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This is !IdentiKey version 2.1 (27 Jan 1994)
Program
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This program is able to produce, edit and display any data that has a tree
like structure. This can include family trees, biological classification,
and perhaps most usefully scientific keys.
Use
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If the icon bar icon is clicked on with no data loaded, the editing window
is opened. Conversely, if a KeyFile is dragged on to the icon, or double
clicked on data is loaded and the key appears at the left of the screen.
When data is loaded it can be edited by selecting edit from the main menu.
Using keys is simplicity itself.
However producing keys is complex. Before attempting this load a simple file
such as 'Coins' and examine the edit windows. Each box in this mode
represents a decision box. These can be looked at using the arrow icons.
Each has a feature, such as shape, and decisions can be made about that
feature. For instance 'Circular'. It may be that that decision is a
statement that does not need to lead to another box. e.g. a final outcome.
Actually several decision lines can be taken up with more extended
text, though at the moment, the user has to see that the words wrap
correctly to the next line.
The arrows beside the decisions are pressed if you wish that decision to
open another feature. Pressing one of these installs a figure in the next
icon. This number is the number of the box that that particular decision
will lead to. This numbers itself automatically. However if you install a
figure accidentally it can be removed, so long as it is the last one to
have been put in.
Confused?
Well one more item. It would be a job to remember that in Box1 you
defined something to open Box9. It would be pen to paper. So if you
press the roots icon, in any box it displays the roots of that box.
Again try it with a simple key loaded on different boxes.
!Help is provided.
Keys figure much in the National curriculum, so I am surprised not to
have seen something similar to this before.
I have not tested this exhaustively, and suspect that it won't nest too
many of these boxes. However it should in principle be possible to put
together very big keys if I increase the memory. I welcome any feedback.
The program has been amalgamated with !EventShell using
!BLibII by Ian Palmer.
The resulting program has been 'shrunk' using
!BasShrink by Jogn Wallace.
Copyright
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This program is Public Domain.It may be distributed or copied freely as
long as no part of this software may is used in any other program, whether
commercial or public domain,without my prior written consent, though any
files created by this software are not bound by this condition. This software
may not be distributed for a profit, save that required to cover packaging
and media costs..
Copyright (©) is retained by the author, who may be contacted at the address
beneath. No liability can be accepted by the author for any loss or damage
arising from use or misuse of this software.
EventShell =========
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This program has been written using the routines supplied with the EvntShell
library which is copyright Paul Hobbs. The library routines may be
distributed subject to the following conditions:
You have permission to use any part or the whole library in a project you
intend to place in the public domain, as long as I am fully credited (via
the inclusion of this file in the program documentation). If you wish to use
these routines in a program that is for sale (for however much and for
whatever reasons) or released as copyright material then my express
permission in writing must be obtained. I maintain copyright on all the
material supplied and reserve the right to amend these conditions in cases
where I deem misuse.
The library code is supplied free of charge to everyone 'as is'. There is no
guarantee that it is free from bugs and no warranty is given about its
suitability for use.
Further details about EvntShell may be obtained from the author:
Paul Hobbs
Rheinpfalzstrasse 2
85049 Ingolstadt
Germany
The heap manager routines used by EvntShell are copyright Risc User and are used with permission.
Any improvements or bugs, please report to :-
Robert Seago.
40 Alton Park Road
Clacton On Sea
Essex.
CO15 1ED