No coming attractions, for a while.

Dale Harris · Post by **Dale Harris** » Sun May 30, 2004 11:26 pm

To All,

Currently I am not doing anything with the POS program except for bug fixes. I want to finally get a version as bug free as possible and I am taking a little vacation from POS.

However that does not mean that we cannot make plans for the future. The only features that are currently in the pipeline are the customer accounts feature which will be a huge project and take a really long time to complete and to finish the "purchase" program.

But what do you want? Post here your thoughts on the next feature that I should add to POS. This is not a vote, I will read your suggestions and I will decide what to do next. But you never know, the next thing that interests me might be your suggestion.

Also post your thoughts on the suggestions posted by others or even the customer accounts or finishing the purchase program. You may sway my decision to something that you want or convince me not to do something you don't want.

Except no pocket PC, that is not going to happen at least by me.

ChrisKraus · Post by **ChrisKraus** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:10 am

Does that mean that the latest version is stable?
If it is, then I guess you could take a vacation

- Chris

Dale Harris · Post by **Dale Harris** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:26 am

Chris,

Could be. There are no known bugs in it now but on the other hand the last reported bug was fixed yesterday. The longer it goes with no more bugs reported the more we can say that there are no bugs or they might just be real subtle.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:27 pm

Dale, You do deserve a DHPOS vacation. Ever since I stumbled on to DHPOS I have noticed that you work on it like crazy every chance you get.

Dale Harris · Post by **Dale Harris** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:16 pm

Yep, even now when I said I will not be working on POS I have uploaded a new version today.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:28 am

I would really like to see rounding work without adjusting the first line of each sale (even if it gets applied to a dedicated item in the stock table for rounding). And possibly the option to automatically round on cash, and disallow rounding for other payment options.

Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, the program is doing great!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:01 pm

Hi

how about an option to print another document if a certain item # is sold...
For example Item 999 has special restrictions/warranty so when it is sold, a 2nd receipt comes out with that info on it...

suamme1 · Post by **suamme1** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:17 pm

One of the biggest helps to my application would be to allow printing of opening and closing forms but not print or ask to print for each sale.

I have one parallel printer that I shared on the network. It is in a snack bar setup so that I run many $0.25-$1.00 transactions per day and my staff members are completely incompetent and would use up about thirty dollars a day in paper in mistakes. Currently, I have them write down the close report, but I would rather have a physically printed computer copy for security reasons.

Post by **Andrew** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:12 am

suamme

If you are going through $30 in paper a day in mistakes, I hate to think what else it is costing your company with these mistakes.

I suggest you look at WHY so many mistakes are being made, the problem may not lie with the staff but with the training they have received, or lack thereof.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:33 pm

It would be nice to have voids shown on pole display, if possible.

Thanks!

Dylan1 · Post by **Dylan1** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:17 pm

Dale, this is funny, everyone is getting their requests in b4 u quit for a [indefinate] while. although, I like the stuff below.
You do deserve a damn-long vacation. Take it, by all means. i know how it feels. i was programming something in C++ the other day, and realized that after a week, it was getting old. its fun, just old and tiring. and annoying if ur up at three in the moring with a calculator trying to see the numbers in the screen light. SO GO AHEAD, "GOTO FLORIDA;"
LOL
Later dale,
James Dylan
aka
Dil

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Hi

how about an option to print another document if a certain item # is sold...
For example Item 999 has special restrictions/warranty so when it is sold, a 2nd receipt comes out with that info on it...

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And possibly the option to automatically round on cash, and disallow rounding for other payment options.

Dale Harris · Post by **Dale Harris** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:58 pm

To people unclear on the concept,

"No coming attractions" means that there will not be any new features added to the program for a while. This is not a request for possible new features in the mistaken belief that I have run out of ideas for the program.

Actually the "think about it" pile of ideas has grown so large that is has fallen over, spilled out of my office and the front door to the house and large portions of it are now swirling in the wind blocking sunlight from the immediate neighborhood. Grass is dying for miles in all directions from a lack of sunlight.

I am just taking time out to smell the roses which is a pity since all the roses within walking distance are now dead with the grass.

But not to worry, Jon is working on the "pole display" thing and it should be ready this week and then in a short while we will begin on either the "X-Charge" thing or the "Not a touch screen menu" thing.

anabus_maximus · Post by **anabus_maximus** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 4:01 pm

Thank you Dale, someone needed to say that

Rey · Post by **Rey** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:29 am

Hi! Is it possible to include in your POS software the automatic sorting of item description in alphabetical order?

Best regards

Dale Harris · Post by **Dale Harris** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:56 am

Rey,

Most things are possible you just need a reason to do it. Do you mean sorting the whole stock table into description order permanently or just sorting the descriptions and then printing them out?

So far this is not likely because no one else has asked for it.

Although, this would be a good project for those ask me for POS projects. This could be done "off line" by a separate program because no other parts of the program would have to be running while it is done and as matter of fact it would be a very good idea to not be running any part of the POS program while sorting the stock table. Don't limit it to sorting only by description. I am sure that others would want to sort by stock number, price, inventory, vendor stock number, cost, or any field.

Remember that you will have to sort both the ????????.TBL and the ???????.IDX files but I do have a SUB that will rewrite the ????????.IDX file after you have sorted the ????????.TBL file so that will not be a problem.

DHES

No coming attractions, for a while.

No More Bugs?

Maybe.

Even now

OKAY

No new features.

POS

Possible

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