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Please contact Elimina Technology at the Compuserve id on the next page for site licenses or other payment arrangements, or paying methods other than by credit card. 1 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Contents CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING TAGIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Removing TagIt from Your System . . . . . . . . . . 5 CHAPTER 3 NAVIGATING WITH TAGIT . . . . . . . . . . 5 Easy Start -- The View History . . . . . . . . . . 5 What are Tags? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Jump Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 CHAPTER 4 WORKING WITH TAGIT . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Anatomy of Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Note Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Scroll Position markers . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Main Button and Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Action Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Creating a new tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Making Notes on a Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Displaying a Bitmap on a Tag . . . . . . . . . . . 10 CHAPTER 5 CONFIGURING TAGIT . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Global Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Hot Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Global Preferences Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 11 Preferences about Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Preferences About This Window Dialog Box . . . . 12 Tag Preferences Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Tag Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Button Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Note Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Tag Styles Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Moving Main Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Chapter 1 Introduction How many times have you scroll through your document just to see another part of it, and then scroll all the way back? Have you ever used bookmark feature of your word processor? If you have, did you find it easy-to-use? TagIt is a desktop navigating tag manager for Windows 3.1. Tags are compact windows that you can drag around. They belong to windows or to the desktop. Tags belonging to a window move along the window when you move it. They behave as if they are sticking onto the window. When a window is an application window that represents a file, tags belonging to the window also belong to the file. That is, although tags go away when the window is gone, they will come back when you load the file again. TagIt allows you to: ú Mark scroll position with a tag and jump back there with a click on it. ú Drag the scroll thumb along with a tag, making the screen scroll along. Even though the application does not usually scroll the screen while you are dragging the thumb, TagIt makes it possible to drag and scroll. ú Make notes and display bitmaps on tags. Tag sizes itself to minimize its size while keeping texts visible. ú Fully configure your tags, including colors and display fonts. ú Save the style of your tag onto a list and quickly create a new tag from one of styles on the list. ú Jump back and forth among previous views of applications using hot keys. TagIt automatically records the views. These features are all easy to use and make your life easier, or so we sincerely hope. Please contact us for any questions or suggestions for improving this product. Elimina Technology 89-1-205, Minami-Nishiura Tanaka, Kyoto 606, Japan Compuserve: 73610,2750 Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. 3 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Chapter 2 Installing TagIt Installation TagIt distribution package comes with an automated installation program. To install TagIt, do one of the following: From Program Manager: Select File menu and choose Run. Then type: :\\SETUP.EXE where is the drive and is the path that the TagIt distribution files are in. Then press Enter. For example, if the files are on the distribution diskette in your A:drive, type: A:\SETUP.EXE Then press Enter. or From File Manager: Select SETUP.EXE from the directory that the TagIt distribution files are in. Then press Enter. Removing TagIt from Your System If you decide to remove TagIt from your system, 1. Delete all files and subdirectories in the directory that the installation program created. 2. Remove TAGIT.EXE from the StartUp group of Program Manager. 3. Delete TAGIT.INI in your Windows directory. If you use a shell program other than Program Manager, The install program may have added TAGIT.EXE to your "load=" lines in WIN.INI. You should also remove this entry. 4 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Chapter 3 Navigating With TagIt Easy Start -- The View History Let's start with the easiest feature of TagIt. The view history. View history is unique and the most easy-to-use feature of TagIt. It records the history of application views. You can jump back and forth among recorded previous views of applications using hot keys. For example, suppose you are editing a document and you want to look up some other part of the document. You may look for the part by, say, scrolling with scroll bar. After looking up, you need to return to the part to resume editing. Usually, you go back again with the scroll bar. With TagIt, you only need to push the hot key. The view will be back instantly. The hot key to jump back is Ctrl + Up Arrow key by default. You can change the hot key. See Chapter 5 Configuring TagIt. You can also go forward. Suppose you have just jumped back from looking up another part, and suddenly you want to see the part again. Press Ctrl + Down Arrow key -- that is the default hot key to go forward in the view history. TagIt is not simply recording every view you have seen. If it were, it would end up recording all the views that appeared while you are scrolling through the document. Playing back all these views would not be much use. Instead, TagIt records only those views that you spent more than certain amount of time looking at it. By doing this, TagIt can allow you to go back to those important views that you looked at, rather than just passed through. The minimum recording time is by default about 0.5 second. You can change this value, too. See Chapter 5 Configuring TagIt. View history works between windows. If you are editing multiple documents at the same time, typically you frequently flip between windows. With TagIt, you can jump back and forth between these windows very quickly. What are Tags? Tags are the main players of TagIt. They are small windows that you can drag about on your screen as you wish. They belong either to windows or to the desktop. Tags that belong to a window move along the window -- they stick to the window. You can store your text and put your favorite bitmap on tags. You can think of each tag as a computerized version of a paper sticky note -- with much more functions. 5 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Sticking tags on desktop, you can use tags as reminders for appointments, phone numbers, or as repositories for any information that you can't find a good place for on your system, but you'd like to be able to locate quickly. If the information is related to some file, you can make tags belong to the file. You can use tags as bookmarks or annotation notes. They are saved when the file is saved, and come back when you load the file again. Tags also are able to hold one or more bitmaps. You can place your favorite picture on a tag -- and stick it to the desktop just as you display your family picture on your real desktop. As tags can be freely dragged, this arrangement is much more flexible than the Windows wall paper. You can configure each tag's style such as color, font, sizing property, how many bitmaps to hold, and so on. TagIt maintains a list of tag styles from which you can create a new tag. By saving the style of any tag to the list, you can design your own style and create as many tags of the style as you like. Jump Tags The most exciting feature of TagIt is jump tags. They are what make TagIt so distinct from other `sticky note' programs. "Jump tag" stands for any tag that has "SB Markers". However, TagIt has default tag style named "Jump" upon installation and we will discuss about the behavior of this style. Any other tag style with "SB Markers" will behave similarly enough. Anyway, what jump tags do is to record scroll positions and recall them at request. So let us start looking at what the jump tags do. 1. To create a jump tag, simply select a tag named "Jump" in the menu that appears when you click the TagIt main button next to the minimize button of a window. 2. A newly created jump tag appears along the scroll bar next to the current scroll thumb position. 3. To see the "Jump" to happen, first scroll the view to somewhere else. Then click the jump tag you have just created. 6 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology 4. The scroll thumb jumps back to the position next to the jump tag, that is, the original position. The view in the window is also back to the one you saw at first. Isn't it easy? Chapter 4 Working with TagIt Anatomy of Tags Each tag may have one or more buttons, note areas, and scroll position markers (SB Markers). These are called tag parts. You can configure which parts a tag (or a tag style) should have and where each part should be on the tag with Tag Preferences Dialog Box. See Chapter 5. Buttons There are two kinds of buttons: Default When clicked, the action menu of the tag appears. Bitmap Holds a bitmap. Note Area A tag can have one or more note areas. A note area displays texts. Simple tags have only one note area covering most of the tag. Each note area has properties such as font, font color, and sizing mode. It can also be single- or multi- lined. Scroll Position Markers Tags with this tag part can record and reproduce scroll positions. There are two kinds: VSB markers and HSB markers for vertical and horizontal scroll bars. Main Button and Main Menu The TagIt main button appears at the upper-right corner of the active window by default. You can change this: see Chapter 5 Configuring TagIt. When you click the main button, the main menu appears. The main menu contains the list of available tag styles. You create a new tag by selecting one of these styles. 7 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Other items include the following. See Chapter 5 for details about each function. Tag Style This invokes the Tag Styles dialog box. This Window This invokes the Preferences About This Window dialog box. Options This invokes the TagIt Global Preferences dialog box. Position This menu allows you to move the main button. Action Menu An action menu for a tag appears either ú when you click the secondary (right) button of the mouse when the cursor is on the tag, or ú when you click the primary (left) button of the mouse when the cursor is on any button on the tag. The action menu of a tag has some of the following items according to which parts the tag contains. Notes Select this to edit texts in the note area of the tag. Jump to Invokes a jump. Re-Tag Records the current scroll position. Bitmap Invoke a pop-up menu that controls bitmap function. Delete Deletes the tag. Edit Tear Off If the tag belongs to a window, this makes it leave the window and stick to the desktop. Cut Cuts the tag onto the clipboard. Copy Copy the tag onto the clipboard. 8 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Style Save to List Saves the style of the tag to the tag style list. Preferences Invokes the Tag Preferences Dialog Box for configuring options about the tag. Creating a new tag Creating a new tag for making notes is the same as creating jump tag. Just select the style named "Sticky" from the main menu. That is, to create a tag to belong to the window. To create a tag to belong to the desktop, select from the menu that appears when you click the TagIt icon on the desktop. Making Notes on a Tag This is a basic function of every sticky note program. Special feature of TagIt includes: ú A tag can size itself to minimize its size. If you prefer sizing yourself, you can change to fixed size mode. ú A tag can has more than one note areas, each of which with its own font and font color. You can configure the position of each note area on the tag. ú Each note area can have a neat 3-D border. ú Each note area can be single- or multi-lined. You can make them all multi-lined if you like. But in single-lined notes you can escape from text editing by pressing Enter. To edit the text on a tag, double click the note area of the tag. As a default tag style has single note area that cover most of the tag, simply double click the middle of the tag if it is of these styles. While editing, you can use standard short cut keys, such as Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+V to paste. To quit editing, either press Esc or click somewhere outside the tag. If the note area is single-lined, pressing Enter will do the same. 9 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Displaying a Bitmap on a Tag You can display bitmap pictures on tags. As tags are so easy to handle, you can decorate your desktop with many pictures. Pictures are held by buttons. Like note areas, a tag can have more than one buttons. Usually, a button looks like a 3-D button -- you can see it on the upper-left corner of, for instance, the default "Jump" tag. Using the action menu that appears when you click on a button, you can load .BMP file or paste a bitmap from the clipboard. To load a .BMP file: 1. Select Bitmap item from the action menu of the tag. A pop-up menu appears. 2. Select Load item from the pop-up menu. A dialog box appears. 3. Select a.BMP file. To paste a bitmap from the clipboard: 1. Select Bitmap item from the action menuactionmenu of the tag. A pop-up menu appears. 2. Select Paste item from the pop-up menu. To copy a bitmap on a tag onto the clipboard: 1. Select Bitmap item from the action menuactionmenu of the tag. A pop-up menu appears. 2. Select Copy item from the pop-up menu. Note that TagIt must know which button is to hold the bitmap before it can load a picture. Usually the picture will be held by the button that invoked the action menu you used. So when you produce an action menu by clicking the mouse right button when cursor is not on any button (TagIt button, that is), there does not appear the Bitmap item. 10 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Chapter 5 Configuring TagIt This chapter is a reference manual. TagIt is very flexible. There are so many options that you can select. At first, you need not care all of them. The online help may be more convenient for looking up. Global Preferences Hot Keys There are three functions that are invoked by hot keys. Put Primary Tag Create a tag of the first tag style on the list of available tag styles. Ctrl+Tab key is the default. Go Back Change the view to the last one in the view history. Ctrl+Up key is the default. Go Forward After using Go Back, you can go forward to the original view with this hot key. Ctrl+Down key is the default. You can change hot keys with Global Preferences Dialog Box. To display the dialog, select Options from the TagIt main menu. Global Preferences Dialog Box HotKeys To Select a function to assign to a hot key. Key Select a key in the drop-down list box and check one or more from Ctrl+, Alt+, and Shift+ to specify the hot key. History Configuration of the view history feature. Record Limit Number of views that can be recorded. Minimum Time A view is recorded if it lasts for this minimum time. With this time longer, you can have TagIt record only those important views that you spent long time looking at it. Eliminate Identical Views Check this to eliminate identical views in the view history. 11 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Preferences about Windows These options can be made for each application window. Preferences About This Window Dialog Box To display the dialog, select This Window in the main menu on an application window. This dialog box is for configuring features that relate to the application window. Window This identifies the window. Displaying Here is shown the file that TagIt has associated with the window. If no file has been associated, "" is displayed. Change If you find that a wrong file is associated with the window, or that TagIt has failed to identify the file, specify the correct file by pushing this button. Scroll bar Configures the Range Adjustment Mode for scroll bars. Select Vertical Scroll Bar or Horizontal Scroll Bar to configure. Range Adjustment Modes TagIt adjusts recorded scroll positions when the range of the scroll bar changes. There are three modes of adjusting: None No adjustment is made. Proportional Stretches proportionally. As Document Assumes that the amount of the change has been inserted at the current position. Tag Preferences Dialog Box Each tag can be configured separately. You can change the color, font, font color, etc. To display the dialog: 1. Select Styles from the action menu of the tag. A pop-up menu should appear. 2. Select Preferences from the pop-up menu. Overview You can change various properties of a tag with this dialog 12 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology box. On upper half of the dialog box, the tag is displayed. A moveable frame representing the part selected in the Parts list box appears on the displayed tag. You can move and size the part by dragging this frame. Parts Tag parts that belong to the tag are listed in this list box. Select one to choose options about the part. Details Options about the selected part appear here. Remove Select a tag part in the Parts list box and click this button to remove the part. Available This list box contains available tag parts that can be added to the tag. Add Select a tag part in Available list box and click this button to add the part to the tag. Save Click this button to save the style of the tag to the current list of available tag styles. The list is displayed in the TagIt main menu. Tag Options Tag options are displayed in Details box when Tag is selected in Parts list box. Tag Color Click this to change the color of the tag. Size Manual Makes the tag manually resizable. You can size the tag by dragging its edges. Auto When this is selected, the tag is automatically sized to contain all parts. Dual Size Check this to put the tag into dual size mode. When a tag is in dual size mode, it remembers its two sizes. You can flip between the sizes by clicking the size button that appears at the upper-right corner of the tag. The sizing options (Manual or Auto) can be selected separately for each size. 13 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Flip Push this button to flip between two sizes when the tag is in dual size mode. Position Stick The tag sticks to where you leave it on the window. Scroll Bar The tag places itself so that it represents the scroll position it has recorded. Show Only when Active The tag appears only when the window it belongs to is active. When Near The tag appears only when current scroll position is near the one it has recorded. Button Options Button Options are displayed in Details box when Button is selected in Parts list box. Default Makes the button a default clickable button. BitMap Makes the button display a bitmap. Fixed Size When the BitMap check box is checked, this option makes the bitmap fixed-sized, regardless of the real size of the bitmap. Otherwise, the bitmap sizes itself according to the real size. Load Bitmap When the button is a bitmap button, click this to load .BMP file. Note Options Note Options are displayed in Details when Note is selected in Parts list box. Font Choose Font Click this button to choose a font for the note area. Font Color Click this button to choose the color of the font. 14 TagIt User's Guide Copyright 1994 by Elimina Technology Border Makes the note area bordered. Multi Line Makes the note area multi-lined. Fixed Size If this option is checked, the note area has a fixed size that you can change by dragging the frame that appears on the tag displayed in the upper half of the dialog. Otherwise, the note area sizes itself so that it can contain all the text. Tag Styles Dialog Box To display the dialog, select Tag Style from the main menu. On the left of the dialog box, a list box contains available tag styles. This dialog box is for editing this list. Edit Select a style from the list and click this button. The Tag Preferences Dialog Box appears and you can modify the style. New Creates a new style that you can edit to design your own tag style. Delete Deletes the selected style. Move Up Click this to move the selected style up. Move Down Click this to move the selected style down. Moving Main Button You can change the position where the main button appears. From the main menu, select Position. A pop-up menu appears. Upper Left Displays the main button at the upper-left corner of the window. Upper Right Displays the main button at the upper-right corner of the window. Move You can adjust the position relative to the corner you have chosen (upper-left or upper- right). To do this, select this item and select whether the adjustment should be only for this window class or for all windows. Then drag the button. 15