------------------------------------------------------------------ STATGRAPHICS Plus Version 5.0 November, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The following information supplements the User Manual and the On-Line Help. Contents: A) Before You Start... B) Installing the Software C) Manuals D) Online Manuals E) Preferences and Graphics Options F) StatFolio G) StatGallery H) StatReporter I) Print Drivers J) Print Preview K) Quality and Design L) ODBC M) Miscellaneous N) StatPublish 0) StatFolio Start-up Scripts P) Support Information ------------------------------------------------------------------ A) Before You Start... STATGRAPHICS Plus Version 5.0 will only run on a true 32-bit operating system -- Windows 95/98, Windows NT, or Windows 2000. You must have at least 65 MB of space available on your hard drive to hold the program files, documentation, and sample data files. A minimum of 30 MB is required for a minimal install of only the program files. A minimum of 32 MB of RAM is required to run STATGRAPHICS Plus with "average" performance. Complex calculations and graphs will benefit from additional RAM. The Version 5.0 CD is composed of 24 installation files. It will create several subdirectories, including: - Data, Manuals, and Test Data. ------------------------------------------------------------------ B) Installing the Software Version 5.0 of STATGRAPHICS Plus is available on CD. To install the software: 1. Insert the compact disc into the CD-ROM drive. 2. On most systems, the setup program will start up automatically. If it does not, in Windows Explorer, double click on SETUP.EXE from the CD-ROM drive. Or Click on START...RUN and type D:\SETUP.EXE in the text box (where D: is the CD drive letter, substitute as necessary) 3. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. 4. If you have purchased an international system, plug the sentinel device into the parallel port on your computer. 5. If you have purchased an international system and are running the Windows NT operating system, the first time STATGRAPHICS Plus is launched, a window will display for installing the Rainbow sentinel drivers. Click on the Functions menu item, then select "install sentinel drivers" from the list that displays. You should then see an information dialog box that says that the drivers have been successfully installed and that you need to restart your computer. Restart the Windows NT operating system to complete the driver configuration. 6. For Network installations, the STATGRAPHICS Plus registry information must be accessible to each Windows operating system that runs STATGRAPHICS Plus. If both Windows and STATGRAPHICS Plus reside on your server, the end-user must have read-write access to the server's Windows registry. If Windows resides on the workstation, the STATGRAPHICS Plus registry information must be written to the Windows registry on the workstation. The CD Rom contains a program called serial.exe that you must run on each client workstation to write the serial number to the registry. Note: Serial.exe can be found on the CD-ROM. Run this executable from the client machine providing the installation serial number. 7. When adding users to a Network installation, run AddUsers.exe on the server. Enter the total number of users in the dialog box displayed with the Password you were given when you purchased the additional licenses. AddUsers.exe may be found in the same directory as the main sgwin.exe. 8. If you enter an incorrect serial number while installing the program, you do not have to reinstall the entire system. Instead, copy the file serial.exe from the CD Rom to the directory containing sgwin.exe. Then execute it and enter the correct serial number. You CANNOT run STATGRAPHICS Plus directly from the CD-ROM. ------------------------------------------------------------------ C) Manuals If you have the Standard Edition, the only manual you need is the printed STATGRAPHICS Plus Base System manual. This manual can also be found online under the Help - Access On-line Manuals menu item. If you have Quality and Design, you will need the STATGRAPHICS Plus Base System manual and the Quality and Design manuals which are available online under the Help menu item. If you have the Professional version or an Enterprise Edition, you will need the STATGRAPHICS Plus Base System manual and the Quality and Design, the Multivariate Methods, the Time-Series Analysis, and the Advanced Regression manuals which are available online. ------------------------------------------------------------------ D) Online Manuals The electronic Version 5 Base System Manual, Quality and Design, Multivariate Methods, Time-Series Analysis, and Advanced Regression Manuals are accessible from within STATGRAPHICS under the Help menu item. The calculations, glossary, and references are also available. ------------------------------------------------------------------ E) Preferences and Graphics Options There is a Preferences dialog box under the Edit menu. This dialog box lets you set system defaults that will be used for all analyses in all sessions, unless changed. Preferences for system options, graphics, link behavior and a directory for temporary files can be set in this dialog box. Graphics options, including Profiles, are grouped on a tabbed dialog box. To access Graphics Options, click the right mouse button on the graph you want to edit. The default graphic profile for Version 5 is colored lines, points, and type on a white background. Profiles are also available for System (color, dark background) and System (black and white). Use the Skip option on the Axis dialog box to remove axis labels. Skipping produces a less cluttered appearance which allows for clearer display and printing. It is not the same as By which sets the interval between tickmarks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ F) StatFolio When combining StatFolios, you must have the first one open before selecting Combine. Closing a StatFolio will close the associated DataSheet, StatGallery, and StatReporter. ------------------------------------------------------------------ G) StatGallery The maximum number of graphic panes allowed in the StatGallery is one hundred with an unlimited number of text panes. The StatGallery can cause problems when you are working at or attempting to go beyond this limit. You may experience a system crash if you have reached the limit and attempt to exceed the limit or cut/delete and paste at the limit level. We recommend limiting the number of graphic panes to 95. To copy a StatGallery pane to the StatReporter or other application, click the right mouse button from the StatGallery and select Copy from the pop-up menu. In order to use the Paste Special feature, select Picture (Metafile) or Bitmap. Do NOT select the SGWIN (StatFolios) format. ------------------------------------------------------------------ H) StatReporter The Copy Analysis to StatReporter allows you to copy all of the text and graphics panes from the active analysis to the StatReporter with one click of the mouse. Use Copy and Paste or Paste Special to copy one pane at a time. In order to use the Paste Special feature, select Picture (Metafile) or Bitmap. Do NOT select the SGWIN (StatFolios) format. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I) Print Drivers Outdated or poorly programmed third-party video or printer drivers are sometimes responsible for printing and font problems. To isolate this possibility, reconfigure your system with the standard VGA driver supplied with Windows and then see if the problem recurs. You might also want to run the Control Panel and select a Microsoft-standard printer driver as your default printer. To cooperatively help our combined user bases, several software manufacturers have constructed a printer driver database for users to access. This database includes compatible printer driver information which describes alternate drivers you can use in place of the one that you're using now, as well as which setup options you should modify to eliminate specific problems. For more detailed information and a link to the database, please visit: http://www.leadcommander.com/tib3019.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ J) Print Preview If the Print Preview for the StatAdvisor or any other text pane is unreadable on your system, it may be necessary to change the default font selection for the pane. To change the font, maximize the StatAdvisor or text window, then from the main menu select Edit...Change Text Font. Courier type fonts are recommended. You may want to experiment with the fonts available on your system to find the optimal for your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------ K) Quality and Design The Version 5 Quality and Design manuals are available in electronic format. For more information on how to use this new format, please refer to Section D of this README file. Excluded data points for MR(2) charts drop to the lower control line. The worksheet spaces for DOE default to 128 lines for large experiments. Use the pane options to modify the worksheet. ------------------------------------------------------------------ L) ODBC We have refined our ODBC implementation in Version 5. When you query a database, the Query Database dialog box now includes a field for SCHEMA options for users that work with shared databases. When using ODBC to connect to Excel files, STATGRAPHICS Plus assumes the first row is a variable name and does not bring in the numbers from the first row. If you do not have variable names in the first row, put in a blank row to "import" your data properly. ------------------------------------------------------------------ M) Miscellaneous 1. The StatWizard displays each time you start STATGRAPHICS Plus. To change this, de-select the "Show the StatWizard at Startup" option at the bottom of the initial StatWizard dialog box. 2. The DataSheet is now maximized each time you start STATGRAPHICS Plus. The DataSheet must be minimized manually. You cannot change this default. This default does not create memory problems. 3. When combining StatFolios or DataSheets, you must have the first one open before selecting Combine. 4. StatLink, by default, looks at the current DataSheet. 5. To de-select the Locate or Zoom feature, click on Select. 6. When using Locate from the right mouse button pop-up menu, use the mouse for general positioning and then use the arrow keys for fine-tuning. The arrow keys move the "locate" line one pixel at a time. 7. The Radar Plot scaling is set from the initial data. If you have a second plot with a different range of data, create a new plot by using Plot...Exploratory Plots...Radar/Spider Plot. We do not recommend changing the variable by accessing the input dialog box from the first plot. 8. The Data Editor in Version 5 of STATGRAPHICS Plus has a capacity of 1024 columns by 999,999 rows. In practice, the limitations on dataset size are determined by the resources available on your computer. A minimal configuration (32 MB of RAM and limited virtual memory on the hard drive) will not permit you to load large datasets. ------------------------------------------------------------------ N) StatPublish When publishing graphs, you have the option to select "Add interactivity to applets". If selected, users may identify points on scatterplots by clicking on them. However, the graphs will look somewhat different than when originally created, and certain features such as 3-D effects and certain text fonts will not be supported. To insure that the graphs look identical to when originally created, do not select this option. O) StatFolio Start-up Scripts To open a StatFolio from the Windows "Run" line, enter a statement such as sgwin.exe "c:\data\My Statfolio.sgp" You may also use the Windows "Document" list by double-clicking on the desired StatFolio. P) Support Information See the "How to get Help" card found in the installation packet. This card contains information on how to obtain help. Here are some means of communication that you may not be aware of: - Telephone Support: 301-984-5489 - E-mail Access: answer@manu.com - Web site: http://www.statgraphics.com