hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull) (10/11/89)
Ok, thanks everyone. Yeah, it appears that the drawer icon probably was still selected. I don't use the Workbench that intensly often enough that I have ever done this before - and that's 1985 to now! The Project Master software definitely is a Workbench oriented package. Lots of Icons got generated, and I wanted to purge some of them. I was very successful :-( By the way, the Project Master package is a fairly decent program. It does have a few maddening difficulties, though. For one, I had to NewZAP each of the executables to change everything referenced by colon-some-executable to some-executable so that I could use it in a subdirectory of my hard disk. The documentation says that it must be in the root directory of the file system of a hard disk, so it must expect the user to devote a whole partition to it, I guess. One other thing was the plot routine for Time charts screws up and makes the fill for some of the bars all the way from the ordinate axis to the left edge of the bar outline instead of inside the bar outline like it's supposed to. This only happens for bars that are considerably displaced from the ordinate zero. It also wants to print double and triple width text strokes, which comes out very unreadable on my HP7585 due to some kind of scale aliasing. And one last thing is that it is sometimes difficult to get it to accept data when the data is inconsistent. Mapping a project that is already (for some time) underway can be difficult, so you may have to wait for a brand new project (like finding a new job, for instance) before you have an opportunity to easily set it up. I had to go into the DATA source files and bash some of the dates by hand before it would begin to get the orientation. Otherwise, it is a must to open tasks for editing at earlier dates before opening tasks for later dates. If you don't do it that way, PM will automagically hose all of the dates by reseting them to something other than you probably expected. In cases where a shorter date is entered than the specified task duration, PM does you the favor of correcting for reality - so it will prepare a no-slack end-to-end schedule if you just give it some arbitrarily too early completion date, and that's what it should do. But going through things in reverse will mince the pig. Thanks again, Howard Hull hull@hao.ucar.edu