currencies, and if you order 1 "gou" of sake Unit Conversion will tell you know what you're letting yourself in for in US pints, Imperial pints, litres or whatever. And when should you call your family back home to wish them pleasant dreams?" No problem! World Clock will tell you the time wherever they are in the world. In addition, the Country Information Database provides you with country specific information on over 260 countries and territories world-wide, just a stylus-tap away. It includes each country's location on the world map, the nation's capital city, currency (code and name), time (current time, variation from GMT, DST period) and local telephone information (country code, area code of capital, international dialling prefix). Naturally, you can search the information by keyword. Have a nice trip! Notice: All the settings will be initialized until you register and several restrictions in function. This manual and all accompanying files may be distributed freely, provided that: 1. Neither text nor any other file is modified in any way. No file may be omitted nor added in the distribution. 2. No money may be charged for the program nor for any accompanying files, other than the usual downloading time fees charged by commercial BBSes and online services. 3. I want to know where my application will be distributed. Please notify me if it will be included in printed matter, floppy, or CD-ROM before its publication. No matter what the circumstance, I would strongly appreciate a copy of whatever collection in which it is included. However, I do NOT permit ASCII corp. (Tokyo, Japan) to include Abroad! in their publication, in any format. v.2.3 (97/09/20) - improved the find command [Database] - corrected data and fixed bugs [Database] - polished English in Manual (Thanks to Mr.Paul Rubens) v.2.2 (97/09/13) - added find command [Database] - fixed wrong spelling / data [Database] - rewrote manual v.2.1 (97/08/20) - added currency info of most cities [Database] v.2.0 (97/08/17) - expanded city database (added capital, currency info) [Database] - optimized the code to response more quickly [General] - changed the icon array [Menu] - fixed bugs [World Clock] v.1.9 (97/08/04) - can access to country database directly from menu view [Menu] - expanded city database (added info of Area code and internatinal prefix number) [Database] - fixed bugs and wrong data [World Clock, Database] v.1.8 (97/07/27) - prepared country data list including countries all over the world [World Clock] - country code is added to city data [World Clock] - inproved the way to select city from city database [World Clock] - DST is set automatically [World Clock] - support (+, -, x, /) functions in neumeric key pad - handled city and currency exchage data as database. This allows (1) user to add city data as many as he wants and (2) city/currency data to be hotsynced [Currency Exchange, World Clock] - can select date of currency rate using 'select date of rates' dialog [Currency Exchange] - expanded time offset to support all time zone (e.g. Nepal (GST 5h 45min)) [World Clock] v.1.7 (97/05/05) - prepared graphic icon, by tapping which user can enter each view. - Subset function of "Currency Exchange" and "World Clock" is prepared in the "Menu" view - Simple "+" function is added in the numeric key pad [Currency Exchange] v.1.6 (97/04/19) - can select "About Abroad!" view as the Startup View v.1.5b (97/04/02) - added units to list (from 15-17 to 19-29) [Unit Conversion] v.1.5a (97/03/28) - avoided the bug in Palm OS 2.0 (PalmPilot will show fatal error when "FldSetFont" is called to change the preset font type of tFLD. This bug is newly introduced in Palm OS 2.0, and to clarify this I have to buy PalmPilot in addition to Pilot 5000.) - expanded the currency number from 9 to 10 [Currency Exchange] - cancel numeric keyboad by tapping "CE" when displayed number is "0" [Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion] v.1.5 (97/03/19) - prepared "Abroad! Prefs", which user can call from "Menu" view by "Prefs" command. (1) can select startup view out of "Menu", "Currency Exchange", "World Clock", "Unit Conversion" and "Last Launched" (2) can select currency caluculation mode, "US" or "Japanese" way. US mode: (rate A) x (Currency A) = (rate B) x (Currency B) = ... JPN mode: 1 x (Currency A) = (rate A) x (myCurrency) - supported day light saving. Cities of DST mode are labelled with "*" mark in the city name [World Clock] - reduced initial city number to 8 to save the program size [World Clock] - prepared manual and removed "help" from Abroad! application to reduce the program size [General] v.1.4a (97/03/10) - fixed small bug in list display [Unit Conversion] - added mm (millimeter) [Unit Conversion] v.1.4 (97/03/09) - can use numeric keyboard by tapping "Value" [Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion] - "Temperature Conversion" is included in "Unit Conversion" [Unit Conversion, Temperature Conversion] - can select 10 units out of 15 or more [Unit Conversion] - can move the position of unit by pushing Up/Dn button [Unit Conversion] - use system defined day/time format [World Clock] - improved and fixed small bug in "World Clock Setting" [World Clock] - fixed spellings and wrong unit relative values in "ton" [Unit Conversion] - optimized the code and resource to reduce the memory requirement v.1.3 (97/02/28) - can note the modified date in "Set Currency Rate" [Currency Exchange] - can add/delete cities (minimum:2, max:30) [World Clock] - prepared time zone list in "World Clock Setting", supporting user to edit city data [World Clock] - can select map (Asia/Oceania or US/Europe types) in "World Clock Setting" [World Clock] - added several units (stone for wool, quart) [Unit Conversion] v.1.2 (97/02/18) - rounds up fractions to avoid the computation error [Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion] - restricts input value to be more than 0, to avoid bug in floating point routine [Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion] - checks edit fields in "Set Currency Rate" at application, to avoid invalid input [Currency Exchange] - user can move currencies using Up/Dn buttons in "Set Currency Rate" [Currency Exchange] - user can select 9 units out of 15 [Unit Conversion] v.1.1 (97/02/07) - for people outside US, all currencies are handled equally (user can set his currency as the base unit) [Currency Exchange] - expanded the currency number from 8 to 9 [Currency Exchange] - changed the standard time from Washington DC time to GST [World Clock] - improved the offset time input method to cover the every country [World Clock] - expanded the city/time number from 6 to 8 (I added my favorite cities for the initial data) [World Clock] - extended to display upto two-digit under decimal point (I used "Long" type in calculation to avoid the bug in floating point routine, especailly in subtraction.) [Temperature Conversion] - show selected unit and its value in bold font [Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion, Temperature Conversion] - avoid the possibility to show the different value from that of input in the selected field, due to the computation error [Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion] - improved battery performance - fixed bugs in spellings and unit name v.1.0 (97/01/30) - initial version Abroad! is SHAREWARE. This means that if you use this program and decide to keep it, or in other terms, you have used it for a couple of days and like it, you are required to send me a small fee of US $10. If you send me the shareware fee once, NO additional fee is required for the future version. I will use the fee as a part of the annual updates of developing tools and new machine I bought for pilot application development last year. You can send me the fee through Kagi service using REGISTER.EXE (Windows) or Register (compressed as MACREG.SIT, Mac user). (REGISTRATION PROGRAM INCLUDES ALL OF MY SHAREWARES IN THE LIST. BE CARE NOT TO REGISTER WRONG PROGRAMS.) If you send me the fee directly, please do NOT send me US$10 with your checks. (More than $10 is charged for exchange a check to money in Japan!) Please use postal order or US$10 bill itself (if it is legal). Paying for Abroad! is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies Abroad!. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase). Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi. More specifics on the Register program to follow. Kagi handles my payment processing. If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number. Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement. If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is: Kagi 1442-A Walnut Street #392-XA Berkeley, California 94709-1405 USA You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical. If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment. Kagi can not invoice your company, you need to act on my behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end. Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the payment, the form cannot be processed. Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed. When you pay, we tell you your registration ID with which you can register your copy. If you do not have an email address, please enter your complete postal address and please remember, we do not know what country you live in so please enter that into the postal address also. The author will not take responsibility for any damage or loss that occurs using this program. If you have any bug-reports or improvements you would like to see (including my poor English), please send them to me. Yoshimitsu Kanai (ykanai@kagi.com)