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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 was partially
off-screen, the box was scrolled into view, but the
selection status wasn't toggled. Now it is.
7. If you used Outlining to Focus on a sub-tree, then
deleted all visible boxes, the outlining (correctly)
pops you up to the next level, but the Current Box
wasn't indicated. Now it is.
8. When fitting a border to the diagram for Copy as
Picture or Save As Windows Metafile, box shadows were
ignored when calculating the diagram size. Small
border margins could therefore cause some shadows to
be cropped. This no longer happens.
9. The Top and Bottom margins of boxes (and the Border)
were misinterpreted when drawing. Top- and Bottom-
aligned text was drawn relative to the center line of
the border rather than the inside edge. Choosing small
margins and a thick border therefore caused the text to
overwrite the border. This no longer happens.
10. During a region-select drag operation, the chart window
automatically scrolls if you move the mouse outside the
chart window. If the chart and application windows were
both maximized, you couldn't automatically scroll left.
Now you can.
11. If you chose Setup from within the Print dialog, chose
OK to Setup, but then Canceled the Print dialog, the
Program would be unable to show either the Print or
Print Setup dialogs unless you re-started the program.
This no longer happens.
THINGS THAT WORK DIFFERENTLY
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1. The Toolbar has changed: The Clear Selections button
has been removed (it was always simpler to click on the
chart background to achieve the same effect). Two
buttons have been added, corresponding to the Mark
Boxes command and the Define Layouts command.
2. Some of the ALT+ keyboard shortcuts in the Edit Layout
dialog and the Edit Border Layout dialog have been
changed to accommodate new controls.
3. Text above & below boxes now obscures any connecting
lines.
4. If you enter text into a box marked as Invisible, the
text is now shown, obscuring any connecting lines.
You might use this to annotate lines.
5. The Insert Below command works differently. It used to
always insert a new box as the first subordinate. Now
it inserts the new box as a 'middle manager' between
the Current Box and its subordinates. For the first
subordinate of a box, there is no visible difference
in the operation.
6. The Paste Below command works differently. It used to
always insert the Clipboard contents (possibly a
sub-tree) as the first subordinate. Now it inserts the
Clipboard Contents between the Current Box and its
subordinates. If you Paste a single box, it will be a
'middle manager' under the Current Box. If you paste a
sub-tree, the FIRST pasted box is the 'middle manager'.
The remainder of the pasted sub-tree is relative to the
first pasted box (as it used to be).
7. After opening a text-format file, all created boxes
were regarded as newly-inserted, and you could choose
Undo Insertion, which deleted all the boxes. Now
opening a text-format file is like opening a native
file: undo is disabled until you insert or delete boxes.
8. When Pasting boxes from one chart into another, the
program creates new text fields if the new boxes have
more fields than the chart they're being pasted into.
These new fields used to default to being visible in
every Layout. All existing boxes typically became
taller to accommodate a blank line. Now newly-added
fields are initially hidden. Existing boxes are no
longer affected, and you choose which Layouts should
show the new fields. This change also applies to
differences between a Template File and a text-format
file you open.
9. You can no longer Collapse a box that doesn't have
subordinates.
10. A restriction has been added to how you can use File
Manager to open a new chart. Drag & drop and double
click still work, but both are disabled if TreeChart
is in Print Preview mode or showing a dialog box.
11. Template Files now normally have the filename extension
.TCT, to indicate that they serve a different purpose
to normal chart files (.TCF).
12. When entering a filename in the Open, SaveAs or Select
Template dialogs, you can now omit the filename
extension. TreeChart automatically adds one dependent
on the file format you select.
NEW FEATURES
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3D-LOOK DIALOGS AND MESSAGE BOXES
TreeChart now defaults to showing dialog boxes and message
boxes with a 3D appearance. This is only available if you
have a VGA or better display. You can choose to retain the
normal Windows look: see Appendix 4 of the User Guide for
details.
BETTER CLIPBOARD SUPPORT
Copying or pasting boxes or text was limited in v1.00 to
about 64,000 characters. Now the only limit is the amount
of available memory.
ADDITIONAL MOUSE SHORTCUTS
Two mouse shortcuts have been added:
Double-Click on chart background Edit Border Text
Shift+Double Click on chart background Edit Border Layout
ADDITIONAL CONNECTIONS STYLES
Two box positioning options have been added which enable
you to have boxes which surround (frame) their subordinate
sub-trees.
Two other options have been added which enable you to have
some subordinates placed across, while other subordinates
are listed.
See section 3.4.3 of the User Guide for details.
IMPROVED BOX SIZE-MATCHING
You can now mark individual boxes to be omitted from
whatever size-matching rules you have selected, allowing
you to choose to 'match widths, except for this
particularly wide box', etc. See section 3.6 of the User
Guide for details.
IMPROVED SUPPORT FOR COLOR
There are a number of improvements which make it easier to
use color in your charts:
1. The chart window and the sample in the Edit Layout
dialog used to draw the chart using the default Windows
client-area color (normally white) as the background
color. Now, the chart background color is used, and you
can choose box/line/font colors in their true context.
Using Outlining to Focus on a sub-tree which is framed
(using the new Connections Styles mentioned above)
means that the background color of the visible boxes
'should' be the frame color: you can choose whether to
adopt the frame color as the background, or preserve
the chart background color.
2. You can now choose Transparent as the box Fill Color.
The box Fill Color is then determined automatically.
This is particularly useful when boxes are shown only
as text, with no border. It saves you from having to
change a box's Fill Color if its background color
changes.
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VENDORS
If you intend charging for providing copies of TreeChart,
the file VENDOR.DOC describes our distribution license
terms. If this file is missing, please contact me:
Steve Kearon
FineLine Software
Newtown, Kinvara, Co.Galway
Republic of Ireland
voice/fax: +353 091 37560
email: 70624.462@compuserve.com