Categories

This page describes what you should expect to find in the categories for Planimate articles. They are intentionally quite broad to prevent thinning things out too much. Please do not create a new category without verifying that your topic is not covered by another category.

This is not a page of definitions! It is intended for experienced Planimate content authors to help clarify how the existing categories should be used for new articles they write.

Category:Application (InterDynes)

Creating standalone EXEs, end user considerations when models cannot be directly saved

Category:Attribute

The various types of attributes, portal, item, system, routine

Category:Batch

Running Planimate in batch mode without using the UI

Category:Broadcast

Sending information to locations around the model - Broadcast,Message and Wormhole

Category:Bug

Referenced in release notes; do not use

[[:Category:Context Help]

These articles are all context sensitive help content. They are terse as its expected the user will be looking at a dialog.

Category:DLL

Calling code written in other languages through the DLL interface

Category:Data

Working with data within a model, including scenario saving

Category:Data/Exchange

Transferring data to other applications; files, clipboard, ODBC and TCP/IP

Category:Database (Model)

The "DB" resource file that accompanies every model

Category:Debugging

Capabilities and methods to assist in debugging models

Category:Dynamic Structure

Building systems that dynamically change their structure, creating new portals within themselves

Category:Editing

Techniques and services to assist in the building of models, finding things and moving about parts of the model

Category:FAQ

Questions and answers particularly helpful to beginners

Category:Format (Units)

Formatting of values into data and interpreting from formatted back to data

Category:Graphics

Icons, bitmaps and animation

Category:INI File

Model specific and Planimate platform configuration settings

Category:Interaction (User)

Forms, dialogs, popups and other ways of getting user attention and input

Category:Item

Items and item classes

Category:Item/Agent

Agents (carriers of other items) and the objects specific to them

Category:Labellist

Lists of name/value pairs including those created by Planimate

Category:Model

Managing model (MDL) files

Category:Object

The Planimate modelling objects, some have subcatetories

Category:Paint

Paint object layer

Category:Panel

Dynamic, View and Application Panels

Presentation

What the user sees and doesnt see

Category:Release Notes

Unformatted release notes

Category:Routine

Routine code and operations

Category:Runtime Engine

How items move, threads, blocking, unblocking, lookahead, run control

Category:Spatial Network

Items moving over time over networks of objects, typically over maps

Category:Table

Working with tabular data, columns, rows mainly from the point of view of data processing. Includes sorting

Category:Time

The ways time can be represented and displayed, calendar, relative, the clock, zero time

Category:Track

Railway modelling using the track sub-objects

Category:Variation

Statistical variation, distributions, data logging for comparison and analysis

Category:View

Views of data - value,cell view,table view,column overlay graph,log driven graph,gantt graph,train graph,grid view