• Short Information • --------------------------------------------------- • Help: “Help” or “Cmd-H”. Put in front or send to back with “Help”. • Symbols: Click on Symbol-palette or on the left side of the window. Popup everywhere with “Cmd-Click” • Macro: Choose from Macro-Menü when library is loaded or popup everywhere with “Opt-Click”. • File: Load it from Finder or within program. • Library file: Load it from Finder or within program. Automatic loading with “Prefs…”. • Online-Help • --------------------------------------------------- This window can be accessed with the help key or with Cmd-H. You can send it to back or bring it to front with the help key. Close this window with return or klick in the close box. Scrolling can be done with the arrow keys or with the mouse. • Circuits • --------------------------------------------------- After loading the program you can start typing in your circuits. Because I am a german guy, my keyboard looks a bit different than yours. So I have included an FKEY and the appropriate KCHR-resource, so you can easily switch between the german and the US keyboard layout from within the program. All you have to do is: type Shift-Cmd-9. I had to include this file because most of the electric symbols can be accessed with the Opt-key. These are the most often used symbols for all the circuit connections. You have to type opt-1 to get the first one. ¡ “ ¶¢ [ ]| { }± – … 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + - 0 The vertical Symbols can be accessed through their first character together with the Opt-key: ® ç ¬ ∂ Ω ∫ ⁄ √ ~π ƒ R C L D Z B I V N P F The horizontal Symbols can be accessed through their first character together with the shift-opt-key: ¸Çfl€ˇ‹ÛÁ ›∏Ï R C L D Z B I V N P F You can get all the electronic symbols everywhere on the screen by pressing Cmd and clicking the mouse. A window will pop up and let you choose any of them. At the bottom of the Window you can see the keyboard equivalent for the symbol character. You can also access this window by clicking on "Symbols" or by simply clicking inside the left part of the screen under the symbol palette. You also can click on the symbol palette on the left side of the screen. When you click the mouse there another window will pop up and you can choose your symbol from a structured list of symbols. You can edit you circuits the normal way. Only Undo isn't active yet. I will implement it in the next update. The Text menu can also popup everywhere on the screen, if you press Shift-Opt and click the mouse. You can copy the circuit to the clipboard if you want to paste it into another program document. It does not matter if this is a text editor or a graphic program. Please notice that some of the symbols have zero width. This is because you can combine these symbols with others (resistance and arrow, or point and line). Please look at the examples below: ^ ´ … ≈ ≠ These are some of the possible combinations of the zero width-characters with others: ^û ´√ …[ ≈ ® ≈Ç ≠± • Macros & Libraries • -------------------------------------------------- If you often use a special circuit or a part of a circuit you can save it as a macro. Every macro belongs to a macro-library. So you have this overall menu structure: ¡–––—–¶ ±Library 1± Menu stucture ±Library 2¢–––—¶ ±Library 3±Macro 1± |––—––]Macro 2± ±Macro 3± |–––—} - You can load a library file from the finder or from within the program. If you want to change the library file simply choose another with “load macro". Sometimes the macros are not shown correctly. Simply load them again and everything looks fine. When you create a new macro inside the activ library file, the menu will be updated automatically. - Choose a macro from the hirarchical menu. It will be instantly pasted into your document. You can also press the Opt-key and click the mouse anywhere on the screen to get a hierarchical poup menu with the libraries and macros - You can save any circuit file as a macro or as a text file. So its possible to easily load it into any other program. When you save it as a text file, the font and size information also will be saved. So you can load it again with the same font specifications. Please notice that this is not a styled editor (I will implement this feature in the next update. I developed this program with the ZBasic™ from ZEDCOR and I had to add this styled features to the Basic-compiler. The update will be generated with ZEDCOR's new Future Basic™.) under the menu item Prefs… you can specify library files to be loaded automatically the next time you start the program • Insert/Override • -------------------------------------------------- You can add text to your circuits with the same font you "draw" the circuit because my Analo-font includes all standard ascii characters. To prevent your circuit from beeing changed while adding textual information you can change to the Override Modus with Cmd-E. When you type in your characters they simply override the spaces and your circuit dosn't change. If you deleted a caracter you can go back to Insert Modus and insert it again. In override modus only the space and backspace will work the normal way. • Word wrap • -------------------------------------------------- When you draw your circuits you can choose word wrap to be on or off. At startup it's turned on. • Print • -------------------------------------------------- You only can print your circuit files from within the program not from finder. But normally you would paste the circuit into another layout document to get best control over the printed pages. To get best results from your printer you need to install the Analo postscript™ font together with the screen font in your system file. • Colors • -------------------------------------------------- You can change the gray value that underlies the symbol palette and the symbol popups. Simply choose Colors from the Extra menu and change it to whatever you like. If you press OK, the choosen gray value will be saved in the programs resources for the netxt times you start it. • Final notice • -------------------------------------------------- This is my first great program on the macintosh. I made it because after I created my “Analo” postscript™ font, I wanted to be able to draw my electric circuits more easily than with a normal text editor. Programs that draw electonic circuits are normally very expensive and I don't like those "CAD-symbols" they use. So I created my own Analog font. I hope this program will match your needs and you like the special interface. Please send me notes if you have any wishes or if you experienced any bugs. I will do my best to update this program and give it more useful features. I'm also working on a PC-Windows version, but it will take some time to get this done. Please notice that this program is freeware (till now), but all rights on the general idea of the program and on the font belong to me. May be that future versions will only be available as a commercial program. Detlef Reimers Germany 2000 Hamburg 61 Süntelstraße 7 February,1993 CompuServe: 100015,1146