Visual Thought User's Guide
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Contents
- Using This Manual
- Who Should Read This Manual?
- Where To Go For Help
- Assumptions
- Conventions
- Notes
- Introduction to Visual Thought
- What is Visual Thought?
- What is Visual Thought Used For?
- Ease-Of-Use: A Central Theme
- How Will Visual Thought Help Me?
- Talk To Us!
- Tutorial
- Purpose
- Start the Tutorial
- Create Objects
- Copy and Paste Objects
- Add Text
- Connect Objects
- Add Connections with Vertices
- Add Arrowheads to Connections
- Change the Shapes of Objects
- Change the Color of Objects
- Format Text
- Create a Title
- Format the Title
- Save Your Diagram
- The Final Diagram
- Starting and Using Visual Thought
- Starting and Exiting Visual Thought
- The Four Main Windows
- Using Menus
- Examples of Saving, Closing and Opening a Diagram
- Tips for Using Windows in Visual Thought
- Tips for Using File Choosers in Visual Thought
- Using Drawing Tools
- The Six Drawing Tools
- Individual Drawing Tools
- Creating Shapes
- Objects, Shapes and Connections
- Methods of Creating Shapes
- Creating Shapes from a Palette
- Creating Shapes from the Shape Tool
- Changing Shapes Using the Inspector
- Deleting Shapes
- Selecting Objects
- Selecting Objects
- Using Connections
- Creating and Deleting Connections
- Moving Connected Objects
- Graphical Attributes of Connections
- Using AutoConnect
- Copying and Pasting Objects
- Copying an Object
- Duplicating an Object
- Pasting an Object
- Pasting Multiple Objects
- Clearing an Object
- Editing Objects Using the Inspector
- The Inspector
- Inspector Panel Selector
- The Inspector Panels
- Inspector Concepts
- The Number of Inspected Objects
- Using the Inspector
- Aligning and Spreading Objects
- Aligning and Spreading Objects
- Using the Align Menu Commands
- Using the Align Dialog
- Grouping Objects
- Grouping Objects
- Ungrouping Objects
- Hierarchical Grouping
- Editing Groups
- Undo & Redo
- Using Undo and Redo Effectively
- How to Undo an Action
- How to Redo an Action
- Dirty Documents
- Undo and Redo Concepts
- Using Text
- Using Text in Visual Thought
- Entering Text from the Select Tool
- Entering Text from the Text Tool
- Changing the Edit Focus
- Formatting Text
- Examples of Creating Text
- Examples of Editing and Formatting Text
- Using View Windows
- The View Window
- View Window Management
- Zooming
- Panning
- Drag-and-Drop Palettes
- Palette Modes
- Using Palettes in Palette Mode
- Using Palettes in View Mode
- Examples of Two Specific Palettes
- Using Grids
- Examples of Using a Grid
- Adding Attachments
- Attachment Buttons
- Attaching Files
- Attaching Images
- Attaching Sounds
- Examples of Adding Attachments
- Page Layout and Printing
- Page Layout
- Printing
- Menu Reference
- Menu Summary
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Arrange Menu
- Text Menu
- Windows Menu
- Services Menu
- Options Menu
- Dialogs and the Hot Button Bar
- Hot Button Bar
- Inspector Dialog
- Grid Dialog
- Selection Dialog
- Align Dialog
- Page Layout Dialog
- Print Dialog
- Type Binding Dialog
- Color Chooser
- File Chooser
- Using the Color Chooser
- Color Selection Methods
- HLS Method
- RGB Method
- CMY Method
- Grayscale Method
- Named Colors
- Saved Colors
- Tips and Techniques
- Dialogs, Windows and Menus
- File Choosers
- Drawing Tools
- Selection
- Connections
- Cut, Copy, and Paste
- Inspector
- Align and Spread
- Groups
- Undo and Redo
- Text
- Views
- Palettes
- Grids
- Attachments
- Page Layout and Printing
- Color Chooser
- Predefined Palettes
- Basic Palette
- Arrows Palette
- Attractors Palette
- Booch: Class Palette
- Booch: Others Palette
- Circuit Palette
- Entity-Relationship Palette
- Flowchart Palette
- Logic Palette
- OMT: Object Model Palette
- OMT: Dynamic + Functional Palette
- Menu Key Accelerators
- Introduction
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Arrange Menu
- Text Menu
- Windows Menu
- Services Menu
- Options Menu
- Sound Editor Edit Menu
- Tool Key and Button Bindings
- Introduction
- Choosing a Tool
- Select Tool
- Text Tool: Text Submode
- Text Tool: Edit Submode
- Connection Tool
- Shape Tool
- Pan Tool
- Zoom Tool
- List of Cursors
- Look and Feels
- Introduction
- OSF Motif
- Sun OPEN LOOK
- Microsoft Windows
- IBM CUA
- File Typing
- Introduction
- Uses for Attachments
- The File Typing Process
- Type Dictionaries
- The Sun Classing Engine
- File Format
- Introduction
- Overview of the Language
- Grammar
- Keyword Definitions
- Index
Visual Thought User's Guide
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