Opener - Version 2.1
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Table of Contents
1 - Legal Stuff
2 - What is Opener for?
3 - How to use Opener
4 - How to install
5 - What does installing do?
6 - How to uninstall
7 - Last minute documentation changes
8 - Expected environment


1 - Legal Stuff
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Opener copyright 1996 NEWMAN Services Corporation. All rights reserved. Choose About from the Help menu for DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. This product is FREEWARE. It may be copied freely under specific conditions. This product consists of software and accompanying files. A copy of any part of the product that is not for backup is considered to be for distribution. Any copy for distribution must contain at least the executable, the help file, and this READ_1ST.TXT text file. The software may be copied completely or in parts for backup purposes. The product may not be copied for distribution after the end of 1996. Distribution to BBSs and on-line services and distribution by diskette and other media is encouraged under these requirements. The full setup version may be available by request.

2 - What is Opener for?
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Opener answers the question, "What if I have more than one word processor or paint program?" Opener takes Document-Centric to a new level. If you think Windows 95 is Document-Centric, wait until you use it with Opener. Without Opener, if you pick a document from the Start menu, you cannot choose what program in which it's opened. The same goes for Windows 3.x. If you double-click a document in File Manager or Program Manager, it's only opened in the program with which it is associated.

Opener is a pop-up toolbox full of the programs you choose. If you open a different type of file, the toolbox contains a different set of programs depending on how you set it up. Opener has Drag & Drop functionality with File Manager and Windows 95 along with many more features.

It also serves a second purpose. It is a vehicle for advertising the author's capabilities. Opener is written in VB using component style modules. I encourage you to find out about the author by reading the topic on the author in Opener's help. 


3 - How to use Opener
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Here's how it works. There are two ways to use Opener, either by just running it, or by associating it (which is covered further below). The first time you run Opener, it has only the menu button (it's supposed to look like a pop top) in the toolbox. Drag & Drop the Notepad program from File Manager (or from almost anywhere in Windows 95) onto the menu button. That adds Notepad to the toolbox as a button. Drag & Drop a text document (with the file type of TXT) onto the Notepad button in the toolbox. Notepad starts up with that text document in it. You can Drag & Drop any type of file onto the Notepad button regardless of its association.

Another way to use Opener is by associating it with a type of file. To do this, you need to know how to associate files.

Windows 3.x
Choose Search for Help from the Help menu in File Manager. Type Associating and press Enter twice.

Windows 95
Choose Help from the Start menu. Click the Index tab. Type Associating, press Enter and double-click "Changing which program starts when you open a file."

Associate text documents with Opener and open a text document. Opener pops up with only the menu button in the toolbox. Once again, find the Notepad program and Drag & Drop it onto the menu button in the toolbox. You do not have to move the Opener toolbox to do this. It stays on top so that it will not be covered over by File Manager. Now find another word processor like the Write program and Drag & Drop that on the menu button. Now you have the choice of editing the text document in either Notepad or Write. If you find a text document in Program Manager or the Start menu and open it, you will get the same choice.

If you are having trouble, any options you can change by Drag & Drop can be changed by clicking on the menu button. It's so user friendly that, sometimes, it's even faster than Drag & Drop. Choose Contents from the Help menu for more details.


4 - How to install
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You can get Opener in a setup disk or download it from an on-line service. Opener can be installed right from the setup disk, or; the contents of the disk can be copied to 1 directory. In either case, run SETUP.EXE from the appropriate drive and directory by choosing Run from the File menu in Program Manager or File Manager and entering -- for example -- A:\SETUP. In Windows 95, choose Add/Remove Programs from Control Panel and click Install. All setup asks is what directory to which it should install. This product can be installed on a network but it will take a second longer to start up. That can be annoying if you are just trying to open a file.

If you downloaded Opener, I assume you have already unzipped it since you are reading this file so I will not cover that. You might not have gotten the system files with Opener. These files come with Visual Basic and many other products and might not be worth the download time. The full version can be installed as described above. Otherwise, create an Opener directory or folder and move the files there. I recommend putting Opener in a Program Manager group or the Start menu since the help makes references to that.


5 - What does installing do?
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All of the VBXs and DLLs installed by Opener come from Visual Basic 3.0. Installing Opener adds a group containing two icons into Program Manager. One is for the program and the other is for its help. Opener makes no changes to C:\Config.Sys or Win.Ini. Installation also places the following files in their associated directories. The directory that the user chooses to install Opener into is assumed to be C:\Opener. The Windows System directory is assumed to be C:\Windows\System. 
C:\OPENER\OPENER.EXE 
C:\OPENER\OPENER.HLP 
C:\OPENER\READ_1ST.TXT 
C:\Windows\System\THREED.VBX 
C:\Windows\System\PICCLIP.VBX
C:\Windows\System\CMDIALOG.VBX 
C:\Windows\System\COMMDLG.DLL 
C:\Windows\System\VBRUN300.DLL


6 - How to Uninstall
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Delete the group with its icons from Program Manager or from the Start menu and delete the OPENER directory. Do not delete the VBXs or DLLs. Another program might have been installed that needs them.


7 - Last Minute Documentation Changes
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8 - Expected environment
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Microsoft Windows 3.1+
with WINHELP 3.1+
VBRUN300.DLL
Custom controls:
	THREED.VBX - 3D-Widgets/1 Version 3 1/30/94
	CMDIALOG.VBX, COMMDLG.DLL - 2.1 1/30/94
	PICCLIP.VBX - 3.00.0525 4/16/93

If you have problems getting Opener to work, I would greatly appreciate your contact by CompuServe or US mail. 
	NEWMAN Services Corp.
	26 Forest Way
	Essex Fells, NJ 07021 
	102020,1451@compuserve.com
