UI-View 32 V1.0
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TO USE UI-VIEW32 YOU MUST BE A REGISTERED USER OF THE 16 BIT
VERSION OF UI-VIEW. UI-VIEW32 WILL NOT RUN UNTIL YOU HAVE INPUT
YOUR UI-VIEW REGISTRATION INFORMATION!

To run UI-View32 you need Win95/Win98/Win2000 (I expect it will
work on NT4, but I haven't tried it). As a minimum hardware
spec, I would suggest a P200 and 32 Mb of RAM. It will run on
a lot less than that, but it will be slow, and so you will lose
any advantage of using the 32 bit version compared to the 16 bit
version. It also needs 16 bit colour or better. If you use 8 bit
colour (256 colours), then you may experience some strange
effects with maps and/or symbols changing colour.

The current state of the program is that I have hopefully got it
all working, but I'm sure that there will be some bugs! In
converting from the 16 bit version, the biggest problems
occurred with getting an acceptable redraw speed and with the
scroll bars on the map window.

The redraw speed is now very good - faster than the 16 bit
version - but will be very dependent on the quality of your
graphics card drivers. As an example of what can be achieved,
with an ATI Rage Pro AGP graphics card, on a PC with an AMD
K6-2/450 processor and Win2000, which is by no means a "top end"
system, it redraws 1,200 map symbols in just over two seconds.

The separate scroll bars of the 16 bit version have been
replaced by a scrollable viewport. The advantages of the new
system are that the old problem of the scroll bar sliders
flashing has gone, it has a neater appearance, it supports wheel
mice, and the size of the scroll bar sliders indicate what
proportion of the map is in view. There are two scroll bar
settings in the [USER] section of UIVIEW32.INI with which you
can experiment, and I'd be interested to hear what settings you
find most satisfactory.

(a) MAP_SCROLLBAR_STYLE - There are three different appearance
styles of scroll bar available - 0, 1, and 2. However, if you
haven't got Internet Explorer 4 or later installed, then you'll
always get style 0, which is normal Windows scroll bars.

(b) MAP_SMOOTH_SCROLL - By default, if you drag the scroll bar
slider, the map position only updates when you release it. If
you set this option to TRUE, then the map moves continuously as
you drag the slider. However, on slow PCs, or PCs with certain
graphics cards, you may get a smearing effect as the map moves.

If the splash screen annoys you, you can get rid of it by using
a command line argument of /NOSPLASH.

AGWPE
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The interface to AGWPE is TCP/IP only, I have dropped the
support for the DDE interface. You must have AGWPE 2000.15 or
later. For connecting to AGWPE on your own PC, you should use a
host address of localhost or 127.0.0.1. You must make sure that
"Winsock Interface" is checked on the AGWPE pop-up menu. Of
course, you MUST also have TCP/IP protocol properly installed on
your PC! NOTE that you don't need to load the AGWPE TCP/IP
module in order to use the TCP/IP application interface.

BPQ32
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I have tested UI-View32 with BPQ32, and it works fine. However,
BPQ32 is still under development, and documentation for it is
hard to find. DON'T try and use BPQ32 if you have never used
the old 16 bit BPQ. If you have previously used the old BPQ,
then you should find that your existing BPQCFG.TXT will work,
provided that you change the COM port addresses in the port
definitions to port numbers - 1,2,etc. It appears that
BPQCFG.BIN needs to be in the same directory as the first BPQ32
application that you start, but BPQ32.DLL can be put either in
the application directory or in WINDOWS\SYSTEM. When BPQ32
starts up, it opens a DOS window - I have no control over that,
and you need to minimise it manually.

UI-View Add-Ons
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Add-ons written for UI-View that use the DDE interface won't
work with UI-View32. The reason is that the DDE topic name has
changed, it is "UIView32|UIVData". I would suggest that anyone
writing add-ons that use DDE should first attempt to connect to
"UIView|UIVData" (the topic name for 16 bit UI-View), and then
try "UIView32|UIVData" if the first attempt returns an error.
That way the add-ons will work with both applications.

Uninstalling
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Like all 32 bits Windows applications, UI-View32 can be
uninstalled from Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs. You will
then need to remove any files and sub-directories that it has
created.

Roger Barker, G4IDE
roger@peaksys.co.uk

2000-Mar-30
