
     AnyView Professional 1.1 -- README.TXT -- 01/27/95

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Download the latest eval version of AnyView Professional at:

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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, 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.

