This program is intended for designing room interiors. It allows you to place furniture, items and other objects. You can additionally move and rotate objects, change their colors and dimensions. But you can also plan your entire flat, one floor of the house or new garden.

This file serves as help for the program and we recommend you to print it and eventually read it.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. License Agreement
2. Install And Uninstall
3. Improve Your Drawings From Older Versions
4. Getting Started, Creating the Room
5. Adding Objects
6. Catalogue of Predefined Objects
7. Saving Into File, Printing And Export
8. Tricks
9. Localization

The program is freeware and it can be distributed only free of charge. Using of the program is free of charge as well.

The program is provided "as-is", and no warranties of any kind (including implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose), express or implied, are made as to it or any medium it may be on. Under no circumstances will we provide any other remedy for direct, indirect, special, consequential, punitive, incidental or other damages arising from it, including such from negligence, strict liability, or breach of warranty or contract, even after notice of the possibility of such damages.

Installing and using the program signifies acceptance and agreement to the terms and conditions of this license. If you do not agree with the terms of this license you must cease to use the program and remove the program from your storage devices.

The program is distributed with an installation program. Leave "Additional Languages" checked if you want to install other languages (not only English) and then select the directory to install in. You can launch the program from the Start menu. If you already have an older version, you should not uninstall it.

In order to uninstall the program you must launch the Uninstall command from the Start menu (Start-Programs-Room Arranger) or select the corresponding item in Start-Settings-Control panel-Add/Remove Programs.

Every new version brings new features which can markedly improve drawings created using a previous program version. You should adjust the catalogue as well; the installation program does not do it automatically. You can find the list of all new features in the file "What's new" accessible from the Start menu.

Rooms up to version 1.11

1. Increase the wall thickness to 10 and set up the space around the room at least to 35. Both from menu Room->Change Size.
2. Change the type (in object properties) of the rectangles serving as windows to the new type Window.
3. Check Snap to Wall in properties of all doors near walls.

Catalogue up to version 1.11

• Change the type of all windows to Window and we recommend switching off displaying of its caption.

At first, you should look at the example. Open it using the menu command Room->Open and select the file Sample.mst (distributed with the program). Shortcuts to the samples are also located in the Start menu. Try to study it and play with objects. Then you can create your own room using the menu command Room->New.

At the beginning, you should define the dimensions of the room. You can do it in the window Room->Change Size. All numbers in the program are in centimeters, but you can change it and, when planning layout of new houses in the field, the unit can be meter, inch, etc...

If you don't have a rectangular room or you want to draw the plan of the entire flat, you must click Edit walls button in the dialog window mentioned above. Next window will appear in which you can adjust current walls or add new. Choose the wall in the listing (new wall as a last blank record), fill in the coordinates and press Save to confirm changes for every wall. Alignment of the wall stands for the position of the wall in respect to the coordinates - it can be above them, going through them or bellow them. Width and height of the room are automatically changed to fit the walls; it means that you don't have to keep walls in the room dimensions entered before.

Room dimensions are displayed on the status bar. You can find there also the mouse position in respect to the upper left corner of the room and used zoom factor (see menu View).

Windows and doors are the first objects to be added to the room. You should place them very precisely.

Objects are added using two possible ways: either from menu Objects->Add Object or right-clicking on the free space in the room (recommended). The dialog window will appear and you can change the properties of the new object. Pressing OK button will add the object and then you can adjust its position move using the mouse.

If you place the mouse cursor over the object placed in the room and wait a moment, a brief info about it appear. And using a right-click you can select one of the following commands from the pop-up menu:

1. Properties - edit the object properties
2. Duplicate Object - create a copy of the object
3. Remove Object - delete the object
4. Bring to Front ...
5. Send to Back - these functions are good for placing the objects on the top of another object (for example put TV on the cupboard, push a chest under the table,...). In that case, you must sort them by the help of exactly these two commands.

Last performed change of position or properties of objects and the room can be undone by the command Room->Undo or using a toolbar button.

Menu command Objects->Listing is dedicated to displaying the list of all objects in the room. You can remove objects or change their properties by clicking the right mouse button.

... can be very handy feature, but it is maybe one of the difficult parts of the program. You've certainly spotted it on the right side of the Object properties window. If you select some predefined object and press Load button, its properties will be transferred into the object from the room that you are currently modifying.

You can transfer any existing object to the catalogue to save its definition for later use. Just press Save button. Object is stored with some name, so try to input something reasonable, accurate and general at the same time.

At the first start, the program will create a simple catalogue with a few helpful objects (text caption, window, example of a door). The catalogue is saved in the file named Catalog.msk in the program directory. You should not edit it manually. It is much better to use menu command Objects->Browse Catalogue. Then you can:

• add new objects: fill something on the left side and insert it using Save button to the catalogue. You can transcribe some real paper catalogue.
• edit existing: select the object on the right side, press Load, edit it on the left and press Save.
• delete existing: right-click on the object and select appropriate option.

It is strongly recommended, that you save your drawing into the file from time to time. There are several commands in the Room menu for this purpose. You can open the files also using a double click in Explorer or any other file manager, or dragging the file into the program window.

You can also print your work (Room->Print). Select the paper orientation in your printer setup. In the bottom side of the window there is a schematic view on the paper and you can select (and edit) what shall be printed along the image.

Furthermore, you can save the result as an image (Export submenu) or copy it into the clipboard and subsequently insert it into a text editor (like MS Word), add some comments and then print it. 100% zoom is used for printing and export.

• To insert floating text caption, create a rectangle with transparent line and fill color. This object is already predefined in the Catalogue. So just load it and change the caption. And possibly the width.
• Explore the samples distributed with program. Maybe you will find some inspiration.

Since version 1.11, the program is distributed also in other language mutations, not only in Czech. Translations are provided by normal people (like you) who find this program useful and they want to support it.

If you want to join them and help with the translation into some non-translated language, you already saw any program in that language, contact us using e-mail jadamec@bigfoot.com. You will have to translate only one text file (all translations are in the Language directory) and insert correct constant into the LanguageID line (I will provide it). Just keep the same sense, the rest is fully up to you. Conversion of this help file is optional and not recommended.

Detailed instructions:

1. Before you start translating, always check the website if somebody else has not already done it! Download the latest version. We will gladly answer any your e-mail questions.

2. Look into the installation directory with the languages (typically C:\Program Files\Room Arranger\Language) on the existing translations using a simple text editor (Notepad, Textpad,...) and find the language closest to yourself, preferably English - i.e. file arr_en.lng. Create a copy of this file with the name derived from the new language name (i.e. arr_de.lng for German).

3. In that new file, translate all strings after ItemN=, change the language name on the top of the file and write any other number in LanguageID (we'll change or send you (if you want) the correct constant for your language).

4. Start the program and choose your now language. Go through all dialog windows and check the accurancy and see if all texts fit in the space dedicated to them. If not, try to use another phrase or abbreviation. When editing the language file with program running, you must reselect the language in the configurations or restart program to apply changes.

5. Send us your product; we are looking forward to it!

6. When working on newer versions of the program, you will have to translate about 15 new clearly marked items every time.