Trinzic Corporation
Forest & Trees for Windows
Version 3.1A
May 30, 1994
What's New

Dear Forest & Trees User:

Thank you for purchasing Forest & Trees for Windows!

This document will give you an overview of the new features in 
Version 3.1A.  It is not intended to be a comprehensive description, but
to guide you to the new areas that are covered in the documentation.
Please refer to the documentation for more detail.

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   VIEW FILES SAVED BY FOREST & TREES FOR WINDOWS VERSION 3.1A ARE NOT
   READABLE BY VERSIONS OF FOREST & TREES PRIOR TO 3.0.

   PLEASE BACK UP YOUR VIEW FILES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS SO THAT 
   THEY ARE STILL ACCESSIBLE VIA PREVIOUS VERSIONS.
	
   WITH MINOR EXCEPTIONS, THE FEATURES OF A FTW 3.0 VIEW FILE ARE
   CARRIED OVER WHEN THAT FILE IS OPENED WITH FTW 3.1A.

   A VIEW FILE SAVED WITH 3.1A CAN STILL BE OPENED WITH 3.0, THOUGH
   NEW VIEWTYPES AND OTHER FEATURES (E.G. FUNCTIONS) SPECIFIC TO 3.1A
   ARE NOT USABLE IN 3.0.  OTHER SETTINGS, SUCH AS BUTTON TEXT, MAY
   BE LOST WHEN THE 3.1A FILE IS OPENED IN 3.0.

   VIEWS AND OTHER OBJECTS FROM A 3.0 VIEW FILE CAN BE MERGED INTO A
   3.1A VIEW FILE WITHOUT HAVING TO UPGRADE THE FILE FIRST.

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Sample View file
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There is a sample view file (3_1_new.ftv) supplied with this release to 
demonstrate some of the new features and to serve as a quick reference to 
the new capabilities.  This shows how some of the new features can be 
implemented.

New view types:
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- Graph views - utilize the Pinnacle graphing engine to create graphs.
    See the graph section of this document for more detail.
- Check Box views let you select multiple list items with the familiar
    check box interface.
- Radio Button views let you make a single selection from the familiar
    radio button interface.
- Scroll Bar view resembles a slider and returns the relative position
    of the "thumb".

Reports:
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- Bitmaps, graphs, and boxes may now be added to reports.

Enhancements to existing view types:
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- Columns in Standard and Crosstab views can be "locked" from horizontal
    scrolling.  This is helpful in situations where your result set has
    many columns.
- All columns from source data can now be used in Column/Row category of 
    Cross-tab view (no longer limited to text and date).
- Crosstab views now allow a category title
- Crosstab views now allow you to sort the primary column as well as the
    matrix columns.
- Triggers can be created to separately handle clicking on column titles, 
    totals, row numbers, corners and data values.
- Button views can now include bitmaps as well as multiple lines of text.
- Text in Button views can be "shadowed" on select.
- Additional options for behavior of List views.
- Triggering on Enter key added to Edit Field views.
- View titles possible in most view types.
- Decorative borders possible on most view types, including Standard 
    Result and Cross-tab.
- Views can now have multi-line titles (separate from view name). These
    titles can be made variable using substrings.  You must view('paint')
    to have the title take on the current value of the substring.
- Views enabled/disabled status is now saved with the group view file.

New and improved functions:
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This section contains only some of the new functions.  See documentation
for a complete listing of functions.
- FILE ('EXECUTE') now allows file to be opened minimized, maximized, 
    normal.
- FILE ('GETVIEWFILE') now gets either the view file path, view file name, 
    or both.
- SETFORMAT ( ) sets the format for a given data type.
- GROUP ('ENABLE') enables/disables all views in group.
- HELP (with different commands) lets you attach your own on-line help 
    to a view file.
- VIEW ('CHGVALUE') changes the data in a view.
- VIEW ('CREATE') and VIEW ('COPY') can create view iconized, hidden, 
    normal.
- VIEW ('GETERRORNUMBER') and VIEW ('GETERRORTEXT') return the number 
    and error message associated with view calculation error.
- VIEW ('GETSTATUS') includes enable/disable status of view.
- VIEW ('INSVALUE') inserts data at a specified row position in a view.
- VIEW ('SETCOLUMNALARMS') applies alarms to view's columns.
- VIEW ('SETCOLUMN . . .') functions can take multiple column names.
- VIEW ('SETSBRANGE') defined the range and increment of a Scroll Bar view.
- VIEW ('SETTITLE') sets the views title
- VIEW ('SETCOLUMNFORMAT') allows you to set the column data format

Enhanced builder features:
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- You now have the option of having Forest & Trees position a new view
    (as in previous versions) or placing it yourself using the mouse.
- You may "corral" multiple views when in layout mode to operate on them
    as a group.  Operations include move, delete, and hide.  You may also
    size and align multiple views in layout mode.
- View coordinates are displayed in layout mode.
- The Formula and Query editors have been enhanced to include Search 
    and Replace.  These editors may also be maximized to full screen.
- The Formula and Query editors can now directly print expressions.
- Merge view groups, substitution strings, menus, passwords, and 
    privileges from other view files.
- Easier color selection for views.
- Can select group of views from View List.
- Group background color may be modified to fade to black. This is a
    simple way of improving the look of your groups.
- Comments are allowed in Formulas and Queries.  This is helpful when 
    developing a complex formula or query piece by piece or for simply
    documenting your application.

Other enhancements:
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- Maximum rows in view increased to 64000.
- Result of a disabled view is grayed.
- Arguments can be added to substitution strings to create ad hoc functions.
- &TRIGGEROBJECT& returns view object clicked (ie. title, row, total...).
- % and _ wild cards can be used as characters by duplicating (%%, __).
- Discard Data on Error option.

Graphs:
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- Improved control of graph rebuilding when data changes.

- Graph Add-in

Included in Version 3.1A is the integration of Forest & Trees with the 
Pinnacle graphing engine.  This allows you to create many types of graphs 
that are not supported in the F&T graphing engine, for example, 3D bar, 
3D column, 3D pie, and 3D line.  You may also drill down on graphs created 
with the Pinnacle engine to enable users to get more detail simply by 
clicking on a section of a graph.  There are some differences in how the 
graphs are created.  Please refer to the documentation for details.

Add-ins:
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- CALL function for calling add-in functions -- external functions.
- Add-ins can be created to have Forest & Trees call functions contained
    in external DLLs.

For more information on writing your own add-ins, review the printed
documentation and the FTWADDIN.TXT (installed with the sample
add-in.)

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For more information on these and other issues, call our Technical Support 
department at 1-603-427-0444.

Thank you again for purchasing Forest & Trees for Windows!

Brad Haigis
Product Manager

