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IntraBuilder
English Version 1.01a Trial/Update
README.TXT
Updated 12/19/96 4:32 PM
IMPORTANT: If IntraBuilder is not currently installed on
your system or if you choose to install the IntraBuilder
Client/Server Trial Edition, the trial software will
automatically expire 30 days from the date of installation.
If you are using this installation to update any existing
edition of IntraBuilder from version 1.0 to version 1.01a,
the date limitation does not apply. For details and other
important Trial/Update installation notes, see INSTALL.TXT.
IntraBuilder Server setup instructions are in the file
SERVER.HLP (a Windows Help file). Other general install and
uninstall notes are in INSTALL.TXT. Both of these files are
stored in your IntraBuilder root directory.
If after installing this Trial Edition you purchase a copy
of IntraBuilder 1.0 (not 1.01a), you should uninstall this
Trial Edition before installing the full product, then
reinstall this Trial Edition to update your copy of
IntraBuilder. The version number is indicated at the top of
the INSTALL.TXT file that is displayed at the beginning of
the installation process.
This update applies only to English-language versions of
IntraBuilder.
PLEASE NOTE: This Borland product offers no redistributable
files. Also, for Client/Server edition users only, the
Borland License Agreement allows you to install Remote
Agents on multiple machines.
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WELCOME TO INTRABUILDER
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IntraBuilder is a visual JavaScript application development
environment that lets you easily build and maintain live,
data-driven Web applications. The applications you create
with IntraBuilder provide your users with live, interactive
access to your data through any browser.
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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
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* An Intel 486DX PC or better.
* Microsoft Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 or Windows NT 4.0.
* A VGA/SVGA monitor and graphics adapter.
* A TCP/IP Internet or intranet connection.
* 30MB free space on your hard disk drive.
* Memory requirements:
IntraBuilder Designer: 12MB RAM for Windows 95, 16MB RAM
for Windows NT.
IntraBuilder Server: Minimum IntraBuilder Designer
requirement plus 8MB for the Borland Web Server, or the
stated memory requirement of another supported Web
server.
* IntraBuilder Client/Server has a "Remote Agents" feature
which requires Windows NT.
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CONFIRMED OPERATING SYSTEMS AND WEB SERVERS
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IntraBuilder has been tested on Windows 95 and Windows NT
3.51, and NT 4.0.
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SUPPORTED WEB SERVERS
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Standard edition
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Borland Web Server (included)
Client/Server, Professional, and Trial edition users only
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A chart showing which Web server applications are supported
on which operating systems appears in SERVER.HLP (search
keyphrase "supported servers").
Please note that if you choose to use the Microsoft IIS
server on any version of Windows NT, your system login
username must match the Anonymous Connections username in
your Internet Service Manager setup. For more details on
this requirement and instructions on how to change the
Anonymous username, see SERVER.HLP.
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STARTING INTRABUILDER
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IntraBuilder is made up of two major components: the
IntraBuilder Designer and the IntraBuilder Server.
The IntraBuilder Designer is where you create, modify and
maintain your IntraBuilder applications.
To run the IntraBuilder Designer from Windows NT 3.51,
double-click the IntraBuilder Designer icon in your
IntraBuilder program group in the Program Manager.
To run the IntraBuilder Designer from Windows 95 or Windows
NT 4.0:
1. Click your Start button.
2. Choose Programs from the Start menu.
3. Choose IntraBuilder from the fly-out menu, then choose
IntraBuilder Designer.
IntraBuilder Server setup, startup and testing instructions
are provided in SERVER.HLP, located in your IntraBuilder
root directory.
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RUNNING THE PREBUILT BUSINESS SOLUTION APPLICATIONS
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IntraBuilder includes several prebuilt business solution
applications which can be immediately run as-is or
customized to meet your needs.
The applications are installed into your IntraBuilder\Apps
directory (default C:\Program
Files\Borland\IntraBuilder\Apps).
For descriptions of the applications and instructions on how
to run them, see the README.TXT file in the \Apps directory.
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OTHER USAGE NOTES
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All editions of IntraBuilder
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* Two updated Microsoft Access dynamic link libraries (DLLs)
may help resolve problems with some Access tables and
ODBC drivers. The DLLs (MSJT3032.DLL and MSWNG300.DLL) as
well as information on the issues that the updates
address, are available from the Microsoft Knowledge Base
at www.microsoft.com/kb. Use the site's "Q-Finder" search
option to locate article Q151186. The files are available
for separate downloading directly from the article.
* The following ODBC configurations have been certified for
use with Microsoft Access tables:
ODBC version Access version
2.10.0000 2.00.2317
2.50.0000 3.40.2505
* Do not use Microsoft Access (*.MDB) tables or indexes that
reside in directories that have spaces in the directory
name. However, you can use Access tables and indexes that
reside in directories that have more than eight
characters (e.g., /intrabuilder), so long as the
directory name contains no spaces.
* When adapting sample code written in VBScript, be mindful
of the fact that JavaScript is a case-sensitive language,
and so all events, properties and methods used in an
IntraBuilder program must be cased correctly, or errors
will result. It is particularly important to pay close
attention to the casing of event handlers that are to be
included in an IntraBuilder program.
* After a successful setup of DBF security through the
security adminstration dialogs, a dbsystem.db file is
created. To allow the server to recognize and use this
file, however, you must ensure that either:
-- The dbsystem.db file is in the same directory as
INTRA.EXE
(located in your /IntraBuilder/Bin directory); or
-- The location of dbsystem.db is specified in
INTRASRV.INI as:
[CommandSettings]
DBSYSTEM=<path>
Currently, the two lines above are contained only in the
file INTRA.INI (you can copy the lines from that file to
INTRASRV.INI). Both INI files are located in your
/IntraBuilder/Bin directory.
* You should not save more than one custom form class to a
custom form file. If you do, you may lose previously
defined classes.
* URLs to IntraBuilder forms or reports that require a
parenthetical query will not work if issued from the
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (MSIE) Address box.
For example, the following entry into the MSIE Address box
produces an error ("Site not found"):
http://server/svr/intrasrv.isv?foo.jfm(123)
In addition, any MSIE bookmarks that contain this URL
construction will not work.
You can, however, use a URL that contains a parenthetical
query in an HREF link within a form or report, and the
link will execute properly from MSIE.
* For Windows 95 users only: Microsoft has issued a Windows
95 KERNEL32 system file update that resolves a known
problem with a Windows Sockets memory leak. The leak
occurs when opening and closing a Socket using the
Windows Sockets API. Microsoft reports that this type of
leak affects performance and system stability for users
who run Windows Sockets applications continuously over a
long period of time. We recommend that IntraBuilder users
download and apply the update from the following
location:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/software/krnlupd.htm
* To close the IntraBuilder Agent on Windows NT 3.51, choose
the minimized IntraBuilder Agent icon and press Alt+F4
(or close the application through the Windows Task List).
On Windows 95, you can close the IntraBuilder Agent by
right-clicking on the minimized IntraBuilder Agent icon
and choosing Close.
* Before running IntraBuilder after any new reinstallation
or update, you should delete any *.GID (a hidden file
type) and *.FTS files from your IntraBuilder directories
before using the Help system. If you don't, you will get
incorrect search and index information when using Help.
* Do not use accented or extended characters as the first
character in the name of a control on an IntraBuilder
form or report. If you do, Netscape browsers will issue
an error when attempting to access the form.
* If you use IntraBuilder with dBASE files that were created
with Visual dBASE version 5.5 or earlier, you may
experience some problems with non-ASCII (non-English
language) data. The reason: these early versions of dBASE
normally used the ASCII character set. To remedy the
problem, we recommend that you change the language of
your early dBASE tables to the Western European ANSI
(WEANSI) character set--the set normally employed by
Internet applications. Visual dBASE users can find
information on character set issues and how to change the
set used by dBASE tables in Appendix C of the Visual
dBASE Programmer's Guide.
* On some Windows NT 4.0 Server machines, the file
SERVER.HLP may run incorrectly. When opening the file you
may see a tabbed Help dialog with only the Contents and
Find tabs showing, if so you will have problems running
the file. Rename the file (to SERVER1.HLP, for example),
and change the properties for the IntraBuilder Server
Help icon to reflect the new name. With this
modification, the file will open and display correctly.
Client/Server, Professional, and Trial edition users only
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* The NSAPI interface to Netscape's FastTrack and Commerce
Web Servers has a limitation on the length of HTML form
variables. In most cases this limitation presents no
problem, but if you have TextArea objects dataLinked to
memo fields that contain more data than Netscape's NSAPI
interface can handle then you may run into one of the
following situations:
-- Data saved from a Netscape Navigator browser to a
Netscape server via the NSAPI interface from a TextArea
control may be truncated.
-- Data saved from Microsoft Internet Explorer from a
TextArea control to a Netscape Web server using the NSAPI
interface may generate a "Server Configuration" error,
since Internet Explorer does not have the same
restriction on the length of form variables.
Netscape servers using the WinCGI protocol, the Borland
Web Server, Microsoft's Internet Information Server, and
WebSite do not have this limitation.
Client/Server and Trial edition users only
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* When using Remote Agents with Microsoft Internet
Information Server, the dialog box "Waiting for Web
Server to start..." does not close automatically when you
start the web service. After the WWW service is Running
in the Internet Service Manager, you must click Cancel to
dismiss the dialog box. This action also closes the
command prompt window used by the IntraBuilder Server.
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HELP FILE AND DOCUMENTATION UPDATES
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The main IntraBuilder Help file, as well as SERVER.HLP and
other online documentation, is updated periodically and is
freely available on the Internet at:
http://www.borland.com/techpubs/intrabuilder/
The documentation site also features a complete list of new
features and functionality for all editions of IntraBuilder
1.01a.
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INTRABUILDER HOME SITE
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The IntraBuilder home site is located at:
http://www.borland.com/intrabuilder (the address is case
sensitive).
The site offers the latest product news and links to
technical support information.
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UNINSTALLING INTRABUILDER
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For instructions on removing IntraBuilder from your system,
see INSTALL.TXT.
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COPYRIGHTS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Copyright (c) 1996 Borland International, Inc. All rights
reserved. All Borland products are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Borland International, Inc. Other brand and
product names used in this document and other documents and
files included in this software package are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.
This software is based in part on the work of the
Independent JPEG Group (IJG).
The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property
of CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark
property of CompuServe Incorporated.