AmiLog

Have a go at my ideas for it
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No time for this baby. Giving it away to the public.=(

Please send me your ideas, flames, encouragement, and tips. I work much faster if I get your response.

Progress

• 99-05-30. I have no more time for this baby. I also don't have the modem connected to my Amiga anymore as I connect my LAN through my Linux-PC. This doesn't mean that I've given up the Amiga. No way! =) It's just that other project are taking to much of my time to continue this program although I don't need it. (Who knows. I may be start doing something alike for Linux? =) ).

• 98-06-01. Added Commodity stuff to AmiLog. Yep. AmiLog is now a Commodity!. And since I needed to do Signal stuff with the Cx-stuff I also added check for CTRL-C which also quits the program. I currently don't know how safe it is to run the program w/o a single open window. Before the program depended on the Status window to be open. I hope that I've put in a lot of checks for the window before using it. Otherwise it may crach. Will take a look into it. Soon it will be stable enough for me to have in the background and then it will go public beta =). Also changed the Zone gadget in the statuswindow (showing current selected Zone) from a passive TEXT_KIND to an interactive CYCLE_KIND (Cycle-gadget). This means that I can use more than the first Zone. Also got rid of a stupid debug function to fake line status (Online/Offline) and added a menu called Line Status (as shown to the right) where the user can either let it be automagic or manually set the status. Used by me for debugging and also later on for non modem calls.

  After some sleep I added some checks for open windows (before using them) which makes it almost stable =). I added Show/Hide functions to shutdown GUI and to open an initalize it. Almost ready. I'm fixing the docs now to come closer to be able to release this thingy.

  When I choose to make AmiLog available for download it will be updated here very frequently (when I work with it). Hopefully it will be ready by summer... I hope. =).

• 98-05-24. Hmm. Seems that I haven't coded on AmiLog for some time. After some encourage by some friends ad #AmigaSWE (hej WowTIP o UL-Tomten!!) I started code on it again =).

  Noticed that the doubleclick-thingy mentioned in 98-01-06 only was added to the Zones-list. Added it to the other two too.

• 98-01-31. Finally got myself to code a bit on AmiLog. I've been quit busy the past month. I finally got my driverslicense! Anyway. I scrapped the log-parsing ideas. I see no point of doing something that other programs does better (PhoneBill). The logging is only for statistics. The total time and cost is instead saved into a separate file every 30 seconds (will be configurable in the future). This is later loaded when the program is launched. By doing this a GURU or reset may not be devastating to the phonebilling features.

• 98-01-06. It's been a while since I updated this log considering that I have had some vacation and all day in front of my computer which has resulted in some work on AmiLog...

  All editing functions in the Zone-editor are made Add/Delete/Edit in Zones/Days/Times.

  Added menulending so that the menus are visible and accessible in/from all Windows.

  I also made the Load/Save Zones-items work which made me discover that the startcost didn't get saved (I'd actuallt noticed this earlier) and added it to the loading and saving routines.

  The Zone editor also has been given some functionallity such as doubleclicking on an item in the listviews brings up the edit-window and when clicking on another item the edit-window gets updated with the selected item (the GUI is totally multitasking!!!).

  Anyway, the Zone editor still lacks a bit more errorchecking but I'll leave it for now to more concentrate on the logging. Everytime the program is started the log must be read and the total time and cost must be calculated... this is currently not done. After that the task of making AmiLog a Commodity is planned, as well as making the GUI font adaptive (I've done that with another program so it is of no problem for me).

  I wonder how important it is to make the GUI scalable? I don't see much benifit in it.

  Hmm... I'm out of Coke and I'm awfully sleepy so this is it for this time...

• 97-12-26. Logically the rearrangement DID actually reduce the compiletime. I'm also reusing more code and therefore reducing compiletime and size of the executable. This also benefits in easier updating later on. I only have to change a function in ONE place now, recompile the shit and it's nice'n'ready =)...

• 97-12-25. Rearranging the sources to a more logic structure which may reduce compiletime somewhat (because only the parts that is changed is compiled and the rest is just linked into the executable) and also make updating more easy.

  I'm thinking more and more to centralize the strings used to interact with the user and thus making localizing a piece of cake.

  I'm also thinking of a program much like a programmers diary which could output logs such as this.

• 97-12-14. After adding two (2!!) lines of code it worked flawlessly!! =)... I forgot to init the pointers to some sub-structs.

• 97-12-12. Two hours and the saving of prefs stood ready. And after a half an hour or so the loader also. BUT! A LOT of memory-leaks. Darn! I can't get it to deallocate the prefs-structs right!

• 97-12-01. Poked a bit in the zone-prefs. Almost ready now... Maybe 2 or 3 hours and I'll go for the prefs should be ready. Then it's the task of loading and saving it that needs some attension.

• 97-11-30. Made the rest of the GUIs (in GadToolsBox), smacked it into my source and patched it to a stable thingy before letting my Amiga run the shit. Also coded some of the prefs-mechanism. Soon I'll be able to EDIT'n'SAVE the datas!!! (The time-zones and prices are currently hardcoded into the piece)

• 97-11-29. After selling Amiga Internet-Kit my mind is free again and I started working on this baby. Made most of the GUIs before I went to bed.