Release-Notes for TMx

(click here for the installation instructions)

If you have a single task or input selected, and you click the select-all tool , now you get a small form that gives you greater control over what's selected. 

The button in the center represents your initial selection.  The buttons on the periphery indicate what each one selects when clicked.  Click the button in the center, to select everything.

After you've made your selection, close the form. 

1. Select a range of cells that circumscribes some tasks and inputs. 
2. Click the select-all tool. 
3. The circumscribed tasks and inputs become selected.

Be careful not to drag a connector inadvertently.  If you do drag one, it will lose its connections at both ends.  Click the UNDO button to fix the connector, before doing anything else.

More zoom-range:  Now you can zoom in to a level of 160%.  For zoom-levels less than 40%, the small zoom-decrement is set to 5%, instead of the earlier 10%.

If you click the zoom-width tool while only a single cell is selected, the zoom-setting and the scroll-settings are adjusted automatically, so that the width of your entire plan fills your screen.  The vertical position, relative to your plan, is preserved.

If you click the zoom-width tool while some tasks or inputs selected, the zoom-value and the scroll-settings are adjusted automatically, so that the width of the selected set fills the screen.

If you click the zoom-width tool while a range of cells selected, the zoom-value is adjusted automatically, so that the width of the selected range fills the screen.

2) Now, the spider is ssssmoooooooothhhh.

2) The interface for the sufficiency-test tool now is a bit more informative.

Version 1.5.132 also fixes a few minor bugs related to the application-events. 

To use the spider, select a task or an input, and click the new tool.  When the spider becomes active, TMx changes the color of the plan's connectors to a light gray, except for the connectors that are attached to the spider's perch.  The latter connectors are made dark and brought to the forefront, so that they can be clicked and followed.  Clicking any of the darkened connectors causes the spider to jump to the entity at the connector's far end.

The spider also provides two horizontal arrows just above its current perch.  These enable lateral jumps among tasks and inputs as follows:

1. If the spider lands on an input by jumping upstream (south) from a task that has additional inputs, the lateral arrows become white and indicate that lateral jumps are possible, among the inputs at that band relative to the original task.
2. If the spider lands on a task by jumping downstream (north) from an input that is shared by other tasks, the lateral arrows become yellow and indicate that lateral jumps are possible, to the other tasks at that band relative to the original input.  
3. If the spider starts at an input that has only one successor-task, and that task has additional inputs, the lateral arrows become white and allow lateral jumps among the inputs at that band relative to the task.
4. If the spider starts at a task that has only one input, and that input is shared by other tasks, the lateral arrows become yellow and allow lateral jumps among the tasks at that band relative to the input.

In all other cases, the lateral arrows are disabled, and lateral jumps are not allowed. 

To quit the spider, simply click the original tool again and toggle it off.  When you quit the spider, TMx paints all the connectors blue again. 

If you have any problems with the new tool or with any other aspect of TMx, please let me know BEFORE you become frustrated.  I'll do my best to help.