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- This is !IdentiKey version 2.1 (27 Jan 1994)
-
- Program
- ========
- This program is able to produce, edit and display any data that has a tree
- like structure. This can include family trees, biological classification,
- and perhaps most usefully scientific keys.
-
- Use
- ====
- If the icon bar icon is clicked on with no data loaded, the editing window
- is opened. Conversely, if a KeyFile is dragged on to the icon, or double
- clicked on data is loaded and the key appears at the left of the screen.
- When data is loaded it can be edited by selecting edit from the main menu.
- Using keys is simplicity itself.
-
- However producing keys is complex. Before attempting this load a simple file
- such as 'Coins' and examine the edit windows. Each box in this mode
- represents a decision box. These can be looked at using the arrow icons.
- Each has a feature, such as shape, and decisions can be made about that
- feature. For instance 'Circular'. It may be that that decision is a
- statement that does not need to lead to another box. e.g. a final outcome.
- Actually several decision lines can be taken up with more extended
- text, though at the moment, the user has to see that the words wrap
- correctly to the next line.
-
- The arrows beside the decisions are pressed if you wish that decision to
- open another feature. Pressing one of these installs a figure in the next
- icon. This number is the number of the box that that particular decision
- will lead to. This numbers itself automatically. However if you install a
- figure accidentally it can be removed, so long as it is the last one to
- have been put in.
-
- Confused?
-
- Well one more item. It would be a job to remember that in Box1 you
- defined something to open Box9. It would be pen to paper. So if you
- press the roots icon, in any box it displays the roots of that box.
- Again try it with a simple key loaded on different boxes.
-
- !Help is provided.
-
- Keys figure much in the National curriculum, so I am surprised not to
- have seen something similar to this before.
-
- I have not tested this exhaustively, and suspect that it won't nest too
- many of these boxes. However it should in principle be possible to put
- together very big keys if I increase the memory. I welcome any feedback.
-
- The program has been amalgamated with !EventShell using
- !BLibII by Ian Palmer.
-
- The resulting program has been 'shrunk' using
- !BasShrink by Jogn Wallace.
-
- Copyright
- =========
- This program is Public Domain.It may be distributed or copied freely as
- long as no part of this software may is used in any other program, whether
- commercial or public domain,without my prior written consent, though any
- files created by this software are not bound by this condition. This software
- may not be distributed for a profit, save that required to cover packaging
- and media costs..
-
- Copyright (©) is retained by the author, who may be contacted at the address
- beneath. No liability can be accepted by the author for any loss or damage
- arising from use or misuse of this software.
-
- EventShell =========
-
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This program has been written using the routines supplied with the EvntShell
- library which is copyright Paul Hobbs. The library routines may be
- distributed subject to the following conditions:
-
- You have permission to use any part or the whole library in a project you
- intend to place in the public domain, as long as I am fully credited (via
- the inclusion of this file in the program documentation). If you wish to use
- these routines in a program that is for sale (for however much and for
- whatever reasons) or released as copyright material then my express
- permission in writing must be obtained. I maintain copyright on all the
- material supplied and reserve the right to amend these conditions in cases
- where I deem misuse.
-
- The library code is supplied free of charge to everyone 'as is'. There is no
- guarantee that it is free from bugs and no warranty is given about its
- suitability for use.
-
- Further details about EvntShell may be obtained from the author:
-
- Paul Hobbs
- Rheinpfalzstrasse 2
- 85049 Ingolstadt
- Germany
-
- The heap manager routines used by EvntShell are copyright Risc User and are used with permission.
-
- Any improvements or bugs, please report to :-
-
- Robert Seago.
-
- 40 Alton Park Road
- Clacton On Sea
- Essex.
-
- CO15 1ED