Ingrid Function Keys

F2 NEW

In versions earlier than Ingrid98.6 this function was useful in that it cleared the memory of the last grid used and allowed you to define the maximum size of the grid (constructs x elements - rows x columns ). If you set either size to be greater than 20 then you had to import the grid using space or comma delimited data interchange formats. This function is still automatically called when you LOAD a grid.

Enter MAXIMUM - ROWS,COLUMNS?

F3 LOAD

If you had saved a grid (F4 SAVE) then it was recalled for further editing, analysis, or interpretation. When displaying the Plot of COMPONENTS this was the only function key left active ( keys other than F3 or 0-9 pressed at this time will return to the main MENU). Pressing this key during the PLOT resulted in plotting the new grid. No browsing or friendliness existed with file names (except in the VBDOS shell) and one mistake fatally terminated the program.

N.B. This gave an effective level of need-to-know security. Beta versions up to Ingrid98.e read all earlier files to allow for backward compatibility. From then on you had to manually update the version number and fix formats to run earlier files. To run this tutorial example - download Grid22.txt

In Ingrid98.d the expanded labels were stored to the right of the row data for easy identification. These expanded labels were entered here into the text file and when it was later saved by Ingrid98.d these expanded labels were added to the initial group of short labels when the grid was saved.

This allowed you to cut & paste from Excel a table that contained both row and column labels and data as well as expanded row labels to the right of the data. Expanded column labels no longer needed to be manually entered.

From Ingrid98.e (build 1409) input was supported for both SPACE and TAB field delimiters but only within the table portion of the inGridX text file.

The procedures for preparing an inGridX text file using data from Excel were simplified as follows:-

(1) Select the cells from your spreadsheet to include row and column labels and data and paste into your inGridX text file.

(2) Either set the right number of blank lines or ignore the ancillary label blocks by naming the elements ELEMENTS and the constructs CONSTRUCTS and only add a single blank line to separate each section of the inGridX text file. NOTE: These capitalized names are lower-cased on saving the grid to provide a one time only input feature.

(3) After ensuring that the header of the inGridX text file correctly shows the right number of rows and columns, run inGridX to process and re-save this file. The ancillary label blocks were then added to the file.

F4 SAVE

If the grid had been analyzed before saving then it did not have to be analyzed before you could Plot it when you reloaded it. This feature had more to do with "if it has been saved before analysis it uses considerably less disk space though more processing time." My future developments will preserve and take advantage of the statistical properties of this extra data like a beta conscious "neural spike". This is the difference between an active persistent reflection node and one that is dormant in a mesh of inGridX resources - see insure.txt. (to turn off the analyzed status: go into OPTION 3 (analyze grid) then immediately SAVE the grid). The Analyzed Status was turned off at the start of ANALYSIS and turned on only at the end. Ingrid96.1 presented spreadsheets with nicely delimited files with all the component loadings. After a grid was saved it could be edited to include full explanations of the labels used, but you could not use any commas. Also because a number of quirks misformatted a file it paid to save the file after data entry and before analyzing in case there was a crash.

If the grid had already been analyzed it was analyzed again with the data from the title screens and from section 1 to 9 being appended to the input file and a plot was done. Then HTML tags linking the terms with the plots to Infoseek were written to the text file. You could then put this and a screen capture into a template.

For creating HTML area tags, the default font width and height was set in Ingrid98.e (from build 1408) to be 7x12. If you wanted to create HTML area tags with a different font size, you needed to use a command line option when you ran the inGridX program, e.g., to set the font to 8x16 you must set your command line as in the following example.

c:\ ingrid98.exe /F=8x16

<Me ok - choose START PROGRAMS MS-DOS and then resize the MS-DOS screen to 8x16 (font)

I chose this size screen when I coded the automatic mapping routines into Ingrid96.2 so that the ImageGrid would minimally fit on a 800x600 screen. To make your own automatic mapping to the Internet you need to capture the final plot screens to an animated image file. Later from the main menu after the grid had been plotted you can save (use function F4)and then, complete Infoseek search engine links will be created and stored. By editing a cloned, original regenera.htm, file you could replace the image and the existing search links with those from the saved text file and publish the results. So, each label would take a user to the net. I included the label in the search string so that you can create cascading inGridX plots.

Things would happen later, providing you register your resultant URL with the search engine.

Ingrid98.e made a departure to the method of saving grids which used exactly the same elements for the constructs. You would notice in this abbreviated format there were no groups of labels before the table. Input text files for versions of inGridX earlier than 98.e had to be manually adjusted to reflect this along with the version number. Also, even though input support within the table area was provided for both SPACE and TAB delimiters, the text file was saved only using SPACE as field delimiter and QUOTES as the extended label text qualifier.

This allowed for the inGridX text data including component loadings to be easily cut and pasted back into Excel where you then only chose Data Text to Columns using multiple SPACE delimiters and QUOTES as text qualifiers.

F5 ADD - see CONSENS.HTM

This command allowed you to intersect the hyperspheres of different Grids of the same problem and gave a CONSENSUS analysis. The grids were not weighted before they were combined. The result was averaged and centered before analyzing. This process could be applied to a single grid and was useful for comparing a weighted and non weighted version of the same grid without loosing the weighting column.

It was worth considering NORMALIZING the individual grids first. This had the effect of removing different uses of the grading scale ( i.e., some people used the full range, some a narrow band, some the highs only etc.). After the grids were combined the analysis took place straight away.

F6 SUB - see CONSENS.HTM

This command was similar to ADD except that instead of adding two or more grids for a CONSENSUS analysis SUB subtracted two "un-centered" un-weighted grids and gave a DIFFERENCE analysis showing the uncommon features. The textual interpretations at this stage are still not completed for DIFFERENCE analysis and allowance must be made during your own interpretations. Difference Prompt

F7 MENU

This command took you back to the MAIN MENU.

F8 SHELL

All disk accesses were to the current directory, however you used the SHELL command to go to DOS to change the directory. The following appeared at the top of the screen. Shell Text

F9 VBDOS

This command took you back to VBDOS, where only F1,F3,F4,F9 &F10 were enabled in Ingrid98.6 and as of Ingrid98.d calling any other function from the VBDOS interface gave an error and aborted the program.

From Ingrid98.e (build 141) the TransposeAs option was available to save a grid with all the rows and columns reversed. The grid was automatically reloaded in its transposed form with its analyzed flag set to off loosing the weighting column. You also activated this feature from the DOS version by typing the command Swap in the Option Required field.

F10 QUIT

This command took you back to DOS.