Program Documentation 1.2

1 The Program TektonicVB © Hugo Ortner 1991-2000 Introduction TektonicVB 1.3 was written to provide a tool for fast and effective handling of orienta- tion data like planes, lines and faults. It is the successor of TektonikQB , a Quickbasic program, and i s now written in VIP-Basic. It runs on all Macs; a 68K version (will be provided on request) if you use an older 68K Mac (e.g. a Performa). The program uses 1500 to 2000 K of memory space and 1300 K of disk space. The academic version of the program is provided without charge. You may distribute this program to other non-commercial users. The software is provided without any war- ranty. All planes or lines data must be converted to the azimuth,dip format. Graphics produ- ced by the program are automatically copied into the clipboard and can be pasted into any text-editing or drawing-program (Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, MacDraw, RagTime, MacWrite, Word...). Pictures generated in other programs can be pasted into TektonikVB via the clipboard. (Option Paste in the Menu File ). This command can as well be used, when the cur- rent graphic is no longer visible on the screen, e.g. after the screen saver was active, 2 or after another program was used. The maximum amount of data to be handled is 500 for plotting of faults, great circles, poles to planes, lines and most of the statistical cal- culations. The contouring routine and the Bingham statistics routine can be used with unlimited amounts of data. If you generate a picture, any old picture will be erased from the screen and clipboard, except you have chosen Overlay Plot from the Plot Menu before plotting the new picture. The Menus The File Menu New Datafile With the command New da- tafile , the user can write new files for input into the program. In the first dialog box you have to indicate, whether the data you want to write are planes, lines or faults (Pla- nes can be selected by pres- sing the return key): Upon selection of Planes or Lines a data edit window ap- pears (right): Write your data into the edit fields and move from one field to the next with the tabulator key (or with the mouse). If you have more than 16 data then move with the Next button to the next 16 data. Don´t forget to save the data: Click the Sa- 3 ve button, and the standard Macintosh save dialog box appears. Click Exit or press the return key for leaving the data edit window. The data edit window for faults looks similar, but it has more columns: Azimuth and Dip of the fault plane, Trend and Plunge of the lineation and a number that indicates the movement sense on the fault: 1: reverse, 2: normal, 3: dextral, 4: sini- stral, 5 or 0: unknown. The b…