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- AnyView Professional 1.130 -- README.TXT -- 03/02/95
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- or visit our homepage with your web browser at:
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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.
- ***************************************************************
-
- Table of Contents
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- 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
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- 2. Technical notes on Color Depth Switching and Global Memory.
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- 3. Technical support for Evaluation copies of AnyView Professional.
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- 4. Changing Video Controllers and Reinstalling AnyView
- Professional.
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- 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:
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- * 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
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- * 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
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- * 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.
-
- ***************************************************************
- 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:
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- Starting the Installation
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- 1. Place the AnyView Professional diskette in the appropriate
- diskette drive (A or B).
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- 2. Open the File menu in the Windows Program Manager or File
- Manager and select Run.
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- 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."
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- After completing the Quick Installation, you may skip ahead to
- the chapter entitled, "Getting to Know AnyView Professional."
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- After making your setting choices, select Continue.
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- 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.
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- 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
- ***************************************************************
-
- 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
- ***************************************************************
-
- 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
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- 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.
-
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- Uninstalling from within Windows:
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- 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.
-
-