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- %CO:A,12,70%!Chart: Version 1.0. ReadMe File.
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- The application is designed to assist in the production of graphics
- that represent a value or several values up to a maximum of 12.
-
- There are two major parts to the program.
-
- The first part takes numeric values, input from the keyboard,
- summing them if desired, and transforms the result into a histogram.
- The data thus formed may then be sent to an FX type dot matrix
- printer into which special characters have been previously
- downloaded. The data may also be sent to the printer for normal
- printing in tabulated form.
-
- The second part organises the data previously input at the
- keyboard, into a form suitable for drawing bars whose length is
- proportionate to the values of the the data. These may then be drawn
- into a Draw style window. The result may then be saved and/or
- printed, or passed to the !Draw application for editing.
-
- Interactive help is provided in the main window. As this is
- abbreviated of necessity, the following guide would repay careful
- study.
-
- Guide
-
- Template file.
- This resides in the application directory. It sets the size and
- other attributes of the windows. The initial values in the writable
- icons may be reset by amending the templates using the FormEd editor.
- (Available from Archive). Take care when carrying out amendments as
- the application expects specific items in the windows and may crash
- if they are altered.
-
- !Boot, !Run, !Sprites, sprites and Setprinter files are also
- resident in the application directory. They are all essential to the
- correct running of the application. Either the operating system or
- the application will tell you if anything is wrong. Examine the files
- if you get an inexplicable failure. The Setprinter file will supply
- the printer codes for the FX types of printer. It has been tested
- with the Canon PW-1080A. You may write your own codes by editing the
- file using the !Edit application. Your printer operating manual will
- tell you what to do. However, switching between the programmable
- character set and normal set, and setting the line spacing, is a part
- of the print function and cannot be easily changed by you.
-
- Operation.
-
- N.B. Information contained in the writable window icons is read only
- when a selection is made from the main window menu. If you make
- changes, reselect items from this menu.
-
- Setting up.
- Follow the standard procedure for the Riscos system to display the
- main window. Decide how many bars you want to print or draw, and set
- the number of bars to this figure. (12 max). Set the label group to
- either months, weekdays or own-set with 1,2 or 3 respectively.
- Change the bar style if you wish to. Sixteen special characters are
- downloaded when you choose this menu item. If you choose own-set in
- the label group, you must select the label item on the menu and type
- in the labels you want. Three characters only of the labels are
- printed at the bottom of the bars. Prompts are provided at the
- bottom of the label dialogue box to assist you while entering the
- labels.
-
- You should now have the figures to be entered before you. They
- will either be complete for each bar or will be figures which have to
- be summed to arrive at the figure for each bar. Anything more
- complicated than straight summing will have been done on a
- calculator, it is assumed.
-
- Entering data.
- Select 'Enter data' on the menu. A dialogue box appears. The caret
- is waiting for an entry. If summing, make entries until all the data
- for the first bar has been entered and then enter '/'. This
- terminating character is close to hand (or finger) on both the
- keyboard and the numeric key pad. While you are making entries, the
- last entry is shown, by count and value entered, in the bottom
- slot(icon) of the dialogue box. If summing is not required, click on
- the 'Sum' icon. Only one entry per bar is then expected. The first
- entry is for the first bar. This is shown in the middle slot of the
- dialogue box and is updated for each bar in succession. When you
- have completed the number of bars you have requested, the dialogue
- box disappears.
-
- Printing.
- Select the print item on the main-menu-sub menu. The tabulation
- does not need the special characters so should be possible on any
- printer. In fact it can be sent to a file by setting the printer on
- the icon bar to 'file'. See page 186 of User Manual. Before
- printing a histogram you must download the special characters to the
- printer. While this is happening, the usual screen prompts about
- inserting a particular disc etc. may be sent to the printer instead
- of to the screen. A command window giving help during downloading
- has been provided. Your printer should give a beep if the download
- has been successful. If you have not downloaded, the printer may
- print only the heading and baseline. The effect of attempting a
- download to a non FX printer may be unhappy.
-
- Editing.
- Select 'Edit data' on the menu having previously set the bars to be
- edited on the grid of 12 icons. The 'enter data dialogue box'
- appears waiting for an entry for the first of the selected bars. Non
- selected intermediate bars are skipped. Entries are NOT governed by
- the No. of bars setting in the main window. To print or draw edited
- bars, they must be within the selected range. E.g. You have edited
- bars 3 and 6. No. of bars == 4. Only bar 3 would be printed. Amend
- No. of bars to 8 and both edited bars will be printed when you
- reselect 'Print' on the main menu. Of course all other bars for
- which data has been entered and which are within range, will be
- printed.
-
- Drawing.
- The drawing section of the program is a little more difficult to
- operate. All that we aim to do is to amend a drawing, previously
- created in the !Draw application, by adding some precise values.
- Click on the Draw item on the menu to display a drawing window. Drag
- a baseline file, or other draw file, previously created on the !Draw
- application, into the window. This sets up a diagram in memory. On
- the drawing window menu, select 'Show bars' and if there is anything
- to show, they will appear. You now have a drawing in the correct
- format which may be saved, printed or edited. What you do with it is
- up to you, but there are many possibilities. For example, bars may
- be horizontally presented as in a normal bar chart. To print, drag
- the saveas file icon to your printer icon on the iconbar.
-
- End of Guide
- End of ReadMe
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