Chip 1994 February/CHIP0294.ISO/digital/best100/winutils/dragview/dvmanual.txt

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        What is Drag And View Gold?

Drag And View Gold is a program that lets you view the contents
of a file or files without having to run the program that
created them.  Drag And View Gold can view the files created by
popular word processors, databases, spreadsheets and bitmapped
or vector graphic programs in their native format.  You can
also view any file in plain ASCII or hexadecimal format. Drag
And View Gold allows you to open multiple windows so you can
easily compare files.  You can search for text in any file or a
hexadecimal string in the Hex viewer.  You can also go to any
cell in a spreadsheet, any record in a database and any address
in the hexadecimal view of a file.  Drag And View Gold allows
you to select all or any part of a viewed file and copy it to
the Windows clipboard or print it.  Printing of text files will
be done in the default font of the printer and will not
necessarily be formatted the same way as the file when
displayed by its parent program.  You can also Zoom in your
view of a file up to 5 times the original file size.

You can view files with Drag And View Gold in two different
ways.  You can drag the selected files from any file manager
that supports drag and drop to the Drag And View Gold icon or
to any open Drag And View Gold window.  Or, you can click on
the "Fmlaunch" menu item that is added to Windows File
Manager's menu bar and choose "View files".

Using the view files option will not open a new window if a
window is already open.  The same is true if you drag files to
an open Drag And View Gold window.  However, dragging files to
the Drag And View Gold icon will always open a new window with
the files displayed.

Every Drag And View Gold window maintains a listing of the
files that you dragged to it in its "Filelist" menu.  You can
use the "Filelist" menu to choose a particular file in the list
to view or you can use the "Last" and "Next" buttons to scroll
through the list of files.

Also, part of the Drag And View Gold utilities is Fileman
Launcher.  Fileman Launcher installs itself as a file manager
accessory.  Fileman Launcher will run Drag And View Gold
automatically everytime you run Windows File Manager and it
will exit Drag And View Gold everytime that you exit File
Manager.  Fileman Launcher will prevend the Drag And View Gold
icon from being covered when you are working in File Manager.
And, Fileman Launcher will remember the place where you last
left the DV icon and will place it there the next time you run
File Manager.  You can add up to 9 other programs to Fileman
Launcher and have it manage them the same way as it manages
Drag And View Gold.  You can access Fileman Laucher from the
"Fmlaunch" menu item that it adds to Windows File Manager.  To
add or remove programs or change the way Fileman Launcher runs
programs, select "Modify program list" from the ôFmlaunchö menu.

Drag And View Gold supports multiple page DCX\DCF and
spreadsheet files.  If a file has more than one page, there
will be an active ôPageö menu where you can choose which page
to view.


File Formats Supported by Drag And View Gold

File formats supported in version 1.0 Drag And View Gold are:

ASCII
Hex
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word for Windows, including version 6
Microsoft Works
Microsoft Works for Windows, including version 3
Windows Write
Word Perfect
Word Perfect for Windows, including version 6
Ami Pro
Q&A Write
Q&A Write for Windows
dBase
FoxPro
Clipper
Paradox
Paradox for Windows
Excel, including Excel version 5
Lotus 123
Symphony
Quattro, Quattro Pro
Quattro Pro for Windows
Windows Metafile (WMF)
BMP
ICO
PCX
GIF
TIF
JPEG
DCX\DCF
ZIP
LZH

The following file formats are only in the registered version
of Drag And View Gold

CorelDraw version 3 (CDR)
AutoCad (DXF)
Micrografix Designer (DRW)
Harvard Graphics 3 (CH3/ST3)
Encapulated Post Script/Adobe Illustrator (EPS/AI)
Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL)
Lotus (PIC)
Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM/CTM)
WordPerfect Graphics (WPG)


Installing Drag And View Gold

Installation of Drag And View Gold is very easy with the setup
program provided.  From Program Manager, choose "File" from the
menu bar and then choose "Run" from the pull down menu.  In the
dialog box type the full path where the files are, and the
program name DVSETUP.EXE.  For example, if you were installing
from drive A:, you would enter "A:\DVSETUP.EXE".  If you were
installing from the "DV" directory of drive C:, you would enter
"C:\DV\DVSETUP.EXE".

The DVSetup Program gives you two install and two uninstall
options.

Install options
1. You can install Drag And View Gold with
Fileman Launcher.  Fileman Launcher installs itself as a file
manager extension and runs Drag And View Gold every time you
run File Manager.  Fileman Launcher will also keep Drag And
View Gold's icon uncovered when you are working in File Manager.

2. You can install Drag And View Gold without Fileman
Launcher.  Without Fileman Launcher, you will have to run Drag
And View Gold manually when you want to use it.

Uninstall options 1. You can remove Fileman Launcher.  This
option will remove the line from your WINFILE.INI that runs
Fileman Launcher whenever you run File Manager.

2. You can completely remove the Drag And View Gold
installation from your computer.  Do not use this option to
remove a previous installation of Drag And View Gold.  It can
only be used to remove a copy of Drag And View Gold that was
installed with this installation program.  Windows will not let
you delete a program while it is running.  Therefore the
DVSetup program will not be deleted during uninstallaion.  You
will have to delete DVSETUP.EXE and the Drag And View Gold
directory manually.

Installing The DVSetup program will ask you which drive and
directory you would like to install Drag And View Gold to.  If
the destination is different from where you are installing
from, all files will be copied over to the new path.  If the
files on the installation diskette are compressed, the DVSetup
program will decompress them while copying them.  The DVSetup
program will then create a program group called Drag And View
Gold and put the Drag And View Gold and Drag And View Gold
Setup icons in it.  DVSetup will  also install Fileman
Launcher.  Fileman Launcher is a File Manager accessory that
will run Drag And View Gold everytime that you run File Manager
and exit Drag And View Gold everytime that you exit File
Manager.   Using Drag And View Gold

You can use Drag And View Gold two different ways.  You can
drag files from the file manager to its icon or, if you're
running Windows 3.1 File Manager, you can use the ôFmlaunchö
menu that Fileman Launcher adds to File Manager's menu bar.

When you run Drag And View Gold it will load and show its icon
at the bottom left of your screen. If you want to drag files to
Drag And View Gold's icon, Drag And View Gold must be running.
It will not work if you try to drag files to its icon in
Program Manager.  If you run Drag And View Gold from Fileman
Launcher, Fileman Launcher will keep the Drag And View Gold
icon from being covered when File Manager is the active
program.  If you are not running Drag And View Gold from
Fileman Launcher and you want to keep its icon from being
covered, you can do so by choosing "Icon always visible" from
the Drag And View Gold settings dialog.  First click on the
Drag And View Gold icon and bring up the System menu.  Click on
the menu selection that says "Settings".  In the resulting
dialog box, see that ôIcon always visibleö is checked.  That
will cause the Drag And View Gold icon to show through anything
that is trying to cover it.  The state of the Always Visible
option will be saved when you exit Drag And View Gold and will
become active the next time you run it.

Fileman Launcher will remember the last position of the Drag
And View Gold icon and put it there the next time you run File
Manager.  If you choose not to run Drag And View Gold from
Fileman Launcher, you can also have Drag And View Gold save its
icon position from the settings dialog.

To view files with Drag And View Gold, you drag files from any
file manager that supports drag and drop to the Drag And View
Gold icon and Drag And View Gold will open a window displaying
those files.  The first file in the group that you dragged will
be the one that is displayed.  All the files will be listed in
the window's "Filelist" menu and you can use that menu to
display the other files.  Additionally if you're running
Windows' File Manager or any file manager that supports file
manager extensions, you can choose ôFmlaunchö from the menu bar
and then choose "View files" from the pull down menu.

If you want to view two or more files in the file listing
simultaneously, you can choose the "New" button and Drag And
View Gold will open up a new window with the same file list.
You can open up as many windows this way as your computer's
memory will support.  You can also drag more files to any open
Drag And View Gold window; they will be added to the "Filelist"
menu and the first one in the group will be displayed.  The
"Filelist" menu will hold up to 20 files.  After 20, as you
drag new files, the older ones will be dropped off the list.

When Drag And View Gold displays a file, it first tries to
determine if it can display the file in one of its special
viewers.  If there is no special viewer for the file, it will
be shown with either the ASCII viewer (if the file is made up
chiefly of readable characters) or the Hex viewer.

The Drag And View Gold icon will still remain at the bottom of
your screen even after you've dragged files to it and opened up
a viewing window.  You can continue to drag files to the icon
and each time that you do, a new window will be opened.

Any open Drag And View Gold window can be closed, maximized or
minimized to an icon.  You can drag files to a minimized Drag
And View Gold window and it will be restored and display your
files.

To exit the Drag And View Gold program, you must choose "Close"
from the system menu of the Drag And View Gold icon.  You
activate the system menu by clicking your mouse on the icon.
When Drag And View Gold exits, all the open windows will be
closed.  You can choose to just close all the open Drag And
View Gold windows and not exit Drag And View Gold by choosing
"Close All Windows" from the Drag And View Gold icon system
menu.

You can also run Drag And View Gold from the File/Run menu of
any program manager. If you use a file name as a command line
argument, Drag And View Gold will run and display the file that
you specified in a window.  You can also install Drag And View
Gold as the viewer for other programs such as our Zip manager,
Drag And Zip.

Selecting and Copying to the Clipboard Selecting areas of views
to copy to the clipboard is very easy with Drag And View Gold.
Simply place the mouse pointer at the beginning of the area
that you want to copy.  Then press the left button and drag the
mouse to the end of the area that you want to copy, still
holding down the left button until you are finished selecting.
You can also select the entire file by choosing ôSelect Allö
from the ôEditö menu.  To copy a selected area to the
clipboard, click on the copy button or press Ctl+C or Alt+C and
the selected area will be copied.  Text, spreadsheet or
database files will be copied as text.  All graphics files will
be copied as bitmaps.

All viewers allow selecting and copying except the WAV file
player and the Hex viewer.


                REGISTRATION FORM

Your registered version of Drag And View Gold will come with
additional viewers for

AutoCad (DXF)
CorelDRAW version 3 (CDR)
Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
Micrografx Designer (DRW)
Adobe Illustrator/Encapsulated Postscript (AI/EPS)
HP Graphics Language
Word Perfect Graphics (WPG)
Lotus (PIC)
Harvard Graphics (CH3/SY3)

____ Drag And View Gold version 1.0 with Fileman Launcher,
diskette, manual and shipping anywhere in the world    @
                                                $35 ea        $________

____ Drag And View Gold DWG version 1.0 with Fileman Launcher,
diskette, In addition to all the other viewers, this version also
views, zooms and pans AutoCAD DWG files.        @ $65 ea    $________


____ Drag And View Gold with Drag And Zip (Our Windows Zipper)
both regularly $65                                 @ $55 ea    $________

                        Subtotal                            $________

California residents please add 7.25% sales tax:            $________

                    Total                                   $________

                    Diskette size   3 1/2" [ ]       5 1/4" [ ]


All orders will be send by US mail unless requested otherwise.

Master Card ,Visa Orders and AMEX.  You may call in your
registrations to Canyon Software at (415) 415 382-7999 fax them
[phone] or send in this form with the information below.


Name As It Appears On Credit  Card

________________________________________________________

MC/VISA # ______________________________________________

MC [ ]  VISA [ ]  Amex[ ]

Expiration Date ___/___

Name:__________________________________________________

Company:_______________________________________________

Address:________________________________________________

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Where did you obtain Drag And View Gold________________

Any comments, suggestions or bugs?

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Please make checks payable to:

Canyon Software
1537 Fourth Street Suite 131
San Rafael, CA 94901

My name is Dan Baumbach I am a member of ASP., The Association
of Shareware Professionals.  I can be reached either at the
above address, on CompuServe electronic mail 71320,1277,
America OnLine at DanBCAN or at [phone], fax (415)
382-7998.  Thank you for your registration.


Overseas Orders

You can purchase copies of Drag And View and Drag And View Plus
and get technical for them from the following overseas
locations.

Australia
BUDGETWARE
PO BOX 496
NEWTOWN NSW 2042
AUSTRALIA
Phone [phone]
Fax [phone]

Manaccom Pty Ltd
9 Cramford Street Milton
Queensland
Australia
Phone    [phone]
Fax    [phone]

Denmark
PRO SOFT
v/ Jens Rex
Benloese Skel 4 G
DK-4100 Ringsted
Denmark

Germany
DER PD PROFI
Gerd Z÷ttlein
Schulstra▀e, 13
D-86666 Burgheim
Germany
Phone [phone]
Fax     [phone]

England
Nildram Software
82 Akeman Street
Tring
Herts HP23 6AF
United Kingdom
Phone    [phone]
Fax    [phone]

France
Jean-Guy DUCREUX (aka Winnie)
WindowShare SARL
B.P. 2078
57051-METZ cedex 2
France
Phone    [phone]
Fax    [phone]

The program author, Dan Baumbach, is an active member of the
Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).  ASP wants to make
sure that the Shareware principle works for you.  If you are
unable to resolve a Shareware-related problem with an ASP member
by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help.  The
ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an
ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members'
products.  Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road,
Muskegon, MI 49442, or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe
Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.