POS version 7.05a released 5-3-11.
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:34 pm
New features in version 7.05
The big new feature in version 7.05 is 26,000 lines in the stock table. This doubles the number of different items you can have in your stock table from 13,000. Very useful if you are a book store, grocery store, hardware store, etc.
Also since I had to go into all parts of the program to test this I also made a lot of little tweeks to the program and fixed many obscure bugs. They will be listed later in this email. So it is well worth downloading this new version 7.05.
HOWEVER!!!! In order to accommodate 26,000 lines I had to reformat the stock table index file. This means that you have to reformat this file on your register EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT USING ADDITIONAL LINES AT YOUR STORE!!!!
This is real complicated and will take about 20 additional seconds. After you have made a backup of your current POS folder, and downloaded the file and run the file to unzip it follow the next complicated steps. There are 2 methods of re-indexing the stock table.
METHOD #1
1. Run the POS.EXE program first.
2. You’re done.
Method #2
1. Run the POSCONFG.EXE program first.
2. Go to the “Stock table” feature.
3. Exit the “Stock table” feature.
4. You’re done.
Ok, maybe it is not that complicated. If you are running this on a network you do have to install the new program files on each LOCAL register and the GLOBAL one, but you only have to do the above steps on the GLOBAL register.
If you are running multiple registers on you computer (i.e., multiple register file names) then you will have to do the steps for each register.
If you now try to ring up an item into the sale and the register gives you the “Cannot find this item” error then you have some how managed to mess up the above steps or are typing in the wrong stock number.
One other change related to 26000 lines, is the method used to select the number of lines you want in the stock table. The old method was to go to the “Stock table” feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program and press [TAB] and the number of lines would increase by 1000. The new method is to just type in the number you want, type in 17 and you will get 17,000. Pressing [Tab] up to 26 times was just too much work.
Since this feature affects most of the program I had to test, and retest, the entire program along with my faithful beta-testers. The testing phase has actually taken longer than changing the code to accommodate 26000 lines. We found lots of minor booboos and things that could work better with a simple change to the code. Also since it has been a while since I last sent out one these emails I have found time to make some other new features and bug fixes. So now, in random order since that is how my brain works, I have a list of all the new features and bug fixes from version 7.04h to 7.05 that I can remember (the brain is also getting old.)
MORE NEW FEATURES
On credit / debit sales you now cannot enter a credit / debit payment amount less than the amount entered for “cash back.”
At the end of a sale, on payment methods other than “Cash”, you cannot enter more than the remaining amount due.
You can now force the use of a password during a sale when you want to void a line in the sale or void the entire uncompleted sale.
In a sale, after finding the customer in the database, if you choose “3. Use this, do not save” you will skip the next menu and go directly to the next part of the sale.
When you use the vendor stock number to enter an item into a sale, when the item is found it will display the vendor stock number at the bottom of the screen. While here I also tried to come up with an option to make the vendor stock number be the default method of entering items into a sale. However this caused my brain to hurt so I stuffed the concept back into the “think about it” pile.
The PURCHASE.EXE program will allow you to display only unpaid invoices.
BUG FIXES
In “Reports” a saved data file might have different figures from the displayed and saved text file.
The Theater program was not saving the tickets sold to the stock table. Also when setting up a venue the number of seats in the venue used for “general” seating was not saved the first time the venue was saved, they were saved when you entered it the second time.
When creating a new register the printing parameters for “sales check” and “forced line feed” were automatically set to “YES”, and the function for using the “Tax” password was turned on. This no longer happens.
When creating a new stock table the stock table would rarely begin with corrupted data which would activate the “Convert” program when you went to use the stock table in the POS.EXE program. This was not a recoverable error and you would have to erase the stock table and start over. This should no longer happen.
There had been a couple of reports of when closing the register that the program would die with an “Out of stack space” error. Now the program will clear and reload the stack whenever you choose “7. Close register”, this will cause a 1 second delay before the “Close” screen displays.
On receipts the line that followed the “Change due” line would be printed to the right of that line instead of underneath it. This no longer happens.
There was a problem with sales reports in that the figures for
TOTAL PAYOUTS
TOTAL DISCOUNTS
TOTAL REDUCTIONS
TOTAL COUPONS
TOTAL VOIDS
would be all zeros even though there were actual figures to report. This has actually been an unknown problem for a couple of years.
If you printed receipts 40 characters wide AND you printed to a page printer AND you choose to printer receipts without a stock number AND the receipt was over 60 lines long, two things happened. 1. You demonstrated that you are a very silly person. 2. The program would print fewer lines per page than it was supposed to. I have fixed the “lines” thing but you are still a silly person.
Upgrade instructions http://keyhut.com/upgrade.htm#current
Download from http://keyhut.com/pos3.htm
Remember that when you click on the icon to download the file if you choose [RUN] instead of [SAVE] you will put dozens of files all over your desktop and be really unhappy.
For the 64 bit Windows users there is a download .ZIP file since the .EXE files will not extract under 64 bit.
The big new feature in version 7.05 is 26,000 lines in the stock table. This doubles the number of different items you can have in your stock table from 13,000. Very useful if you are a book store, grocery store, hardware store, etc.
Also since I had to go into all parts of the program to test this I also made a lot of little tweeks to the program and fixed many obscure bugs. They will be listed later in this email. So it is well worth downloading this new version 7.05.
HOWEVER!!!! In order to accommodate 26,000 lines I had to reformat the stock table index file. This means that you have to reformat this file on your register EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT USING ADDITIONAL LINES AT YOUR STORE!!!!
This is real complicated and will take about 20 additional seconds. After you have made a backup of your current POS folder, and downloaded the file and run the file to unzip it follow the next complicated steps. There are 2 methods of re-indexing the stock table.
METHOD #1
1. Run the POS.EXE program first.
2. You’re done.
Method #2
1. Run the POSCONFG.EXE program first.
2. Go to the “Stock table” feature.
3. Exit the “Stock table” feature.
4. You’re done.
Ok, maybe it is not that complicated. If you are running this on a network you do have to install the new program files on each LOCAL register and the GLOBAL one, but you only have to do the above steps on the GLOBAL register.
If you are running multiple registers on you computer (i.e., multiple register file names) then you will have to do the steps for each register.
If you now try to ring up an item into the sale and the register gives you the “Cannot find this item” error then you have some how managed to mess up the above steps or are typing in the wrong stock number.
One other change related to 26000 lines, is the method used to select the number of lines you want in the stock table. The old method was to go to the “Stock table” feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program and press [TAB] and the number of lines would increase by 1000. The new method is to just type in the number you want, type in 17 and you will get 17,000. Pressing [Tab] up to 26 times was just too much work.
Since this feature affects most of the program I had to test, and retest, the entire program along with my faithful beta-testers. The testing phase has actually taken longer than changing the code to accommodate 26000 lines. We found lots of minor booboos and things that could work better with a simple change to the code. Also since it has been a while since I last sent out one these emails I have found time to make some other new features and bug fixes. So now, in random order since that is how my brain works, I have a list of all the new features and bug fixes from version 7.04h to 7.05 that I can remember (the brain is also getting old.)
MORE NEW FEATURES
On credit / debit sales you now cannot enter a credit / debit payment amount less than the amount entered for “cash back.”
At the end of a sale, on payment methods other than “Cash”, you cannot enter more than the remaining amount due.
You can now force the use of a password during a sale when you want to void a line in the sale or void the entire uncompleted sale.
In a sale, after finding the customer in the database, if you choose “3. Use this, do not save” you will skip the next menu and go directly to the next part of the sale.
When you use the vendor stock number to enter an item into a sale, when the item is found it will display the vendor stock number at the bottom of the screen. While here I also tried to come up with an option to make the vendor stock number be the default method of entering items into a sale. However this caused my brain to hurt so I stuffed the concept back into the “think about it” pile.
The PURCHASE.EXE program will allow you to display only unpaid invoices.
BUG FIXES
In “Reports” a saved data file might have different figures from the displayed and saved text file.
The Theater program was not saving the tickets sold to the stock table. Also when setting up a venue the number of seats in the venue used for “general” seating was not saved the first time the venue was saved, they were saved when you entered it the second time.
When creating a new register the printing parameters for “sales check” and “forced line feed” were automatically set to “YES”, and the function for using the “Tax” password was turned on. This no longer happens.
When creating a new stock table the stock table would rarely begin with corrupted data which would activate the “Convert” program when you went to use the stock table in the POS.EXE program. This was not a recoverable error and you would have to erase the stock table and start over. This should no longer happen.
There had been a couple of reports of when closing the register that the program would die with an “Out of stack space” error. Now the program will clear and reload the stack whenever you choose “7. Close register”, this will cause a 1 second delay before the “Close” screen displays.
On receipts the line that followed the “Change due” line would be printed to the right of that line instead of underneath it. This no longer happens.
There was a problem with sales reports in that the figures for
TOTAL PAYOUTS
TOTAL DISCOUNTS
TOTAL REDUCTIONS
TOTAL COUPONS
TOTAL VOIDS
would be all zeros even though there were actual figures to report. This has actually been an unknown problem for a couple of years.
If you printed receipts 40 characters wide AND you printed to a page printer AND you choose to printer receipts without a stock number AND the receipt was over 60 lines long, two things happened. 1. You demonstrated that you are a very silly person. 2. The program would print fewer lines per page than it was supposed to. I have fixed the “lines” thing but you are still a silly person.
Upgrade instructions http://keyhut.com/upgrade.htm#current
Download from http://keyhut.com/pos3.htm
Remember that when you click on the icon to download the file if you choose [RUN] instead of [SAVE] you will put dozens of files all over your desktop and be really unhappy.
For the 64 bit Windows users there is a download .ZIP file since the .EXE files will not extract under 64 bit.