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Example data and short demo, please see details at the end of 'Guide 2', from intro.
In addition to memos on screen see 'button notes' to view a user manual in sections
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INTRO SCREEN
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- Settings for screen resolution, or always to start with a particular section.
- Access to overview 'guides', or to Stock and Young Sections.
STOCK SECTION
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- Reviews, organises, or prints stock records for up to 99 cocks and 99 hens, past or present.
- Stock, pedigrees, photos, and an Old Bird Flying Team can be displayed together.
- Sixteen positions are colour marked and numbered to match nest cards in the Young Section.
- Buttons to swap entries for birds or pairs in the lists & to organise breeding pairs for a year.
- Prints up to sixteen current breeding pairs (or for another year), or pedigree/s of bird/s/pair/s.
- At start up latest Stock + teams & plans are loaded automatically from the default directory.
- Typing is needed mainly when the record is started, new birds are obtained, or for editing.
- Double-clicking a position in the list calls an editing window & horizontally scrolling textbox.
- Old Bird Team in an on-screen text editor, with X-Y axis scrolling and Notepad menus.
- 'Load all teams' / 'Save all teams' for OBT (including YBT+Plan data for the Young Section).
- 'Load Txt'/'Save Txt' buttons also manage the OBT with Notepad, reserving copies as text.
- A Picture, if one has been saved, and a Pedigree, if the parents have been identified,
is displayed by clicking on any Stock Cock and/or any Stock Hen.
- "Pick Parents" makes family links when stock is brought in, or when old records are entered.
(for a bird copied and pasted from a flying team, this is done by inherent links)
- "Show siblings" discovers and lists all recorded sibs and half-sibs.
- "Offspring" searches for all offspring which have been recorded for the selected bird.
- "Search Stock Birds" offers a case-insensitive search for text in the lists of breeding stock.
- "Foster Parents"sets up feeders, and passes the correct pedigree links to the young raised.
- "-------" inserts a default 'divider-text' to prepare for setting up feeders, or for other purposes.
- "View Folders" displays titles of saved files, initially just in the default folder, 'breeders',
(also for renaming files, or for access to Notepad to copy/edit text from any folder).
- Saves the record, creating a new folder if needed, or loads from another specified location.
- Access to 'button notes', Young Section, and Intro.
YOUNG SECTION
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- At start up, the pairs, nest card data, + all teams & plans, are loaded from the default folder.
- Can load from another specified location, or save records, creating a new folder if needed.
- Organises or prints nest cards and up to 4 Young Bird Teams, & matching fly-feed-vit 'Plans'.
- Clicking on a pair displays any pictures which may be available for the Cock and the Hen.
- Adopts up to 16 pairs for each new season, as sorted and saved in a set of Stock Section data.
- For a fresh season, a button can first then clear the nest cards.
- Defines two sets of the season's rings, for automatic allocation when the squeakers are ringed.
- Sequences auto-dated nest card entries: 'laid', 'hatched', 'failed to hatch', ring: 'club.no.year'.
- Single-clicking a youngster calls up an editing window with a horizontally scrolling textbox.
- Birds can be copy/pasted into the Stock Section, together with their auto-links to pedigrees.
- Displays 1 of 4 Young Bird Teams in a text editor with X-Y axis scrolling and Notepad menus.
- Adds young to the current team, optionally in ring order whenever a youngster is ringed.
- Button 'Team / Plan' swaps between Teams and Plans, with the day-date counter Off / On.
- 'Load Ts+Ps' and 'Save Ts+Ps' for all Team+Plan data (including 'Old Bird FlyingTeams.dat').
- 'Load Txt'/'Save Txt' buttons also manage teams/plans with Notepad, reserving copies as text.
- Reviews titles of saved files with 'View Folders', initially just in the program's folder 'breeders'.
- As in 'View Folders', the options allow editing, exchange, or printing of text from any folder.
- Access to 'button notes', Stock Section, and Intro.