Flowchart Maker Manual

Roberto Panetta Flowchart Maker 1.0 Tension Software www.kagi.com/panetta panetta@kagi.com Shutdown Controller 1997 © Roberto Panetta Introduction Flowchart Maker is a Macintosh program to realize flowcharts. Flowcharts are diagrams to describe flows but also elements in relationships, which can represent many situations. One is for example the flow a procedure has inside a company, from an order received via fax to the shipment and printing of an invoice, usually the flow grows in a manner directly proportioned to the size of a company… Another is the hierarchy of people in a company. It is usually a pyramid, but not always. Another one is used to describe relationships between elements as describing functions of objects inside an object oriented program. There is no limit to the things you can describe using flowcharts. But I think you already know that. How to install and launch Flowchart Maker Flowchart Maker usually comes in a compressed archive. Decompress it and place the program where you like. To launch it just double-click as with every Mac program. You can keep Flowchart Maker documents where you prefer, depends of the HD organization you use, many prefer to keep the app and related documents inside a folder, others prefer to keep all the applications in one Applications folder (everyone inside its own sub folder) and keep all your documents inside the Documents folder (inside a sub folder). The second approach is usually preferred because when you upgrade an application you can simply substitute the application sub folder without losing your documents. This method is a bit 'schematic' and a bit similar to the rigid approach used in UNIX where every kind of file has a proper directory. Shutdown Controller 1997 © Roberto Panetta Anyway 'Hard Disk' organization is not the subject of this manual… The document window After launching Flowchart Maker a new empty document window will be opened automatically . You can have more than one window opened, to open existing documents select as in any Mac application 'Open' from the 'File' menu and select the file you like to open. You can change the scale of representation of the flow chart using the popup menu at the left bottom of the window, selecting the percentage of magnification you prefer. You can also use the two icons to step up and down in the scale of magnification. All these commands are almost standard in many graphical programs. If you have opened more of one document windows you can select them using the 'Win' menu. Preferences The preferences dialog let you setup characteristics common to all documents, a change in the preferences will be transmitted to all opened documents and quitting the applications the setting will be saved inside the application preferences, allowing to have them properly setted also after the successive startup. To set the preference select 'Preferences…'…