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TagIt Desktop Navigating Tag Manager User's Guide
Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology
Disclaimer
THIS PROGRAM AND DOCUMENTATION ARE DISTRIBUTED AS-IS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES.
ELIMINA TECHNOLOGY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES,
WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS
INTO WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED.
IN NO EVENT WILL ELIMINA TECHNOLOGY BE LIABLE TO YOU, YOUR
CUSTOMERS OR OTHER USERS FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR OTHER SIMILAR CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF OR THE INABILITY TO USE
THIS SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION.
TAGIT IS A SHAREWARE
THIS PRODUCT IS NOT FREE. IT IS OFFERED ON A "SHAREWARE"
BASIS. YOU HAVE A TEMPORARY LICENSE TO USE THIS PRODUCT FOR
THIRTY DAYS TO EVALUATE ITS USEFULNESS TO YOU. IF YOU WISH
TO KEEP USING IT YOU MUST REGISTER IT.
To register TagIt select "About TagIt" from the icon menu
and push "Registration Form" Button. A registration form
will appear. Read instructions that follows the registration
form.
Please contact Elimina Technology at the Compuserve id on
the next page for site licenses or other payment arrangements,
or paying methods other than by credit card.
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Contents
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING TAGIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Removing TagIt from Your System . . . . . . . . . . 5
CHAPTER 3 NAVIGATING WITH TAGIT . . . . . . . . . . 5
Easy Start -- The View History . . . . . . . . . . 5
What are Tags? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Jump Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
CHAPTER 4 WORKING WITH TAGIT . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anatomy of Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Note Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Scroll Position markers . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Main Button and Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Action Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Creating a new tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Making Notes on a Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Displaying a Bitmap on a Tag . . . . . . . . . . . 10
CHAPTER 5 CONFIGURING TAGIT . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Global Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Hot Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Global Preferences Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 11
Preferences about Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Preferences About This Window Dialog Box . . . . 12
Tag Preferences Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Tag Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Button Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Note Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Tag Styles Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Moving Main Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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Chapter 1 Introduction
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?
TagIt is a desktop navigating tag manager for Windows 3.1.
Tags are compact windows that you can drag around. They
belong to windows or to the desktop. Tags belonging to a
window move along the window when you move it. They behave
as if they are sticking onto the window.
When a window is an application window that represents a
file, tags belonging to the window also belong to the file.
That is, although tags go away when the window is gone, they
will come back when you load the file again.
TagIt allows you to:
· Mark scroll position with a tag and jump back there
with a click on it.
· Drag the scroll thumb along with a tag, making the
screen scroll along. Even though the application does not
usually scroll the screen while you are dragging the thumb,
TagIt makes it possible to drag and scroll.
· Make notes and display bitmaps on tags. Tag sizes
itself to minimize its size while keeping texts visible.
· Fully configure your tags, including colors and display
fonts.
· Save the style of your tag onto a list and quickly
create a new tag from one of styles on the list.
· Jump back and forth among previous views of
applications using hot keys. TagIt automatically records the
views.
These features are all easy to use and make your life
easier, or so we sincerely hope. Please contact us for any
questions or suggestions for improving this product.
Elimina Technology
89-1-205, Minami-Nishiura
Tanaka, Kyoto 606, Japan
Compuserve: 73610,2750
Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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Chapter 2 Installing TagIt
Installation
TagIt distribution package comes with an automated
installation program. To install TagIt, do one of the
following:
From Program Manager:
Select File menu and choose Run. Then type:
<drive>:\<path>\SETUP.EXE
where <drive> is the drive and <path> is the path that
the TagIt distribution files are in. Then press Enter.
For example, if the files are on the distribution
diskette in your A:drive, type:
A:\SETUP.EXE
Then press Enter.
or
From File Manager:
Select SETUP.EXE from the directory that the TagIt
distribution files are in. Then press Enter.
Removing TagIt from Your System
If you decide to remove TagIt from your system,
1. Delete all files and subdirectories in the directory
that the installation program created.
2. Remove TAGIT.EXE from the StartUp group of Program
Manager.
3. Delete TAGIT.INI in your Windows directory.
If you use a shell program other than Program Manager, The
install program may have added TAGIT.EXE to your "load="
lines in WIN.INI. You should also remove this entry.
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Chapter 3 Navigating With TagIt
Easy Start -- The View History
Let's start with the easiest feature of TagIt. The view
history. View history is unique and the most easy-to-use
feature of TagIt. It records the history of application
views. You can jump back and forth among recorded previous
views of applications using hot keys.
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 again with the scroll bar. With TagIt,
you only need to push the hot key. The view will be back
instantly.
The hot key to jump back is Ctrl + Up Arrow key by default.
You can change the hot key. See Chapter 5 Configuring TagIt.
You can also go forward. Suppose you have just jumped back
from looking up another part, and suddenly you want to see
the part again. Press Ctrl + Down Arrow key -- that is the
default hot key to go forward in the view history.
TagIt is not simply recording every view you have seen. If
it were, it would end up recording all the views that
appeared while you are scrolling through the document.
Playing back all these views would not be much use. Instead,
TagIt records only those views that you spent more than
certain amount of time looking at it. By doing this, TagIt
can allow you to go back to those important views that you
looked at, rather than just passed through. The minimum
recording time is by default about 0.5 second. You can
change this value, too. See Chapter 5 Configuring TagIt.
View history works between windows. If you are editing
multiple documents at the same time, typically you
frequently flip between windows. With TagIt, you can jump
back and forth between these windows very quickly.
What are Tags?
Tags are the main players of TagIt. They are small windows
that you can drag about on your screen as you wish. They
belong either to windows or to the desktop. Tags that belong
to a window move along the window -- they stick to the
window. You can store your text and put your favorite bitmap
on tags. You can think of each tag as a computerized version
of a paper sticky note -- with much more functions.
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Sticking tags on desktop, you can use tags as reminders for
appointments, phone numbers, or as repositories for any
information that you can't find a good place for on your
system, but you'd like to be able to locate quickly.
If the information is related to some file, you can make
tags belong to the file. You can use tags as bookmarks or
annotation notes. They are saved when the file is saved, and
come back when you load the file again.
Tags also are able to hold one or more bitmaps. You can
place your favorite picture on a tag -- and stick it to the
desktop just as you display your family picture on your real
desktop. As tags can be freely dragged, this arrangement is
much more flexible than the Windows wall paper.
You can configure each tag's style such as color, font,
sizing property, how many bitmaps to hold, and so on. TagIt
maintains a list of tag styles from which you can create a
new tag. By saving the style of any tag to the list, you can
design your own style and create as many tags of the style
as you like.
Jump Tags
The most exciting feature of TagIt is jump tags. They are
what make TagIt so distinct from other `sticky note'
programs.
"Jump tag" stands for any tag that has "SB Markers".
However, TagIt has default tag style named "Jump" upon
installation and we will discuss about the behavior of this
style. Any other tag style with "SB Markers" will behave
similarly enough.
Anyway, what jump tags do is to record scroll positions and
recall them at request. So let us start looking at what the
jump tags do.
1. To create a jump tag, simply select a tag named "Jump"
in the menu that appears when you click the TagIt main
button next to the minimize button of a window.
2. A newly created jump tag appears along the scroll bar
next to the current scroll thumb position.
3. To see the "Jump" to happen, first scroll the view to
somewhere else. Then click the jump tag you have just
created.
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4. The scroll thumb jumps back to the position next to the
jump tag, that is, the original position. The view in the
window is also back to the one you saw at first.
Isn't it easy?
Chapter 4 Working with TagIt
Anatomy of Tags
Each tag may have one or more buttons, note areas, and
scroll position markers (SB Markers). These are called tag
parts. You can configure which parts a tag (or a tag style)
should have and where each part should be on the tag with
Tag Preferences Dialog Box. See Chapter 5.
Buttons
There are two kinds of buttons:
Default When clicked, the action menu of the tag
appears.
Bitmap Holds a bitmap.
Note Area
A tag can have one or more note areas. A note area displays
texts. Simple tags have only one note area covering 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.
Scroll Position Markers
Tags with this tag part can record and reproduce scroll
positions. There are two kinds: VSB markers and HSB markers
for vertical and horizontal scroll bars.
Main Button and Main Menu
The TagIt main button appears at the upper-right corner of
the active window by default. You can change this: see
Chapter 5 Configuring TagIt. When you click the main button,
the main menu appears. The main menu contains the list of
available tag styles. You create a new tag by selecting one
of these styles.
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Other items include the following. See Chapter 5 for details
about each function.
Tag Style This invokes the Tag Styles dialog box.
This Window This invokes the Preferences About This
Window dialog box.
Options This invokes the TagIt Global Preferences
dialog box.
Position This menu allows you to move the main
button.
Action Menu
An action menu for a tag appears either
· when you click the secondary (right) button of the
mouse when the cursor is on the tag, or
· when you click the primary (left) button of the mouse
when the cursor is on any button on the tag.
The action menu of a tag has some of the following items
according to which parts the tag contains.
Notes Select this to edit texts in the note area
of the tag.
Jump to Invokes a jump.
Re-Tag Records the current scroll position.
Bitmap Invoke a pop-up menu that controls bitmap
function.
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.
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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.
Creating a new tag
Creating a new tag for making notes is the same as creating
jump tag. Just select the style named "Sticky" from the main
menu. That is, to create a tag to belong to the window. To
create a tag to belong to the desktop, select from the menu
that appears when you click the TagIt icon on the desktop.
Making Notes on a Tag
This is a basic function of every sticky note program.
Special feature of TagIt includes:
· A tag can size itself to minimize its size. If you
prefer sizing yourself, you can change to fixed size mode.
· A tag can has more than one note areas, each of which
with its own font and font color. You can configure the
position of each note area on the tag.
· Each note area can have a neat 3-D border.
· Each note area can be single- or multi-lined. You can
make them all multi-lined if you like. But in single-lined
notes you can escape from text editing by pressing Enter.
To edit the text on a tag, double click the note area of the
tag. As a default tag style has single note area that cover
most of the tag, simply double click the middle of the tag
if it is of these styles.
While editing, you can use standard short cut keys, such as
Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+V to paste.
To quit editing, either press Esc or click somewhere outside
the tag. If the note area is single-lined, pressing Enter
will do the same.
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Displaying a Bitmap on a Tag
You can display bitmap pictures on tags. As tags are so easy
to handle, you can decorate your desktop with many pictures.
Pictures are held by buttons. Like note areas, a tag can
have more than one buttons. Usually, a button looks like a
3-D button -- you can see it on the upper-left corner of, for
instance, the default "Jump" tag. Using the action menu that
appears when you click on a button, you can load .BMP file
or paste a bitmap from the clipboard.
To load a .BMP file:
1. Select Bitmap item from the action menu of the tag. A
pop-up menu appears.
2. Select Load item from the pop-up menu. A dialog box
appears.
3. Select a.BMP file.
To paste a bitmap from the clipboard:
1. Select Bitmap item from the action menuactionmenu of
the tag. A pop-up menu appears.
2. Select Paste item from the pop-up menu.
To copy a bitmap on a tag onto the clipboard:
1. Select Bitmap item from the action menuactionmenu of
the tag. A pop-up menu appears.
2. Select Copy item from the pop-up menu.
Note that TagIt must know which button is to hold the bitmap
before it can load a picture. Usually the picture will be
held by the button that invoked the action menu you used. So
when you produce an action menu by clicking the mouse right
button when cursor is not on any button (TagIt button, that
is), there does not appear the Bitmap item.
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Chapter 5 Configuring TagIt
This chapter is a reference manual. TagIt is very flexible.
There are so many options that you can select. At first, you
need not care all of them. The online help may be more
convenient for looking up.
Global Preferences
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 is the default.
Go Back Change the view to the last one in the view
history. Ctrl+Up key is the default.
Go Forward After using Go Back, you can go forward to
the original view with this hot key.
Ctrl+Down key is the default.
You can change hot keys with Global Preferences Dialog Box.
To display the dialog, select Options from the TagIt main
menu.
Global Preferences Dialog Box
HotKeys
To Select a function to assign to a hot key.
Key Select a key in the drop-down list box and
check one or more from Ctrl+, Alt+, and
Shift+ to specify the hot key.
History
Configuration of the 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 looking at
it.
Eliminate Identical Views
Check this to eliminate
identical views in the view history.
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Preferences about Windows
These options can be made for each application window.
Preferences About This Window Dialog Box
To display the dialog, select This Window in the main menu
on an application window. This dialog box is for configuring
features that relate to the application window.
Window This identifies the window.
Displaying Here is shown the file that TagIt has
associated with the window. If no file has
been associated, "<Unknown>" is displayed.
Change If you find that a wrong file is associated
with the window, 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 Modes
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.
Tag Preferences Dialog Box
Each tag can be configured separately. You can change the
color, font, font color, etc.
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
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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. The list is displayed in the TagIt
main menu.
Tag Options
Tag options are displayed in Details 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 resizable. 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. 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.
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Flip Push this button to flip between two sizes
when the tag is in dual size mode.
Position
Stick The tag sticks to where you leave it on 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 current scroll
position is near the one it has recorded.
Button Options
Button Options are displayed in Details 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 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.
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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.
Tag Styles Dialog Box
To display the dialog, select Tag Style from the main menu.
On the left of the dialog box, 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.
Moving Main Button
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
select whether the adjustment should be
only for this window class or for all
windows. Then drag the button.
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