Contents

• Installing tkDerm and associated softwares
  • Required software packages to run tkDerm
    • Tcl/Tk
    • PostgreSQL
    • Other associated softwares
  • Installing Tcl/Tk
    • Windows
    • Macintosh
    • Linux
  • Creating a ''postgres'' user account
    • Windows
    • Macintosh
    • Linux
  • Installing PostgreSQL
    • Windows
    • Macintosh and Linux
  • Installing tkDerm
    • Windows
    • Macintosh
    • Linux
  • Starting up tkDerm
    • Script version
    • Starpack version
  • Setting up tkDerm
    • Registering doctor data
    • Registering camera data
    • Creating your first database
    • Setting preferences
    • Executing setup
  
  
• Inserting data
  • When should you insert data ?
  • Inserting new data
    • Required fields
    • Action fields
    • Patient
    • Macro
    • Micro (Optional)
    • Saving image data
  • Procedure at shooting microscopic images
    • How to insert a shooting time of microscopic images
  
  
• Registering photos
  • Mechanism of AIR
  • Three steps in image registration
  • Importing image files
    • Film Cameras
    • Digital Cameras
  • Registering Image files
    • Specifying a camera and subsequent events
    • Relating image files with session data by boundary slides
    • Relating image files with session data by placing boundary slides with your hands
    • Using dummy data
    • Inserting dummy data automatically
    • Copying image files to the Photo Directory
    • Monitoring volume usage
    • Automatic backup of image files
    • Automatic backup of session data
  
  
• Searching and updating data
  • Searching patient data
    • Search Condition panel
    • Display Condition panel
    • Updating patient data
    • Deleting patient data
    • Displaying the corresponding Macro or Micro data
  • Searching macro data
    • Search Condition panel
    • Display Condition panel
    • Browsing thumbnails
    • Updating macro data
    • Duplicating macro data
    • Deleting macro data
    • Displaying the corresponding Micro data
  • Searching micro data
    • Search Condition panel
    • Display Condition panel
    • Updating micro data
    • Deleting micro data
    • Displaying the corresponding Macro data
  • Purposes for exporting and importing data
  • Exporting data
  • Importing data
  
  
• Showing photos
  • Opening an image file in the image window
    • Opening the image window of the tabnotebook style
    • Opening more than one image window at once
    • Resizing the image in the image window
    • Exporting the image from the image window
  • Opening more than one image in the clipboard window
    • Opening the clipboard window of the tabnotebook style
    • Exporting the canvas on the clipboard window
    • Exporting images from the clipboard window
    • Resizing images in the clipboard window
    • Changing the arrangement of the images in the clipboard window
    • Adding images to the clipboard window
    • Deleting images from the clipboard window
    • Moving images in the clipboard window
    • Exporting images from the thumbnail panel
  • Rotating an image from the thumbnail panel
  • Deleting images
  • Opening an image with Adobe Photoshop
  • Opening a photo-storing directory with Adobe Bridge
  • Opening a photo-storing directory with the Finder on Macintosh OS 10.5
  
  
• Managing databases
  • The Create & Drop Database dialog
  • Creating a database
  • Dumping a database
  • Restoring a database
  • Destroying a database
  • Vacuum
  • Encryption and decryption
    • Encryption
    • Decryption
    • Confirmation of encryption
  
  
• Making a backup with volumes
  • The structure of the photo-storing directory tree
  • The Volume dialog
  • Creating volumes
  • Dumping data corresponding to a volume
  • Restoring data corresponding to a volume
  • Dumping volumes
  • Restoring volumes
  
  
• Managing diagnoses
  • The potential benefits of registering diagnoses
  • Registering diagnoses or synonyms by the Diagnosis entry in the New Data or Edit Macro (or Micro) dialog
  • Handling diagnoses or synonyms by the Diagnosis Editor dialog
  
  
• Utilizing camera data
  • Easy data insertion by registering camera data
  • Registering camera data
  • Deleting camera data
  • Using a camera both for macro and micro photos
  
  
• Sharing tkDerm with others
  • Understanding user accounts in tkDerm
  • Easy data insertion by registering doctor data
  • Registering doctor data
  • Deleting doctor data
  • Change password
  
  
• Creating a body diagram by your hands
  • How to create a body diagram
  • Launching the distribution editor
  • Setting the size and background color of the canvas
  • Choosing a background image
  • Tool bar
    • Selection tool
    • Rectangle tool
    • Oval tool
    • Spline tool
    • Free tool
    • Text tool
    • Pen color
    • Fill color
  • Creating objects
  • Moving objects
  • Enlarging or shrinking objects
  • Duplicating objects
  • Deleting objects
  • Creating a hot spot from an object
  • Renaming hot spots
  • Changing the order of hot spots
  • Saving a script
  • Editing a script
  
  
• Creating packages
  • The package directories
  • Creating a package
  • Loading a package
  • Writing a code for the package
  • Writing an online manual
  • Package versions
  • Removing a package
  
  
• Changing appearances
  • Three steps in setting appearances
  • The Appearance dialog
  • The format of .tkderm_rsrc
  
  
• Customizing tkDerm
  • Three steps in setting preferences
  • When do the Preference settings take effect ?
  • The Preferences dialog
  • How to set an each item in the Preferences dialog
  • The format of .tkderm_profile
  
  
• Appendixes
  • Representing body parts by tkDerm
  • How to read the tkderm_register.txt
  • How to contact the author
  • The distribution condition
    • tkDerm: A Tcl-based Dermatological Image Database Client for the PostgreSQL