AQUAD Files

AQUAD Eight - revised Version 8.6
Copyright Guenter L. Huber
1990-2025
info@aquad.de

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

AQUAD Eight is programmed with LAZARUS 3.4 / FPC-Versión 3.2.2.
The program shows, copies, prints, etc. results with "notepad++.exe".
Notepad.exe is no longer a default component in actual versions of Windows,
but there is the free Software "notepad++.exe" available that has no
problems with the utf8-mode of texts used in AQUAD 8. However, you will
have to download notepad++.exe from

      https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads


More about AQUAD on the web:    www.aquad.de

Modules of AQUAD 8:

  Aquad8-en-setup.exe: Module for qualitative and quantitative analysis of texts
according to the coding paradigm and the reconstruction paradigm.
  Aquad8-en-audio-setup.exe: Module for qualitative analysis of audio recordings.
  Aquad8-en-video-setup.exe: Module for qualitative analysis of video recordings
  Aquad8-en-grafic-setup.exe Module for the analysis of graphical data material
(photos, drawings, handwritten field notes etc.)

Directory structure:

C:\Aquad_8e
Base or root directory; here supplied sample texts are installed automatically.
The texts (*.txt) of your project must also be stored in this directory.

C:\Aquad_8e\cod
Codes which are created during your interpretation work (*.aco);
Here you will also find the parameters of the projects and directories of codes,
keywords, etc. that you are likely to save for further analysis.

C:\Aquad_8e\cod_s
This directory is used to back up your codes, especially so that earlier codes
can be restored in case you merge different meaning-like codes and replace
them with the new metacode(s).

C:\Aquad_8e\lit
Here you can store the manual and also publications, links, etc. that are important for your work
on the current project.

C:\Aquad_8e\mco
Metacode files (summaries of codes with similar meaning).

C:\Aquad_8e\prg
The program itself, the help file and parameters of the current project.

C:\Aquad_8e\res
The results of all evaluations (results) as txt and/or csv files.

If you want to work with the source code, you should first install
AQUAD from the setup file to establish the subdirectories
expected by the program (see above). After compiling the source files you
copy the new AQUAD.exe file into the ..\prg subdirectory and
run it from there.

Source: readme.txt, updated 2025-06-23