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TREECHRT.TXT: Introductory Information
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WHAT CAN TREECHART DO FOR YOU?
TreeChart is a comprehensive Windows package for preparing
Organization Charts or illustrating other hierarchical (or
nearly hierarchical) information. No drawing skills are
required: box sizing, positioning, alignment and the
routing of connecting lines is all done automatically
whenever you make a change.
The package offers a wide choice of chart styles, box
shapes, shadows and line routing options. Full color and
font support. A border and titles can also be added.
For Company Organization Charts, it automatically
positions and connects boxes you indicate as being
assistants or shared employees.
TreeChart assists you in achieving consistent-looking
charts with Layouts. Layouts control how boxes look, and
how they connect to boxes below them. You can define any
number of Layouts; when you change a Layout, it
automatically affects every box using the Layout. Layouts
are like style guides found in more sophisticated word
processors. When you add a box it will initially use the
Layout you select as most likely needed, given its position
in the chart.
Layouts, default Layouts and other chart settings can be
saved as Template Files. Preparing one chart is easy;
preparing further similar charts is easier still. Using
Templates, you can import text from another program and
produce attractive charts almost instantly!
TreeChart offers outlining facilities, to let you view only
parts of your chart, and hide the rest of it. You can view,
change or print the whole chart, certain levels of
management, or just single departments.
If you wish, TreeChart will automatically scale your chart
to fit on a single sheet of paper. You can also preview
printing.
TreeChart will import text (and automatically create boxes)
from other Windows programs, and can export text or fully-
scaleable WMF pictures. Pasting pictures into word
processor documents and resizing them is simple.
Includes online manual & tutorial (Windows Write format),
full context-sensitive help and sample charts.
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
TreeChart requires a PC-compatible running Windows 3.1 or
better. IT WILL NOT RUN UNDER WINDOWS 3.0.
A mouse is not required, but is recommended. A small
number of non-essential operations are unavailable
without a mouse. Details in Appendix 2 of the User Guide.
Use of TrueType fonts, or comparable third-party font
technology such as Adobe Type Manager is highly
recommended. Section 3.1.15 of the User Guide goes into
more detail on these issues.
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ONLINE DOCUMENTATION
The TreeChart User Guide (TREECHRT.WRI) and Tutorial
(TUTORIAL.WRI) are both in Windows Write format. If you
feel the need to print these documents, be warned that
they total about 170 pages, and are formatted for using
a 9" by 7" region of an A4 page.
Additionally, TreeChart has full online help using the
standard Windows Help facility. This file is TREECHRT.HLP.
The file SAMPLES.TXT describes the sample charts included
in the package.
A quick way to view any of these is to use the Windows
File Manager, and double-click on the file name.
Section 2.1 of the User Guide contains a list of all files
included in the TreeChart release.
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WHAT IS SHAREWARE?
TreeChart is not free. It is not public domain. Just like
a program costing ten times as much, it is copyrighted by
its owners, and you must purchase a license to use it.
Unlike a program costing ten times as much, you have a
chance to try the program before you commit yourself to
purchasing the license. This 'try before you buy' concept
is termed Shareware.
We are granting you a limited-time trial use license to
evaluate this program to determine if it meets your needs.
If, after 30 days, you wish to continue using this program
you must purchase a full license for continued use. If you
continue using this program beyond the 30 day trial use
license we have granted, you are doing so without a
license. This is illegal.
See Appendix 5 of the User Guide for our license agreement.
Purchasing a full license is termed 'Registering the
program'. Registration brings many benefits over and above
the right to continue using the program.
See Appendix 6 of the User Guide for the benefits of
registration.
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REGISTRATION: PRICES AND PROCEDURES
From the Help menu, choose Register. The Registration
dialog box allows you to see our prices, and allows you
to print a pro-forma invoice / order form.
The basic price is US$42 or STG£27.56. To this must be
added postage (varies) & (for E.C. customers) VAT.
Credit card (Visa / Mastercard) orders are accepted.
U.S. & Australian customers can order through local agents.
The benefits of registration are described in Appendix 6
of the User Guide, and in the online help.
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INSTALLATION & DE-INSTALLATION
Simply create a new directory on you hard disk, then copy
all of TreeChart's files into it. No further installation
is needed.
TreeChart can be run directly from a floppy disk, but
you'd have to leave the disk in while TreeChart was
running, and performance would suffer.
See sections 2.2 and 2.3 of the User Guide for more
details.
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GETTING STARTED
One quick way of starting TreeChart is to use the Windows
File Manager, and double-click on TREECHRT.EXE. Section
2.4 of the User Guide describes a number of other ways
of starting the program.
Pressing F1 will present Help on what to do with that
intimidating blank window. Section 2.5 of the User Guide
and section 1.4 of the Tutorial both describe the various
other ways of getting online help.
We recommend that you prepare your first chart by working
through the tutorial.
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CHANGES SINCE VERSION 1.00
Changes since v1.00 fall into three categories:
1. Faults Fixed
2. Things that work differently
3. New features
The changes listed here range from very minor to very
major. We aim to identify all changes, since sometimes
things that seem very minor to us are really irritating
for you.
NOTE: The .TCF file format used by v1.10 is basically
identical to that used by v1.00. Any charts you have saved
using v1.00 can be opened by v1.10. Some new features take
default settings. If you save a chart using v1.10, then
open it in v1.00 the new features are ignored. If you then
save it under v1.00 some of the settings associated with
the new features may be lost.
FAULTS FIXED
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1. The Define Layouts dialog incorrectly had two default
buttons. Now it only has one.
2. In the Edit Layout dialog and the Edit Border Layout
dialog, hiding a text field (or selecting a hidden
text field) incorrectly disabled (grayed) the Text
group control. This no longer happens.
3. In the Edit Border Layout dialog, certain text/margin
selections could result in a zero-sized sample, making
it impossible to see the background color. The sample
is now always drawn large enough to see the background
color.
4. Under some circumstances, the program scrolled the
display, then immediately redrew the whole screen.
This unnecessary 'double-refresh' is now avoided.
5. If you double-clicked on a box that was partially
off-screen, the box was scrolled into view, but the
double-click was 'lost'. Now its not.
6. If you CTRL+clicked on a box that