GEOGRAPH is a GEOS application program that allows you to draw mini-graphs from tables of data and then transfer your mini-graphs to other GEOS applications via GEOPAINT. It allows you to use three data tables to draw an indefinite number of combinations on the same graph. GEOGRAPH supports POINT, BAR, HALF BAR, and LINE graphs. Many different graphs of the same data or of different data can be test overlaid on the same graph scale to create special effects. It supports numbers up to 65,000 and does not support decimal numbers, but you can get around these limitations by scaling your data by multiple of ten before entering it into GEOGRAPH. You can copy your graphs into special photo scrap file to be pasted into GEOPAINT.
INSTALLING GEOGRAPH:
GEOGRAPH is installed just like any other GEOS application. Simply run your GEOS program. Then using the GEOS file copy process copy GEOGRAPH to a working disk along with any other GEOS application to which you will be transferring your GEOGRAPH graphs. (To copy a geos file from one disk to another in a one drive system follow these steps:
1. Click on the file and drag it to the bottom of the screen and click again.
2. Close the drive by clicking on the desktop close button in the upper right corner of the desktop window.
3. Remove the original disk and insert your working disk and click on the DRIVE A icon to open the working disk.
4. Click on the file at the bottom of the screen, drag it to the desktop window and click again.
5. Now read and follow the GEOS prompts to complete the process). If you have a two drive system, simply drag the file to the Drive icon you wish to copy to and click.
ABOUT THE TWO GEOGRAPH MENU BOXES:
To use GEOGRAPH, simply double click on the GEOGRAPH icon. After a few seconds the GEOGRAPH window will overlay the desktop window. You will see "THE GEOS GRAPHER 64^ in the center of the screen and the first GEOGRAPH menu box at the top of the GEOGRAPH window. The GEOGRAPH menu options are abbreviated so that the number of menu boxes could be limited to two. This first menu will be referred to in these instructions as the DATA menu since DATA is its first options. The options are explained below:
DATA - This option draws a data table on the left side of the GEOGRAPH window to allow you to enter data. Clicking on DATA will draw the data table, display any current data and place the cursor at the top of the table (Note that some earlier model of the Commodore 64 the cursor is not visible for some reason. It is still relatively easy to determine where the cursor is by pressing RETURN and watching for the flicker. You may also try change the GEOS color settings if you have this problem). You may enter data (number between 0 and 65,000, no decimals) by typing the number and pressing RETURN after each entry. You may use the delete key only to correct mistake before pressing RETURN. You may edit current data by simply typing over it and pressing RETURN.
HM - Clicking on HM will return the cursor to the first entry position in the data table to allow you to edit or
HM - Clicking on HM will return the cursor to the first entry position in the data table to allow you to edit or enter new data.
DN - Clicking on DN will move the cursor down to the next data entry position.
UP - Clicking on UP will move the cursor up to the next data entry position.
SW - Clicking on SW will switch between the HORZ. and VERT. data entry position.
ZERO - Clicking on ZERO will zero out all data. YOU MUST BE CAREFUL ONLY TO USE THIS OPTION IF YOU NO LONGER NEED THE DATA.
MENU - Clicking on MENU will switch to the GEOGRAPH GRAPH menu which has additional options.
CLR - Clicking on CLR will clear the data table from the screen, but it will not zero out the data. The data table and the data can be redisplayed by clicking on DATA, HM, DN, UP, or SW.
Q - Clicking on Q will exit GEOGRAPH and return to the DESKTOP. You data and graph will be lost unless you have use the SAV option to save your data and the CPY option to copy your graph into a GEOS PHOTO SCRAP file.
As noted above GEOGRAPH also has a second menu that will be referred to as the GRAPH menu. The option for this menu are explained below:
GRAPH - Clicking on GRAPH will clear the graph area on the screen and draw the graph scale for you to later draw various types of graphs from the data table.
LD - Clicking on LD will load data that was previously saved with the SAV option.
SAV - Clicking on SAV will save all of the data to a GEOS file that can be loaded later with the LD option.
CPY - Clicking on CPY will copy the graph that is currently displayed on the screen into a special photo scrap file that can be pasted back into GEOGRAPH using the PAS option or pasted into any GEOPAINT using the paste function. Once in GEOPAINT the graph can be cut and pasted just as any other standard GEOS picture. Please not that the GEOGRAPH photo scrap file is too big to paste into GEOWRITE directly, but after pasting it into GEOPAINT it can be copies from GEOPAINT to GEOWRITE or from GEOPAINT to a PHOTO ALBUM and then to GEOWRITE.
SET - Clicking on SET will activate a side SET window which will allow you to set certain aspects of how GEOGRAPH will graph your data. This SET window will be explained in more details later in these instructions.
DRW - Clicking on DRW will draw a graph on top of whatever is already displayed in the graph area on the screen. It is important to note that DRW does not clear the graph screen area before it draws the graph. This feature allow you to draw graph on top of other graphs using the same or different data. the type of graph that will be drawn and the characteristics of the graph will depending on the setting in the SET window.
MENU - Clicking on MENU will switch to t
MENU - Clicking on MENU will switch to the DATA menu.
PAS - Clicking on PAS will paste a graph that has been copied by the CPY option back to the GEOGRAPH graph screen area. Note that GEOGRAPH CPY option creates a standard photo scrap file with the exception that GEOGRAPH using its own icon instead of the standard scissors so that you can distinguish GEOGRAPH photo scrap files from others. Attempting to paste other photo scrap files into GEOGRAPH may produce unpredictable results.
ABOUT THE SET OPTION:
The SET option is what makes GEOGRAPH so versatile. SET is on the GRAPH menu and clicking on it will draw two additional windows on the right side of the screen. Please note that these SET windows do not require you to click to select from them. To select move the pointer down the left side of the window ensuring not to go inside. When the pointer is directly to the left of the option you wish to select move the pointer to the right over the option. The option will be selected and the pointer will immediately jump back to the left and outside of the window for you to make you next selection. The option from the SET windows are explained below:
TYPE - Controls the type of graph that will be drawn by DRW (ie; BAR, POINT, LINE or HALF BAR). Note that move the pointer over TYPE will also change the option that are available in the bottom SET window.
H-SCALE and V-SCALE - These two option control the horizontal and vertical scales so that you can work with large numbers. Note that the vertical scale on GEOGRAPH only goes as high as 110 and the horizontal scale only goes as high as 160. GEOGRAPH will graph up to a vertical number up 149 and a horizontal number up to 164 before automatically increasing the scaling factor as explained below. Note that vertical number larger than 110 will be drawn outside of the graph area and will be cut off. These two options allows you to adjust the scaling factors to divide all data elements by 1, 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000 to force larger number to fit within the scale. Moving the pointer over these options will cycle through 1, 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000. Please note that GEOGRAPH will automatically adjust these scaling factor to accommodate the largest data element. Once a scaling factor has been increased either by you or by GEOGRAPH it will retain its value until you change yourself or until GEOGRAPH attempt to graph a data element larger than the one which forced the last scaling factor increase.
DATA SET - This option allow you to select which of the three sets ('A', 'B', or 'C') of data you want to work with. As you saw when you displayed the data table for the first time, the upper left corner of the table contained the letter 'A' to denote that you were working with data set 'A. Each data set can hold 15 data points. Moving the pointer over DATA SET will cycle through 'A', 'B' and 'C'.
MENU - This option closes the SET windows and returns you to the GRAPH menu.
WIDTH and SIZE - These options in the lower window control the width of the BAR and the size of the POINT that will be used in the graph. The default width of the BAR is 5 centered on the data point and the default width of a HALF BAR is 2 starting at the data point and drawn to the right. The default size of the POINT is is three centered on the data point.
PATTERN - This option controls the fill pattern for the BAR and POINT.
RESET - This option will reset the WIDTH, SIZE and PATTERN to their default values.
EXAMPLE 1 USE OF GEOGRAPH:
Let assume that you are in charge of 3 salepersons and you have collected data on their performance for 6 months as shown in the spread sheet below:
EXAMPLE 1 USE OF GEOGRAPH:
Let assume that you are in charge of 3 salepersons and you have collected data on their performance for 6 months as shown in the spread sheet below:
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
JACK 50 75 60 30 100 65
Bill 20 60 50 15 55 40
Sue 30 45 90 25 70 80
You can use the GEOGRAPH scale to display these three different sets of data. Let assume you want a BAR graph. Recall that the default width of the BAR is 5. Therefore you must choose point on the horizontal scale for the months such that the BARS do not fall directly on top of each other. For Jack you can chose 10,30,50,70,90,110. Sue should offset by at least five from Jack so chose 15,35,55,75,95,115 and for Bill 20,40,60,80,100,120. You can change the horizontal scale to months after you copy the graph tp GEOPAINT. So enter the following data as data set 'A', 'B' and 'C' using the SET option to switch between the different data sets.
'A' HORZ VERT 'B' HORZ VERT 'C' HORZ VERT
10 50 15 20 20 30
30 75 35 60 40 45
50 60 55 50 60 90
70 30 75 15 80 25
90 100 95 55 100 70
110 65 115 40 120 80
Once you have entered all of the data click on SAV to save the data. You are now ready to draw you BAR charts. Click on SET and use DATA SET select 'A'. Use RESET to ensure defaults. Return to the MENU. Click on DRW to draw the BAR graph for data set 'A'. Now click on SET and use DATA SET to select 'B'. Also use PATTERN to select a different fill pattern. return to menu and click on DRW. You should now have set 'A' and 'B' on the graph. Repeat this process for set 'C'. You now have the three sets on the graph. Click on CPY to copy your graph to the special photo scrap file. Now click on Q to quit to the DESKTOP. Now open a GEOPAINT file and paste the graph into your GEOPAINT document. You can not edit the graph as you wish. Erase the numbers on the horizontal scale and type in the months starting with Jan. See the Figure 1 in the example letter at the end of these instructions as an example of how the graph can be made to look. The graph was pasted into GEOPAINT and edited, it was then pasted into a PHOTO ALBUM page. When I had finished pasting any many graphs into the PHOTO ALBUM as I wanted I then used GEOWRITE to write the letter and cut and the pasted the graphs from the PHOTO ALBUM as I needed them.
USING GEOGRAPH, GEOPAINT, PHOTO MANAGER and GEOWRITE TOGETHER:
So as you can see the steps for using GEOGRAPH, GEOPAINT, PHOTO MANAGER and GEOWRITE is as follow:
1. Enter data and draw graph in GE
USING GEOGRAPH, GEOPAINT, PHOTO MANAGER and GEOWRITE TOGETHER:
So as you can see the steps for using GEOGRAPH, GEOPAINT, PHOTO MANAGER and GEOWRITE is as follow:
1. Enter data and draw graph in GEOGRAPH. Use CPY to copy graph into special GEOGRAPH photo scrap file. Remember that GEOGRAPH can not read scrap file from other applications.
2. Open a GEOPAINT document and paste the special photo scrap file into the GEOPAINT document. Edit the Graph as desired and then copy using the GEOPAINT edit menu. Now use the GEOPAINT geos menu to run the PHOTO MANAGER and open a photo album. Go to an empty page in the photo album and use paste from the edit menu.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 3 until you have created all the graphs you need.
4. Now open a GEOWRITE document and enter your desired text. When you need one of the graph you placed in the photo album use the geos menu to run the PHOTO MANAGER and open the photo album. Go to the page containing the graph and use the edit menu and copy. Return to GEOWRITE and use the edit menu and paste.
EXAMPLE 2 USE OF GEOGRAPH:
Let assume that you wanted to show your staff performance with a point graph instead of a bar graph. In this case it will be ok for the points line up horizontally. Therefore all you need to do is chose 6 horizontal point to represent the months. So run GEOGRAPH and use LD to load your data sets back into memory. Now change the HORZ. value for sets 'A' and 'C' so that are the same as the value already in set 'B' (ie; 15,35,55,75,95,115). Use SAV to save your data. Now draw point graphs for each data sets by using the SET option to select each data set and selection a different size point and pattern for each data set graph. As you can see this point graph is hard to use. It would be easier to read if it also had lines. Use the SET option to select the TYPE to LINE. Now use DRW to graph each of the 3 data set again on top of the points. The finish product should be similar to figure 2 of the example letter.
CONCLUSIONS:
I think you will find GEOGRAPH very easy to use and very useful. I have included example of the mini-graphs at the end of the instructions to help you see what you can do with GEOGRAPH. Good luck with GEOGRAPH and Mini-Graphs.
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