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Tri-Analyse... Documentation for the user. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== I M P O R T A N T This is the documentation on how to USE Tri-Analyse, READ it as this programme has some peculiarities that you need to know about it. If you have recieved this programme as part of the Blitz User Magazine, then a description of the PROGRAMMING involved and Blitz techniques etc is printed in the magazine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This part of the documentation is for the Triathlete who wants to use the programme to monitor his training. PART 1: System Requirements Amiga 500/600/2000/3000/1200/4000 with 512k mem (1 meg recommended) A hard drive is also nice though not necessary. PART 2: Making a Bootable floppy disk for Tri-Analyse The Standard WBench 1.3 or 2.04 boot disk can be used, simply strip off all the utils you dont use, all the prefs etc, change the startup-sequence to a simple LoadWB, copy all the Tri-Analyse stuff to df0:, install a copy of your favourite text editor (one that does NOT run as a background task) make sure the fonts provided go into your FONTS: drawer, and you should be away, make sure you leave the Wbench libs and devs there, also makesure (if you are running 1.3) that you have the RUN command in your c: directory I have tested Tri-Analyse under WB 3 / 2.1 / 2.04 / 1.3 and am 99.99% sure it will run ok under 1.2, so if you follow above directions you should be fine. PART 3: Installing to a HDD Assuming you have the standards libs: and devs etc on your bootable hardrive then simply copy the fonts supplied with Tri-Analyse to your FONTS: directory and Make a dir for Tri-Analyse somewhere on your HD and copy all the rest of the files in this archive to there. PART 4: OK, what the hell is this programme. This programme is something I knocked up for my self to allow me to easily set up/recall a Triathlon training system on a monthly basis, It also has a graphing facility so that I can save my resting heart-rate for the day and view it in a graphical form for the month. WARNING: I knocked this up in a couple of days, therefore the way it does things is a trifle cheesy (I don't mean it does nasty things to your system simply that I took the lazy way of doing a couple of things. So the system is not SUPER FLASH, however it's the best thing Ive found for keeping a training diary (used to use WordPerfects Calender) and its quite reliable once you get used to it. PART 5: MORE IMPORTANT STUFF a) make sure when you start Tri-Analyse that you are IN the actual directory it all resides in (opening wbench draws and starting it from the WBench does it automatically) if you start from the CLI and say Tri is in dh0:applications/databases/training/ If you start Tri when you reside in dh0: you are going to have no joy whatsoever, so CD to dh0:applications/databases/training/ and THEN start it b) you need a RAM: disk called RAM: This is because I save temporary files there, if you dont have one a) Make one b) assign ram: to somewhere on your system (it only ever creates one temporary file and keeps on writing over it so it wont use much space. c) Make sure you installed the fonts supplied to FONTS: d) Make sure the text editor you use does not run as a detached task As this was originally intended as my use only thats no probs, however If you use Cygnus-Ed or similar either start it using your Tri-Analyse prefs with a switch that makes it non background (if you can) or use a non background editor like Blitz 2's TED or commordores ED (if you have to.....) e) if you run pre 2.04 OS then makesure RUN is in the C: directory Phew now it should work PART 6: How to use it Assuming you have installed it correctly, when you either a) click on the Tri ICON or b) execute the Tri programme from the CLI you should be presented with a big screen full of gadgets and stuff this is the main Tri-Analyse screen. If this does not appear.. go to the OH GOD IT DONT WORK section. If this is the first time you have run it, it will moan about to PREFS file for it, thats ok, you just need to set up your default text editor for it. more on that later If you are used to Amiga applications everything should be very obvious if you are a seasoned Tri-Athlete, the terminology on some of the gadgets will be obvious too. Lets go through them all EDIT INFO. This gadget is used when you have selected a discipline and a type of training and a valid date, then you click this button to start your text editor of choice, and enter that training. SAVE INFO. This saves a data file for the current open month. QUIT This quits Tri-Analyse, if you have a data file open, it will ask you if you wish to save it before you quit. EDITOR. This is where you enter the command line prefs for your text editor, simply if your editor was TED and it resided in ROOT:blitz2/ you would enter in here. ROOT:blitz2/ted Dont enter trailing spaces or a filename here or it will muck up FONT. This is disabled, its never been used and never will be :-) DATE. If you want anything to work then this is the one you have to set up, if you do not enter the date in DD/MM/YY format here none of the other gadgets will do anything. The date automatically creates training files for a new month, and if you change months, saves the old month before loading a new one. ie: its automatic, however when you quit out of the programme, choose to save the last month of data as otherwise its gone. RHR. This is where you enter your resting heart rate in the morning, ie: take your pulse for a minute when you first wake up and put it in here. Your only allowed 3 numbers but that's ok cos if you had a heartrate of 999 you'd be well and truly dead..... :-) DISCIPLINE Simply click on which discipline gadget you want to read/enter training for. TYPE. Click on what type of training you are doing READ TO... Click on read todays training to... DA DA DA read the training for the specified discipline on the specified day GRAPH MO.. Click on this to display a Graph of you resting heart rate over the currently active month. Ok assuming you have followed me this far lets run through entering a training session First of all enter a date (ie 15/12/93) and press return Now click on what discipline you are training (you can do all 3 each day if you want) say CYCLING Now click on what type of CYCLING training you are doing ie (SPRINT) Now click on edit info to type in your training for the day and save it using your editors save command (should be called ram:temp if your editor takes filenames as command line arguments, if it doesn't, use a different editor, sorry..... Now enter your resting heart rate for the day (say hmm... 38 nice and fit) Ok now if you were also doing running that day then you could click on RUNNING and the type (say ENDURANCE) and go through and edit that type of training. Note you only do your heartrate once as you only have one resting heartrate. Ok now click on save data (writes the info to disk) Now if you click on CYCLING for that date the type of training will jump to SPRINT cos thats what you said you were doing, try Reading the days training, a nice little text reader should pop up and show you it. Try graphing your resting heart rate for the month. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We've now covered all the features, although I'm sorry very briefly. You should now understand how to enter stuff for a month, you can change dates re-alter your training types, etc etc as many times as you like, just experiment and you'll soon have it sussed. Just one or two quick notes before I leave. (Ive just come off a 16 hour shift at work and its time to get some zzzzzzzzzz's) a) when entering text you can put a backslash then a quick desc and when its viewed back in the text editor that will pop up as a gadget down the bottom where if you click on it you will be taken to that part of the text ie: \REMEMBER! To put your shoes on when you go running Will put a REMEMBER! Gadget down the bottom that if you click on it will take you to the 'To put your shoes...' part of the text. A little HyperText type of thing. b) If it looks like the wrong stuff is going in the wrong date remember when you activate a string gadget. (A gadget you type into) you must finish your entry by pressing RETURN, NOT JUST BY CLICKING THE MOUSE ON ANOTHER GADGET!!!! This is how the amiga handles string gadgets, if you dont press return then its just like you have not entered the data. Therefore if you for example correctly entered a date of 01/01/93 <RETURN> entered a heart rate of 50 <return> then entered 03/01/93 <FORGOT RETURN> and entered a heartrate of 30<return> you would have actually altered the heartrate for the 01/01/93 so remember those returns.... Ok by now, the way I've described this thing, you probably thing you don't want to even try it, however, if you have had a bit of amiga experience its a piece of cake to use, and dare I say it, actually quite nice to use too. I am assuming you know what the use of monitoring your resting heart rate is (its the best indicator that you are getting fitter if it drops and that you are over-training or have a bug, if it suddenly rises. If you do find this programme usefull, dont send me money or anything (wouldn't be cheeky enough to expect any for it!! But I would like. a) Photocopies of any interesting Training articles, techniques, programmes that have worked for you. b) Someone to write some DECENT docs for this once they are familiar with it --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE OH MY GOD IT DOESN'T WORK SECTION a) Don't even see the initial screen - Moved your fonts to the right place? - is diskfont.library in your libs: drawer? - are you in the directory with all of tri's files b) My text editor is not starting up - Make sure its NOT a background process one - Make sure your prefs are set and correct - Make sure your editor accepts a command line argument for the filename - Make sure there are no trailing spaces or chars in you prefs string - If pre 2.04 OS make sure RUN is in the c: directory c) I cant get a graph up - is the file graftemplate in your current dir? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits/Abuse Roger Lockerbie (ME) I wrote it, and I wrote this awfull documentation Send Training info, friendly letters, Cannondale 2.8 bycycles <GRIN> to Roger Lockerbie 1/38 Rutland Rd Mt Wellington Auckland New Zealand Send ABUSE to NIL: Seeya.... and happy training. Roger PS: Sorry about the spelling and punctuation, it's never been my strong point.