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EasyCASE
version 1.6
In addition to 150 & 300 dpi HPLJ printing (registered version only)
with an assortment fonts etc., EasyCASE v1.6 also has a number of
improvements and bug-fixes etc. over the original EasyCASE v1.5
product. These are listed below as they are not covered in the user
manual.
1. You are provided with the option to save the currently loaded
chart, if worked on since the last time it was saved, whenever you
change the chart type.
2. The current chart type is 'remembered' by the select chart type
dialog select box.
3. A new option has been added to the CHANGE - Arrowheads menu option
which allows you to change the direction of a flow. Selecting this
option will reverse the direction of the selected flow.
4. A new option has been added to the chart OPTIONS feature which
allows you to select whether or not you want to be given the chance to
manually locate a label (using the keyboard arrow keys) after adding
it to a new object, re-labelling an object or if a label is inherited
from the data dictionary when an object (labelled or not) is
identified or re-identified.
5. A new option has been added to the chart OPTIONS feature which
allows you to select whether or not you want the label attached to a
flow, connection or transition to be moved whenever the associated
connection is moved either directly or indirectly (moving a symbol to
which the connection is attached).
6. A new option has been added which allows you to specify the grid
and chart window outline color via the COLORS environment variable.
This environment variable, issued at the DOS prompt now takes the form
:
SET COLORS=hcolor,ocolor,wcolor,fcolor,bcolor,gcolor
where gcolor is the new grid color option and defaults to white
(value = 7).
7. Fixed the PC Paintbrush export file palette entries so it should
always produce a black and white image.
8. The chart window row and column offsets are now correctly
initialized to the top left corner whenever a new chart file is
loaded.
9. The screen is now correctly cleared whenever an area of the chart
is selected for printing, plotting or exporting in paint file format.
10. The chart is no longer redrawn if the Re-do option is chosen while
selecting an area of the chart to print, plot or export to paint.
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11. The Escape key can now be used to abort the selection of a chart
area to print, plot or export to paint.
12. A chart can now have up to 256 (instead of 64) connections, flows
or transitions and up to 20 (instead of 10) text blocks.
13. The display of page breaks (dotted yellow horizontal and vertical
lines) is now 'intelligent'. Only the page edges as they apply to the
selected printer, page size (A or B) and page orientation (portrait or
landscape) are shown, reducing screen clutter and confusion. To ensure
the correct page edges are shown, select the desired printer etc.
before working on a chart or using the SET PRINTER= DOS environment
variable.
14. Diagonal flows are now re-routed correctly if created with auto-
route turned-off and then turned-on prior to attempting to move them.
The correct entry/exit direction is now correctly determined.
15. Added the capability (registered version only) to print charts at
150 and 300 dpi resolution, using a variety of supplied fonts, on HP
PCL level 3 printers such as the HP LaserJet and DeskJet series and
compatibles.
16. Fixed a problem which resulted in failure to print right and/or
bottom edges of rectangle symbols appearing in the right column or
bottom row on a page.
17. Added support for both HP 7550 and HP 7475 series plotters (HPGL
compatible). Note that these options can be used for plotting to file
but the results obtained when trying to import the file into a word
processing or desktop publishing program are likely to be
disappointing due to the failure of those product manufacturers to
completely and accurately implement the claimed HPGL file format.
18. Can now double click on filenames in the Select File to Load,
identifiers in the Select Identifier and object types in the Select
Object Type (Data Dictionary Manager) dialog list boxes.
19. Added support for Jackson Data Structure Diagrams (DSDs). These
are similar in appearance to structure charts and can be effectively
used to define the structure of simple or complex composite data. This
chart type is usually used as a 'child' chart of a data store on a DFD
or entity on an ERD.
20. Better error checking used when going to print, particularly at
150 and 300 dpi graphics resolutions (registered version only) on
DeskJets and LaserJets which requires more system memory. EasyCASE
will attempt to grab as much memory as it needs to create the image to
print. If insufficient memory is not available, you will be advised
and returned to the chart. If this occurs, exit EasyCASE and unload
some non-essential TSRs and/or drivers and try again. This should only
be a problem if less than 500K of system memory is available prior to
loading EasyCASE or if you create a large data dictionary with
insufficient available system memory.
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21. An option has been provided in the main menu to enable to access
the DOS prompt (EasyCASE remains loaded in memory), perform various
DOS level operations, and return to EasyCASE by entering the DOS EXIT
command.
22. A chart file backup feature has been added. Whenever you go to re-
save a chart file, the previously saved file will be copied to a .BAK
file prior to saving the currently loaded chart file using the
original filename.
23. An identifer and label is automatically created, based on its
position on the chart, and assigned to split/merge symbols placed on
DFDs and TRGs.
24. Added 4 more entry/exit points to split/merge symbols on DFDs and
TRGs.
26. Labels inherited or entered as a result of identifying flows are
now correctly placed above flows if they consist of more than one line
of text.
27. Project name, specified on the command line, can now be preceded
by a drive name allowing the project directory to reside in a
different sub-directory, directory and/or on a different drive than
the executable and font files (see note below).
28. Can use the right mouse button, in addition to the Escape key, to
abort the interface flow after placing the interface symbol.
29. Can use the right mouse button, in addition to the Escape key, to
abort a flow or connection after selecting the start point.
30. No longer lose internal chart changed flag if a save operation is
not completed due to selecting No or Escape.
31. Re-ordered Save and Exit dialog boxes when EXIT option selected so
chart will not be lost if you choose not save the chart and cancel the
exit.
32. Can now cancel a change chart type selection from the menu without
changing, initializing or losing the currently loaded chart.
33. A cancel option has been added to Save Chart and Over-write Chart
check dialog boxes. Selecting this option or pressing the Escape key
will cancel the operation, leaving the currently loaded chart alone.
If either of these functions resulted from another operation (for
example, Load, Change Chart Type, D/D, Up/Down, Exit etc.) that
function is cancelled also.
34. The Load function is automatically invoked whenever the chart type
is changed as a result of selecting the Chart Type option from the
chart menu.
35. Can now double click on an entry in the Select Chart Type dialog
box to select it.
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36. Added an additional printer type (HPLJ 300 dpi 24x32) to the Print
options dialog box. This is a 300 dpi resolution print mode, for
DeskJets and LaserJets, which will print all symbols, flows, labels
etc. half size. In this mode (registered version only), it is possible
to fit 24 columns by 32 rows of the chart on a single sheet of A-size
paper (portrait mode only), though at the expense of readability.
37. An option has been added to the Print options dialog box which
allows you to select the option (default is option On) to print a page
ONLY if it contains one or more symbols (Processes, Terminators,
Stores etc. only, NOT flows, labels etc.) and skip it otherwise. This
speeds up printing in the case whereby an area of the chart is NOT
selected for printout using the mouse due to NOT selecting the 'Select
Chart Area to Print' option in the Printer options dialog box. It used
to take a relatively large amount of time for EasyCASE to scan each
page to determine if that page contained ANY graphics information to
be printed. Note that if this option is enabled and there are NO
symbols on a page, but there is one or more flows, labels etc.
(objects other than symbols), the page will NOT be printed. Note, this
option affects printing in Portrait mode only.
38. In the Print options dialog box, the 'Select Chart Area to Print'
are 'Skip Page if NO Symbols' default to the on state.
39. Selected Symbol now correctly un-highlighted if Change or Re-Size
operation cancelled after selecting symbol.
40. No longer erroneously select previously selected symbol if a flow
is selected for re-sizing.
41. Dialog boxes window color displays improved.
42. Single line border now surrounds text input box for Load, Save and
Export File, Select Identifier dialog boxes. Highlighting of selected
input text improved.
43. EasyCASE now supports the Hercules graphics card (HGC) and EGA or
VGA cards connected to a Monochrome monitor.
September 9th, 1989
Evergreen CASE Tools,
11025 164th Avenue N.E.,
Redmond, WA 98052, USA
Tel : (206)-881-5149
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