Some time has been spent revisiting code that had previously been ‘completed’. The data listing and reporting functions, although working, weren’t as good as they could have been. Partly this was down to making the code more efficient; partly down to improving reporting generally, and partly to making it easier and faster to build the [...]
Work has been virtually completed on three of the data files – Railroads, Areas and Station Types. The work consisted of creating add/change/delete functionality, as well as some reporting aspects. About 25 out of the 175 reference routines have been coded. On top of that are 28 Background and 35 Action routines to be coded [...]
Phase One has been completed ahead of schedule. Basically, MOPS now has a working ‘framework’ upon which the individual processes can be added. MOPS development is running ahead of schedule, partly because the prototype has proven to be a solid base upon which to build (it didn’t need a lot of modification to cope with [...]
Most of the Railroad reference module has been completed, and an early example of the processing is shown below. MOPS has been designed to emulate the command-line mainframe systems of the 60s and 70s, and everything is therefore text-based. While this is initially a lot slower to learn, it can be surprisingly easy to use [...]
A fair amount of progress this week: the program files that will contain/process the data have been created and the command verbs have all been loaded. In addition to that, all the processing to support Users has been amended (from the prototype) and is working correctly. The next step is to create all the stub [...]