This is the program group that can be used to visualize any subject matter. It was specifically designed to produce and present learn material. The presentation strategy enables one to get information to a user through the quickest, coordinated, interactive and logical route. The methods used enables users of such pages to increase their information intake by a factor of 8 compared to just reading standard text.
Real Random Detailed Information Access
For example, draw mathematical equations using lines shapes and text then link audio to them for a more advanced computer aided know how transfer.
A user does not necessarily have to remember on which page a piece of immediately related information is situated. They simply click to it from a present position.
Reducing the amount of thinking that a user must do in order to get to a piece of information will increase the the information absorption rate. That makes the methods used by Visual Constructor particularly useful for producing learning information.
One click or double click to audio or text explanations will disencumber learners and prevent them from becoming disenchanted with a subject.
The Overlay method of information presentation that can be used within a page, enables on sight forwards and backwards tracking by a reader.
No programming required in order to get your product to market.
Visual Constructor Program Group
How to Use it
GeoDraw
A picture speaks a thousand words. If you are going to use pictures in your subject description then use GeoDraw to draw and/or assemble the pictures.
a. GeoDraw outputs the full page file types *.drg and
*.bmp. It also produces the *.sdg small drawing and
*.bmp small bitmap file types that can be reinserted
into a *.drg file.
b. *.drg drawing file can be 20..50 or more times
smaller than standard bitmap files. Very important
for internet usages.
c. *.drg files can contain active text and shapes that
cause further action to take place when a user double
clicks on them. The action will usually be to play an
audio, show another picture on top of the previous
one, show text in a visual component or pop up
window. A pop up window can also contain audio or
video. For example, you are reading this text from a
visual text component whose edges have been set to
zero. Another example is the title bar at the top of
this page. Apart from the large arrows and the
bubble, it was constructed using some of the tool
functions available in GeoDraw. Note the overlay
capability, that allows one picture to be placed over
another, whereby certain colors such as background
colors can be set transparent. The background color
of the butterfly was not set transparent.
d. The output files of GeoDraw can be passed to Visual
Library where they can be expanded to a *.ppg page by
adding visual components and other useful elements as
required.
e. Note also that the output can be stored in a *.tab
table produced using the program DBConstructor.
How to start
Get your idea then start making the pictures that you will require. Develop and expand the idea as you go along. Check out the other programs to see which functions and techniques they contain that may be useful in helping to produce a content.
For example:
1. Use a camera to capture video and photos.
2. Use the [prn] key on the keyboard to capture single
bitmap pictures from the screen while the video or TV
is running. Remember that you can not used pictures
of living persons that can be recognized, without
their permission.
3. Buy or get a collection of pictures.
4. Scan in technical drawings and other such picture.
Load them into GeoDraw and trace over them using the
drawing tools. Add colors and text as required.
Delete the original bitmap or jpeg file.
5. Draw or scan in and modify small pictures that will
be repeatedly required such as special mathematical
symbols and so on, then insert them into other
drawings as required.
6. That's it. The file is ready to be used or be passed
on to Visual Library for further work, such as adding
tables, text fields, sound and or video.
Which subject?
For example, one could already have a small farm or thinking of making one, but does not want to get bogged down with drawing pictures of things that you already know, for that purpose, you will at least need DBConstructor and DBInterface.
You do not know how to make tables!
One can usually get farm product descriptions that contain tables formats from a local information center.
Use the DBConstructor description to make the tables and input some data.
If you then have several tables as will usually be the case, put them in a *.tab table file and use DBInterface to show and modify information.
You would then have data, but no way of printing a report or invoice!
In Visual Library, there is an example description of how to connect visual components to table fields so that reports and invoices can be printed using any member of this program group.
Who should do it?
A. When you are in your teens or early twenties, start
with a small garden. B. Design your database to
suite your needs and experience.
C. Go to the farm and do the same there.
Why would tables be useful to you?
For example one could easily track the yield of each field for each year for each product. Take and save a reference sample of the ground before you begin.
May be even find out which crops replace the nutriments extracted by a another crop. It may be that only plants that do not bare fruit return 100% back to the soil. This aspect may be important, if you do not live where new earth is washed in each year.
Visual Library
Load the output from GeoDraw into Visual Library or draw using Visual Library. Insert controls such as Labels, text fields, tables, information windows and so on. Link the pop up content to active texts or shapes to make a *.ppg file.
a. Visual Library will accept the following external
file types: *.drg, *.sdg, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.bmp, *.db
and *.tab files.
b. Visual Library can output the following file type:
*.drg, *.ppg.
c. Note the two way file connection between Visual
Library and DBConstructor. DBConstructor can place
*.drg and *.ppg files in a *.tab table file and that
table file can be inserted into a Visual Library page
(*.ppg file). When the new page is used, The contents
of embedded *.drg or *.ppg files are show in a
different window. This function can be considered to
be similar to the action that takes place when a new
web page is loaded into a new web browser window. The
window with the fish in the program DBInterface above
is an example of it's use.
d. *.drg and *.ppg files can be passed to the program
group Media Control and sold on the web.
Library Eye <-- Click there to down load it now.
This is the program that is used to read and interpret drawings and pages. If you are going to distribute drawings or pages that have been constructed using Visual Constructor, supply this page reader to the receiver.
This program accepts the following files: *.drg, *.ppg, *.lfn and *.dat.
A *.lfn file can contain any amount of *.drg and *.ppg files. The files that it contains can be selected randomly by a user.
The Library Eye window above, shows how information can be laid on top of each other and then from the viewers projection point, be accessed from the lowest level up to the highest level, whereby the drawing board is the lowest level. In the picture above there are three levels of drawings including the drawing board itself. The next level of detail was reached by double clicking on an active text in the previous level. The text in the text window was accessed from the top level picture. That is real focusing in on information from one level into more detailed explanations on the next level.
Page Compiler <--- Click here to down load it now.
The sole purpose of the page compiler is to make *.lfn files from *.drg and *.ppg files.
DBConstructor
One of the standard components used to organize and store information is a table. This program is use to make *.db Paradox tables and *.tab tables.
The first advantage of *.tab tables is that all the information is contained in one file.
*.tab table files as used by Visual Constructor can have the following field types that are not usually seen in other table type:
audio (*.mp3 ..... )
video (*.avi ..... )
small drawing (*.sdg)
Drawing (*.drg)
Page (*.ppg)
To top the list or to coin a phrase, the cat bits it's in the tail, because a *.tab table can be placed in a *.ppg page file and it's contents accessed from there.
To make matters even more interesting, *.tab tables can be placed in *.tab tables.
DBInterface
This program can be used to keep track of a business or any other kind of data.
It only accepts *.tab tables as input to it's main window.
It also contains a Library Eye type window for viewing and using the content of *.drg and *.ppg and *.lfn files as well as media player files.
Advantages:
These types of drawings allow very fast down loads
Visual components can be inserted into pages (page construction)
Click and show information at cursor
Describe a subject using drawings, text, sound and or video that is linked to the same page
Group information to allow single file data transfers
Keep all your data types in one file
For a user, information life span is independent of a web page's life span
Real controlled Random Access as defined by an information producer
Real Random Detailed Information Access
For example, draw mathematical equations using lines shapes and text then link audio to them for a more advanced computer aided know how transfer.
A user does not necessarily have to remember on which page a piece of immediately related information is situated. They simply click to it from a present position.
Reducing the amount of thinking that a user must do in order to get to a piece of information will increase the the information absorption rate. That makes the methods used by Visual Constructor particularly useful for producing learning information.
One click or double click to audio or text explanations will disencumber learners and prevent them from becoming disenchanted with a subject.
The Overlay method of information presentation that can be used within a page, enables on sight forwards and backwards tracking by a reader.
No programming required in order to get your product to market.
Visual Constructor Program Group
How to Use it
GeoDraw
A picture speaks a thousand words. If you are going to use pictures in your subject description then use GeoDraw to draw and/or assemble the pictures.
a. GeoDraw outputs the full page file types *.drg and
*.bmp. It also produces the *.sdg small drawing and
*.bmp small bitmap file types that can be reinserted
into a *.drg file.
b. *.drg drawing file can be 20..50 or more times
smaller than standard bitmap files. Very important
for internet usages.
c. *.drg files can contain active text and shapes that
cause further action to take place when a user double
clicks on them. The action will usually be to play an
audio, show another picture on top of the previous
one, show text in a visual component or pop up
window. A pop up window can also contain audio or
video. For example, you are reading this text from a
visual text component whose edges have been set to
zero. Another example is the title bar at the top of
this page. Apart from the large arrows and the
bubble, it was constructed using some of the tool
functions available in GeoDraw. Note the overlay
capability, that allows one picture to be placed over
another, whereby certain colors such as background
colors can be set transparent. The background color
of the butterfly was not set transparent.
d. The output files of GeoDraw can be passed to Visual
Library where they can be expanded to a *.ppg page by
adding visual components and other useful elements as
required.
e. Note also that the output can be stored in a *.tab
table produced using the program DBConstructor.
How to start
Get your idea then start making the pictures that you will require. Develop and expand the idea as you go along. Check out the other programs to see which functions and techniques they contain that may be useful in helping to produce a content.
For example:
1. Use a camera to capture video and photos.
2. Use the [prn] key on the keyboard to capture single
bitmap pictures from the screen while the video or TV
is running. Remember that you can not used pictures
of living persons that can be recognized, without
their permission.
3. Buy or get a collection of pictures.
4. Scan in technical drawings and other such picture.
Load them into GeoDraw and trace over them using the
drawing tools. Add colors and text as required.
Delete the original bitmap or jpeg file.
5. Draw or scan in and modify small pictures that will
be repeatedly required such as special mathematical
symbols and so on, then insert them into other
drawings as required.
6. That's it. The file is ready to be used or be passed
on to Visual Library for further work, such as adding
tables, text fields, sound and or video.
Which subject?
For example, one could already have a small farm or thinking of making one, but does not want to get bogged down with drawing pictures of things that you already know, for that purpose, you will at least need DBConstructor and DBInterface.
You do not know how to make tables!
One can usually get farm product descriptions that contain tables formats from a local information center.
Use the DBConstructor description to make the tables and input some data.
If you then have several tables as will usually be the case, put them in a *.tab table file and use DBInterface to show and modify information.
You would then have data, but no way of printing a report or invoice!
In Visual Library, there is an example description of how to connect visual components to table fields so that reports and invoices can be printed using any member of this program group.
Who should do it?
A. When you are in your teens or early twenties, start
with a small garden. B. Design your database to
suite your needs and experience.
C. Go to the farm and do the same there.
Why would tables be useful to you?
For example one could easily track the yield of each field for each year for each product. Take and save a reference sample of the ground before you begin.
May be even find out which crops replace the nutriments extracted by a another crop. It may be that only plants that do not bare fruit return 100% back to the soil. This aspect may be important, if you do not live where new earth is washed in each year.
Visual Library
Load the output from GeoDraw into Visual Library or draw using Visual Library. Insert controls such as Labels, text fields, tables, information windows and so on. Link the pop up content to active texts or shapes to make a *.ppg file.
a. Visual Library will accept the following external
file types: *.drg, *.sdg, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.bmp, *.db
and *.tab files.
b. Visual Library can output the following file type:
*.drg, *.ppg.
c. Note the two way file connection between Visual
Library and DBConstructor. DBConstructor can place
*.drg and *.ppg files in a *.tab table file and that
table file can be inserted into a Visual Library page
(*.ppg file). When the new page is used, The contents
of embedded *.drg or *.ppg files are show in a
different window. This function can be considered to
be similar to the action that takes place when a new
web page is loaded into a new web browser window. The
window with the fish in the program DBInterface above
is an example of it's use.
d. *.drg and *.ppg files can be passed to the program
group Media Control and sold on the web.
Library Eye <-- Click there to down load it now.
This is the program that is used to read and interpret drawings and pages. If you are going to distribute drawings or pages that have been constructed using Visual Constructor, supply this page reader to the receiver.
This program accepts the following files: *.drg, *.ppg, *.lfn and *.dat.
A *.lfn file can contain any amount of *.drg and *.ppg files. The files that it contains can be selected randomly by a user.
The Library Eye window above, shows how information can be laid on top of each other and then from the viewers projection point, be accessed from the lowest level up to the highest level, whereby the drawing board is the lowest level. In the picture above there are three levels of drawings including the drawing board itself. The next level of detail was reached by double clicking on an active text in the previous level. The text in the text window was accessed from the top level picture. That is real focusing in on information from one level into more detailed explanations on the next level.
Page Compiler <--- Click here to down load it now.
The sole purpose of the page compiler is to make *.lfn files from *.drg and *.ppg files.
DBConstructor
One of the standard components used to organize and store information is a table. This program is use to make *.db Paradox tables and *.tab tables.
The first advantage of *.tab tables is that all the information is contained in one file.
*.tab table files as used by Visual Constructor can have the following field types that are not usually seen in other table type:
audio (*.mp3 ..... )
video (*.avi ..... )
small drawing (*.sdg)
Drawing (*.drg)
Page (*.ppg)
To top the list or to coin a phrase, the cat bits it's in the tail, because a *.tab table can be placed in a *.ppg page file and it's contents accessed from there.
To make matters even more interesting, *.tab tables can be placed in *.tab tables.
DBInterface
This program can be used to keep track of a business or any other kind of data.
It only accepts *.tab tables as input to it's main window.
It also contains a Library Eye type window for viewing and using the content of *.drg and *.ppg and *.lfn files as well as media player files.
Advantages:
These types of drawings allow very fast down loads
Visual components can be inserted into pages (page construction)
Click and show information at cursor
Describe a subject using drawings, text, sound and or video that is linked to the same page
Group information to allow single file data transfers
Keep all your data types in one file
For a user, information life span is independent of a web page's life span
Real controlled Random Access as defined by an information producer
Providing solutions for:
School, study, work, business, entertainment
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Visual Constructor ®ª © How it works
GeoDraw
How to start
Which subject?
Visual Library
DBConstructor
DBInterface
