Create a Label for DOS Updates ============================== **************************************************************************** Version 4.

0 - Release Sept 14, 1995 Enhancements: ------------Added Black-Mark Sensor to all Eltron printers (except the LP2022 and LP2042). Previously, it was only available for the TLP family of printers. (Rev. 5) Added the Code 128 Auto-Detect bar code. Maximum number of characters in a barcode has been increased from 50 to 100. "Increment Method" has been added to "Label Setup Advanced Options". This controls the method of incrementing. The three available settings are: a) Printer This is the default setting -- if possible, incrementing is done by the printer. b) Software Forces the software to do the incrementing. This method will not take advantage of the printer's ability to increment, but it might be used if printer incrementing is not working properly. c) Hexadecimal Incrementing is based on the hexadecimal number system, i.e. base 16. Database searches are now case insensitive. Paragraph contents may now come directly from a Character or Memo type field in a database. The maximum size of a Character field in a database is 1024 characters. The maximum number of characters that can be linked in from a Memo field is 5120. Previously, paragraphs could only be linked indirectly to a database by specifying the name of a text file in a database record, and the text file contained the actual text. This method is still supported, and has absolutely no size limitation. e.g.: The first record in the database shown below contains the actual text of a paragraph. The second record contains a file name, box.txt, which would contain the actual paragraph. PRODUCT_ID ---------1038E6 1039W2 DESCRIPT -----------------------------------Floppy Disk pack containing 10 disks. box.txt

Dialog boxes now use Ctrl-Enter ase the hot-key for the

Ok button. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------an IF() function may now be added to a link expression as follows: IF() is a link function that allows the label to have conditional information. Usage: IF( Field1 Operator Field2, TrueResult, FalseResult ) where: operator is one of the following: = equal <> not equal < less than <= less than or equal to > greater than >= greater than or equal to e.g. If a company has a price structure as shown below: Quantity Price ------------------------0-500 $28.95 501$19.95 the following IF() function could be used: IF( quantity <= 500, 28.95, 19.95 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------a MOD43() function may now be added to a link expression. MOD43() calculates the Mod 43 check digit as used in the Code 39 M 43 bar code. Usage: MOD43( Field ) where: Field is any field name or expression. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------a PRINTQTY() function may now be added to a link expression. PRINTQTY() will return the Print Quantity, i.e., the number of labels printed. Usage: PRINTQTY() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------a RIGHT() function may now be added to a link expression.

RIGHT() returns the any number of characters from the right-most part of a string. Usage: RIGHT( numchars ) where: numchars is a number e.g. RIGHT( "Canada", 3 ) would return "ada"

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Unique keys are no longer required when printing from a database. New protected mode version introduced. It runs much faster, but the minimum pc platform is a 80286 CPU with 2MB RAM. Ability to link from a linked field. German language version introduced. Minimum size for downloadable fonts decreased from 6pt to 3pt. Maximum size for downloadable fonts increased from 72pt to 99pt. Paragraphs now support downloadable fonts. Paragraphs now can contain a special character '~' which forces a Carriage-Return when using Word-Wrap. Also, in word-wrap mode, lines are now also broken up at commas, as well as spaces. Yellow ruler added along top and left side of label. The Rotate arrowhead button was moved to near the upper left corner of the label. Configuration Options dialog has been added, containing: 1) 'Snap-to-Grid' switch. F3 key also toggles on and off. Grid increment may be entered. 2) 'Quick-Print' mode switch. This mode, set in configuration, allows user to print from the print menu without drawing the label on the screen. One dialog box contains all of the prompts, including the Print Quantity. A Preview button as still available while in this mode. 3) 'Show Pictures' and 'Show Paragraphs' switch. Setting these switches to No will speed up the program. 4) Path may be specified for: - Label Files - Database Files - PCX files - Paragaph Files - Serial Files

Custom Spacing added for text fields. e.g. a "Spacing Template" like "(999) 999-9999" could be added to a When Printed field. When the user types in 9056775645, it will print as (905) 677-5645. Now allows the IRQ and the Base I/O Address to be specified when using the serial ports. This is especially useful when using COM3 or COM4. New Printer Drivers: -------------------Eltron TLP 2242 Bug Fixes: ---------The print-time database browse window failed to restore the screen upon termination. This only happened during instances where the database index was created. This has been fixed. Human readable characters on barcodes are left justified. But on the screen, they appeared centered. Now they appear left justified on the screen also. When the user enters a floating point number, and round-off is necessary, then the rounded-off value will be displayed immediately after leaving the field. e.g. 0.028 rounds to 0.03. n.b. Label Height and Label Width are rounded to three decimal places. Everything else is rounded to two decimal places. Two users may now concurrently browse a database at print-time. Software controlled incrementing didn't work properly if acting on a string containing the space (ASCII 32) character. Two (or more) formats across, database fields would behave as if a database range had been specified. Corrected Code 39 mod 43 check digit. Network version startup error fixed. Linking data from a bar code field, which holds the key field for a database, where the key field is not the same as the output field, would incorrectly print the key field, instead of the output field. This has been fixed. Last line of paragraphs sometimes printed extra characters. This has been fixed. Databases may now contain an infinite number of records. Indexing previously failed beyond 32,000 records.