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User Manual for The Draftsman Version 1.0 Prepared by David J. Stang, Ph.D. Hire Education, Inc. 3631 Jenifer St. NW Washington DC 20015 (202) 966-1635 (voice) (202) 537-1025 (BBS) October 28, 1985 User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Features of The Draftsman .............................................. 1 2. Using Help ............................................................. 1 3. General Overview ....................................................... 2 3.1 Constructing a Graph ............................................... 2 3.2 Menus .............................................................. 3 3.3 Cursor Motion Keys ................................................. 3 3.4 Field Editing Keys ................................................. 4 3.5 Some General Notes on Menus ........................................ 4 3.6 The Main Menu ...................................................... 5 4. Define Environment ..................................................... 6 5. Specify Input .......................................................... 7 5.1 Source of Data ..................................................... 8 5.1.1 Edit .......................................................... 8 5.1.2 DIF ........................................................... 9 5.1.3 DATA .......................................................... 9 5.2 File Number ........................................................ 10 5.3 Number of x Values, Number of y Values for Each x Value ............ 10 5.4 Modify Existing File Size? ......................................... 11 5.5 Name of File ....................................................... 11 5.6 Edit:Filen ......................................................... 11 5.7 Graphing Values from 1-2-3 ......................................... 12 6. General Plot Specifications ............................................ 12 7. Pie Chart Specifications ............................................... 14 7.1 Title and Footnote Fields .......................................... 15 7.2 Explode ............................................................ 15 7.3 Pie Colors ......................................................... 16 7.4 Data File .......................................................... 16 7.5 Y column ........................................................... 16 7.6 Chart Size and Position (boxing) ................................... 16 8. Bar Chart Specifications ............................................... 17 8.1 Title, Footnote .................................................... 17 8.2 X-label ............................................................ 17 8.3 Y-label ............................................................ 18 8.4 Bar Colors ......................................................... 18 8.5 Bar Format ......................................................... 18 8.6 Enclose Chart in Box ............................................... 18 8.7 Horizontal Reference Value ......................................... 18 8.8 Baseline Value ..................................................... 18 8.9 Data File .......................................................... 18 8.10 Y-columns ......................................................... 19 8.11 Minimum Column Width .............................................. 19 ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Front Matter<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 8.12 Chart Size and Position ........................................... 19 9. Line Graph Specifications .............................................. 19 9.1 Line Markers ....................................................... 20 9.2 Connect Points ..................................................... 21 10. Edit .................................................................. 21 10.1 Add Text .......................................................... 22 10.2 Get Help .......................................................... 22 10.3 Leave Edit ........................................................ 22 10.4 Place a Dot ....................................................... 23 10.5 Draw a Line ....................................................... 23 10.6 Draw an Arrow ..................................................... 23 10.7 Move .............................................................. 23 10.8 Find Out Where You Are ............................................ 23 10.9 Execute Saved Edit Commands ....................................... 23 10.10 Write Your Name in Longhand ...................................... 23 10.11 Change Color ..................................................... 24 10.12 Draw a Rectangle ................................................. 24 10.13 Add a Legend ..................................................... 24 10.14 Draw a Circle (or Oval) .......................................... 24 10.15 Back Up your Screen to Disk ...................................... 25 10.16 Retrieve a Screen from Disk ...................................... 25 10.17 Paint a Region ................................................... 25 10.18 Draw a Flowchart ................................................. 25 10.19 Erase a Line ..................................................... 25 10.20 Erase a Region ................................................... 25 10.21 Move a Section of the Plot to a Different Location ............... 26 11. Produce Hard Copy Output .............................................. 26 11.1 Epson ............................................................. 27 11.1.1 Print Aspect Ratio ........................................... 27 11.1.2 Orientation .................................................. 27 11.2 HP-7470 ........................................................... 27 11.2.1 Input ........................................................ 27 11.2.2 Retrieving Saved Plots ....................................... 27 11.2.3 Switch Settings .............................................. 28 11.2.4 Startup ...................................................... 28 11.2.5 Restrictions and Special Features of Edit .................... 28 11.2.6 Other Differences Between Screen and Plotter Graphics ........ 29 12. Save Screen/Data/Spec ................................................. 29 12.1 Screen ............................................................ 30 12.2 Data .............................................................. 30 12.3 Spec .............................................................. 30 12.4 Diskette File Name ................................................ 30 12.5 File Number and Format ............................................ 31 13. Display Slide Show .................................................... 31 13.1 Time .............................................................. 31 13.2 Slide Names ....................................................... 32 ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Front Matter<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 13.3 List File Directory ............................................... 32 14. Error Messages ........................................................ 32 15. Installation .......................................................... 36 15.1 Equipment Required ................................................ 36 15.2 For New Computer Users Only ....................................... 36 15.2.1 Diskette Care ................................................ 36 15.3 Make a Backup Copy ................................................ 37 15.4 Invoking The Draftsman ............................................ 37 15.5 The Draftsman Files ............................................... 38 15.6 Modify FILE.DAT ................................................... 38 15.6.1 Running The Draftsman From a Floppy .......................... 39 15.6.2 Running The Draftsman from a Hard Disk ....................... 39 15.7 For Users with Monochrome Monitors ................................ 40 15.8 Assuring You Have a Full Copy of The Draftsman .................... 41 15.9 Installing a Mouse Driver ......................................... 41 15.10 HP 7470A Plotter ................................................. 42 16. Support for Users ..................................................... 42 16.1 24-Hour BBS Support ............................................... 42 16.2 Support for Registered Users ...................................... 43 16.3 Source Code Available ............................................. 43 16.4 Distribution Conditions ........................................... 43 16.5 History of The Draftsman .......................................... 43 ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Front Matter<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ LIST OF TABLES 1 Main Menu ............................................................... 5 2 Define Environment Menu ................................................. 6 3 Specify Input Menu ...................................................... 7 4 Data Entry Menu ......................................................... 8 5 Sample Data File (Comma Delimited) ...................................... 9 6 General Plot Specifications Menu ........................................ 12 7 Pie Chart Menu .......................................................... 14 8 Bar Chart Menu .......................................................... 17 9 Line Graph Menu ......................................................... 19 10 Edit Command Summary ................................................... 21 11 Printer/Plotter Menu ................................................... 26 12 Save Screen/Data/Spec Menu ............................................. 29 13 Slide Show Menu ........................................................ 31 14 List File Directory Menu ............................................... 32 15 FILE.DAT ............................................................... 38 16 FILE.DAT for Floppy-Based Operation .................................... 39 17 Files Required by The Draftsman ........................................ 41 18 Mouse Installation Batch File .......................................... 41 ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Front Matter<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman Version 1.0 Prepared by David J. Stang, Ph.D. Hire Education, Inc. 3631 Jenifer St. NW Washington DC 20015 (202) 966-1635 (voice) (202) 686-5360 (BBS) ~~~~~~~~~~~~ October 28, 1985 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Features of The Draftsman 1. Context-sensitive help. 2. Stacked and cluster bars, line charts, scatter charts, pie and exploded pie charts. 3. Free-hand edit mode, with options to draw, scale, and move rectangles and circles, line drawing, arrow creation. 4. Slide show mode. 5. Support for Mouse Systems mouse. 6. 24-hour support via Bulletin Board. 2. Using Help The information in the help menus is divided into four "chapters": 1. Introduction. This gives an overview of The Draftsman, and brief instruc- tions on how to get started. 2. Menu Descriptions. The Draftsman contains 13 menus which you use to select graph options. This chapter has detailed instructions for filling out each menu. If you press F1 when you are looking at a menu, you will enter help at the appropriate page of this chapter. 3. Error messages. This chapter explains all error messages produced by The Draftsman. If there is an error message on the screen when you press F1, you will enter help at the relevant page of this chapter. 4. Appendix. This contains instructions for installing The Draftsman. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 1<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ All of the information that may be found in the context-sensitive help may also be found in this manual, although the on-screen help may be much handier than this manual for getting the help you need. You may get to help whenever you have a problem by pressing the F1 function key. Once you are in help, you may go directly to a chapter, by typing the chapter number, then F2. After reading a help page, you have four choices as to what to do next. 1. Type + to go to the next page. This is the default choice for reading help; you may page forward through help simply by pressing F2 whenever you are ready for the next page. 2. Type - to go to the previous help page 3. Type x to exit from help and return from whence you came 4. Type a page number to go directly to a specific page in help. Page numbers appear in the lower right hand corner of each page and have the format a.b.c The instructions for menu n begin on page 2.n, so you can go straight to a menu by entering its page number below. For example, to find out about bar charts (menu 4.2) enter page 2.4.2. After entering your choice, press F2 (or enter). 3. General Overview The Draftsman presents a relatively easy and powerful way for converting data into graphic displays. Although the emphasis in The Draftsman is towards business plots, it allows you to create arbitrary graphics. On the assumption that learning by doing is more efficient than learning by reading, I am not going to spend a lot of time now talking about what The Draftsman can or can't do. Instead I just want to discuss the general operation of The Draftsman and send you on your way. You should have produced your first graph within the next couple of minutes. 3.1 Constructing a Graph The processing of creating a graph normally involves three steps: 1. Specify data input: choice 3 from the MAIN MENU (this menu was the first thing you saw when you entered The Draftsman). You've got to plot some- thing, and this step allows you to either key in data directly, or indi- cate that the data is to come from an existing disk file. 2. Create a chart: choice 4 from the main menu. This step involves first selecting the type of chart (pie, bar, etc.), then providing details such as titles, colors, labels, etc. 3. Produce a permanent copy of the chart: choice 5. In this step the chart is ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 2<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ generated on either a pen plotter or a dot matrix printer. 3.2 Menus If you have data to be displayed, you construct a chart by selecting among options: what kind of chart, what color, etc. In The Draftsman, all op- tions are selected via menus, where a menu consists of a number of mul- tiple choice or fill-in questions. There are several common features to entering data in menus, as follows: 1. You enter information in fields, indicated by colored rectangles. Each menu field has a fixed length; you can't backspace out of, or move to the right of the box. 2. F1 will send you to the page of help which describes the menu. 3. F2 indicates that you are done entering data in the menu and wish to proceed. 4. F3 means that you want to go back to the previous menu. 5. Cursor motion keys and field editing keys. Throughout all menus, the same cursor motion and field editing keys do the same jobs. A brief summary of cursor motion and field editing is provided in the next section. 6. As each field is entered, The Draftsman will check its validity. If an error is detected, a short error message will be displayed and the cursor will be positioned to the beginning of the same field. If you need some more explanation as to why your value is wrong, press F1 for help. 7. When a menu is first displayed, some of the fields will already be filled in. Feel free to change these values if you like. Also, many fields are optional and can be left blank. 3.3 Cursor Motion Keys Cursor motion keys move the cursor from field to field: Cursor Down. moves you to the next field within a menu. Enter (Return). does the same job as cursor down: it moves you to the next field in a menu. Cursor Up. moves you to the previous field within a menu. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 3<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 3.4 Field Editing Keys Field editing keys are used to enter data within fields. Del. deletes a character to the right of the cursor. Ins. puts you in insert mode. Subsequent characters are inserted in the middle of the field. Type Ins again to turn it off. Ctrl-End. erases from the current cursor position to the end of the field. Cursor left/right. moves the cursor within the field without changing the data. 3.5 Some General Notes on Menus A few general notes: 1. There are three different kinds of values which can be entered in a menu: numbers, text (such as titles, labels), and words chosen from a fixed set of choices. An example of the last is in menu 4, where you must enter one of pie, bar, line, edit, or erase to indicate the kind of chart you want to make. For any fields for which the range of possible values is limited, the choices are given in square brackets [thus]. 2. Some menu entries allow you to enter more than one value. For example, if you are plotting several lines in a line graph, you can indicate a different color for each of the lines. Multiple values should be separated by commas and/or spaces. 3. In the upper right corner of every menu, The Draftsman displays the amount of free computer memory. This is a workspace for storing data files and input to menus. Each time you enter data in a menu, the free space diminishes; it is possible to run out of memory. You have four options to reduce your use of memory: - use erase in menu 4 to start with a new set of graph specifications., - enter n in menu 2 in the field marked- save edit commands?. Complex editing, particularly if it involves a lot of text, can consume a lot of memory. (Even if the workspace is larger, you are limited to 8K in a single edit.) - use menu 6 to save your work, exit The Draftsman, and start again. - increase the memory in your machine. With 128K of total memory, The Draftsman allocates a workspace of only 4K, but with 160K or more, the workspace expands to 32K. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 4<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 3.6 The Main Menu The main menu is your home base. You begin all tasks from here, and you will return here after the task is completed. The main menu resembles the figure below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 1: Main Menu ===--- MAIN MENU Free: 32738 1 Introduction 2 Define Environment 3 Specify Input 4 Create Plot 5 Produce Hard Copy Output 6 Save Screen/Data/Spec 7 Display Slide Show 8 List File Directory 9 Exit From THE DRAFTSMAN Your choice: Note: This is freeware! Please share it with others. Send a $25 contribution to Hire Education, 3631 Jenifer NW, Wash DC 20015 TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your 9 menu choices will do accomplish these things: 1. Introduction. This will take you to the introduction in help. 2. Define Your Environment If you choose main menu option 2, you will be be given an opportunity to alter your graphics environment by selecting graphics resolution,* color palette, background color, etc. 3. Specify input. All charts need data to be plotted. This option allows you to either: 1) enter data directly, 2) retrieve a data file stored on disk, or 3) edit a previously created file. 4. Create a plot. This is where The Draftsman draws your picture. 5. Produce hard copy output. This option will let you make a copy of your plot on your dot matrix printer. 6. Save Screen/Data/Spec. This choice will let you save everything you've ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 5<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ done. 7. Display slide show. This will let you display up to 20 screen images in a rotating sequence. 8. List file directory. Use this option to determine the files stored on disk. This is useful for resolving "file not found" errors. 9. Exit from The Draftsman. Return to DOS. 4. Define Environment In this menu, you specify the graphics environment in which you operate. The menu resembles that shown in the figure below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 2: Define Environment Menu ===--- 2. DEFINE ENVIRONMENT Free: 32669 Graphics resolution [lo,hi]: lo If lo: select palette [1,2]: 1 [palette 1: green, red, brown 2: cyan, magenta, white] background color number: 1 [choose from colors 0-7 below] Menu display: foreground text: 2 field 1: 7 field 2: 7 [colors 0-15] background 4 1 [colors 0-7] Color reference: 0. black 4. █ red 8. hi-black 12. █ hi-red 1. █ blue 5. █ magenta 9. █ hi-blue 13. █ hi-magenta 2. █ green 6. █ yellow 10. █ hi-green 14. █ hi-yellow 3. █ cyan 7. █ white 11. █ hi-cyan 15. █ hi-white ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Screen aspect ratio: 1 [0.5 to 2.0] Save "edit" commands? y [y,n] TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fields are as follows: 1. Graphics resolution. hi gives a resolution of 640 dots horizontally, whereas lo gives only 320 dots. Both high and low give 200 dots verti- cally. Although high resolution gives a cleaner picture, it will only draw in black and white. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 6<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Palette and background color. If you choose low resolution, your graphs will be drawn in up to four colors: one background color and up to three foreground colors. The foreground colors must be chosen from one of two sets, or palettes. Palette 1 consists of green, red, and brown; palette 2 is cyan, magenta, and white. The background color can be chosen from one of eight. 3. Menu display. These fields allow you to modify the colors used to display menus. 4. Screen aspect ratio. Since monitors vary in their height/width ratio, a circle which is round on one screen may not appear round on another. You can make your circles round by setting an appropriate aspect ratio. For the Amdek Color II, for example, the ratio is .93. Another common ratio is .833. 5. Save edit commands. If you enter y, The Draftsman remembers all edit commands. You must enter yes if you use the F4 option to execute a com- plete graph specification, or if you want to use the pen plotter. The saved edit commands consume memory, however, and if you need to create a complex chart, you may need to enter n. 5. Specify Input You use this menu to tell The Draftsman where your data are coming from. The menu resembles the figure shown below: ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 7<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 3: Specify Input Menu ===--- 3. SPECIFY INPUT Free: 32620 Here you create (or retrieve) the data which is to be plotted. Normally, type EDIT to enter new data (or make changes to old data). You can also retrieve a saved VISICALC file from disk (type DIF) or a more general data file (type DATA). Source of data: edit [edit, dif, data] File number: 1 [1, 2, or 3] Number of x values (rows): 12 [1 to 24] Number of y values for each x value (y-columns): 1 [1 to 5] Modify existing file size? n [y or n] For source = dif or data - name of file: Note: x values are typically time periods: months, quarters, or years. y values are measures - sales, profits, etc. - associated with each of the time periods. TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fields are discussed in the remainder of this section. 5.1 Source of Data 5.1.1 Edit. This means that you will enter the data directly. If you select edit, The Draftsman will display a table (menu 3.1) and let you type in the values you want to plot. This will probably be your usual choice. The figure below shows the input screen you would see if you were to accept The Draftsman's defaults, and choose to enter 12 values of x, 12 values of 1 y variable. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 8<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 4: Data Entry Menu ===--- 3.1 EDIT: FILE 1 Free: 32356 ROW X Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 0 9 0 10 0 11 0 12 0 TYPE: cursor left/right to move within a field cursor up/down to move vertically between fields F9/F10 to move horizontally between fields F7/F8 to move data page up/down TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.1.2 DIF. This indicates that you want to retrieve a file previously stored on disk in the Lotus/Software Arts DIF format. Two points: 1. If you are using VisiCalc, the file must have been saved in column format, i.e., you must have pressed C in response to the VisiCalc prompt: R, C, or enter 2. the file must contain no column labels. The Draftsman is somewhat intractable in the file format it expects. The first column contains the x values and is considered to be alphabetic. All sub- sequent columns (up to a maximum of five) must contain strictly numeric data. A section later in this chapter discusses how to bring your 1-2-3 worksheets into The Draftsman. 5.1.3 DATA. This option also means that you want to fetch a file from disk. Here is an example of a data file with 3 months of data and two values for each month: ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 9<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 5: Sample Data File (Comma Delimited) ===--- 3,2 Jan,50,10 Feb,30,20 Mar,60,30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The data format is as follows: 1. The first line (record) in the file gives the number of rows of data and the number of y values (numeric columns). 2. subsequent lines in the file correspond to a single row of data (i.e., one x value and all y values for that x) 3. adjacent values in each line are separated by commas and/or spaces. 4. If an x value contains any special characters or spaces, it should be enclosed in double quotes. A DATA file would normally be created by a text editor, by a BASIC program, or by The Draftsman. Note that any data entered or modified in menu 3--regardless of the source--can later be saved to disk using menu 6. 5.2 File Number The Draftsman allows you to have three active files in any given session. You can then plot the different sets by indicating the file number in the 4.n menus. If you type EDIT and give the number of a file which you previously created (either through EDIT or from disk), The Draftsman will enter edit mode and let you make changes to the file. 5.3 Number of x Values, Number of y Values for Each x Value To understand x and y in the context of a graph, its important to have a clear idea of what you're going to be graphing. In most cases you will be showing changes in some measure (sales, profits, population) over time (months, quar- ters, years). The x's are the time periods and correspond to fixed increments along the horizontal axis of the graph. The x's don't have to be time periods, but The Draftsman always considers x's to have character values (with discrete as opposed to continuous values). The y's, by contrast, are numeric values and correspond to the vertical dimen- sion of the graph - height of bar for bar charts, height of point for line graphs. The number of x values is simply the number of time periods you're going to plot, e.g., 12 for 12 months of data. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 10<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ The number of y values will normally be 1, since you will usually be plotting just one measure, e.g., sales. You can, however, plot up to five different measures on the same graph: both sales and profits, total sales from each of four divisions, monthly data from this year and last. When you're entering data, each column of data will create one line (line graphs) or one set of bars (bar charts). Note I haven't said anything about pie charts - they're different. Only one y is ever used for a pie chart. The y value corresponds to the size of a slice; the x value is the label for the slice. 5.4 Modify Existing File Size? Normally, the two preceeding fields (number of rows, number of columns) are ignored unless a new file is created using EDIT. However, if you enter y in the modify field, The Draftsman will use the row and column values to change the size of the file. 5.5 Name of File If you are retrieving a data file from disk, you give the file name in the last field in this menu. This name can have one to three parts, e.g., month, month.dat, or b:month.dat (the drive: designation is necessary if the file is not on the current default drive). 5.6 Edit:Filen You use this menu to enter or modify data which The Draftsman will plot. The process of entering values works much the same as for any other menu. You should note the following: 1. Recall that the x values have character values and all y's are numeric. 2. Cursor up and down (or enter) move you vertically. 3. F9 and F10 move you horizontally. 4. The editor will only display 12 rows of data at a time. If you have more than 12 rows in your file, you can move the display up and down using function keys F7 and F8. 5. Once you have finished editing the data, press F2 and you will return to the main menu. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 11<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 5.7 Graphing Values from 1-2-3 To bring your 1-2-3 worksheet into The Draftsman, you may want to follow these steps. 1. Create the 1-2-3 worksheet. Create one column for your x labels, and adjacent columns to the immediate right of this column for each of your y variables. Save it with /fs 2. Extract from the worksheet only those cells that you wish to graph. Even if you have only entered numbers in the worksheet, if you have erased any cells, your active workspace will include them, so you will need to use a file extract: /FX Your extraction should be values, rather than formulas. The upper left corner of the extract range should be your first x label, the lower right corner your last y value. 3. Exit 1-2-3: /QY. 4. If necessary, insert your 1-2-3 disk containing the Translate program. At the prompt, type TRANSLATE Select WKS to DIF from the Translate menu. Select the file you have just saved. 5. After conversion to DIF, exit Translate, and copy your new .DIF file to a The Draftsman data disk (or to your Drawman hard disk directory) 6. Load The Draftsman. 7. Select Specify Input (Main menu option 3) 8. Enter DIF for source of data, and enter the exact DIF file name at the bottom of this menu. For instance, if your file name is deleteme.dif, enter deleteme.dif. You will not need to specify number of x values or number of y values or any other menu options. 9. Move on to Main Menu Option 4. If you have moved too many values in for medium resolution mode, you can go to the Main Menu, and redefine your graphics resolution to be hi. 6. General Plot Specifications You use this menu to tell The Draftsman about the pieces which are going to make up your plot. The figure below depicts this menu. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 12<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 6: General Plot Specifications Menu ===--- 4. GENERAL PLOT SPECIFICATIONS Free: 32470 In this menu, you choose the type of chart you want to make. If you want to use a specification file which you saved earlier, enter the file name here: and then type F2 to proceed. Otherwise, using one or more lines below, select from: pie, bar, line, edit, or erase After each selection, type F2 (or F4; refer to help for difference) and THE DRAFTSMAN will take you to another menu where you can give more information about the plot. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since most plots have only one piece, this step is simple. For example, sup- pose you want to plot a bar chart. Then type BAR (or bar) on line 1 and hit F2. The Draftsman will take you to another menu and ask for some more details about your bar chart - Do you want a title? What colors do you want to use? - and so forth. Then the plot will be drawn and your task will be accomplished. As you gain more experience with The Draftsman, however, you might like to embellish your graph beyond what BAR will do. You can add your organization's logo to the plot, a legend for the graph, or a note with an arrow to highlight a particular aspect of the data. The Draftsman will also allow you to plot multiple charts on a single page. To construct complex charts, you build your plot a step at a time by entering one of the five basic graph components - pie, bar, line, text, or edit - on successive lines of this menu. A few points: 1. Normally, after entering a choice (pie, bar, etc.), you press either F2 or F4. If you press F2:; The Draftsman will then take you to an associated menu (e.g., 4.1 for pie charts) and ask for more information. After you have completed that menu and that part of the plot is drawn, you will return to menu 4 on the next line. If you press F4, The Draftsman will automatically execute all graphics commands you have entered, from the current line down. This allows you to ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 13<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ redraw a set of graph specifications without repeatedly pressing F2. When you are finished plotting, press Ctrl-Break or F3 to return to the main menu. If you press cursor up: The Draftsman will move the cursor to line 1 and the current chart (but none of the specifications) will be erased. You will find yourself doing this frequently to fiddle with a chart--changing the title, position, etc.--until you are satisfied. 2. If you enter erase, all current graph specifications, as well as the current graph, are erased. 3. Using menu 6, you can save the complete set of specifications for a chart that you entered in menu 4 and the sub-menus 4.1, 4.2, etc. These specifications can then be retrieved (enter the file name in the first field of this menu) and used to plot a new set of data. 7. Pie Chart Specifications In this menu, you give The Draftsman some information on how you want your pie chart plotted. This menu is displayed whenever you enter PIE in menu 4. The figure below shows this menu: ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 14<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 7: Pie Chart Menu ===--- Free: 32262 4.1 PIE CHART SPECIFICATIONS Title: Footnote: Explode [enter x value or leave blank]: Pie colors: [ 1 2 4 6] █ █ █ █ (use 100+n for dot shading in color n, 200+n for line shading in color n) Note: In pie charts, "x" designates the label to be attached to a slice, e.g., month, and "y" determines the size of the slice, e.g., sales. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Data file # [1,2,3]: 1 Y column [1,2,...,5]: 1 Chart size [blank or 1-320]: and position: [x,y from 0-319] (size and position will normally be left blank or filled with the maximum value: size = 320, position = 0,0) TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't be too concerned about making mistakes; it's not necessary to enter anything in this menu! You can simply press F2 (twice, as you will see under the discussion of chart size below) and a pie will be drawn. You can later return to this menu (press cursor up in menu 4 to return to your PIE line), to make changes to the plot. 7.1 Title and Footnote Fields These fields should be self-explanatory. If you want more than one title or footnote line, use EDIT (starting from menu 4). 7.2 Explode This option allows you to highlight the data for a given month (year, quarter) by separating the corresponding pie slice from the rest of the pie. For ex- ample, to explode February's piece, type Feb on this line (providing the x- value in your file is feb or Feb or FEB. Although capitalization is ignored, abbreviations can't be recognized.) ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 15<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 7.3 Pie Colors Under this field The Draftsman displays the current active colors, either 2 for high resolution or 4 for low resolution. You can generate different shad- ing patterns by adding 100 or 200 to a color. For example, 4 will paint in solid red, 104 will shade with red dots, and 204 will shade with red horizon- tal lines. You can leave this field blank, in which case The Draftsman will choose a standard set of colors. 7.4 Data File This is the number of a file containing the data you want to plot. You will have created this file using menu 3. Normally, you will have only one active file and this number should be one. 7.5 Y column In a pie chart, you can only plot one y, or one column of data in your file. For example, if you plot sales by month, your pie will represent total sales for the months represented; each slice of the pie will correspond to a month and the size of the slice will be proportional to the volume of sales for that month. If your data file has several columns of y values, enter the number of the column to plot; otherwise, leave this value 1. 7.6 Chart Size and Position (boxing) You will normally leave these fields blank. The Draftsman will then find the minimum size required to plot your pie, and will display a square this size on the screen. You can make the square larger by typing B (for Bigger), or move it to another place on the screen using the cursor (used mainly if you are plotting several charts on the same page). Once you have settled on a size and location for your graph, press F2 and the pie chart will be drawn. This process is called boxing and is one of the most useful features of The Draftsman; it gives you maximum flexibility in the composition of your graph. If you enter a specific size and location, The Draftsman will try to plot the pie chart in that size (you will get an error message if it can't be done). Size and position are measured in low resolution units (i.e., the screen is 320 wide by 200 high). To make your chart as large as possible, enter size=320, position=0,0 (these are the coordinates of the upper left hand corner). Note that if you return to menu 4.1 after the pie chart is drawn, perhaps to change the title, the size and location that was used to draw the pie will have been inserted by The Draftsman. If you want to box your pie, you'll have to erase the size field. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 16<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 8. Bar Chart Specifications You use this menu (see figure below) to provide details on how you want your bar chart plotted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 8: Bar Chart Menu ===--- 4.2 BAR CHART SPECIFICATIONS Free: 32172 Title: Footnote: X-label: Y-label: (one or two lines) Bar format [stack, cluster]: (if more than one y column) Bar color(s): (one color for each y column) [ 1 2 4 6] █ █ █ █ (add 100 for dot shading, 200 for line shading) Enclose chart in box [y,n]: y Horizontal reference value: (y value, or leave blank) Baseline value: (y value, or leave blank) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Data file # [1,2,3]: 1 Y column(s): [blank, or 1-5] Minimum column width [8-100]: 8 Chart size [blank or 1-320]: and position: [x,y from 0-319] (size and position will normally be left blank or filled with the maximum value: size = 320, position = 0,0) TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that you don't have to enter anything. The default values assumed by The Draftsman are sufficient to plot your data. You can simply press F2 if you wish. 8.1 Title, Footnote These fields should be self-explanatory. If you want more than one title or footnote line, use EDIT (starting from menu 4). 8.2 X-label A description for the x values. For example, if the x values are months, the x-label might be 1986. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 17<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 8.3 Y-label A description for the y values. Examples: SALES, or TOTAL SALES (using both lines). 8.4 Bar Colors Under this field The Draftsman displays the current active colors, either 2 for high resolution or 4 for low resolution. You can generate different shad- ing patterns by adding 100 or 200 to a color. For example, 4 will paint in solid red, 104 will shade with red dots, and 204 will shade with red horizon- tal lines. You can leave this field blank, in which case The Draftsman will choose a standard set of colors. 8.5 Bar Format This only applies if you are plotting several y values for each x value. If you STACK the values, the y's are accumulated vertically, and a single column is drawn for each x. Suppose, for example, that you are plotting total sales for four divisions of your organization, by month. The you would have four y values for each month, and the height of the stacked column would represent total sales for the entire company. With CLUSTER, the y values are plotted side by side, so that you have several columns for each x. 8.6 Enclose Chart in Box If you select no, only a single vertical and horizontal axis are drawn. 8.7 Horizontal Reference Value If you enter a value, a horizontal line will be drawn across the chart at a height corresponding to that value. 8.8 Baseline Value If you enter a value, this value will be used as the bottom of the graph. Normally, the baseline value is 0, and all bars extend from 0 to the y value. Suppose, however, that all your y's have high values in a fairly narrow range, e.g., 1000, 1100, 1200, 1150, 1300. In this example, a baseline value of 1000 will magnify the apparent differences between the values. To deemphasize the differences, of course, leave the baseline zero. 8.9 Data File This is the number of the file containing the data you want to plot. Files are created using menu 3. Refer to page 2.3 of on-line help for more information ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 18<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ about files. 8.10 Y-columns If this field is blank, The Draftsman will use all columns in the file, and will plot up to five bars for each x value. You can enter a specific list of columns numbers if you don't want to use the whole file. 8.11 Minimum Column Width The Draftsman tries to make optimal use of space by making the bars in your chart as narrow as possible. Normally, "as narrow as possible" is not objec- tionably skinny because each column has to accomodate at least the x value. However, if your x values are short, or if you want wide bars, you can in- crease this value above 8. Beware, though, because you can very quickly expand your graph beyond the limits of the screen. 8.12 Chart Size and Position These two fields have the same meaning as they do for pie charts. Refer to on- line help pages 2.4.1 and the earlier discussion in this manual for details. In particular, you should note the discussion of boxing. 9. Line Graph Specifications In this menu (see figure below), you give The Draftsman information about the line graph you would like plotted. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 19<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 9: Line Graph Menu ===--- 4.3 LINE GRAPH SPECIFICATIONS Free: 32146 Title: Footnote: X-label: Y-label: (one or two lines) Line color(s): (one color for each line) [ 1 2 4 6] █ █ █ █ Line marker(s): . [. + s(quare) c(ircle) t(riangle)] Connect points: y [y(es), n(o)] Enclose chart in box [y,n]: y Horizontal reference value: (y value, or leave blank) Baseline value: (y value, or leave blank) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Data file # [1,2,3]: 1 Y column(s): [blank, or 1-5] Minimum column width [8-100]: 8 Chart size [blank or 1-320]: and position: [x,y from 0-319] (size and position will normally be left blank or filled with the maximum value: size = 320, position = 0,0) TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Input to this menu is very similar to that for bar charts, so I refer you to previous pages (or online help page 2.4.2) for help on the following fields: title footnote x-label y-label enclose chart horizontal reference baseline value data file # y columns column width chart size chart position color Only the line markers and connect points fields are unique to line graphs. 9.1 Line Markers Lines connect points; The Draftsman allows these points to be either points, + signs, squares, circles, or triangles. The use of these different symbols, or markers, is very useful in distinguishing multiple lines on the same graph. For each line that you want to plot, enter the single letter or symbol for that line. Like colors, if you enter more than one symbol, separate adjacent symbols by spaces or commas. If you enter fewer markers than the number of lines you are plotting, The Draftsman will use the first marker for the additional lines. To create a legend which describes what each of the lines represents, use the + function in EDIT (starting from menu 4). This will draw the markers you selected in a column on the screen. You can then add text to complete the ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 20<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ legend. 9.2 Connect Points It is possible to plot points or other markers without connecting them. Simply enter no (or n) for each set of y values which you don't want connected. If you enter a single y, all lines will be drawn. With a single n, no lines will be drawn. 10. Edit In edit mode, you add personality to your graph. To start, you may simply want to add some text to explain or highlight certain aspects of your chart. As you gain experience with EDIT, you will find yourself doing increasingly complex and interesting graphics. Some charts, such as flowcharts, can be done en- tirely in edit without using PIE, BAR, or LINE. At first you may find the number of choices overwhelming and the commands complicated. Don't despair. For one thing, nothing terrible (usually nothing at all) will happen if you make a mistake. At worst, you might paint the whole screen a uniform color. To simplify the explanation, I will describe the commands in terms of common tasks. If you intend to use a pen plotter, there are certain restrictions on the use of edit. Refer to on-line help pages 2.5 and the following for details. To begin, here is the Edit command summary. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 21<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 10: Edit Command Summary ===--- 4.4 EDIT Free: 32464 With EDIT, you can embellish your graph with arrows, circles, lines, rectangles, and text in virtually unlimited ways. The commands are summarized below; additional information is given in help. When you are ready to begin editing, strike any key. Figures: Size adjustment: d place dot B,b change size l draw line W,w change width a draw arrow H,h change height s draw square Movement: c draw circle cursor up, down, left, right Function keys: = reset step size F1 redisplay this page >,< change step size F2 execute saved commands Special: F3 leave edit P paint (note: capital P) F5 text mode on/off i,o get/put screen to disk F6 display/set color + symbols for legend m move (after s) E,e erase (after s) f fix figure (after s,c,m,+) TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.1 Add Text Press F5. This will create a horizontal cursor and put you in text mode. Everything you type now goes on the screen. Cursor up, down, left, and right, and enter work as you might expect. Type F5 again to get out of text mode. 10.2 Get Help Press F1, and the summary of instructions provided in menu 4.4 will be dis- played. If you press F1 again, a more detailed description (similar to what you are reading now) will be presented. 10.3 Leave Edit Press F3. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 22<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 10.4 Place a Dot Press d. 10.5 Draw a Line Press l (ell, lower case L, not one). This will draw a line to either: 1) the last dot, or 2) the end of the last line, or 3) the tip of the last arrow. If you press l as your very first command in EDIT, nothing will happen because there was no previous dot, line, or arrow. 10.6 Draw an Arrow Press a. This works just like line. The arrow points towards the current cursor position. 10.7 Move Use the cursor. The basic movement step, both vertically and horizontally, is one character. If you want to diminish this step, press <. If you want to increase this step, press >. If you want to reset the step to one character, press =. 10.8 Find Out Where You Are A serious reponse to this problem: the current location of the cursor is indicated by a +. Note that this changes to a _ in text mode. 10.9 Execute Saved Edit Commands If you reenter edit (by typing cursor up in menu 4), you can redo all of your previous editing by typing F2 as the very first key. The Draftsman will then step through your previous commands and prepare to continue. If your first key is other than F2, The Draftsman assumes that you want to drop what you did before, and it is erased from memory. 10.10 Write Your Name in Longhand Press < a few times to diminish the movement step to one dot. Then press d to get started with a dot, followed by (move) l (move) l= (move) l ... This is not as painful as it seems. You can do a letter in a minute or less with a little practice. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 23<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 10.11 Change Color Press F6. The current active colors will be displayed at the top of the screen and the cursor will disappear. Type the number of the desired color, and the cursor will reappear in the new color. 10.12 Draw a Rectangle First press s. This causes a square to appear in the center of the screen. You are now in square mode, and your task, before exiting, is to set the position, size, and shape of the square (or rectangle). Use the cursor to change the position. The size and shape are affected by six different keys: 1. B makes the rectangle bigger (both height and width), 2. b makes it smaller, 3. W makes it wider, 4. w makes it thinner, 5. H makes it higher, 6. and h makes it shorter. When you have the rectangle where you want it, press f to fix the figure. Note that the rectangle will not have the current color until it is finished. Note: all of the size commands B, b, W, w, H, and h are affected by <, =, and >. 10.13 Add a Legend If you've plotted more than one set of bars, or more than one line on the same graph, you probably want to add a legend to describe the meaning of each bar or line. You can use the + command to draw a column of symbols corresponding to your last bar or line graph. You can then append a description to each symbol. When you press + The Draftsman draws a rectangle in the center of the screen. This rectangle has the same shape and size as the column of symbols. Use the cursor to move the rectangle to the place you want to add the legend (unlike s, you can't change the shape or size). When you've settled on a final posi- tion, press f; the rectangle will disappear, the column of symbols will be drawn, and you will be placed in text mode. 10.14 Draw a Circle (or Oval) This is very similar to square. First press c. This will draw a circle in the center of your screen and puts you in circle mode. The circle will respond to ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 24<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ B, b, W, w, H, h in the same way the square did. Again, finish up with an f. 10.15 Back Up your Screen to Disk Press o (for output). The Draftsman will prompt you for a file name. If you are doing complex editing, it's a good idea to back up your screen frequently, because it is possible to destroy your work. The o function in EDIT duplicates one of the options of menu 6 -- to save a screen. 10.16 Retrieve a Screen from Disk Press i (for Input). The Draftsman will prompt you for a file name. 10.17 Paint a Region Press P. This paints the current region in the color of the cursor, where region is determined as follows: beginning at the cursor, The Draftsman looks vertically down until it finds a dot which is a different color than the one lying under the cursor. This color of this dot defines the boundary of the region. Example: a red cursor lies in the center of a yellow circle on a blue background. The Draftsman looks down from the blue center until it finds yellow, then paints the circle red. Beware: if the region doesn't have a complete boundary, the whole screen may be painted. This can be frustrating if you've just spent four hours creating a PC Mona Lisa. Suggestion: use the o command frequently, and, in general, avoid the letter P. 10.18 Draw a Flowchart Fill your screen with text first. Then enclose the text with rectangles or ovals. Don't forget you can use the < to adjust stepsize to position a figure exactly. Finally, add arrows using the d and a commands. 10.19 Erase a Line Place the cursor at one end of the line. Type d to put a dot there. Move the cursor to the other end of the line. Change the current color to the back- ground. Then press l. The line will disappear. 10.20 Erase a Region Press s. This draws a square in the center of the screen. Use the cursor and s and B, b, etc. to place the square (or rectangle) over the region you want to erase. Then press E. The rectangle will disappear, as will the region, and you will be out of square mode. If you type a lower case e, the rectangle will be painted in the current color. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 25<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 10.21 Move a Section of the Plot to a Different Location Even with the flexibility afforded by boxing (if you don't know what this is, read the discussion of chart size in online help page 2.4.1, or elsewhere here is this manual), you sometimes want to adjust a graph after it is drawn by moving pieces around. This is accomplished with the s ... m ... f sequence, as follows: First press s. Use the cursor and B, b, etc. until the section to be moved (which I'll call the stbm) is enclosed. Then press m. This puts you in move mode, and the only keys which are active are the cursor, and <, =, and >. When you press the cursor keys, two rectangles will appear on the screen: the first rectangle will remain fixed around the stbm, and the second--in the same shape and size--will be drawn where the cursor dictates. The second rectangle repre- sents the new location for the stbm. When you press f--to finish the move--the stbm will be moved and both rectangles will disappear. 11. Produce Hard Copy Output This menu allows you to make a permanent copy of your graph on an Epson MX-80 printer or an HP-7470 pen plotter. A look at this menu is offered by the figure below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 11: Printer/Plotter Menu ===--- 5. PRODUCE HARD COPY OUTPUT Free: 32401 Device: epson [HP, EPSON] (HP-7470 pen plotter or Epson MX-80 printer) If EPSON: printer aspect ratio: 1 [0.5 to 2.0] (horizontal dots per inch / vertical dots per inch) orientation: v [h(orizontal) or v(ertical)] If HP: Match screen colors to pen colors by entering 1 or 2 letter pen codes (e.g., r, g, bl, bk) in the fields below. An * marks each color used in the current graph, so only these fields need be entered. THE DRAFTSMAN will later prompt you to insert pens using these codes. There are some differences between screen graphics and plotter graphics. Refer to help for an explanation. 0. black 4. red 8. hi-black 12. hi-red 1. blue 5. magenta 9. hi-blue 13. hi-magenta 2. green 6. yellow 10. hi-green 14. hi-yellow 3. cyan 7. white 11. hi-cyan 15. hi-white pen to be used for text: TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 26<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 11.1 Epson 11.1.1 Print Aspect Ratio. This is a number which makes circles appear round rather than oval. For the EPSON, this value should be .83333 (60 dots per inch horizontally / 72 dots per inch vertically = 5/6). While it is important to set this value if you are drawing pie charts, I would leave it at 1.0 other- wise, since it gives a little sharper picture. 11.1.2 Orientation. If you specify h=horizontal, the graph is printed such that the left side of the printer page corresponds to the left side of the screen. While this is natural in the sense that the graph is printed right side up, the width of the page forces the printed graph to be relatively small. The default orientation, therefore, is v=vertical. With a vertical orientation, the left side of the page corresponds to the bottom of the screen. 11.2 HP-7470 The discussion below describes the input fields and operation of the plotter. If you have not used the plotter before, read this section carefully. 11.2.1 Input. The color fields allow you to match the colors of your pens to the colors which were used to draw the graph on the screen. The match does not have to be perfect; (it usually can't be). For example, the screen draws text; as white on a black background. Since the paper is white, a black pen is an appropriate match for white. The codes you use to identify the pens are up to you; The Draftsman simply uses these codes to tell you what pens he needs. Enter as many different colors as you have and would like to use. Even though the HP only holds two pens at a time, a graph can be drawn in more than two colors; The Draftsman will prompt you for the pens, two at a time. After entering all colors, press F2. The Draftsman first redraws the current graph on the screen and saves plotter commands in a disk file. After the graph is complete you will be instructed to insert a piece of paper, turn on the* plotter, and insert the appropriate pens. You can press F3 at any time to stop the plot. Note that this; may leave the pen in the middle of the paper; if so, lift the paper hold lever to move the pen back to its stall. 11.2.2 Retrieving Saved Plots. If you have saved a screen image to disk (in screen format using menu 6, or using the o option of edit), the image cannot be retrieved and plotted. Why? Because a saved screen image is a collection of dots representing the points on your screen. But when The Draftsman drives the plotter, he thinks in terms of lines. It is possible to save a plot for rapid redrawing, but you must do so as follows: First, save the associated data file using menu 6. Then save the graph specifications as a spec file, also with ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 27<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ menu 6. Then to redraw the plot, proceed as follows: 1. go to menu 3 and retrieve the data file. 2. go to menu 4 and enter the spec file name in the first field. 3. Press F2. This will fill menu 4 with the specifications and position the cursor one field down. 4. Press F4. This will plot the graph. 5. now go to menu 5 and create the plot on the HP. 11.2.3 Switch Settings. The switches in the right rear of the plotter should be set as follows: 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 S2 S1 Y US B4 B3 B2 B1 Refer to online help chapter 4 or to the Installation chapter of this manual if you are curious why. 11.2.4 Startup. When you turn the HP on, it should reach over and grab the pen (if any) in the left stall. If this doesn't happen, check your power supply. 5. Hangup If your plotter fails to do anything when you think it should, press F3 to terminate the plot, check power and cable connections, and start again. If it continues to fail, contact your dealer. If your plotter is working properly, the sequence of operations should be as follows: 1. You complete entry into menu 5 by pressing F2. The Draftsman redraws the current graph. 2. You are prompted to turn on the plotter and strike any key when ready. Up to this point the plotter will be silently biding its time, doing nothing. 3. You are prompted to insert one or two pens and "strike any key when ready". At this point the plotter should pick up one of the pens and start to plot. 11.2.5 Restrictions and Special Features of Edit. One of the basic dif- ferences between screen graphics and plotter graphics is this: If two images overlap on the screen, the second simply erases part of the first. On paper, however, ink is not so easily removed, and generation of the second image produces ink on ink, which may not be desirable. Since The Draftsman allows you to overwrite screen images in edit mode (menu 4.4), it provides a mechanism for erasing ink, as follows: ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 28<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. If text overlays text, all but the top layer is ignored. 2. If a rectangle is erased using the E or e functions, anything lying under the rectangle will not be plotted. For text, if even a part of a letter is under the rectangle, the entire letter is ignored. 3. You can use up to 50 E's in a single graph. (More than this will not cause an error, but are ignored.) Two other features of edit are not duplicated on the plotter owing to the complexity of the functions: 1. Move is not recognized on the plotter. You can move an image on the screen, but when the plot is created, the image remains in its original position.) 2. Paint is also ignored on the plotter. 11.2.6 Other Differences Between Screen and Plotter Graphics. When The Draftsman prepares to create a graph on the HP, it converts the aspect ratio to 1.0, since one x unit on the plotter is equal to one y unit. If you have previously modified the aspect ratio in menu 2, you may find that text overlays your pie chart. If you plan to produce a plot on the HP, you should therefore either: 1. leave the screen aspect ratio at 1.0. (Although your pies may not appear round on the screen, they will be round on the HP); or 2. If you use edit to modify a pie chart, keep all modifications safely away from the pie. A little experimentation will show you how much "safely" is. 12. Save Screen/Data/Spec This menu allows you to save your work to disk for later retrieval. The menu is reproduced in the figure below: ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 29<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 12: Save Screen/Data/Spec Menu ===--- 6. SAVE SCREEN/DATA/SPEC Free: 32358 This menu allows you to save information to a disk file. This can consist of a screen image, a data file, or a graph specification (as entered in the 4. menus). Type [screen, data, spec]: screen Diskette file name [e.g., screen1.dat]: If data, file number [1 to 3]: 1 and format [dif, data]: data {some blank lines have been removed from this figure} TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fields are explained as follows: 12.1 Screen This is the current graph that you have drawn. Once saved, you can fetch it later either to change it (in edit mode, menu 4.4) or to display it as part of a slide show (menu 7). 12.2 Data If you keyed in a data file, you may want to save it so that you can either plot it again, or analyze it using another program such as 1-2-3. 12.3 Spec This is is all the information which has be entered as part of menu 4 (note, however, that the commands entered in edit mode are not saved). You can use these specifications to plot new data later; they can be retrieved in menu 4. See on-line help page 2.4 (or elsewhere in this manual) for more information. 12.4 Diskette File Name This is the name of the file to be saved. You can either enter a short name with 8 characters or less (e.g., screen1), a qualified name (e.g., screen1.dat), or a name with a disk drive designation (e.g., b:screen1.dat). You must use the last form if you want to save the file on other than the default drive. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 30<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 12.5 File Number and Format The file number is the number that was assigned in menu 3 (refer to online help page 2.3 for more information on this). The file can be saved in either DATA format or DIF format. There are reasons for using both formats. In DATA format, your file takes up less space on disk and can be read (using the DOS TYPE command). In DIF format, however, your file can be used as input to many spreadsheets and other programs which accept the data interchange format. Note that The Draftsman will always save a DIF file in column format. 13. Display Slide Show This menu allows you to display information at a presentation or as part of a sales demonstration. It is reproduced in the figure below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 13: Slide Show Menu ===--- 7. DISPLAY SLIDE SHOW Free: 32052 This menu allows you to produce a slide show, presenting up to 20 screen images in a rotating sequence. Your screens must have been previously created and saved as separate files using menu 6. Indicate the file names using either option 1 or option 2 below. Number of seconds to display each image: 10 [0 to 999] (If you enter 0 seconds, you can manually control the slide presentation. Refer to help for instructions.) Option 1. Enter the starting screen number: , the ending screen: , and the disk drive: [a to f]. In this option, the screens must have been saved with names screen1.dat, screen2.dat, etc. Option 2. Enter the names of the disk files below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.1 Time If you enter a non-zero value for the time, the slides will be presented in a rotating sequence, with each slide displayed for the length of time you specified. You end the slide show by typing any key. If you enter 0 seconds, you manually control the slide show as follows: ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 31<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. space bar advances to the next slide. This is the fastest move, since The Draftsman is always reading the next slide into memory while the current slide is being displayed. 2. - backs up one slide. 3. 1,2,... 0 goes directly to slides 1,2, ... 10 4. Alt 1, ...Alt 0 goes directly to slides 11, ... 20 5. any other key exits the slide show. 13.2 Slide Names If you have saved your slides with names screen1.dat, screen2.dat, etc., you can indicate the names of your slides using option 1. For example, to present the slides screen23.dat through screen45.dat on drive A, enter 23, 45, and a in the option 1 fields. 13.3 List File Directory This menu (see figure below) is used to list the contents of a disk (or dis- kette) on a specified drive. It is most often used when you get a "file not found" error. The sole input field is disk drive, which will normally be A or B. Use F3 to exit the menu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 14: List File Directory Menu ===--- 8. LIST FILE DIRECTORY Free: 32041 Use this menu to determine the files saved on disk. Enter the letter corresponding to the disk drive: a [a to f] {some blank lines have been removed from this figure} TYPE: F1 (Help!) F2 (Entry complete. Proceed) F3 (Return to previous menu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. Error Messages This chapter lists all error messages generated by The Draftsman, and provides information on how to correct each error. Error messages appear on the bottom line of your screen. If you press F1 when an error message is present, you will enter help at the appropriate page of this chapter. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 32<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ 1001 An unrecoverable error has occurred. Contact your dealer.. If you get this message, try to recreate the problem and record the sequence of events which led up to the error. 1002 The entry(s) have to be numbers (without commas or $ signs).. This means that The Draftsman is expecting a number in the menu field. Good numbers: +23, -10, 50,4 23.2, .000005, -14E23 (i.e., -14 times 10 to the 23rd power). Bad numbers: xxx, 1,000, $5.00. If you think the field shouldn't have a number,2 go to the help for the explanation of the menu (menu n is described on page 2.n). 1003 The entry is not spelled correctly.. Check the list of choices. This error will appear when you have to enter a choice from a specified list of values. The Draftsman ignores differences due to capitalization, and sometimes allows abbreviations, but usually wants the choice to be entered exactly. 1004 There are too many values in the field.. Some fields allow multiple values to be entered, but, unless the menu indicates this, a field can contain only one entry. If you do enter more than one value, adjacent values are separated by commas and/or spaces. This message simply means that you have more than the maximum number permitted. 1005 This field cannot be left blank.. You must enter something. In most cases, this error will arise if you have erased a field that had an entry when the menu was first displayed. If you are not sure what to enter, simply re- store the original value. 1006 The number (or one of the numbers) is too big or too small.. The minimum and maximum values permitted for the field are given in square brackets next to the field. If you have entered multiple values in the field, all numbers must be within the given range. 1007 There are no y-values (numeric data) in the input file.. Every data file must have at least two columns: one column of x's and one column of y's. The x's are considered to be words, or character values (even if they contain numbers), and the y's must be numeric. 1008 One of the y-values in the input file is not numeric.. Refer to error message 1007. 1009 This x-value does not appear in the input file.. The value in this field must be one of the x values in your file, corresponding to the piece of the pie you want to explode. Although The Draftsman ignores differences due to capitalization, it cannot recognize abbreviations. If you want to look at your file, go to menu 3 and select EDIT. 1010 This file has not been created yet.. To draw a pie, bar, or line graph, you must have some data to be plotted. Go back to menu 3 to create a file. 1011 The file does not have this many columns.. This message tells you that the y column you selected (or one of the columns, if you selected more than one) is greater than the number of columns of y's in the file. While a file ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 33<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ can have up to five y columns, it need only have one. 1012 This column has negative values, which can't be pie-d.. To draw a pie chart, all of the y values must be greater than or equal to zero. Either select another column, or go back to menu 3 to edit the file. 1013 This column has fewer than two positive numbers.. In order to draw a pie chart, The Draftsman needs at least two slices with y values greater than zero. 1014 If the size is given, position - x, y - must be given also.. You need not give a size for your graph; if you leave the size field blank, The Draftsman will automatically determine the size your graph requires (refer to the discussion of boxing in online help section 2.4.1). However, if you do specify the size, you must give the position also, the x,y coordinates of the upper left hand corner of the plot area. The x-coordinate is in the range 0- 319, and the y-coordinate is in the range 0-199. The two numbers should be separated by a space or a comma. 1015 The plot area extends beyond screen size.. This means that a square with the size and position you gave won't fit on the screen. Recall that the posi- tion is the coordinates of the upper left hand corner of the square. 1016 The plot can't fit in the size you gave.. Try boxing. Normally, you should not specify a size for a chart. If the size field is left blank, The Draftsman will automatically determine the minimum size required by the chart (refer to the discussion of boxing in online help section 2.4.1). However, if you return to make modifications to a chart you previously plotted, The Draftsman will have inserted the size and position which was used. If your modifications make your plot bigger (e.g., you might make the title longer), you might get this error message. In this case, simply erase the size field and let The Draftsman decide. 1018 This is a null graph. All y's are equal to the baseline.. This normally means that all y's are equal to zero. You have probably either: 1) selected the wrong data; file, 2) selected the wrong y column, or 3) created the file incorrectly. Return to menu 3 and use EDIT to take a look at the file. 1019 The plot is too big for the screen.. Shorten labels or values. This problem can be corrected by: 1) shortening titles, labels, or footnotes, 2) decreasing the minimum column width to 8, 3) decreasing the number of charac- ters in the x values (e.g., use J, F, M instead of Jan, Feb,; Mar), or 4) changing to high resolution (go to menu 2). 1020 No files were named. You must use at least one file.. Disk files can be named using either option 1 or option 2. Slide files are saved either using menu 6 or in edit mode (menu 4.4) with the o command. 1021 You can't have stacked bars with negative values.. Normally, you use stacked bars to show the relationship between parts of a whole. For example: you might have sales from four divisions, stacked into a single column to represent total company sales. Certainly you can't have a negative share, and ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 34<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ in any event The Draftsman can't draw it. 1022 One of the colors you specified is not valid.. The valid colors 0-15, or a subset, are listed below the color field in the menu. For bar or line charts, you can add 100 to a color number to obtain dot shading, or 200 for line shading. 1023 No plot has been created yet.. Use menus 3 and 4 to do so. This error will arise if you attempt to generate a plot on the pen plotter before creat- ing the plot on the screen. Note that you cannot plot a graph unless it has been drawn in the current session. For example, you cannot fetch a screen image from disk (using the i option in edit) and proceed to plot it. 1024 You have run out of memory. Unrecoverable error.. This error may arise in drawing particuarly complex graphs. Try reducing the number of graph com- ponents. 1031 You have run out of memory. Save what you can and start again.. This error message may appear when constructing complex graphs. You can use menu 6 to save all data files, the current chart, and all graph specifications. Then exit from The Draftsman by choosing 9 from the main menu. 1032 The file you named was not found.. Could the drive be wrong? Unlike some software packages, The Draftsman makes no assumptions about file names. For example, if you have a file named MONTH.DAT, and you enter MONTH, the file won't be located. If you don't enter a drive specification, The Draftsman assumes that the file is on the current default drive (normally A). If your file is not on this drive, you must enter a drive prefix. If you are ever unsure what to enter, give the full name, e.g., B:MONTH.DAT. 1033 The disk you tried to save to is full.. Insert another. Once The Draftsman is loaded, you can remove the A diskette. You can then use the A drive for all data files. If one becomes full (this will normally occur if you save a lot of screen images; each one takes 4,000 - 10,000 bytes) you can simply insert another. 1034 Either a disk drive or the printer is unavailable.. The Draftsman only knows that some device is unavailable. You should be able to determine which device is at fault. if you were using menu 5, the printer is needed, other- wise, one of the disk drives is not ready. 1035 Input/Ouput error.. An error was encountered in transmitting data to or from your disk. Your disk may be defective; try your last operation again. 1036 You tried to write to a protected disk.. Disks are write-protected with a shiny adhesize strip. This insures against accidental destruction of data. If you have write-protected your program disk, then tried to save to it, this error will occur. Probably you shouldn't be trying to write to such a disk. 1037 The file name you gave is invalid.. File names can have from one to three parts, as follows: an optional drive designation (a:, b:, or c:), a required primary name (1 to 8 characters consisting of letters and numbers), ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 35<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ and an optional qualifier (a period followed by 1 to 3 characters). 1038 The file you named is in an unrecognizable format.. This error will arise for one of two reasons: 1) either you are attempting to read a DIF file and the file is not in DIF format, or 2) you are attempting to read a DRAFTSMAN spec file, and the file was not saved as a spec file. You probably gave the wrong file name. 1039 The # of rows (or columns) in the file is either 0 or too large.. A data file can have at most 24 rows and 5 columns of y values. This error may arise if you are reading a file which is not in the proper format. 15. Installation 15.1 Equipment Required In order to use The Draftsman, you need the following minimum configuration: 1) two disk drives, 2) 128K of memory (160K is recommended), 3) the IBM color/graphics monitor adapter or compatible adapter (although not necessarily a color monitor) and 4) DOS 1.1 or higher. 15.2 For New Computer Users Only 15.2.1 Diskette Care. Diskettes store both programs and data. If they are damaged, all of the information on them may be lost. Here are some basic rules to follow to prevent damage to your diskettes. 1. Loading: To load a diskette into a disk drive, carefully remove it from its jacket, and insert it into the open disk drive door. The label should go in last, and should face up (if your drive door is horizontal) or to the left (if your door is vertical). 2. Labeling: Be certain to label all diskettes. Use a felt-tip pen. Place labels only on the top side of the diskette at the end away from the oval read-write surface. 3. Backup: Make backup copies of your master program disks before you begin work; Put your master copy away in a safe place, and use the backup. Backup your data diskettes daily. Label your masters "master", your work- ing copies "working", and your extra backups "backup". Store backups and masters in a separate location from that used to store working copies. 4. Storage: Keep all diskettes in their protective jackets when not in use, and place them in a safe place away from heat, moisture, solvents, cigarette ashes, dust, x-rays, and magnetic fields. Store diskettes verti- cally; do not pack them into containers, or do anything that might crimp ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 36<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ them. 5. Handling: Only hold disketes by the label end. Never touch the exposed surface of the disk with a finger or other object. Never fold or bend a diskette. 15.3 Make a Backup Copy To make a backup of your program disk, follow these steps: 1. Insert a blank disk in drive B:, your DOS disk in drive A:. Turn the computer on. 2. Enter the time and date. At the A> , do a directory of the disk in drive B: to make sure it is blank or contains files you do not care about. A>DIR B: 3. Format the disk in drive B:, transferring the operating system at the same time. Enter: A>FORMAT B:/S 4. Now copy The Draftsman to drive B:. Remove your DOS diskette from A: and insert your The Draftsman disk in A:. Copy all files, as follows: A>COPY *.* B:/v 5. Proceed to the next section, modifying your working copy of The Draftsman. 15.4 Invoking The Draftsman Invoking The Draftsman requires three steps: 1. Boot DOS from drive A. 2. The files for The Draftsman are on one or two disks. You should make working copies of the originals and put the originals in a safe place. Refer to your DOS manual for instructions on making copies of diskettes. The working copy of the The Draftsman diskette marked A should also be formatted with DOS (use FORMAT with the /s option). This will eliminate some disk switching later. 3. Put the disk marked A in the A drive and the file marked B in the B drive. Type DRAWMAN and you're off and running. It takes a few seconds for The ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 37<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ Draftsman to load its files, so be patient. Once the MAIN MENU is dis- played, you can remove the disk from drive A and insert another disk containing (or to receive) data. If you have double sided drives, a hard disk, or an electronic disk, you can change the configuration above, but you need to understand what files comprise The Draftsman and what they're used for. FILE.DAT may need to be modified. (See below.) 15.5 The Draftsman Files 1. DRAWMAN.EXE This is main program for The Draftsman. Once the program is loaded and the main menu appears, the diskette containing this file can be removed. 2. FILE.DAT This is a pointer file which gives the names and locations of the remaining five files. This file contains five records, discussed in a later section. If you change your configuration, FILE.DAT must be edited. It need not remain resident after The Draftsman begins execution. 3. MENU.DAT This contains information about the menus. It need not remain resident. 4. HELP.DAT This contains help. It must remain resident. 5. VIO.DAT This file contains program segments which may be loaded during execution. It must remain resident. 6. ERROR.DAT This file contains the error messages. It need not remain resi- dent. 7. WORK.DAT This is used as a work file when using the HP plotter or when producing a slide show. It need not be resident. 8. DRAWMAN.DOC This is this manual. It need not be on the program or data disks. You will want to include it when you share The Draftsman with a friend. 15.6 Modify FILE.DAT The Draftsman may be run from either a floppy or your hard disk. Instructions for both options are provided below. FILE.DAT specifies where DRAWMAN should look for the other files. You may view it by entering: A>TYPE FILE.DAT It looks like this: ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 38<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 15: FILE.DAT ===--- n:menu.dat (n should be c if you wish to run from n:help.dat your hard disk. n should be a if you n:vio.dat plan to run from drive a. Use an editor n:error.dat to make the changes you may need to n:work.dat in FILE.DAT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that the file VIO.DAT is V-I(eye, not one)-O(oh, not zero). 15.6.1 Running The Draftsman From a Floppy. Unless your floppy disk can only hold 320 Kb, you can place all of The Draftsman files on a single floppy. If you want to run The Draftsman from a 360K floppy, FILE.DAT should look like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 16: FILE.DAT for Floppy-Based Operation ===--- a:menu.dat a:help.dat a:vio.dat a:error.dat a:work.dat ------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use your word processor to create this file. If you want to run The Draftsman on a floppy with only 320K (DOS 1.1 and earlier), you will need to place one or more of the above files on drive B:. Drive A: must contain DRAWMAN.EXE and FILE.DAT. All other files may go in drive B: if you wish. If you wish to do this, change a: to b: in each of the five FILE.DAT file references shown above. Your new FILE.DAT can look like that shown below: a:menu.dat b:help.dat b:vio.dat a:error.dat a:work.dat After you have modified FILE.DAT as needed to tell The Draftsman where to look for program files, and before running The Draftsman, place a write-protect tab on the notch of your working program disk, to prevent accidents to any of The Draftsman programs. Before beginning work with The Draftsman, be certain you have a formatted data diskette for use in drive B: 15.6.2 Running The Draftsman from a Hard Disk. The Draftsman will run much faster from a hard disk, particularly during slide show operation. To run from ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 39<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ a hard disk, I would suggest that you follow these steps: 1. Create a directory called DRAWMAN. C:MD\DRAWMAN 2. Enter the new DRAWMAN directory: C:CD\DRAWMAN 3. Copy all files for The Draftsman to this directory: C:copy a:*.* /v 4. Edit FILE.DAT, if necessary, to read as follows: c:menu.dat c:help.dat c:vio.dat c:error.dat c:work.dat 15.7 For Users with Monochrome Monitors The Draftsman is configured for a color monitor. On some monochrome (amber or green) monitors, the display is unreadable after booting. You can remedy this problem by changing the color combinations used by the program. Here is the sequence you must enter: DRAWMAN (this will load The Draftsman) 2 (select menu option 2, Define Environment) F2 (move into this menu) RETURN (skip the first question) RETURN (skip the second question) RETURN (skip the third question) 07 (change text color to white) RETURN (move to next question) 15 (change background color to hi-intensity white) ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 40<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ RETURN (move to next question) 15 (change foreground color to hi-intensity white) RETURN (move to next question) 0 (change to black) RETURN (move to next question) 0 (change to black) RETURN (move to next question) F2 (accept your changes and return to main menu) If The Draftsman is still difficult to read on your monitor, repeat steps 2-17 above, but substitute 15 for 07, and 07 for 15. 15.8 Assuring You Have a Full Copy of The Draftsman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 17: Files Required by The Draftsman ===--- The Draftsman requires these files for operation: DRAWMAN EXE 100096 - the main program HELP DAT 64512 - a file of help messages VIO DAT 92160 - additional program segments MENU DAT 15360 - information about the menus ERROR DAT 1920 - error messages WORK DAT 16384 - a work file used for slide shows, plotting FILE DAT 60 - a pointer file ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.9 Installing a Mouse Driver You can install a driver for the Mouse Systems mouse by copying the MOUSESYS program to your Draftsman disk, and entering mousesys/r. Here is a simple batch file that does the job, and explains the operation of the Mouse Systems mouse with The Draftsman: ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 41<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---=== Table 18: Mouse Installation Batch File ===--- echo off mousesys/r echo Your Mouse Systems mouse has now been installed to work with echo The Draftsman. echo . echo Button 1 is the same as F1 (context-sensitive help) echo Button 2 is the same as F2 (forward to next screen) echo Button 3 is the same as F3 (back to last screen) echo . echo Up and Down movements will move between menu items. echo Left and Right movements will move within a menu item. echo . echo In Plot mode, all mouse motions will translate to cursor echo motions. echo In Plot mode, you may fine tune the mouse sensitivity with echo the < and > keys, return to normal with = pause Have fun! drawman.exe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.10 HP 7470A Plotter The switch settings on the plotter should be as follows: 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 S1 S2 Y US B4 B3 B2 B1 This setting indicates no parity (S1=0), 8 1/2 x 11 paper (US), and 2400 BAUD data rate (the B's). 16. Support for Users Since you did not pay for The Draftsman, limited support for the product should be expected. 16.1 24-Hour BBS Support Some support may be obtained from a bulletin board (BBS) which you may call with your computer. The number is (202) 537-1025. It supports 300/1200 baud operation, and operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There is no charge for accessing the BBS. One feature of the board will be product updates and enhancements. The current version of the product may be downloaded from this board. Any improvements to this manual will also be available from this board. I expect to have a number of boiler-plate slide libraries available for your download, as well. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 42<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman ______________________________________________________________________________ Another feature of this board will be general problem-solving, tips for ad- vanced use, and the like. If you have any problem using The Draftsman (program errors, for instance) or if you have suggestions for improvements of the program or this manual, call the board and leave a message. 16.2 Support for Registered Users If you send a contribution for $25 or more, or send a note assuring me that you have distributed The Draftsman to 5 or more other users, I will add your name as a registered owner of The Draftsman. Registered users will be added to the newsletter mailing list, and will be notified when slide libraries and program enhancements become available. 16.3 Source Code Available Source code for The Draftsman is available for $2000. The fee grants you the right to make any changes or enhancements you wish for use within your or- ganization. It does not grant you the right, however, to sell The Draftsman. 16.4 Distribution Conditions The Draftsman is distributed with these conditions: 1. David Stang holds the copyright. No permission to modify any of The Draftsman programs is granted. 2. The Draftsman is not to be sold. No consideration is to be paid for its distribution, except for nominal copying charges. 3. The Draftsman is to be shared freely with anyone who may find it of benefit. 4. Happy users, who find The Draftsman of value, should consider sending a contribution to David Stang c/o Hire Education, 3631 Jenifer St NW, Washington DC 20015 16.5 History of The Draftsman The Draftsman was written by Jan Gombert while employed by David Stang's company Starware. The Draftsman enjoyed some commercial success (Plantronics licensed a version of it for their graphics card; it was favorably reviewed in many micro magazines; a large number of copies of the program were sold at $200), but Starware did not. Since completing The Draftsman, Jan has formed Softwriters, a software house best known for Halo and Dr. Halo. David now earns his living by giving seminars on microcomputers. They plan to share evenly in any contributions received from the freeware distribution of The Draftsman. ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1985 by David J. Stang >>>Page 43<<< Please Reproduce! User Manual for The Draftsman Index + ...................................................................... 2 + Command (Legends) .................................................... 2 - ..................................................................... 24 - Command - Slide Show ................................................. 2 1-2-3 as Data Source .................................................. 32 1001 An unrecoverable error has occurred. Contact your deal............ 12 1002 The entry(s) have to be numbers (without commas or $ s............ 33 1003 The entry is not spelled correctly. .............................. 33 1004 There are too many values in the field. .......................... 33 1005 This field cannot be left blank. ................................. 33 1006 The number (or one of the numbers) is too big or too s............ 33 1007 There are no y-values (numeric data) in the input file............ 33 1008 One of the y-values in the input file is not numeric. ............ 33 1009 This x-value does not appear in the input file. .................. 33 1010 This file has not been created yet. .............................. 33 1011 The file does not have this many columns. ........................ 33 1012 This column has negative values, which can't be pie-d............. 33 1013 This column has fewer than two positive numbers. ................. 34 1014 If the size is given, position - x, y - must be given ............ 34 1015 The plot area extends beyond screen size. ........................ 34 1016 The plot can't fit in the size you gave. ......................... 34 1018 This is a null graph. All y's are equal to the baselin............ 34 1019 The plot is too big for the screen. .............................. 34 1020 No files were named. You must use at least one file. ............. 34 1021 You can't have stacked bars with negative values. ................ 34 1022 One of the colors you specified is not valid. .................... 34 1023 No plot has been created yet. .................................... 35 1024 You have run out of memory. Unrecoverable error. ................. 35 1031 You have run out of memory. Save what you can and star............ 35 1032 The file you named was not found. ................................ 35 1033 The disk you tried to save to is full. ........................... 35 1034 Either a disk drive or the printer is unavailable. ............... 35 1035 Input/Ouput error. ............................................... 35 1036 You tried to write to a protected disk. .......................... 35 1037 The file name you gave is invalid. ............................... 35 1038 The file you named is in an unrecognizable format. ............... 35 1039 The # of rows (or columns) in the file is either 0 or ............ 36 24-Hour BBS Support ................................................... 36 < Command ............................................................. 42 = Command ............................................................. 23 > Command ............................................................. 23 a Command ............................................................. 23 Add a Legend .......................................................... 23 Add Text .............................................................. 24 Amdek Color II ........................................................ 22 Aspect Ratio - Plotter ................................................. 7 Aspect Ratio - Printer ................................................ 29 Assuring You Have a Full Copy of The Draftsman ........................ 27 B Command ............................................................. 41 b Command ............................................................. 24 Back Up your Screen to Disk ........................................... 24 Backup ................................................................ 25 Backups - Making ...................................................... 36 Bar Chart Menu ........................................................ 37 Bar Chart Specifications .............................................. 17 Bar Colors ............................................................ 16 User Manual for The Draftsman Index Bar Format ............................................................ 18 Bar Width ............................................................. 18 Baseline Value ........................................................ 19 BBS Support ........................................................... 18 Boxing ................................................................ 42 c Command ............................................................. 16 Change Color .......................................................... 24 Chart Size and Position ............................................... 23 Chart Size and Position (boxing) ...................................... 19 Clustered Bars ........................................................ 16 Comma Delimited Files ................................................. 18 Connect Points ......................................................... 9 Constructing a Graph .................................................. 21 Ctrl-Break ............................................................. 2 Ctrl-End .............................................................. 14 Cursor Down ............................................................ 4 Cursor left/right ...................................................... 3 Cursor Motion Keys ..................................................... 4 Cursor Up .............................................................. 3 d Command .............................................................. 3 Data .................................................................. 23 DATA .................................................................. 30 Data Entry Menu ........................................................ 9 Data File .............................................................. 9 Define Environment ................................................ 16, 18 Define Environment Menu ................................................ 6 Del .................................................................... 6 DIF .................................................................... 4 DIF Creation from 1-2-3 ................................................ 9 Disk Full ............................................................. 12 Diskette Care ......................................................... 35 Diskette File Name .................................................... 36 Display Slide Show .................................................... 30 Distribution Conditions ............................................... 31 Draw a Circle (or Oval) ............................................... 43 Draw a Flowchart ...................................................... 24 Draw a Line ........................................................... 25 Draw a Rectangle ...................................................... 23 Draw an Arrow ......................................................... 24 DRAWMAN.DOC ........................................................... 23 DRAWMAN.EXE ........................................................... 38 E Command ......................................................... 38, 39 e Command ............................................................. 25 E Command - Plotting .................................................. 25 e Command - Plotting .................................................. 29 Edit .................................................................. 29 Edit Command Summary ............................................... 21, 8 Edit:Filen ............................................................ 22 Enclose Chart in Box .................................................. 11 Enter (Return) ........................................................ 18 Epson .................................................................. 3 Equipment Required .................................................... 27 Erase a Line .......................................................... 36 Erase a Region ........................................................ 25 Error Messages ........................................................ 25 ERROR.DAT ............................................................. 32 User Manual for The Draftsman Index Execute Saved Edit Commands ........................................... 38 Explode ............................................................... 23 f Command ............................................................. 15 F1 Function Key ....................................................... 24 F2 Function Key .................................................... 22, 3 F3 Function Key ........................................................ 3 F4 Function Key ........................................................ 3 F5 Function Key ....................................................... 13 F6 Function Key ....................................................... 22 Features of The Draftsman ............................................. 24 Field Editing Keys ..................................................... 1 Fields in Menus ........................................................ 3 File Directories - Listing ............................................. 3 File Formats .......................................................... 32 File Names ............................................................ 36 File Not Found .................................................... 11, 35 File Number ........................................................... 35 File Number and Format ................................................ 10 FILE.DAT .............................................................. 30 FILE.DAT for Floppy-Based Operation ....................... 38, 38, 39, 39 Files Required by The Draftsman ....................................... 39 Find Out Where You Are ................................................ 41 For New Computer Users Only ........................................... 23 For Users with Monochrome Monitors .................................... 36 Free Computer Memory Indicator ........................................ 40 General Overview ....................................................... 4 General Plot Specifications ............................................ 2 General Plot Specifications Menu ...................................... 12 Get Help .............................................................. 13 Graphics Resolution ................................................... 22 Graphing Values from 1-2-3 ............................................. 6 H Command ............................................................. 11 h Command ............................................................. 24 Handling Disks ........................................................ 24 Hard Disk Operation ................................................... 37 HELP.DAT .............................................................. 39 Hi (graphics resolution) .............................................. 38 History of The Draftsman ............................................... 6 Horizontal Reference Value ............................................ 43 HP 7470A Plotter ...................................................... 18 HP-7470 ............................................................... 42 i Command ............................................................. 27 Input ................................................................. 25 Ins ................................................................... 27 Installation ........................................................... 4 Installing a Mouse Driver ............................................. 36 Invoking The Draftsman ................................................ 41 l Command ............................................................. 37 Labeling Disks ........................................................ 23 Leave Edit ............................................................ 36 Legend Creation ....................................................... 22 Line Graph Menu ....................................................... 24 Line Graph Specifications ............................................. 20 Line Markers .......................................................... 19 List File Directory ................................................... 20 List File Directory Menu .............................................. 32 User Manual for The Draftsman Index Lo (graphics resolution) .............................................. 32 m Command .............................................................. 6 Main Menu ............................................................. 26 Make a Backup Copy ..................................................... 5 Markers for Lines ..................................................... 37 Memory - Reducing Requirements ........................................ 20 Memory Problems ........................................................ 4 MENU.DAT .......................................................... 35, 35 Menus ................................................................. 38 Minimum Column Width ................................................... 3 Modify Existing File Size? ............................................ 19 Modify FILE.DAT ....................................................... 11 Monochrome Monitors ................................................... 38 Mouse Installation Batch File ......................................... 40 Mouse Systems Mouse ................................................... 42 Move .................................................................. 41 Move a Section of the Plot to a Different Location .................... 23 Moved Images - Plotting ............................................... 25 Name of File .......................................................... 29 Number of x Values, Number of y Values for Each x Value ............... 11 o Command ............................................................. 10 Orientation ........................................................... 25 Other Differences Between Screen and Plotter Graphics ................. 27 P Command ............................................................. 29 Paint a Region ........................................................ 25 Paint Command - Plotting .............................................. 25 Palette ............................................................... 29 Pie Chart Menu ......................................................... 7 Pie Chart Specifications .............................................. 15 Pie Charts ............................................................ 14 Pie Colors ............................................................ 11 Place a Dot ........................................................... 15 Plotting - Stopping ................................................... 22 Position of Charts .................................................... 27 Print Aspect Ratio .................................................... 16 Printer/Plotter Menu .................................................. 27 Produce Hard Copy Output .............................................. 26 Restrictions and Special Features of Edit ............................. 26 Retrieve a Screen from Disk ........................................... 28 Retrieving Saved Plots ................................................ 25 Return Key ............................................................ 27 Running The Draftsman From a Floppy .................................... 3 Running The Draftsman from a Hard Disk ................................ 39 s Command ............................................................. 39 Sample Data File (Comma Delimited) .................................... 24 Save Screen/Data/Spec ................................................. 10 Save Screen/Data/Spec Menu ............................................ 29 Screen ................................................................ 30 Screen Aspect Ratio ................................................... 30 Screen Not Readable - Solution ......................................... 7 SCREENX.DAT File Names ................................................ 40 Separating Multiple Values ............................................ 32 Shading Patterns ....................................................... 4 Size of Charts ........................................................ 18 Slide Names ........................................................... 16 Slide Show - Manual Control of Pace ................................... 32 User Manual for The Draftsman Index Slide Show Menu ....................................................... 31 Some General Notes on Menus ........................................... 31 Source Code Available .................................................. 4 Source of Data ........................................................ 43 Space Bar Command ...................................................... 8 Spec .................................................................. 32 Specify Input ......................................................... 30 Specify Input Menu ..................................................... 7 Stacked Bars ........................................................... 8 Startup ............................................................... 18 Step Size ............................................................. 28 Storing Disks ......................................................... 23 Support for Registered Users .......................................... 36 Support for Users ..................................................... 43 Switch Settings ....................................................... 42 The Draftsman Files ................................................... 28 The Main Menu ......................................................... 38 Time ................................................................... 5 Title and Footnote Fields ............................................. 31 Title, Footnote ....................................................... 15 Unreadable Screens .................................................... 17 Using Help ............................................................ 40 VIO.DAT ................................................................ 1 W Command ............................................................. 38 w Command ............................................................. 24 WORK.DAT .............................................................. 24 Write Your Name in Longhand ........................................... 38 Write-Protected ....................................................... 23 x ..................................................................... 35 X axis - meaning ....................................................... 2 X-label ............................................................... 10 Y axis - meaning ...................................................... 17 Y column .............................................................. 10 Y-columns ............................................................. 16 Y-label ............................................................... 19 Y-label ............................................................... 17