A few pointers on a program I'm currently writing in Turing

[RoNiN]

Greets all...

To get straight to the point, I'm writing a "Personal Organizer" program in Turing for my Gr. 11 Computer Science course... It will basically function like a little pocket organizer on your PC.

I'm going to have 4 functions on it, an Address Book, Calendar, Notepad and a Calculator... I'm thinking of the first 3 funtions using files to store the information entered by the user, but I'm having trouble with the address book and calendar...

Could I have some advice on how these could be written in the most efficient way, or another way altogether? Just summarized explanations please, as I have to write the code myself.

Thanks!

[Andy]

i'd suggest u work on them individually then sys.execute them from ur main prog

[shorthair]

You will need to lean how to read write mod and seek bunary files , for the address book , so that you can changeg the adrees of peolpe and the phone number and such

[RoNiN]

Yep I know how to use files and I was working on it this morning... I made some good progress and if I run into any additional problems I'll be sure to post here, thanks for the replies...

[RoNiN]

*bump*

Ok just one thing I need to know at the moment..

I need a way to erase the file or overwrite the file with a blank one with no problems.

Thanks

[Andy]

well if u open a file to write and it already exists, turing will automatically wipe that file for you... not sure if turing has an append function

[RoNiN]

yes I tried that but my menu gets all messed up, blank entries and stuff..

I'll try again and see if I can get it working...


[EDIT: Got the "erase entire address book" working...

Any ideas on how to edit or erase specific entries in the address book? I can provide my source if needed. After that I'm almost done this section of my program!]

[Andy]

well y dont u just dump the entire database into array(s) and then only save the ones u want by setting the ones u dont want to blank and have

code:

if list(i) not="" then     save(list(i) end if

[RoNiN]

ok... I completely finished everything except:

Calculator function
Calendar function

I'm thinking on using graphics and mouse to use the calculator.. Any other ideas are welcome, but the code shouldn't be too complicated.

For the calendar, thats where I'm getting stumped... I don't know how I should go about actually displaying it... I'm thinking of using that clock function (if it has the date as well I can't remember right now) to determine which month it is (and therefore how many days in that month) and then display numbers 1-whatever in a menu list, where you can write a small note for each day and store it in a file...

Any other ideas?

Thanks!