User Guide

When you first open Baseball Card Tracker (BBCT), the main menu appears, offering the following options: Add Cards, Find Cards, About, and Exit. Each option appears as a button link and is explained below:

[Screen shot of main menu]

• Add Cards — Click this button to add new cards to your collection.
• Find Cards — Click this button to find existing cards in your collection and to update their monetary value and the number of cards you own.
• About — Click this button to display information about this software, including version and licensing information and a copyright notice.
• Exit — Click this button to exit the application.

Add Cards

The Add Cards window contains the Card Details section, which allows you to input specific information about a baseball card in your collection. You can type corresponding details into the following fields: Card Brand, Card Year, Card Number, Card Value, and Card Count (total number of cards that you own in that particular series). Once you have typed information into a field, use the tab button to move the cursor to the next input field.

[screen shot of Add Cards window]

Below the Card Details section is the Player Details section, which allows you to type in the Player Name and to choose the Player Position from a drop-down menu. The Player Position drop-down menu allows you to choose among the various baseball player positions: Pitcher, Catcher, First Base, Second Base, Third Base, Shortstop, Left Field, and Center Field.

When you have finished inputting all of the requested information into the Card Details and Player Details sections, you will notice two button links at the bottom of the Add Cards window: Add Card and Back. These buttons are explained below:

• Add Card — Click this button to add the data you just entered and to clear all fields so that you can enter data for the next card. [This button is not yet implemented.]
• Back — Click this button to return to the main menu.