A10's Spectacle!

It displays events in your family history on a graphical representation of the universe! You can zoom in and out of the galaxy as well as move around in all directions to get a better view. There's a variety of views to select from ranging from Unsucessfull Attacks to exploration. Just about what ever you want to see you can.It has it's own map file and thus it's own map file creator on my website. Map files are in plain text and therefor can be transmitted through a forum post!Displays all sizes of IC galaxies! A must have for any family with news

You can get the tool, view screen shots, and use it's mapfile creator here: http://a10design.vndv.com

TO GET STARTED:
Spectacle doesn't need to be installed it's stand alone

1) Create a preferred folder that you would like to put it in ( like maybe C:\Documents and settings\Billy bob\My documents\Spectacle )
2) Open up that folder in your documents and move the spectacle.zip file into there. Extract it in that directory

TO USE:

1) Double click on the spectacle executable (it has a yellow spade icon)
2) Click File-> Open Map File and select your current map file. (You can make a map file at the website) (for demonstration open up pw44.map that came with the exe)
3) Paste Your families news in the edit box that tells you to (for demonstration paste the contents of famnewssource.txt that came in the .zip file)
4) Click Calculate-> Fam News
5) Click View->and anything you want to see. (Try exploration summary for the demonstration. My family last round was very activly expo-ing)

CONTROLS:

Left-click =    Zoom in
Right-click =  Zoom Out
Arrow Keys= Move around

Enjoy!

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