Hi folks, For those who were wondering about the Checkbook project: Dan Greene, author of EZ Money, has sent us (the programmers) the documentation for the program. Based on the documentation, the checkbook would be based on core algorithms from Dan's code with C++ translation done by myself and Alex Hall (and other programmers with help from Dan himself). According to the documentation, it appears that there should be some core changes in the EZ Money code to take advantage of modern processor operations and a more streamlined interface and check object manipulation. For techies like Joe O.: * The core of the program would consist of a class called "check" which will encapsulate an integer for check number, a floating point (decimal) number for amount and a string for comments among other things. * The accounts will be an array of check objects. * The whole accounts data will be kept in a database format for ease of reading it as CSV, XLS and HIMS database formats. * Multiple currency support, including U.S. Dollar, U.K. Pound Sterling, etc. (later version). * Importing and exporting check database in multiple file formats, including XLS, PXL, CSV and other formats. At least these are the specs based on dan's documentation. For user interface, it'll be up to me to design it (with help from Sense users), with using dialog format for navigating and entering text. i.e. using TAB to navigate to different parts of the program. We'll find out the definite progress of this checkbook project when a HIMS rep answers my query on translating Contents SDK to English (just sent him that question now). For now, it'll be a desktop version with interface emulating that of using it under Braille Sense - with foundations to port this to HIMS shell later when the sDK is here. Cheers, Joseph (UCR)
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