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More suggestions for version 4.0

December 30th, 2007 . by Rytis Zumbakis

You probably have it in mind but I would prefer it if the filter would match any individual words in the cardname out of all words entered. At the moment it is half way there in that any complete part of the cardname string is found, but if the cardname is “COMP Vista Photo Gallery Color Profile” then “COM Col” should IMHO (though perhaps optionally) pick it up straight away.
 
Of course I appreciate that Ctrl+F finds things pretty well anyway!
 
Also, after using it for several months, I believe that version 4 beta is so much better AND already more stable and reliable than version 3 that you should try to launch it as soon as possible. I am using Vista Home Premium with 2GB of RAM.
 
Wonderful program - greatly appreciated.

Individual words matching will be implemented in future versions (this operation may slow down cards search in very large files, so it will probable come sswitched-off by default).


 

  

When searching, I press normally escape after doing a search, so the focus land in the found card.
When I want to search for the next occurence, with f3, only the current card is searched.
Seems, that f3 will repeat the last search, but onley in the current card.

As you have searched with ctrl-alt-f3 [find in card]. Is it possible, to change f3, so that it will repeat the last search method you have done?
When the last search was with ctrl-f, f3 will repeat this.
When it was ctrl-alt-f3, f3 will repeat this.

Will be fixed in the next version


 

  

I had one more “bug” to report. I have a 24MB AZZ file, and when that is saving (as in File >> Save), the “progress meter” doesn’t come up, just the
waiting hourglass. This sometimes makes me think that it has locked up, and is not actually saving the file.

Will be fixed in the next version


 

 

 

Using Azz cardfile for a long time now it’s a great program.

In the beta 4 version, it would be great if you can add to the options the default of the export feature, so I can always export the selected card instead of all cards, now I have to go down the menu and select it manually each time.

Will be fixed in the next version

 

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access violation at address ### in module azzcardile.exe. read of address ##

December 21st, 2007 . by stephen

I had to move all my data into another computer. The OS is Windows Professional. Thus far the only program I have a problem with is with AZZ card. I keep getting the following message when I attempt to open the program.

access violation at address ### in module azzcardile.exe. read of address ##

The other computer I had, had the same OS system. I put Azz aside and install the rest of my programs. So I really only have AZZ to install to make my computer perfect.

Stephen

Update - Dec 26, 2007

After many attempts and using various utilities I was able to install and run Azz Card File.

Stephen

ValleyTaxOffice


Database corruption

December 19th, 2007 . by jouni

I had database open, made some small changes and switched to another application. I’ve done this hundreds of time, no idea what would have been different this time:

critical DLL Error -7 [OK]
I pressed OK button and tried to save:

Zip file could not be opened [OK]

Input file does not exits [OK]

Cannot write to C:\Users\admin\Documents\My azzCardfile Files\A8 people.azz

SaveAs operation was successful, at least no error notes.

Trying to open the original database:

“A8 people.azz”: File is being used by another User in Network. The cards will be copied to the new file [OK]

I/O error 32 [OK]

I got empty “Untitled” database with no card titles visible, “no card selected” as current card, but bottom info row tells there is total 257 cards of which 1 is selected.

During holidays I am going to reformat laptop harddisk, get finally rid of Microsoft Vista and install XP. The laptop manufacturer was kind enough to send me XP install disks for free. Said too many people had complained.


6 new free azz databases to download

December 18th, 2007 . by Rytis Zumbakis

A bunch of new .azz files uploaded to free collections. Hope they will be useful to some of you, valued Azz Cardfile users.

Root Beer: brewing history and about 100 homemade root beer recipes. http://www.azzcardfile.com/collections/rootbeer.html

List of abbreviations used by land surveyors in the US. http://www.azzcardfile.com/collections/abbr.html

Index of english newspapers online from all over the world, local and national. http://www.azzcardfile.com/collections/papers.html

List of programs that can be carried and run from USB, without installing to all of your computers. Easy to add new ones as you discover them. http://www.azzcardfile.com/collections/portableapps.html

A database of all ZIP codes for Germany. http://www.azzcardfile.com/collections/germancodes.html

Cardfile containing 46 articles and advice on different tasks getting organized at home. http://www.azzcardfile.com/collections/getorganized.html


Setting the default font for cards

December 12th, 2007 . by Rytis Zumbakis

How do I change the default font for my cards? Please advise. This is something that is missing from your help files.

Go to Tools | Options | View, use Card default: Font

default-font.jpg 

Next time you create a card, new default font will be used.

To change font for all existing cards on specific .azz file, go to Tools | Options | View, use “Set font to all cards”.


FIRST TIME ON BLOG

December 5th, 2007 . by RALPH E

I AM NEW TO BLOGING THERE IS A LOT TO READ HERE

AZZ CARD FILE HAS BECOME MY MAIN DATA BASE AND HAVE REPLACED 3 OTHERS WITH IT.

I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO RESIZE THE MAIN WINDOW AND HAVE IT RETAIN THAT SIZE THE

NEXT TIME THAT I USE THE PROGRAM.BUT AS FOR THE OTHER FEATURES IT ALREADY HAS MORE THAN

I KNOW HOW TO USE. FANTASTIC PROGRAM

RALPH


AZZ Beta 4 - Protect File

December 4th, 2007 . by Irene

Hi,

I have tried a number of times to protect a file and AZZ does not request a password before opening the file, it just opens as normal.  Is the protect feature meant to request a password before opening the file or is it only to protect against changes to the file?  I have tried a number of variations and cannot successfully password the file.  AZZ is running from a flash drive.

Regards

Irene