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Overview

How to...

What is...

About...

Registration Information


How To...

Change Hot Keys

Change Tag Color

Change Tag Font

Create a Tag

Design a tag

Display Bitmaps on Tags

Jump Back to previous Views

Make Notes on Tags

Manage Tag Styles

Move Main Button

Record Scroll Position

Save Tag Styles


What is...

Action Menu

Button

Jump Tag

Note Area

Scroll Position Marker

TagIt Main Menu

Tag Part

Tag Style

View History

Shareware


About...

Bitmaps

Clipboard

Files and Windows

Global Preferences Dialog Box

Hot Keys

Preferences about Window

Range Adjustment Mode

Running TagIt


Jump Tags

You can have a Jump Tag remember the position of a scroll bar and jump back to the position  later with a click on the tag. A Jump Tag appears next to the scroll thumb position it remembers.


Overview

How many times have you scroll through your document just to see another part of it, and then scroll all the way back? Have you ever used bookmark feature of your word processor? If you have, did you find it easy-to-use?

Run TagIt, and you can:

Jump back instantly to previous views by pressing Ctrl + Up arrow  hot key. See View History.

Mark current scroll position by creating a tag and jump back to the position later.

Make notes on tags that stick to windows.

Tags belong to windows or to the desktop. When a window is an application window that represents a file, tags belonging to the window also belong to the file, that is, they will come back when you load the file again. (See Files and Windows.)

See Also:    Creating a New Tag     Making Notes on Tags


Files and Windows

TagIt identifies files displayed in application windows and tracks tags that belong to a window after the window is gone. For example, if you load a text file by Notepad, TagIt notes that the file is related to the Notepad window, and associates with the file all tags belonging to the window. This means even though these tags go away when you exit the Notepad, they will come back when you load the file again.

In order this feature to work, TagIt must be running when the file is loaded and saved. So adding TagIt to startup group of Program Manager is strongly recommended.

Though TagIt identifies most files, it is not perfect. When Main Button looks like [image], some file is associated with the window. When it looks like [image], no file is associated. To ensure that the correct file is associated, select This Window in the main menu. The Preferences About This Window Dialog Box will appear.


Changing Tag Color

To change the color of a tag:

1. Select Styles from the Action Menu of the tag. A pop-up menu should appear.

2. Select Preferences from the pop-up menu. The Tag Preferences Dialog Box appears.

3. Press the Tag Color button.

4. Choose a color with the standard color dialog.

Tip


Changing Tag Font

To change the font:

1. Select Styles from Action Menu of the tag. A pop-up menu should appear.

2. Select Preferences from the pop-up menu. The Tag Preferences Dialog Box appears.

3. In the Parts list box, select note. If there are more than one note item, each corresponds to a note area the tag contains. As you select one item, the frame shown on the indicates which note area the options displayed are about.

4. Press the Choose Font button.

5. Choose a font with the standard font dialog.

Tip


After changing font or color, you can save the style of the tag so that you can create tags with the color or font readily. See Saving Tag Styles.


Preferences About This Window Dialog Box

To display the dialog:

Select This Window in the TagIt Main Menu.

Overview

This dialog box is for configuring features that relate to the application window the Main Menu is on.

Window:	This identifies the window.

Displaying: Here is shown the file that TagIt has associated with the window. If no file has been identified, <Unknown> is displayed.

    Change: If you find that the file associated with the window is wrong, or that TagIt has failed to identify the file, specify the correct file by pushing this button.

Scroll bar: Configures the Range Adjustment Mode for scroll bars. Select Vertical Scroll Bar or Horizontal Scroll Bar to configure.


Range Adjustment Mode

TagIt adjusts recorded scroll positions when the range of the scroll bar changes. There are three modes of adjusting:

None:	No adjustment is made.

Proportional: Stretches proportionally.

As Document: Assumes that the amount of the change has been inserted at the current position.


Run TagIt at startup!

Run TagIt at Windows startup! (If you used the setup program to install TagIt, this should have been already done. If you did not use the setup, you can do it by adding TagIt to the startup group of Program Manager.) This is strongly recommended because TagIt cannot relate files with windows if the files have been loaded before it is run.


This is the default hot key. See also: TagIt Global Preferences Dialog Box.


Sticky Tags

You can make notes on a tag and stick it on windows.


TagIt Main Menu

This menu appears when the Main Button is pressed.


Main Button Position

You can change the position where the main button appears.

From the main menu, select Position. A pop-up menu appears.

Upper Left:	Displays the main button at the upper-left corner of the window.

Upper Right:	Displays the main button at the upper-right corner of the window.

Move:	You can adjust the position relative to the corner you have chosen (upper-left or upper-right). To do this, select this item and drag the button.


Main Button

Pressing this button invokes the Main Menu.

See Also: Main Button Position


Where these tags go when the window is gone?

When you destroy a window, tags that belong to the window vanish, too. If the window has been associated with a file, the tags are saved and will come back when you load the file again.

Desktop tags remain there as long as TagIt is running. They are saved when TagIt exits, and loaded again at the next startup.


Creating a New Tag

To stick onto a window:

1. Make the window active by, for example, clicking the title bar. You should find the Main Button on the window.

2.	Press the Main Button.  The TagIt Main Menu displaying available tag styles appears.

3.	Select one style from the pop-up menu.

4.	A new tag of the selected style appears.

Note: The tag created this way belongs to the window.

To stick onto the desktop:

1.	Click on the TagIt icon. A pop-up menu displaying available tag styles appears.

2.	Select one style from the pop-up menu.

3.	A new tag of the selected style appears.

To tear off a tag from a window to stick onto the desktop, Select EditTear off from the Action Menu.

To make a desktop tag stick to a window, use the clipboard.

See Also: Where these tags go when the window is gone?


Making Notes on Tags

To make notes on a tag:

1. Double-click on the tag (more precisely, on a Note Area of the tag)

 or

1. Select Notes from the Action Menu of the tag.

2. A caret appears and you can edit texts.

3. To finish editing, either hit the Esc key or click anywhere outside the tag.


Changing Hot Keys

You can change hot keys with TagIt Global Preferences Dialog Box.


View History

View history is unique and the most easy-to-use feature of TagIt. It records application views you viewed in the back ground. You can jump back to recorded previous views of applications by pushing Ctrl + Up arrow  hot key.

For example, suppose you are editing a document and you want to look up some other part of the document. You may look for the part by, say, scrolling with scroll bar. After looking up, you need to return to the part to resume editing. Usually, you go back to the part again with scroll bar. With TagIt, you only need to push Ctrl + Up arrow key. The view will be back instantly.


Hot Keys

There are three functions that are invoked by hot keys.

Put Primary Tag: Create a tag of the first tag style on the list of available tag styles. Ctrl + Tab key.

Go Back:	Change the view to the last one in the view history. Ctrl + Up arrow key.

Go Forward:	After using Go Back, you can go forward to the original view with this hot key. Ctrl + Down arrow key.

You can change hot keys with TagIt Global Preferences Dialog Box.


Global Preferences Dialog Box

To display the dialog:

Select Options... from the TagIt Main Menu.

HotKeys

To:	Select a function that is assigned to the hot key.

Key:	Select a key in the drop-down list box and check Ctrl+, Alt+, and Shift+ to specify the hot key.

History	Configuration of view history feature.

Record Limit: Number of views that can be recorded.

Minimum Time: A view is recorded if it lasts for this minimum time. With this time longer, you can have TagIt record only those important views that you spent long time viewing it.

Eliminate Identical Views: Check this to eliminate identical views in the view history.


Note Area

A tag can have one or more note areas. A note area is a kind of tag part that displays texts. Simple tags have only one note area that covers most of the tag.

Each note area has properties such as font,  font color, and sizing mode. It can also be single- or multi-lined. These options can be changed in Note Options of Tag Preferences Dialog Box.

See Also: Tag Style


Tag Styles

Tag style is a set of properties of a tag such as its color. It includes options about sizing, positioning, and hiding of the tag, as well as information about which parts it has. You can change tag styles with Tag Preferences Dialog Box.

TagIt maintains a list of tag styles. When creating a new tag, you select a style from the list that is displayed in the TagIt Main Menu. You can edit the list with Tag Styles Dialog Box.

You can also save the style of a tag.


Tag Parts

Each tag may have one or more buttons, note areas, and scroll position markers. These are called tag parts. You can configure which parts a tag (or a tag style) should have with Tag Preferences Dialog Box.


Scroll Position markers

Tags with this tag part can record and reproduce scroll positions. (See Jump Tags). There are two kinds: VSB markers and HSB markers.


Action Menu

An action menu for a tag appears either

1.	when you click the secondary (right) button of the mouse when the cursor is on the tag,

or

2.	when you click the primary (left) button of the mouse when the cursor is on any buttons on the tag,

See Also: Action Menu Items


Each tag belongs either to a window or to the desktop. Tags that belong to a window move along with the window. See also: Where these tags go when the window is gone?


Which Button?

Note, when TagIt takes an action to a bitmap, it needs to know which bitmap you mean. When you invoke the action menu by clicking a button, it knows. By this reason, when you produce an action menu by clicking the mouse right button when the cursor is not on any button, there does not appear the Bitmap item.


Action Menu Items

The action menu of a tag has some of the following items according to which parts the tag has.

Notes: 	Select this to edit texts in the note area of the tag. (See Making Notes on Tags.)

Jump to:	Invokes a jump to a scroll position the tag remembers.

Re-Tag:	Records the current scroll position.

Bitmap:	Invokes a pop-up menu that controls bitmap function. Which Button?

Delete:	Deletes the tag.

Edit

   Tear Off: If the tag belongs to a window, this makes it leave the window and stick to the desktop.

   Cut:	Cuts the tag onto the clipboard.

   Copy:	Copy the tag onto the clipboard.

Style

   Save to List: Saves the style of the tag to the tag style list.

   Preferences: Invokes the Tag Preferences Dialog Box for configuring options about the tag.


Saving Tag Styles

You can save the style of a tag to the current list of available tag styles so that you can create tags of the style later.

To save the style of a tag:

1. Select Style from the Action Menu of the tag. A pop-up menu appears.

2. Select Save to List from the pop-up menu.

See Also     Tag Styles Dialog Box


Tag Preferences Dialog Box

To display the dialog:

1. Select Styles from the Action Menu of the tag. A pop-up menu should appear.

2. Select Preferences from the pop-up menu.

Overview

You can change various properties of a tag with this dialog box. On upper half of the dialog box, the tag is displayed. A moveable frame representing the part selected in the Parts list box appears on the displayed tag. You can move and size the part by dragging this frame.

Parts:	Tag parts that belong to the tag are listed in this list box. Select one to choose options about the part.

Details: 	Options about the selected part appear here.

Remove: 	Select a tag part in the Parts list box and click this button to remove the part.

Available:	This list box contains available tag parts that can be added to the tag.

Add:	Select a tag part in Available list box and click this button to add the part to the tag.

Save:	Click this button to save the style of the tag to the current list of available tag styles.

Tag Parts

Tag	General options about the tag.

Button	Options about buttons and bitmaps.

Note	Options about note area.

VSB marker

HSB marker


VSB Marker

A tag  with this part can record a scroll position of a vertical scroll bar.


HSB Marker

A tag with this part can record a scroll position of a horizontal scroll bar.


Tag Options

Tag Options are displayed in Details box on the Tag Preferences Dialog Box when Tag is selected in Parts list box.

Tag Color:  Click this to change the color of the tag.

Size

  Manual:	Makes the tag manually resizeable. You can size the tag by dragging its edges.

  Auto:	When this is selected, the tag is automatically sized to contain all parts.

  Dual Size:	Check this to put the tag into dual size mode.

  Flip:	Push this button to flip between two sizes when the tag is in dual size mode.

Position

  Stick:	The tag sticks to the window.

  Scroll Bar:	The tag places itself so that it represents the scroll position it has recorded.

Show

  Only when Active: The tag appears only when the window it belongs to is active.

  When Near: The tag appears only when the scroll position is near the one it has recorded.


Dual Size Mode

When a tag is in dual size mode, it remembers its two sizes. You can flip between the sizes by clicking the size button that appears at the upper-right corner of the tag. The sizing options (Manual or Auto) can be selected separately for each size.

See Also:  Tag Preferences Dialog Box  Tag Options


Bitmaps

Tags that have buttons can hold bitmaps. Which Button?

To load a .BMP file:

1. Select Bitmap from the action menu of the tag. A pop-up menu appears.

2. Select Load from the pop-up menu. A dialog box appears.

3. Specify a .BMP file with the standard file dialog.

To paste a bitmap from the clipboard:

1. Select Bitmap from the action menu of the tag. A pop-up menu appears.

2. Select Paste from the pop-up menu.

To copy a bitmap on a tag onto the clipboard:

1. Select Bitmap from the action menu of the tag. A pop-up menu appears.

2. Select Copy from the pop-up menu.


Buttons

Button is a kind of tag part. There are two kinds of button:

Default:	The one you can find at the upper-left corner of the default tags. When clicked, the action menu of the tag appears.

Bitmap:	Holds a bitmap.

Options about a button can be changed in Button Options in Tag Preferences Dialog Box.


Button Options

Button Options are displayed in details box on the Tag Preferences Dialog Box when Button is selected in Parts list box.

Default:	Makes the button a default clickable button.

BitMap:	Makes the button display a bitmap.

Fixed Size:	When the BitMap check box is checked, this option makes the bitmap fixed-sized, regardless of the real size of the bitmap. Otherwise, the bitmap sizes itself according to the real size.

Load Bitmap	When the button is a bitmap button, click this to load .bmp file.


Note Options

Note Options are displayed in details box on the Tag Preferences Dialog Box when Note is selected in Parts list box.

Font

  Choose Font:  Click this button to choose a font for the note area.

  Font Color: Click this button to choose the color of the font.

Border:	Makes the note area bordered.

Multi Line: Makes the note area multi-lined.

Fixed Size: If this option is checked, the note area has a fixed size that you can change by dragging the frame that appears on the tag displayed in the upper half of the dialog. Otherwise, the note area sizes itself so that it can contain all the text.


Recording Scroll Position

A tag can record a scroll position and reproduce the position afterward (jump).

To record with a new tag:

Create a new tag of a style that has VSB marker and/or HSB marker (for example, the default tag named Jump). The new tag will remember the current position of the scroll bar, and you can jump back to the position later.

To change the recorded scroll position of a tag:

Select Re-Tag from the action menu of the tag.


Clipboard Area

The tag on the clipboard is displayed here. Select this item to create a copy of the tag.


Clipboard

You can save a tag onto the clipboard just as you save texts or bitmaps.

To save a tag to clipboard:

1. Select Edit from the action menu of the tag. A pop-up menu appears.

2. Select Copy  or Cut from the pop-up menu.

To paste a tag from clipboard:

Select the clipboard area from TagIt Main Menu.


Tag Styles Dialog Box

To display the dialog:

Select Tag Style... from the TagIt Main Menu.

Overview

On the left, a list box contains available tag styles. This dialog box is for editing this list.

Edit...	Select a style from the list and click this button. The Tag Preferences Dialog Box appears and you can modify the style.

New	Creates a new style that you can edit to design your own tag style.

Delete	Deletes the selected style.

Move Up	Click this to move the selected style up.

Move Down	Click this to move the selected style down.


When you register...

You will receive:

1. The current registered version of TagIt. The registered version is Upgrade Proof: registered user will be able to install newer shareware version of TagIt and consider your new version registered. The new shareware version will eliminate any registration screens. This feature will work for all new shareware versions at least up until the next major release.

2. A printed, bound Users Guide.

3. Technical support via CompuServe or paper mail.


Registration Information

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Jumping to recorded scroll position

To jump to a recorded scroll position, just click on the tag that remembers the scroll position.

See Also:  Jump Tags