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Drag And View for Windows 95
Version 1.0
What is Drag And View
Drag And View 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 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 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 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.
Drag And View operates differently under Windows 95 and
Windows NT. Under Window 95 the easiest way to view a
file is to right click on the file you want to view in any
Explorer Window and choose "Drag And View" from the
menu that comes up. If you want to view more than one
file, first tag the files that you want to view, then right click
on the files and choose "Drag And View" from the menu. If
you want to open up additional Drag And View windows,
choose the new window button from the toolbar.
Under Windows NT, you first run Drag And View. When
Drag And View is running it will appear as an icon on the
lower left of your screen. To view files you can drag the
selected files from the File Manager to the Drag And View
icon or to any open Drag And View 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 window. However, dragging
files to the Drag And View icon will always open a new
window with the files displayed.
Every Drag And View 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.
Drag And View includes a utility called Fileman Launcher.
which installs itself as a File Manager accessory in the NT
File Manager. Fileman Launcher will run Drag And View
automatically every time you run the NT File Manager and
it will exit Drag And View every time that you exit File
Manager. Fileman Launcher will prevent the Drag And
View 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. You can access
Fileman Laucher from the "Fmlaunch" menu item that it
adds to the NT File Manager. To add or remove programs
or change the way Fileman Launcher runs programs, select
"Modify program list" from the "Fmlaunch" menu.
Drag And View supports multiple page Adobe Acrobat and
spreadsheet files. If a file has more than one page, there will
be an active "Page" menu where you can choose which
page to view.
File Formats Supported by
Drag And View
File formats supported in this version of Drag And View
are:
ASCII
Hex
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word for Windows, including version 7
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
dBase
FoxPro
Clipper
Excel, including Excel version 6
Lotus 123
Symphony
Quattro, Quattro Pro
Quattro Pro for Windows
Windows Metafile (WMF)
BMP
ICO
PCX
GIF
TIF
JPEG
TGA
ZIP
LZH
TTF
CorelDraw version 3 (CDR)
AutoCad (DXF)
Micrografix Designer (DRW)
Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT)
Encapsulated Post Script/Adobe Illustrator (EPS/AI)
Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL)
Lotus (PIC)
Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM/CTM)
WordPerfect Graphics (WPG)
Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
Installing Drag And View
Installation of Drag And View is very easy with the setup
program provided. Run DVSETUP.EXE from the Win 95
Control Panel or the Win NT program manager.
The DVSetup Program gives you two install and two
uninstall options.
Install options
1. You can install Drag And View without Fileman
Launcher. This is the only option available under Windows
95. Under Windows 95, you view files by right clicking on
them in Explorer.
2. You can install Drag And View with Fileman Launcher.
Fileman Launcher installs itself as a File Manager extension
and runs Drag And View every time you run the NT File
Manager. Fileman Launcher will also keep Drag And
View's icon uncovered when you are working in File
Manager.
Uninstall options
Under Windows 95 you can choose to uninstall Drag And
View by choosing Add/Remove Programs from the Control
Panel and then choosing to remove Drag And View for Win
32. Under Windows NT there is an uninstall program
provided called DVUN.EXE which you will have to run
manually. The uninstall program will remove all the
programs except the uninstall program itself. You will have
to remove the uninstall program manually.
To remove just Fileman Launcher you choose that option
from the FMLaunch menu in the NT File Manager.
Installing
The DVSetup program will ask you which drive and
directory you would like to install Drag And View 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.
Using Drag And View
If you are working in Windows 95 Explorer, right click on the
file that you want to view. If you want to view more than one
file, first tag the files that you want to view and right click on
them. A context menu will come up. Choose the "Drag And
View" option from the context menu and a Drag And View
window will open displaying the first file in the list.
Under Windows NT you can drag files from the File Manager to
its icon or, you can use the "Fmlaunch" menu that Fileman
Launcher adds to File Manager's menu bar.
All the files that you've dragged or right clicked on will be listed
in the Drag And View window's "Filelist" menu and you can use
that menu to display the other files.
If you want to view two or more files in the file listing
simultaneously, you can choose the "New" button and Drag And
View 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 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 25 files. After 25, as you drag
new files, the older ones will be dropped off the list.
When Drag And View 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.
Under Windows NT, the Drag And View 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 window can be closed, maximized or
minimized to an icon. You can drag files to a minimized Drag
And View window and it will be restored and display your files.
When you want to quit the Drag And View Program under
Windows NT you must choose "Close" from the system menu
of the Drag And View icon or choose "Close Drag And View"
from the file menu of any open Drag And View window. This is
not necessary under Windows 95 where Drag And View will
close automatically when there are no view windows open..
You can also run Drag And View from the File/Run menu of any
program manager. If you use a file name as a command line
argument, Drag And View will run and display the file that you
specified in a window. You can also install Drag And View 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. 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 "Select
All" from the "Edit" 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.
Launch
Clicking on the "Launch" button will run the program associated
with the file that you are currently viewing. If you are viewing a
data file or a picture, Drag And View will query Windows to
find out the name of the program that you have associated with
the file. If there is an associated program, Drag And View will
run that program and pass to it the file that you are currently
viewing as a command line argument. For example, if you are
viewing a document from Microsoft Word for Windows, Drag
And View will run Word for Windows and have it load up the
document that you are currently viewing. If you don't have a
program associated with the file, Drag And View will not be
able to run any program but will let you browse through your
programs to choose one. When choosing a program to launch,
you will be given the opportunity to make the association
permanent.
If the file you are viewing is a program, Drag And View will run
it when you choose this command.
Copy
The copy button will be available only if part of the view has
been selected. You can select areas to copy by dragging the
mouse over them or by choosing "Select All" from the "Edit"
menu. Clicking on the Copy button will copy the selected area
to the Windows Clipboard. All text, spreadsheet and database
files will be copied as text. All graphic files will be copied as
bitmaps.
New Window
When you click on the "New Window" button, Drag And View
will open up a new window with the same file list as the current
window. Choose this command when you want to view the
same files in two or more windows at the same time. You can
then arrange these windows to view different parts of the same
file side by side or choose another file from the file list and
compare the two files. You can open up as many new windows
as you want, up to available memory on your computer.
Goto
This button will only be active when viewing a database or
spreadsheet, or in the Hex viewer.
For database viewing, this button will open up a dialog box
where you can enter a specific record to go to and view.
For spreadsheet viewing, this button will open up a dialog box
where you can enter a specific cell to go to.
In the Hex viewer, this button will open up a dialog box where
you can enter a specific hexadecimal offset into the file that the
viewer will show.
Find
This button is active in all the viewers except the graphic and
WAV viewers. Use this button to search for specific text in a
file. In all viewers except the Hex viewer you can specify that
your search be case sensitive. In the Hex viewer you can search
in ASCII as well as hexadecimal.
Choosing this command will open up a dialog box where you
can enter your search information. Choosing OK will find the
first match in the file. Choosing OK each time will find each
subsequent match.
Last, Next
The "Last" and "Next" buttons allow you to scroll through the
files in the Filelist. These buttons won't be active unless the
Filelist menu has more that one file in it
Print
Clicking on the "Print" button will bring up a dialog box from
which you can print a file. If part of the file is selected, you will
be able to print just the selection or the entire file. Spreadsheet,
text and database files will be printed in the printers default font.
Graphic files will be printed the way they are displayed. The
WAV file player and the Hex viewer do not allow printing.
Play
The play button will only appear when you have opened a Wav
file in Drag And View. A Wav file is a Windows sound file and
it has a "WAV" extension. When you open a Wav file in Drag
And View, DV will try to play the Wav file if you have a sound
driver installed. If you want to hear the Wav file again, click on
the Play button.
Open Command (File Menu)
Use this command to add a new file to the current window.
Choosing this command will open a dialog box from which you
can choose a new file to view. If there is a special file viewer for
the file, it will be shown in its native format. Otherwise, it will
be shown with either the ASCII viewer (if the file is made up
chiefly of readable characters), or the Hex viewer.
When you open a file in this manner, the file will be displayed in
the current window and its name will be added to the top of the
"Filelist" menu.
Word Wrap Command (File Menu)
This command is only available in Drag And View's ASCII
viewer. Use this command to turn word wrap on or off when
viewing ASCII text files. When word wrap is on, Drag And
View will wrap each line at the current window width. As you
expand the width of the window, Drag And View will expand
the length of the lines. When word wrap is active, there will be a
check mark before this command. When you turn word wrap
off, the check mark will disappear.
Save As Command (File Menu)
All the graphics windows will have a save as option on the file
menu. With this option you can save the file currently being
displayed in 6 different bitmap formats.
BMP
PCX
TIF
GIF
JPG
TGA
Exit Command (File Menu)
Use this command to close the current window.
Close Drag And View (File Menu)
Under Windows NT, closing all the Drag And View windows
will not close the Drag And View icon. You can use this menu
option to close all the windows and the DV icon.
Select All Command (Edit Menu)
Use the "Select All" command to select all of the viewed file to
print or copy to the clipboard. Selected areas of text files,
spreadsheets and databases will appear in reverse video.
Selected areas of graphics files will have a rectangle around
them.
Copy Command (Edit Menu)
Choose this menu item to copy selected areas of files to the
Windows Clipboard. Text files, databases and spreadsheets will
be copied as text. Graphics files will be copied as bitmaps.
ASCII Command (View Menu)
Use this command to view a file in Windows ASCII format.
Hex Command (View Menu)
Use this command to view a file in hexadecimal format. The
Hex viewer displays a file as a series of hexadecimal (base 16)
numbers and ASCII characters.
Viewer Command (View Menu)
Use this command to view a file with one of Drag And View's
viewers that views the file in its native format. This will be the
default if a file format is supported by Drag And View. The only
reason you will need to select this command is if you changed to
the ASCII or Hex viewer and now want to change back.
Fonts Command (Options Menu)
This command will bring up a dialog box where you can choose
which font you want Drag And View viewers to use. The font
that you choose will be active in all the viewers that display text
except the Hex viewer.
Settings Command (Options Menu)
Choosing this command will bring up a dialog box where you
can modify Drag And View's settings
The settings options are:
"View Highlighted File Automatically": This option will only
work when you are running Drag And View from Fileman
Launcher or running Drag And View with Canyon Software's
file manager Drag And File. If this option is turned on, Drag
And View will display each file as it is highlighted in the File
Manager. It will not open a Drag And View window if one is
not already running. For that you need the next option.
"Open View Window if Necessary": This option works in
conjunction with the previous one. This will open a Drag And
View window to view files if one isn't already open.
"Bring View Window To Top": This option is also designed
to work in conjunction with the option "View Highlighted File
Automatically". When this option is checked, the view window
will always come to the top when a new file is highlighted and
consequently displayed. If it is not checked, the view window
will stay where it currently is.
"Hide Icon": The Drag And View Icon will normally be
showing on the screen when it is running. Some users have
requested that the icon be hidden and that they only use the
FMLaunch menu to view files. With this option you can make
Drag And View's icon not show when it is running. After
checking this option you will have to quit Drag And View and
run it again to have it activated.
"Icon Caption": Many users have requested that they be able to
modify the caption of Drag And View icon. In this field you can
fill in whatever caption you want it to have. If you leave it
blank, Windows will put a blank line in reverse video under the
icon.
Zoom Command (Main Menu)
Use this option to quickly zoom in the view of your file. This
command will be available with all files except WAV files and
the Hex display.
Drag And View DWG allows you to zoom AutoCAD views
from 1/4 to 16 times. Additionally you can mark any rectangle
by holding down the left mouse button and moving the mouse
accross the screen. A rectangle will be drawn from the starting
point of the mouse to where you take your finger off of the left
mouse button. You can then and zoom that rectangle to fill the
view window.
Flip Top to Bottom (Rotate Menu)
This option allows you to rotate a bitmap 180 degrees.
Reverse Left to Right (Rotate Menu)
This option allows you to reverse a bitmap left to right.
Rotate 90 Degrees (Rotate Menu)
This option allows you to rotate a bitmap 90 degrees.
Filelist Command (Main Menu)
The "Filelist" menu displays the names of all the files that have
been dragged to the open window or opened from the file menu.
The file that is currently displayed has a check before the name.
Highlighting another file and pressing Enter or clicking on
another file name with the mouse will display that file.
Page Command (Main Menu)
This command will not be available unless you are viewing a
graphic or spreadsheet with multiple pages. You can use it to
view the additional pages of the file. Drag And View currently
supports multiple pages in PDF, Quattro Pro for Windows
(WB1) and Excel files.
Close All Windows Command
(Drag And View icon System Menu)
Use this command to close all the currently open Drag And
View windows. Drag And View will still be running and its icon
will still be displayed.
Close Command
(Drag And View icon System Menu)
Use this command to exit the Drag And View program. All
open Drag And View windows will be closed at this time.
Running Drag And View from The Windows NT File
Manager with Fileman Launcher
When you install Drag And View under Windows NT, it will
install Fileman Launcher as a File Manager accessory. Every
time File Manager is run, Fileman Launcher will also be run and
will run Drag And View. Every time File Manager is closed,
Fileman Launcher will close and will close Drag And View.
Fileman Launcher has its own menu in File Manager called
"Fmlaunch". You can use the "Fmlaunch" menu to view files
without having to drag them to the DV icon. Inorder to do this,
Drag And View must be running. Just click on the "View files"
option in the "Fmlaunch" menu and Drag And View will view
the files that you currently have selected in File Manager. There
is also a "Zip files" menu option in Fileman Launcher. This
option that will work with Drag And Zip another program from
Canyon Software that works as Zip file manager.
When you choose "View files", Drag And View will place the
selected files into one of its open windows. If no Drag And
View windows are open, Drag And View will open one and
display the files.
Getting Help
Canyon Software is committed to producing software that is
useful and productive. To help users make full use of Drag And
File, Canyon Software maintains a technical help line for
registered users from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM Pacific Time.
Phone (415) 453-9779
Fax (415) 453-6195
BBS (415) 453-4289
CompuServe 74774,554
America On Line DanBCan
Internet support@canyonsw.com
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