PANDA FAQs - Contents

1. Updating PANDA
2. Creating a New Project
3. Link to your preferred Editor

Answers

1. Updating PANDA
   
   

   When updating PANDA, it must be differenciated between Version 2 and Version 3 for the previous installation..

   When updating from Version 2.0, it is best to first install the new version parallel to the old installation. To accomplish this more easily, simply rename the old PANDA directory as 'panda2' and then perform a normal installation of the new version into the directory 'panda'. It is now quite easy to switch between the two installations by changing the Directory of the Version not required to 'panda[VersionNumber]' and renaming the Directory of the version to be used to 'PANDA' (see Manual chapter 1.3.4). This method avoids having to change the environment variable PANDA and redirecting the PATH variable under MS-DOS. In the Version 3.0, the database structure has been changed so that it isn't possible to directly transfer data from the Version 2 database. To accomplish this, the data must first be exported into a text file with the integrated program 'export'. Following this action, a new Project must be opened in the new Version 3 and all project data copied from the old Version 2 into the newly opened Project. The 'Import' command in the new Version 3 will then integrate the data into the new database.

   When updating from Version 3.0, the new version is installed in the normal way. Only the files and sub-programs in the sub-directory 'bin' will be replaced by newer versions. The database will not be changed but rather, at the next start-up of the Program System PANDA, the data will be actualised.

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2. Creating a New Project
   
   

   A new project is created by opening the PANDA short cut menu with a right mouse click on the PANDA icon in the project frame. The only selection possibility shown in this short cut menu is to create a new Project. In the dialogue box that follows, the input of a project name is required.

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3. Link to your preferred Editor
   
   

   In PANDA, you can create a Link to your preferred Text Editor (also known as a Lister), which you wish to use for editing PANDA files. The Editor should be capable of accepting two files at a time (the PANDA-file and a log-file) as parameters. Under MS-DOS, the environment variable PANEDT must be set to point to the executable file of your Editor. Example: 'PANEDT=C:\TOOLS\EDIT\PFE32.EXE' will call the PFE32 editor.

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