If you have an M-power, keep watch for 7.0 upgrade which will have Key Base
which should be much easier to create databases of many varying types. I
myself haven't created other databases.
Jim
At 02:20 PM 01/09/2006 , you wrote:
I would like some directions for creating keylist databases. I did this
in the past for keysoft version 3.6, but I kind of forgot what I did. I
also was basically using the trial and error method, which I'd rather not
use again. :-)
I made a database for bank and credit card account information, but I
backed up and removed my database when I sent my braille note in for
upgrade to MPower. I'm sure you all can understand why I did that. :-)
Now I can't get the database back and I really miss it. I don't mind
entering the data again, but I need to have a database to put it in first.
I tried to just put the old files back in the keylist folder, but I got
an uninformative message when I tried to switch to that database. I
believe it said something like "the action was completed successfully"
which was certainly a lie. The database was not present and usable after
that. No matter what I tried to do with that database I got the same
message and absolutely nothing opened or happened.
I found and downloaded a program that said it was for designing keysoft
databases, but it is an old DOS program which didn't run successfully in
Windows XP. I even wonder if the program is supposed to be used to make
modern keysoft databases. If it is usable for that purpose I can run it
on an old computer with Windows 98 on it, but I don't want to bother if it
won't make a database that is usable on a braille note MPower.
Can anyone give me some tips? for that matter, has anyone else made such
a database they could share. I think it is a great place to keep that
type of information because it is easy to read the information off with
one hand while entering it on the phone keypad with the other. It is also
somewhat more secure than other places, because a keysoft database is a
non-standard file that not just anyone could read easily. It is also on a
device that can not be used or connected to without your knowledge if you
keep it with you and aren't connected to activesync at the moment.
Any assistance wil be appreciated.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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