Killcards

SUMMARY

As an add-on for the DCS (Damage Control System), ALPHA-VISION®Killcards offers functionality to effectively direct countermeasures in case of an emergency. Important actions and their current states (to do / done) are displayed in check lists, so that the crew always has an up to date guideline during a critical situation.

Cards are available for the following damage types:

CONTENTS

  1. Systematics
  2. Installation of the Killcards Engineering Tool
  3. Edit Killcards

Systematics

ALPHA-VISION®Killcards uses Microsoft Access 2003 (Version 11.6568.6568 SP 2) and VBA.

The Program is based on two Microsoft Access databases:

Note:
During runtime the DCS system always accesses the "Killcard_Runtime.mdb" that is registered as ODBC data source.

Installation of the Killcards Engineering Tool

 - If this is a new installation go ahead with paragraph ‘ Installation of ALPHA-VISION®Killcards’ - If a version of ALPHA-VISION®Killcards is already installed, go ahead with ‘Update of ALPHA-VISION®Killcards‘

Update of alpha-vision Killcards
Before an update is run, the installed version has to be uninstalled by the use of Uninstall_Killcards program
A message box appears regarding the user data of the project. If you want to keep the user data (Killcard_Runtime.mdb), click "Yes".

If this is a new installation go ahead with paragraph ‘ Installation of alpha-vision Killcards’ If you chose to keep your data it’s a good idea to rename “Killcard_Runtime.mdb” or move it to a save place after uninstallation is finished.

Now follow the instructions in the next paragraph.

Installation of alpha-vision Killcards
Start the installer "AV-xx.xx.xx.xx-KILLCARDS.exe".
During installation a new sub-folder "killcards" is created in the chosen installation directory, containing the Killcard_Work.mdb and a Killcard_Runtime.mdb.
Note:
If the installer finds a Killcard_Runtime.mdb in the chosen "killcards" folder, a message box is shown to decide, wether the existing Killcard_Runtime.mdb should be kept or overwritten by an empty one.
If you did not deselect the option 'shortcuts' when installing Killcards, in the Windows Start menu a folder "Vision/Killcards" has been created with links to:
Note:
At start-up the Killcards_Work.mdb always linkes up to the Killcard_Runtime.mdb which is in the same "killcards" directory.

To be able to test the created Killcard_Runtime.mdb, DCS must be installed und the Database copied to registered location.
se also: ODBC data source.

Edit Killcards
Note:
Please make sure to use "Killcard_Work.mdb" to add, edit or erase data in Killcard_Runtime.mdb, otherwise the consistency of the data can not be guaranteed.
For information about each input form and its use, see Killcards input forms.
For information about the standard runtime representation of the thus edited killcards, see Killcards runtime example.