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AnyView Professional 1.130 -- README.TXT -- 03/02/95
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Download the latest eval version of AnyView Professional at:
ftp.crl.com in the ftp/users/ro/binar/eval directory
or visit our homepage with your web browser at:
ftp://ftp.crl.com//ftp/users/ro/binar/binar.html
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***BEFORE YOU INSTALL***
Prior to installing AnyView Professional please read the file
called "boardsup.txt" that is included with the files you
just downloaded. This text file will list the Video Cards,
chipsets and drivers that this version of AnyView Professional
is known to currently support.
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Welcome to AnyView Professional! Whether you're a software
developer, a graphic artist or a computer "novice," you're
about to watch your computer perform in ways never before
thought possible.
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Table of Contents
1. Installation Notes
1a. System Requirements
1b. Installation on a Single-User System
1c. Quick Installation
1d. Custom Installation
1e. Network Client Station Installation
1f. Installation Using Microsoft Compliant OEM Setup Diskettes
2. Technical notes on Color Depth Switching and Global Memory.
3. Technical support for Evaluation copies of AnyView Professional.
4. Changing Video Controllers and Reinstalling AnyView
Professional.
5. Uninstalling AnyView Professional.
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1. INSTALLATION NOTES
These are installation instructions for AnyView Professional.
AnyView Professional may be installed over previous versions of
itself.
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1a. System Requirements
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Before you install AnyView Professional, please confirm that
your system is equipped with the following hardware and
software:
* An 80386 or better microprocessor (CPU), four megabytes or
more of RAM (eight megabytes or more is recommended), and
approximately two megabytes of hard disk space
* MS-DOS or PC-DOS version 3.1 or later, Microsoft Windows
version 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.1 or 3.11, Enhanced Mode
* You should have all of your Windows display drivers for all the
resolutions and color depths that your video controller supports
installed on your system before installing AnyView Professional.
Also, the install may go more smoothly if you run Windows with
your 256 color drivers when installing AnyView Professional.
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1b. Installation On a Single-User System
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First, check AnyView Professional's requirements on the
preceding page to ensure that your system has the appropriate
resources to run this software. Next, start Windows as usual
and proceed as follows:
Starting the Installation
1. Place the AnyView Professional diskette in the appropriate
diskette drive (A or B).
2. Open the File menu in the Windows Program Manager or File
Manager and select Run.
3. Type [drive]:SETUP.EXE, where [drive] is the letter of the
drive where you placed the AnyView Professional diskette, and
press [Enter]. After Setup initializes your system, a screen
appears with four options: Quick Installation, Custom
Installation, View README.TXT and Exit. Choosing Quick
Installation will completely setup your system with a minimum
of effort. You can press Custom Installation to choose which
features and options to install. View README.TXT opens the
README.TXT file in the Notepad application. Exit terminates
the program.
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1c. Quick Installation
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Sit back and relax! Choosing Quick Installation automatically
creates a directory on the same drive as your Windows
directory, copies all of the AnyView Professional program
files, creates an icon group and deletes any older versions of
AnyView Professional that might be found. Press Restart
Windows when prompted and AnyView Professional will be up and
running.
Though Quick Installation recognizes most drivers using its
intuitive method of installation, there is a chance you may be
prompted to enter an OEMSETUP.INF disk. In this case, see the
section later in this chapter entitled "Installation Using a
Microsoft Compliant OEMSETUP Diskette."
After completing the Quick Installation, you may skip ahead to
the chapter entitled, "Getting to Know AnyView Professional."
Note: If you receive an advisory message from the Setup
application regarding drivers that are not installed on your
system, simply install them from their floppy disk or
directory using your video controller's installation program.
After Windows reloads, double click the AnyView Professional
icon in our program group to restart Windows with the AnyView
Professional driver.
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1d. Custom Installation
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1. After pressing Custom Installation, the Setup application
displays the directory into which it plans to install AnyView
Professional. The default directory is AVPRO on the drive
which contains the Windows directory. To accept the default
directory, select Continue. To select a different drive or
directory, type it in and then select Continue.
2. The Custom Window appears and you are asked to select which
features and options should be enabled or disabled. These
aren't permanent changes -- all can be changed from within the
AnyView Professional application.
Features: Though all of AnyView Professional's features are
installed when you run the Setup application, you can choose
to disable any of them should you desire to do so. These
features include Catalyst, Color WYZARD, DPI WYZARD, Green
Screen, OptiMemm, and True Switch Color Depth/Resolution
Switching. All of these features are enabled by default.
Start Up Options: By default, the Setup application creates an
AnyView Professional group for your Program Manager and puts
an AnyView Professional icon into the Startup group. Either of
these options may be disabled.
Monitor Selection: Choose the monitor selection which most
reflects your own. For information regarding interlaced and
non-interlaced monitors, consult your monitor's documentation.
Driver Installation: There may be times when you may to choose
to install AnyView Professional without using the Setup
Application's intuitive method of locating and installing
video drivers. For instance, you may have received new drivers
from your video controller manufacturer and you would like to
install them using a Microsoft Compliant OEM setup diskette.
The Setup Application's intuitive method of driver
installation is chosen by default.
Mouse Interface Call: By default, you can bring the AnyView
Professional Toolbar directly to your mouse by double clicking
on your right mouse button. Because there are other
applications which may use this same setting, the Setup
application gives you the choice of either setting the middle
mouse button as the interface call or of having none set at
all.
Interface: AnyView Professional's features can be accessed
through either the Toolbar or the Control Panel. Though the
Toolbar is smaller and less obtrusive than its counterpart,
the Control Panel is more detailed and helps you to monitor
your system. "Always Topmost" indicates that you want the
interface to always be visible no matter what application you
may be using. By default, the Toolbar is the chosen interface
and is always topmost.
Video Memory: This setting allows you to choose the amount of
video memory that is installed on your video controller. One
megabyte of memory is chosen as default.
After making your setting choices, select Continue.
3. If you have previously installed AnyView, Screen Commander
for Windows, the Setup application asks whether you'd like to
have it removed from your system. We recommend that you allow
the Setup application to make it so.
4. Restart Windows as prompted and AnyView Professional is
ready for use.
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1e. Network Client Station Installation
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It's possible to install AnyView Professional on most client
stations on Windows compliant networks. There are no special
steps, even with networked versions of Windows.
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1f. Installation Using Microsoft Compliant OEM Setup Diskettes
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There are times when AnyView Professional cannot install
intuitively because it does not have enough information
regarding your video controller and video drivers. When this
situation occurs, the installation program will bring up a
dialog screen entitled "Installation with a Microsoft
Compliant OEMSETUP Diskette." At this time, please insert the
diskette which was shipped with your video controller and
indicate the OEMSETUP.INF file using the directory tree on the
right side of the window. You can also point to an
OEMSETUP.INF file that has already been installed onto your
hard disk if you like -- however, this would be a directory
other than the System directory. An OEMSETUP.INF file in your
System directory may describe a different piece of hardware
and installation would not be able to continue.
Note: If you reach this window but do not have a Microsoft
compliant OEMSETUP diskette, go ahead and click the Cancel
button. Without access to the OEMSETUP.INF file, the
TrueSwitch color depth and resolution changing features cannot
be activated; however, all of AnyView Professional's other
features can still be installed. If you would like to
continue, choose Custom install and then uncheck the
resolution and color depth switching checkboxes. Continue
installation as discussed earlier in this section. You may
then contact our technical support department for information
on how to properly install for your video controller. Please
see the "Troubleshooting" section in Appendix A for more
information.
After you have pointed to the proper OEMSETUP.INF file, a
dialog box will appear for your display driver set up. For the
next few minutes, you will confirm the OEM supplied drivers
for the specific resolutions and color depths available for
your video controller. The installation program will list the
resolution for which it needs a driver. Below, in a list box,
the installation program will highlight the driver it believes
matches that resolution. If the suggestion is correct, simply
choose Select. If the choice is not correct, highlight the
correct driver and choose Select. If the installation program
cannot locate the driver to match the resolution, the Skip
button is highlighted. Because there are few video controllers
that are capable of running every resolution in every color
depths, it is likely you will need to skip some resolutions.
If you make a mistake at any time, you can choose Start Over
to make new choices.
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2. Technical notes on Color Depth Switching and Global Memory
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When running image editing software, it is recommended that
you switch to your desired color depth before running the
application. Editing a bitmap and then switching color
depths may degrade the quality of the bitmap. Saving the
bitmap file at that time will save the degraded version of
the bitmap.
Some monochrome bitmaps (dragging an icon, for instance)
won't display in color modes above 256 color mode. This is
done intentionally to prevent a bug that is in many display
drivers that occurs when running with AnyView Professional.
Your display drivers may not have this bug, and you can
determine this by adding the following line to the
[AnyViewPro] section of the AVPRO.INI file located in the
AVPRO directory:
DIB8to1on=on
When color switching is enabled, Windows will only boot up
initially in 256 color mode. AnyView Professional can be
configured to automatically switch you to the color mode
that you were in when you exited Windows. To do this, add
the following line to the [AnyViewPro] section of the
AVPRO.INI file located in the AVPRO directory:
BootRestoreColor=on
If the system or applications you are running are displaying
large bitmaps or a large number of bitmaps, a color switch
may delay for a long time. This is because AnyView
Professional needs to convert all of the bitmaps to the new
color mode.
When color switching is enabled, bitmaps that the system or
applications display require more memory than with color
switching disabled. It is recommended that you do not
configure your desktop to display a large bitmap as your
background wallpaper. (From Windows Control Panel's Desktop
configuration) It is also recommended that you do not open
multiple large bitmap files simultaneously, particularly when
you are in a high color (32K,64K,16M) mode. If you experience
memory problems, try increasing your Windows swap file size
to 4 or 8 megabytes.
Global Memory:
With the Color Switch feature enabled, the amount of global
memory available to Windows will decrease. OptiMemm cannot
help with this issue, as it increases the amount of Windows
Resource memory available, thus allowing you to run more
applications, but not the amount of global memory available.
An example of a need for a large amount of global memory is
opening a very large bitmap in a high color mode, or opening
multiple bitmap files simultaneously.
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3. Technical Support for the Evaluation copy of
AnyView Professional
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TECHNICAL SUPPORT:
Binar Graphics, Inc. will be happy to provide you with technical
support for your evaluation copy of SkyScraper. We will be providing
this support directly through the following mediums: CompuServe
at "73232,342" - AOL at "BG Tech" and the Internet at "Binar@crl.com"
You will not be able to attain technical support from Binar Graphics, Inc.
by telephone unless you have a serial number. Once you have purchased
a fully licensed version of SkyScraper, our representatives will be happy
to help you via telephone as well.
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4. Changing Video Controllers and Reinstalling AnyView
Professional
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We recommend that you reset Windows to the Microsoft VGA
driver before changing your video controller. You can do this
by running SETUP from the Windows directory while at the DOS
level. Please see your Windows manual for more information.
After inserting your new video controller, install the video
controller's drivers using the manufacturer's instructions.
When you have restarted Windows, run SETUP from your AnyView
Professional distribution diskette and follow the installation
instructions listed earlier in this section.
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5. Uninstalling AnyView Professional
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Getting Back into Windows if the installation process has
failed at the DOS level:
If you install AnyView Professional and find that Windows will
not restart after the initial reboot, SETUP has failed to
configure your system correctly. In order to fix this problem
and get you back into Windows, we have included a DOS level
uninstaller. The DOS uninstall is located in the directory
that is assigned to AnyView Professional during installation (the
default installation directory is "AVPRO"). From within
AnyView Professional's directory, type "AVUNINST" at the DOS
prompt. This command will reset Windows to the original
display driver, but it will not delete the AnyView Professional
files/components.
After returning to Windows you can perform a complete uninstall
of AnyView Professional by using the uninstall icon located in
the AnyView Professional Program Group.
Uninstalling from within Windows:
Should you decide for one reason or another to uninstall
AnyView Professional, the provided Uninstall program will do
the job quickly and efficiently. Use the AnyView Uninstall
icon in the AnyView Professional program group.
1. Click on the Uninstall icon in your AnyView Professional
group or run the AVUNINST.EXE file in your AnyView
Pro directory from the File Manager or Program Manager.
2. After Uninstall deletes AnyView Professional's icons from
the Program Manager, a dialog box will ask you to restart
Windows. Uninstall will be complete after you restart.