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 and Tutorial

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

Using Visual Thought

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

Reference

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

Appendices

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

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