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CHARTS UNLIMITED(tm) Reference Guide Copyright (C) 1991 by Graphware, Inc. All Rights Reserved Program by: Stan Webber Manual by: Victoria Webber Graphware, Inc. P.O. Box 373 Middletown, OH 45042 (513) 424-6733 LICENSE AGREEMENT The CHARTS UNLIMITED program is protected by United States Copyright Law and International Treaty provisions. All rights are reserved. Non-registered users of CHARTS UNLIMITED are licensed only to use the program on a trial basis for the sole purpose of determining whether or not it meets their requirements. All other use requires registration. To register, simply pay the $45.00 (US$) registration fee and complete the register form on the next page. When you register yourself as a user of CHARTS UNLIMITED you will be sent a complete CHARTS UNLIMITED user manual and informed of any new releases of the program. Any other use of non-registered copies of CHARTS UNLIMITED by any person, business, corporation, government organization, or other entity is strictly forbidden and is a violation of this license agreement. Registration permits a user to license to use CHARTS UNLIMITED on a single computer. All users are granted a limited license to copy CHARTS UNLIMITED for the trial use of others, with the following additional conditions: CHARTS UNLIMITED must be distributed in unmodified, complete form, including this Reference Guide and License Agreement. CHART UNLIMITED may not be distributed in conjunction with any other product, without written permission from Graphware, Inc. 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O. Box 373 * * Middletown, OH 45042 * * * ************************************************************* WARRANTY Graphware, Inc. makes no representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties or merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Graphware, Inc. shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, perfermance, or use of this publication or its contents. Graphware, Inc. reserves the right to revise this publication without obligation to notify any person of such changes. TRADEMARKS CHARTS UNLIMITED is a trademark of Graphware, Incorporated. IBM is a registered tradmark of International Business Machines Corporated. MS-DOS is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation LOTUS 1-2-3 is a trademark of LOTUS Corporation. HERCULES is a trademark of Hercules Computer Technology. Table of Contents Introduction .......................................... 1 Getting Started ....................................... 2 Selecting Commands and Sub-commands ................... 3 The Worksheet Commands ................................ 4 Draw Solid lines .................................... 4 Draw Dash lines ..................................... 5 Clear Worksheet ..................................... 5 Erase at Cursor Location ............................ 5 Blank Out an Area of the Chart ...................... 5 Move an Area of the Chart ........................... 5 Replicate (Copy) an Area of the Chart ............... 5 Set Another Vertical/Horizontal Window .............. 6 Toggle the View Window .............................. 6 Insert Rows or Columns .............................. 6 Delete a Rows or Columns ............................ 6 Toggle the Grid Size ................................ 6 The Text Command ...................................... 7 Standard Text ....................................... 7 Bold Text ........................................... 7 Find Text ........................................... 7 The Files Command ..................................... 8 Load a Chart ........................................ 8 Save a Chart ........................................ 8 Save Part of a Chart ................................ 8 Load a Text File .................................... 8 Change Directory or Drive ........................... 9 The Objects Command ................................... 10 Standard Objects .................................... 10 Alternate Objects ................................... 10 Define a Alternate Object ........................... 11 Save Alternate Objects .............................. 11 Load Alternate Objects .............................. 11 The Symbols Command ................................... 12 Standard Symbols .................................... 12 Create a Symbol ..................................... 12 Save Symbols ........................................ 12 Load Symbols ........................................ 12 The Print Command ..................................... 13 Start Printing ...................................... 13 Print All of Chart .................................. 13 Print Part of Chart ................................. 13 Change Print Magnification .......................... 13 Configure Printer ................................... 13 Stop Printing ....................................... 13 The Quit Command ...................................... 14 ADDENDUM ............................................... 15 Introducing CHARTS UNLIMITED CHARTS UNLIMITED integrates graphics and text processing into one powerful system to allow quick and easy creation, editing and printing of flow charts, organization charts, floorplans, electrical diagrams, Gantt charts, forms and many more types of charts. CHARTS UNLIMITED is suitable for a variety of professions, including engineers, architects, programmers, systems analysts, teachers and virtually anyone who has a need to draw charts. Charts are drawn on a large worksheet that is 256 columns wide up to 1000 rows long. This represents a graphics area of over 4 million pixels or dots. The user can scroll quickly in any direction around the worksheet. Although only a part of the worksheet is visible at one time, a unique feature called "VIEW" will shrink the chart to one-eighth and display it on the right half of the screen. With just a few keystrokes, the thirty-six OBJECTS, including various geometric shapes and bar graph designs, can be displayed, moved, stretched, shrunk and replicated on the worksheet. There are also thirty-six SYMBOLS available, ranging from math symbols to flow chart arrows. You can also create your own custom symbols. Text can be entered anywhere on the worksheet as lowercase, uppercase or bold face characters with such text editing features as delete and insert. A "FIND" function is provided that will permit you to find any text string in the work chart and then display that area of the chart that contains the string. Text files from spreadsheets and word processors can be loaded into CHARTS UNLIMITED. A chart can be printed on most dot matrix printers either horizontally or vertically and in many sizes due to a magnification feature that can expand a chart up to 100 times. A printer buffer is provided to facilitate printing of a chart while simultaneously creating or editing a chart. CHARTS UNLIMITED provides many features that makes it very easy for you to design and edit your charts. -1- GETTING STARTED You will need the following hardware to run CHARTS UNLIMITED: 1. IBM PC or compatible with one or two drives. 2. 256K of memory (or more). 3. IBM Color Graphics Adapter or Hercules monochrome graphics card. 4. Graphics dot-matrix printer. 5. DOS 2.0 or greater. Starting CHARTS UNLIMITED: 1. Insert MS/PC DOS diskette in drive A. 2. Turn on the PC. 3. Enter date and time. 4. Remove the DOS disk and insert the CHARTS UNLIMITED diskette. 5. At the A prompt, type CU and press [Enter]. -- If you have a Hercules graphics adapter type CU HERC and press [Enter]. ------- 6. A copyright notice appears on the screen. Press any key to go to CHARTS UNLIMITED worksheet. 7. Access the PRINT command to configure the CHARTS UNLIMITED disk for your printer. See the instructions on the PRINT command and CONFIGURE sub-command in this manual. NOTE: If you have a hard disk, you can copy all the CHARTS UNLIMITED files from the program diskette to the hard disk and run the program from the hard disk. The CHARTS UNLIMITED diskette must be in drive A whenever you configure the disk for a printer or print a chart. However, if you copy the CHARTS UNLIMITED files to a hard drive, you will not need the CHARTS UNLIMITED diskette in drive A. -2- Selecting Commands and Sub-commands The first line lists the primary commands available in CHARTS UNLIMITED. There are two means of selecting a command. 1) Use the left and right arrow keys to move the cursor to highlight the desired command and then press [RETURN]. 2) Type the first letter of the command to be chosen (WORKSHEET=W). Notice: when a command is highlighted, its sub-command is displayed on line two. Most sub-commands are accessed in the same manner as the commands, by pressing [RETURN] when highlighted or by typing its first letter (LINE=L). When a sub-command is in brackets, such as [Del], the actual key is pressed; in this example, the delete key. A description of the sub-command is displayed on the next line when the sub- command is highlighted; directions are displayed when the sub-command is actually selected. A HELP screen is available for each of the commands and sub- commands by pressing the function key [F1] while that command or sub-command is highlighted. NOTE: To go back to the sub-command line from the worksheet, press [Esc]. To go back to the command line from the sub- command line, press [Esc] again. Following are the primary commands (highlighted) and their respective sub-commands. -3- The WORKSHEET Command WORKSHEET TEXT FILES OBJECTS SYMBOLS PRINT QUIT VERSION [RETURN], LINE, DASH, CLEAR, ERASE, BLANK, MOVE, REPLICATE, WINDOW, VIEW, [Ins], [Del], GRID The WORKSHEET command contains sub-commands for drawing lines, setting up the worksheet display envirnoment and changing and editing information in your chart. The graphic worksheet consists of a numbered grid that is 256 columns wide up to 1000 rows long, depending on how much memory is in your computer. There are horizontal and vertical pointer arrows on the columns and rows that pinpoint the location of the cursor. The screen is a window into a large worksheet, but the entire worksheet can be seen, portions at a time, by scrolling the worksheet area or using the VIEW sub-command. [RET] Pressing the [RETURN] key enables the cursor to move up, down, left and right in any specified number of increments on the worksheet. Press the [F1] key to see the list of cursor direction keys. To increase the number of spaces moved with each keystroke from one to X number of spaces, press the [+] key (cursor increment key) on the numeric keypad Then enter the new increment. Each time one of the arrow keys on the numeric keypad is pressed, the number of spaces will be increased X times. The cursor increment key can be used whenever the cursor is on the worksheet. (L) Draw solid LINES in eight directions. The cursor increment key increases the length of lines drawn with each keystroke. Press the[F1] key for a list of the cursor direction keys. NOTE: Solid lines can only be drawn through other lines, not through objects, symbols or text. -4- Line Length Key :To increase the line length drawn with each keystroke from 1 to 255 spaces, press the [+] key (same as the cursor increment key) on the numeric keypad. Type in a number X (between 1 and 255) and press [Return]. Now, each time you press the cursor direction keys on the numeric keypad, the line will be drawn a distance of X spaces. The distance will remain the same until you change it or until the system is turned off, in which case it defaults to 1 again. The line increment key can be used whenever the cursor is on the worksheet. NOTE: A diagonal line will not connect with two straight lines that intersect. Also, a straight line will not connect with intersecting diagonal lines. The illustration below gives two examples of lines that will not intersect. (D) Use this command to draw DASH lines in eight directions. The cursor increment key increases the number of dash lines drawn with each keystroke. Press the [F1] key for a list of the cursor direction keys. (C) Use this command to CLEAR the entire worksheet. (E) Use this command to ERASE single characters wherever the cursor is moved. The cursor increment key increases the number of spaces erased with each keystroke. Press the [F1] key for a list of the cursor direction keys. (B) This command is used to erases any defined rectangular area on the worksheet. Move the curosr to the upper- left hand corner of the area you want to erase and then press [Return]. Now, move to the lower-right hand corner. This defines the area you want to erase. Press [Return] again and the area will be erased. (M) This command is use to MOVE any defined rectangular area of the current worksheet from one location to another on the same worksheet. (R) Use this command to copy or REPLICATE an area of the worksheet. To REPLICATE an area is to first copy it, move that copy to another section of the worksheet and, at the same time, leave the original area unchanged. Then the area can be replicated multiple times in any of eight directions. A replicated area replaces the information under it. -5- (W) Use the WINDOW command to divide the screen horizontally or vertically, and keep the top (with horizontal) or left (with vertical) stationary while the other section performs like the normal worksheet. (V) The VIEW command is used to display, in inverse video, 256 columns and 170 rows of the worksheet in condensed form on the right side of the screen, but allows work to be continued on the main worksheet. The blinking dot in VIEW marks the location of the cursor on the main worksheet and the dotted rectangular outline shows the area of the main worksheet that is currently displayed on the screen. [Ins] Press the [Ins] key to INSERT blank rows and/or columns of specified length and width. Inserting blank rows causes the section of chart directly below the insertion to move down the same number of rows that are highlighted. Inserting blank columns causes the portion of chart at the right of the insertion to move right the same number of columns that were highlighted. [Del] Press the [Del] key to delete rows and/or columns of specified length and width. Deleting rows causes the section of chart directly below the deletion to move up the same number of rows that were deleted. Deleting columns causes the section of chart at the right of the deletion to move left the same number of columns that were deleted. (G) Use the command to GRID toggles the worksheet grid size back and forth between an 87 column and 43 column screen display. -6- The TEXT Command WORKSHEET TEXT FILES OBJECTS SYMBOLS PRINT QUIT VERSION [RETURN], BOLD, FIND TEXT can be entered anywhere on the worksheet in standard text and bold upper-case text by turning the keyboard into a typewriter. [Ins] and [Del] are valuable text-editing keys for inserting and deleting text. You can also use the backspace key to deletes the text character to its left. The numeric keypad cannot be used for numeric data, since the cursor direction keys are used to move the cursor to any location on the worksheet. When entering text, you cannot type over lines, symbols or object; first erase the necessary area. A beep will sound if you try to type over anything other than text characters or blank spaces. When finished with the current TEXT sub-command, press the [RETURN] key to go back to the sub-command line. [RET] Select this option for standard text. (B) Select this option for BOLD text. Only upper-case text is supported for the BOLD option. (F) Use FIND to search for a word or a string of text. FIND searches to the right and down from the cursor, so move the cursor to the top left corner of where the search is to begin before using this sub-command. -7- The FILES Command WORKSHEET TEXT FILES OBJECTS SYMBOLS PRINT QUIT VERSION LOAD, SAVE, PART, TEXTFILE, DIR With the FILES sub-commands you can load previously created charts, save your charts, load text files from other program applications and change the directory. (L) Use the LAOD command to load a chart from disk into the worksheet.Charts can be LOADed onto the worksheet in two ways: overlay or screen. To overlay a chart is to load one chart over another, thus blocking out whatever is under the top chart. Loading a chart by the screen method allows the bottom chart to show through the blank spaces of the top chart. (S) Use SAVE to save the entire worksheet area to a disk. The file name must begin with a letter or number and can be up to eight characters long. (P) Use the PART command to save any rectangular part of the chart, by defining the area. The file name must begin with a letter or number and can be up to eight characters long. (T) Use the TEXT command to load a text file that has been created using a word processor, spreadsheet program, text editor or database program. Each line of the text file must end with a carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF). Most application software provides a utility program or function that will output a document as a text file. Lotus 1-2-3 calls this a print file and adds the suffix ".PRN" to the file name you give. Both the prefix and suffix must be entered when identifying the file to be loaded. For example, NAME.TXT refers to the text file NAME. CHARTS UNLIMITED charts cannot be saved as a text file. Text files can be loaded like chart files by using the overlay or screen method. -8- (Dir) The DIRECTORY command changes to another directory and/or disk drive to load and/or save charts and load text files. For example, if the directory name that contains your charts is named GRAPHS, enter \GRAPHS\. The program will then use the GRAPHS directory. To change from drive A to drive B, type B:. This allows the program to save your charts on the disk in drive B or load charts from the disk in drive B. -9- The OBJECTS Command WORKSHEET TEXT FILES OBJECTS SYMBOLS PRINT QUIT VERSION [RETURN], ALTERNATE, DEFINE, SAVE, LOAD There are thirty-six standard objects available, ranging from squares with different line densities to triangles, template symbols, math symbols, parentheses and patterned horizontal and vertical bars. Standard objects can be combined with lines (or any of the other sub-commands) to make a more custom object and then saved as your own alternate object. The alternate objects can be temporarily stored in the computer's memory or permanently saved onto disk for later use. [RET] Use this command to select one of the thirty-six STANDARD OBJECTS that are available. Press the corresponding letter (A-Z) or number (0-9) and the object is displayed on the worksheet at the cursor location. Or press [RETURN] for the OBJECTS menu. Move the object to desired location with the cursor direction keys and press [RETURN]. The arrow keys on the numeric keypad are now used to change the size of the object: [2] increases length, [4] decreases width, [6] increases width and [8] decreases length. (Notice that the arrows point out the direction of the increase or decrease.) Press [RETURN] to save the object on the worksheet. The increment by which the arrow keys change the object defaults to whatever the cursor increment was when OBJECTS was accessed. Any changes to the cursor increment key must be made before changing the object's size. (A) Choose this command to select an ALTERNATE object that was previously defined by the user with the aid of the DEFINE sub-command. To display the object, first LOAD the alternate objects set (file) into the computer's memory. Then press the key used to define that object. A single file can contain 256 alternate objects. Once an alternate object is defined, its size is fixed. -10- (D) Use the DEFINED command to define an alternate object First outline the object on the worksheet to be used to define an alternate object. Key in a single keystroke to identify the object. The key can be any single letter, number, special character or a combination of [Ctrl] or [Shift] and one of the previously mentioned keys. The function keys [F1] through [F10] cannot be used to DEFINE an alternate object. (S) Use the SAVE command to save on disk the set of alternate objects currently in the computer's memory. The file name must begin with a letter or number and can be up to eight characters long. The program adds the suffix OBJ to the file name of the objects that are stored on the data disk. SAVE is necessary only if changes or additions were made to the set. To have one particular alternate object file loaded when CHARTS UNLIMITED is loaded, save the file with the name USER. While loading, CHARTS UNLIMITED looks for a file named USER.OBJ and automatically loads it into memory. At any time, another alternate object file can be loaded to replace the current one in memory. (L) The LOAD command is used to load a set of alternate objects from a data disk into the computer's memory. Simply type in the file name of the alternate object you want to load into memory an use. -11- The SYMBOLS Command WORKSHEET TEXT FILES OBJECTS SYMBOLS PRINT QUIT VERSION [RETURN], CREATE, SAVE, LOAD The SYMBOLS command contains thirty-six standard symbols, including such special symbols as direction arrows for flow charts and some math symbols. The standard set of symbols is loaded automatically with CHARTS UNLIMITED. However, it is possible to create your own sets of symbols and have one of those sets loaded with the program. [RET] Press the [RETURN] key to select a symbol for use in your chart.. Press the corresponding letter (A-Z) or number (0-9) and the symbol appears on the worksheet Press [RETURN] to display the SYMBOLS menu. (C) Use the CREATE command to change any one of the thirty-six symbols. A symbol is consist of a 7 X 7 matrix with pixels (dots) that can be turned on or off to create the pattern of the new symbol. (S) SAVE the current set of symbols. The file name must begin with a letter or number and can be up to eight characters long. The program automatically adds the suffix .SYM to the file name of the symbols that are stored on the data disk. To have a particular symbols file loaded when CHARTS UNLIMITED is loaded, save the file under the name USER. While loading, CHARTS UNLIMITED looks for a file named USER.SYM and loads it into memory. To protect the original symbols file against being erased, there are two identical symbols files on the CHARTS UNLIMITED master disk. One file is named CU.SYM and the other is USER.SYM. Before any new symbols files are created, the original USER.SYM will be loaded. But when a new USER.SYM file is saved, the original is copied over and erased. So, to load the original file back into memory, simply load the file named CU.SYM by entering both prefix and suffix. (L) Use the LOAD command to load into memory a set of symbols from a data disk. Only the current set of symbols in the computer's memory is available for use on the worksheet. -12- The PRINT Command WORKSHEET TEXT FILES OBJECTS SYMBOLS PRINT QUIT VERSION GO, ALL, PART, MAGNIFICATION, CONFIGURE, STOP The print options allow the program to print ALL or only PART of a chart vertically or horizontally and to MAGNIFY the chart up to 100 times in both direction. You can CONFIGURE the program to print on many of the major dot matrix printers. Also, while the printer is printing the chart, you can continue working in CHARTS UNLIMITED. You can STOP the printing at any time. Before trying to print your chart, read the instructions that follow for each PRINT sub-command. (G) The GO command is used to start the printing of the worksheet. Before printing, first select the ALL or PART sub-command to indicate whether all of the worksheet is to be printed or only a portion of it. (A) Use the ALL to print all of the worksheet. Printing will begin when the GO sub-command is selected. (P) Use the PART command to print only a part of the worksheet. Any rectangular area of the worksheet can be defined for printing without printing the entire chart or worksheet. Printing will begin when the GO sub-command is selected. (M) This command is used to set the vertical and horizontal MAGNIFICATION. The chart can be magnified vertically and/or horizontally up to 100 times during printing. The magnification will not affect the appearance of the chart on the screen. (C) Use the CONFIGURE command to select a printer from the available printers on the screen display. Once selected, the printer configuration does not have to be changed until a different printer is used. CHARTS UNLIMITED always uses printer port LPT1. (S) Use the STOP command to stop whatever is being printed. To start printing from the beginning again, select the GO sub-command. -13- The QUIT Command WORKSHEET TEXT FILES OBJECTS SYMBOLS PRINT QUIT VERSION QUIT PROGRAM (Q) Use the QUIT command to quit CHARTS UNLIMITED and return to DOS. Be sure to save all charts, alternate objects files, symbols files and any other changes before exiting the program. -14- The Addendum to this manual is stored as a chart and can be printed by loading the chart into Charts Unlimited and then printing the chart. You will want to print this chart to learn how to use some of the new features. ² ²²