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TransWorld 1/95

Introduction

Using the catalog

The TransWorld Database

Information about this CD-ROM

The Personal Information Manager

User Defined Settings

Problems with the CD-ROM ?


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Introduction

Welcome to the TransWorld Electronic Directory ...

The CD has been modelled on the printed directory (as far as possible). We hope that we have enabled an easy start to, and use of, the CD, and wish you many productive hours of enjoyable work with our product.


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Using the Program

The catalog can be used optionally with a mouse or almost completely via the keyboard.

Using the mouse

The use of the mouse is conform to standard Windows usage, even though the buttons are graphically fashioned. The mousepointer indicates the button activity by changing its' shape to an outstretched finger.

Click on the button to initialize the chosen function. The implementation of supplementary help for each button has deliberately been ommitted - the buttons are self explanatory by way of their graphical implication and the respective text in the status bar.

Overview of the Graphical Buttons

Using the keyboard

Although entirely graphically structured, and thus initially designed for use with a mouse, the TransWorld catalog offers a parallel keyboard control.

The following table is an overview of the keyboard commands:

Main Menu, Information section and general commands

•	Alt + M	To the Main Menu

•	Alt + D	To the database page

•	Alt + I	To the information selection page

•	Alt + O	Program options

•	Backspace	Return to the previous page

•	F1	Help index

Commands for the database page

•	Ctrl + S	Search

•	Ctrl + P	Print

•	Ctrl + C	Calendar / World timet

•	Ctrl + D	Classified catalog

•	Ctrl + F	Currency conversion

•	Ctrl + N	Notebook

•	Ctrl + V	Converter for units of measurement

•	Ctrl + T	Dialling prefixes

•	Ctrl + Ins 	Copies the active record(s) to the clipboard


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Overview of the Graphical Buttons

Buttons on the Main Menu

To the Information Page

To the Database Page

User Settings

Help

Exit the program

Buttons on the Information ('About') Page

Run the Intercable Video

Print Order Forms

Help

Return to previous page

Buttons on the Database Page

Timebase and Calendar

Units of Measurement

Currency conversion

Notebook

International Dialling Prefixes

Dictionary

Print and Export records

Search functions

Help

Return to previous page


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TransWorld Database

The structure of the database is quite simple. The data is separated into 220 countries and subdivided into trades according to our categories.  Where data is available this is immediately collected and shown. The country can be chosen from the list. Once the country is selected the desired trade can be chosen from the applicable list. It is compulsory to select a country and a trade to validate a search.

In comparison to the printed version there are several differences, the most obvious being the ease of use. A selection of data, using the simplified general search or the more professional version via the extensive search criteria, delivers immediate results. Notes and points of interest are easily established and related to specific records in the database.

The Database Page

Searching and Viewing Data

Printable Forms

Notebook


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The Database Page

The database page is the effective center and pivoting point of the electronic catalog. Here you will find all the structured information you require

On the lower edge of the address page - as on all other program pages -  you will find an information bar with the function keys and a status bar, explaining  the functions of the control elements in short.

The upper part of the page allows the viewing of the catalog information. In this area two main regions are depicted:

•	In the upper left screen area, a list of the currently selected records is shown.
The header contains information regarding the actually selected country and trade code - the selected records are naturally dependent on these criteria.
Beneath the list is a passive area, where all available data relating to the active record are shown.

Significance of Symbols used

•	The righthand screen area shows additional information and classifieds of the advertisers.


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Significance of used Symbols

The following symbols signify in which areas of the world the actual adressee operates:

 Regional

 National

 Western Europe

 Eastern Europe

 U.S.A. and Canada

 Latin America and Carribean

 Middle East and North Africa

 Africa

 Asia, China and Oceania

The following symbols inform you about the particular activity of the adressee:

Department Store

Exporter

Importer

Manufacturer

Retailer

Services

Wholesaler


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The Search Functions of the Catalog

Example

We have concentrated on two issues regarding the search functions

Firstly, a search should be as fast as possible and secondly, as easy as possible allowing the implementation by virtually anyone without intensive training.

To start the seek function, click on the search symbol in the operations bar.

A small simply structured dialog will appear, in which the initial selection of country and trade can be made using the predefined lists.
.... and already the simple 'search' is completed - the relating data appears in the result listing on the lefthand side.

Using the extended search features is similarily easy, although the possibilities offered do require more in depth practicing. The initial search parameters are not included excepting the country parameter. It is not possible to search within a given trade using the extended search features - all trades are included.

All common standard wildcard searches are possible, aswell as UNIX based (usage of square brackets etc.) search statements. So, for example, it is possible to reduce the results of a given search by intensifying the criteria to be included.

The shown fields can be used individually or in any combination. The search covers the database for the selected country as a whole, and as such does take some time to complete, depending on the size of the database of the selected country.


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Example:

You are looking for a watch manufacturer in Switzerland.

After starting the TransWorld program and opening the database page, the first thing to do, is to select the country, Switzerland, from the countries list by clicking on it.

Once Switzerland is the active country, the trade list is reassembled (automatically) to include the trades present in that country. Since you are using our trade classification for the first time, it may be necessary to open the 'dictionary' and seek the trade by starting a short search for ' *watch* '. The results obtained will indicate in which branch definitions, and/or descriptions, the term ' watch ' appears.

You can now select the appropriate branch (as far as available in the chosen country) in the standard parameter field ' Trade' ( in our example 7.3 ) and start the simplified search covering the Switzerland database within this trade. Instantly a selection of companies that have to do with watches appears.


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Printing Forms

Printing forms and exporting data

Upon initializing this button, a selection window appears, allowing you to choose a predefined printout form. Clicking the 'Print' button opens a dialog window which enables you to alter and amend the standard formular.

At least one record must be marked as active.To select multiple records, press the 'Shift' key while marking up to 50 records simultaneously.

The 'Export' button saves the actual record(s) and contents of the selected form to the clipboard, from where it(they) can be pasted into a Windows application.

Attention!!! :
When using the 'Extended Search' option the print/export function is inactive !


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The TransWorld Notebook

The TransWorld Notebook

The Notebook can be used as a database with individual information relating to a given record. While communicating with a partner you have contacted via the database, it is possible for you to notate a name or any other information relating to the active record.

A linked note is opened immediately upon activating the record on which notes have been made, only if the setup option ' open saved notes automatically ' has been checked. Otherwise clicking the Notebook symbol will open the saved note or an empty note.


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General Information

The information pages are a collection of points of interest that do not relate directly to the information data:

•	Information about the Publishers

•	Information about the Developers

•	Information about the Programmers

•	Information about Artwork and Layout

•	Information regarding your rights


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The 'Personal Information Manager'

The Transworld Personal Information Manager (PIM) is a collection of usefull supplementary functions applicable while using the TransWorld Catalog, and as a standalone. Following modules are included:

 The International Dialling Prefixes

 The Currency Calculator

 The Units of Measurement Calculator

 The Calendar and World Time

 Dictionary

 The Notebook


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Dialling prefixes

The international phone and fax prefix catalog is a collection of prefixes necessary to communicate with other countries. The fax and phone prefixes are identical. The telex prefix is individual. Please contact your local telecommunications network should you have any trouble using the documented numbers. Changes are order of the day, and all information is without guarantee.

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Currency conversion

The currency converter is a simplified calculator which allows you to enter a value and a conversion rate. (Please refer to your newspaper or other source of information for the actual rate. Changes are order of the day, and we have therefore omitted a standard table of reference.)

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Converting units of measurement

This is a conversion function, allowing you to enter a given value for a unit and selecting the desired unit thus receiveing the corresponding resulting value. The lists allow simple selection of the available units.

Conversion of time units
Have you ever wondered how many seconds are left before you go on holiday? If you know the number of days or weeks you can easily find out the resulting seconds - in seconds !

Apart from such fun applications we are sure that you will find these units of measurement useful in your daily time calculations.

Conversion of weights
Converts a number of arbitrary and necessary weight units to a corresponding value in another unit.

Conversion of volumes
Convert such everyday units as e.g. liters to an exotic measure of 'Kölsch', a unit that is common only to people living in Cologne/Germany.

Conversion of length and distances
Metric to empirical and vice versa are no problem.

Conversion of speed and velocity
Someone has told you that his car travels at a top speed of 100miles/h. All clear, but how many kilometers per hour is that? No problem for our converter.

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Calendar and international time

The calendar function allows you to see the days of the given month, or to view the calendar for previous or coming months.

The integrated international watch allows you to select a given city and view the current time in that city, calculated on your system time and the time factor difference entered during installation or via the setup function.

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TWH_PIM_DICTIONARY
Dictionary

This function is thought of as an aid to determining in which trade code you should seek a given address. The search parameters can be structured with wildcards (?, *) allowing you to seek more accurately or generally.

A general note on wildcard usage:
Placing an asterisk (*) at the beginning of a term (the asterisk at the end of the term is automatically placed), allows the program to search for any sequence of the given term.
For example: For the search term '*atch*'  sequences with watch and match will be returned such as ' Pocketwatches'
A reduced search with ' Watch*' returns a smaller spectrum of terms beginning with 'Watch' such as ' Watches -Import, Export and Wholesalers'

Double clicking the desired term in the dictionary will automatically place the chosen value in the 'Trade' parameter field and the selection will be fulfilled without any further actions. This is only applicable if the chosen description is marked with an arrow.

Note:
We are convinced that certain terms are not included. Please use alternative terms and be creative - you will be amazed !!

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Notebook

The TransWorld Notebook allows you to append and recall your own additional information to each record relationally.

Upon activating a record which already has correlating notes, the existing notes are shown automatically. (This function can be deactivated in the programm settings, if so wished.)

To append new notes to a record, the record must be activated in the listbox before clicking the Notebook key in the function bar.

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User Defined Settings

The button 'Settings' on the startup page (or the key 'Alt + O' at any time) initializes a dialog for individual adjustments of the following parameters:

Sound effects

Integrated Screensaver

Timezones

Controlling the Notebook

Using the PIM


TWH_OPT_SOUND
This enables you to control the sound effects in the program (Video). If you have a sound card it may be of interest to enable sound effects.

Key clicks on/off


TWH_OPT_SCREENSAVER
The TransWorld screensaver is a collection of colourfull advertisements. Perhaps you are interested in being 'beamed' onto screens across the globe. Even if you don't want to figure in the saver personally, it is, no doubt, one of the most individual around! Take a look and see for yourself.

Integrated screensaver on/off.


TWH_OPT_TIMEZONE
Adjust your PIM calendar to your local timezone. Since the international times displayed are based on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) they can only be correct if the program is adjusted to the deviance in your time zone.

All information is without guarantee.


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The notebook controlls are simple but adequate.

Notes can be viewed individually or in list form.

Each note can be individually saved by clicking on the save button on the note window.

Individual notes can be deleted. The setting allows the confirmation upon deleting to be inactivated.

Notes are saved to disk in the working directory's subdirectory ' \Notes '.


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The option for your Personal Information Manager to open several windows simultaneously, is only important if you are running several other applications parallel to the TransWorld CD directory, and your system is running at a minimum. Each open window uses resources, and thus the performance of your system may be decreased if too many resources are used by the open windows.

Similarly leaving the various PopUps' open during a search, can reduce the retrieval speed because they consume too many system resources.


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Problems with the Catalog

In this chapter, we would like to refer to some problems that may arise while implementing our CD-ROM. Such problems cannot be absolutely disqualified in such an extensive program.

Problems can appear due to technical discrepancies (either from our program or within Windows itself) or in the data per se (actualizing the data requires short turnover times and typing errors are human).

We therefore appeal to your better judgement, and hope that we can be of assistance with the following tips:

The Catalog does not run using Windows95

The colour display is incorrect

Colours are shown completely incorrectly

Incorrect display in dialog windows

Pictures do not appear

Individual page elements are not shown

Video does not run

Message "Not enough memory to run the application..."

Message "General Protection Fault in Modul "VGA...DRV"    "

Message "General Protection Fault in Modul "MCI...DRV"    "

Should any problems occur, please check if your system fulfills the minimum requirements : IBM-Compatible PC, 486SX or higher, at least 4MB RAM and a Super VGA graphics card with at least 256 colours at a resolution of 640*480 Pixels


TWH_HELP_WIN95
The catalog has been tested using the latest available german beta version of Windows 95 (M8). Since a full release was not available at design time difficulties cannot be absolutely eliminated.


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Try running the program with a screen driver using 256 colours. The entire program has been structured to operate in the modus 640*480 Pixels using 256 colours (Super VGA is a standard that is actual in most regular PC's). Since the catalog has to share the 256 Windows colours with other applications, the photo quality desired for pictures can unfortunately not be achieved.


TWH_HELP_COLORS_2
Have you been running an illustration program (or is it active in  the background) prior to starting the TransWorld Directory on CD ?

Certain graphic programs reserve the system colours. This results in false colour allocation in other applications.


TWH_HELP_FONTS
Please use a screen modus that applies  'SmallFonts'.
Many graphic drivers allow identical resolution (e.g. 800*600, 256 Colours) with SmallFonts (a smaller typeface) and LargeFonts (larger typeface). Usage of the LargeFonts can result in poor presentation particularly in the dialog windows. Please apply any changes in the Windows setup using Options / System requirements / Display.


TWH_HELP_GRAPHICS
Close other applications. Possibly you may have to restart Windows.
This phenomenon indicates a lack of memory. We have tested the application far below the required minimum configuration - a 386SX Notebook running at 25 MHz with 4MB RAM was chosen. The catalog itself requires less than 2MB RAM and should run unproblematically parallel to other applications with the designated standard configuration.
The amount of memory that is actually available with 4MB of physical RAM is strongly dependent on the system configuration. Enlarging the amount of virtual memory may also help.This can be attained by changing the settings in the Windows system control panel.


TWH_HELP_SCREEN
Close other applications. Possibly you may have to restart Windows.
This phenomenon indicates a lack of memory. We have tested the application far below the required minimum configuration - a 386SX Notebook running at 25 MHz with 4MB RAM was chosen. The catalog itself requires less than 2MB RAM and should run unproblematically parallel to other applications with the designated standard configuration.

The amount of memory that is actually available with 4MB of physical RAM is strongly dependent on the system configuration. Enlarging the amount of virtual memory may also help.This can be attained by changing the settings in the Windows system control panel.


TWH_HELP_VIDEO
Repeat the installation of the CD, tangibly, the installation of the ' Video for Windows' driver (even if the driver has been previously installed).

A relatively large number of different driver versions exist - some AVI files do not run with certain versions of the driver.


TWH_HELP_MEMORY
This message may appear when the program is started recurringly within the same Windows session. The only correction possibility is a restart of Windows.


TWH_HELP_SV_GRAPHIC
Take note of the description used upon the occurence of ' General Protection Fault ' messages. '....VGA....DRV...' indicates that problems have been encountered with the graphic driver in use. Try using another screen resolution. Should this not resolve the problem, you may need a newer version of your graphic driver for your graphic card. Drivers are obtainable from your qualified dealer, on mailboxes or on many shareware CD's. Pay attention to the date of the driver files and compare this to the ones you have in use.


TWH_HELP_SV_MMSYSTEM
Take note of the description used upon the occurence of ' General Protection Fault ' messages. '....MCI....DRV...' indicates that problems have been encountered with the multimedia driver in use (Video for Windows, sound etc.). The relevant cause is usually indefinable - as a rule the installation of a newer driver should resolve the problem. First aid may be a re-installation of the driver on our CD.


POP_CAL_NEXT
Switches to following month


POP_CAL_PREV
Switches to previous month


POP_NOTE_CLIPBOARD
Copies the active note to the clipboard


POP_NOTE_DELETE
Deletes the selected note


POP_NOTE_LIST
Switches between single and list views of notes


POP_NOTE_SAVE
Saves the active note


POP_VALUE_AREAL
Conversion of various area measurements


POP_VALUE_DISTANCE
Conversion of lengths and distances


POP_VALUE_SPEED
Coversion of speed / velocity


POP_VALUE_TIME
Conversion of time units


POP_VALUE_VOLUME
Conversion of volumes


POP_VALUE_WEIGHT
Conversion of weight units