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- README for
- Ultimedia (TM) Workplace/2
- Release 1.0
- 5871-AAA (c) Copyright IBM (R) Corp. 1993
-
-
-
-
- This README contains information related to Ultimedia Workplace/2,
- a versatile tool for organizing and managing multimedia files. This
- file contains helpful hints found in our testing as well as updated
- information that did not make our printed publications.
-
- o Miscellaneous Workplace/2 notes
-
- o Installation notes
-
- o Improving performance of Workplace/2 tutorial
-
- NOTE: If you are viewing this file with a program that uses
- proportional fonts, you may wish to change to a monospaced
- font, for the best readability.
-
-
- MISCELLANEOUS WORKPLACE/2 NOTES
- _______________________________
-
-
- When using Workplace/2, be aware of the following:
-
- o Workplace/2 stores temporary files in a user-specified directory.
- This directory information is saved in the environment variable TEMP.
- If the specified directory is not valid, C:\ is used instead.
-
- o When defining database schema which is attached to the Light Table
- folder, be sure that the database column selected as the join field
- is long enough to hold the object title, object filenames or Extended
- Data that the objects will actually use. If the database row's field
- value does not match the object data, because the data was
- truncated to fit the column, the database row will not be linked
- with the object.
-
- o After creating an LT Query Sequencer folder, open the LT Query
- Sequencer in the Templates folder and make sure that the objects
- are in the correct sequence -- an LT Query object on the left and
- an LT Query Result on the right. If the objects are reversed,
- move the LT Query Result to the right of the LT Query. Do this
- for both LT Query Sequencers -- the one in the Templates folder and
- the one you just created. Then close the LT Query Sequencer from
- the Templates folder. All LT Query Sequencer folders you create
- from now on will have the objects in the correct sequence.
-
- o Oracle tables with LONG field(s) are not supported.
-
- o ICO files (with .ICO file extension) is deleted from our supported
- file types list.
-
- o Unpredictable results may occur with images with dimensions
- greater width than 1024 pels and greater depth than 768 pels.
-
- o If another application realizes the custom palettes, the color
- of the image browser may not be correct.
-
- o When selecting multiple objects from the Light Table folder to create
- LT Reference objects, do not mix BMP files or ICO files with other
- data file objects. You can select all BMP files as one group, then
- create LT Reference from these selected objects. Select all
- ICO files as another group to create LT Reference. Then select all
- the rest of the objects to create LT Reference.
-
-
-
-
- INSTALLATION NOTES
- __________________
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-
- Ultimedia Workplace/2 Uninstall Steps
- _____________________________________
-
- Using this Guide
- ________________
-
- This guide details a simple deinstallation. Certain exercises
- will require some thoughtful analysis by you the user, since all
- possible configurations and scenarios can't be anticipated.
-
- Some of the things this guide can't anticipate are:
-
- - name changes to Desktop objects and Folders
- - locations of Desktop objects and Folders
- - location of Light Table and Light Table Query
- Sequencer objects
-
- CONFIG.SYS changes are recommended as part of uninstalling
- Workplace/2. This file is very sensitive to errors and can
- cause OS/2 (R) reboot failures, so exercise caution when handling it.
-
-
- Assumptions
- ___________
-
- Examples here are written as if Ultimedia Workplace/2 was installed
- on
-
- D:\WORKPLAC
-
- If your install location is different, replace occurrences of
- D:\WORKPLAC in these instructions with your location.
-
-
- Step-by-Step Instructions
- _________________________
-
- 1. Deregister Workplace Object Classes introduced by Workplace/2
-
- - run D:\WORKPLAC\INSTALL\DEREGIST.CMD
-
- Depending on your System Configuration, several errors may be
- reported during execution - this is acceptable.
-
- 2. Remove the following objects from the Desktop:
-
- - Safe
- - Clipdata.BMP
-
- NOTE: The Safe object cannot be deleted from the desktop through
- the pulldown menu. Instead, you can do the following:
-
- - open an OS/2 Window
- - cd into your current active "Desktop" directory on your
- boot drive
-
- Ex. cd C:\Desktop
-
- - delete the "Safe" directory
-
- If you've rebuilt your desktop at some earlier point,
- your current active desktop may be named something like
- "Desktop1" or "Desktop2" instead.
-
- 3. Several Objects must be deleted from the Templates folder. Like
- the Safe object mentioned earlier, these objects can not be
- deleted from the desktop.
-
- ===================================================================
- ================== Special Filesystem Note ======================
- ===================================================================
- The objects will have different names, depending on whether
- your boot drive filesystem is formatted as HPFS or FAT. Some HPFS
- names have spaces in the middle of their names, so the names must
- be surrounded by double quotes when they are passed to a command
- such as ERASE. The names in these categories will be listed with
- the quotes, such as "LT Query". Use the quotes when you enter the
- command, i.e.
-
- ERASE "LT Query"
- ====================================================================
-
- - open an OS/2 Window
- - cd into your current active "Desktop" directory on your
- boot drive
-
- cd C:\Desktop
-
- - cd into the Templates subdirectory
-
- on FAT: cd Template
- on HPFS: cd Templates
-
- - Erase the following files
-
- FAT HPFS
- ___ ____
-
- Clipdata.BMP Clipdata.BMP
- LT_Query "LT Query"
- LT_Quer1 "LT Query Result"
-
- - Erase the following directories and their contents
-
- FAT HPFS
- ___ ____
-
- LT_Quer2 "LT Query Sequencer"
- Light_Ta "Light Table"
-
- NOTE: After you have removed the objects from the Templates
- folder, open the Templates folder on your Desktop to verify
- that the objects have been removed.
-
- 4. Delete the following objects from the Ultimedia Tools folder:
-
- - Audio Browser
- - Image Browser
- - Story Browser
- - Text Browser
- - Video Browser
- - Query Editor
- - Query Result Viewer
- - Workplace Tutorial
- - Workplace README
-
- NOTE: You can delete the entire folder if it only contains
- these items. Other IBM Ultimedia products (such as Ultimedia
- Builder/2 and Ultimedia Perfect Image/2) share the same Ultimedia
- Tools folder, in which case deleting the entire folder is not
- appropriate!
-
- 5. Delete the Sample Light Table folder from the Desktop, which is
- created during Workplace/2 installation.
-
- 6. Remove all references to D:\WORKPLAC\xxx found in CONFIG.SYS. Do NOT
- remove the entire item (e.g. don't delete LIBPATH line), simply
- remove any D:\WORKPLAC item. PLEASE consult OS/2 documentation
- about CONFIG.SYS semantics if you are unfamiliar with them - making
- mistakes in this file can cause your system not to boot. Save a
- copy of CONFIG.SYS somewhere safe before you make the changes.
-
- NOTE: Two CONFIG.SYS variables may be deleted entirely. The
- first variable, "WORKPLAC", should go. The second,
- "UMPATH", should be deleted if it only has a reference to
- D:\WORKPLAC\xxx, as in:
-
- SET UMPATH=D:\WORKPLAC\DATA;
-
- Other products, like Ultimedia Builder/2, also use the
- variable UMPATH. If it had been installed before Workplace,
- the UMPATH variable on your system would look like:
-
- SET UMPATH=D:\WORKPLAC\DATA;D:\BUILDER\DATA;
-
- In this case, the value should look like this after
- modification:
-
- SET UMPATH=D:\BUILDER\DATA;
-
- 7. Reboot the system (Necessary to free busy DLL's for removal)
-
- 8. Remove the program directory and all it's contents (D:\WORKPLAC)
-
-
- DEINSTALLING IOPROCS
- ____________________
-
- After installing multiple Ultimedia products (Builder/2, Perfect
- Image/2, or Workplace/2) and then deciding to deinstall one or
- more of the products, you need to run the MMIOINI program
- to deregister certain I/O procedures. To run MMIOINI:
-
- Icon:
- 1. Open the Drives folder
- 2. Open the drive where you installed the product
- 3. Open the product folder (default name: WORKPLAC)
- 4. Open the INSTALL folder
- 5. Double-click on the MMIOINI.EXE icon
-
- Command line:
- 1. Change to the product directory (default name: WORKPLAC)
- 2. Change to the INSTALL directory
- 3. Type: MMIOINI.EXE
-
- The MMIO Procs Install/Remove screen appears. To deregister a
- procedure, click on the checkbox next to it. The I/O procedures
- that should be deregistered are: The PCX I/O procedure, the
- TARGA I/O procedure, and all I/O procedures relating to TIFF.
- Then deinstall the product(s). If you still have Ultimedia
- products remaining on your system after the deinstall, you
- should run MMIOINI again to reregister (click on checkbox to
- check) the same I/O procedures listed above. Failing to do this
- will yield unpredictable results from the remaining Ultimedia
- products that are still installed.
-
-
-
-
- IMPROVING TUTORIAL'S PERFORMANCE
- ________________________________
-
-
- o It is a recommendation to run the tutorial on a 486 machine
- with at least 12 megabytes of memory.
-
- o The tutorial runs much faster if you can copy it to your hard
- drive. If you want to do this, you'll need about 60 megabytes
- of available storage on your hard drive. To do so:
-
- 1. Copy the TUTOR directory from the Workplace/2 CD-ROM with the
- following contents.
-
- - STARTWP.CMD
- - the subdirectories: UBLIB, WPTUTOR
- - the subdirectory WPSAMPLE if you want to do Practice
-
- 2. Change to the TUTOR directory on your hard drive.
-
- 3. Enter the command: STARTWP
-
- o The following is an example of how performance of the tutorial
- might be improved if running on a 486 machine with 12 megabytes
- of memory. This example assumes that the 486 machine has
- a new installation of OS/2 2.1 and that the CONFIG.SYS file
- has the default values for a 12 megabyte machine. This example
- presents a temporary CONFIG.SYS to be used only with the
- tutorial. Upon completion of the tutorial, the original
- CONFIG.SYS should be restored. All of this is explained in the
- text below. The effect of changes such as these are dependent
- upon your system hardware and software configuration, and upon
- other applications that will be running in your environment.
-
- In this example, the CONFIG.SYS file is assumed to be on the C
- drive.
-
- 1. Save a copy of the original CONFIG.SYS as this file needs to be
- restored after running the tutorials.
-
- COPY C:\CONFIG.SYS C:\CONFIG.OLD
-
- 2. Change the following values in CONFIG.SYS. For further
- information on these OS/2 variables, consult the OS/2 help
- facility.
-
- BUFFERS=80
-
- This variable is in all CONFIG.SYS files, its
- default value is 30.
-
- DISKCACHE=64,LW,32
-
- This variable is in all CONFIG.SYS files, the
- default value depends on the amount of available
- memory and the type of filesystem format, FAT or
- HPFS.
-
- Your CONFIG.SYS may have other values included
- with the DISKCACHE variable. The important
- parameters in this example are "64" (block size)
- and "32" (threshold)
-
- PRIORITY=ABSOLUTE
-
- This variable is usually not in CONFIG.SYS, add
- this line at the end of the file.
-
- 3. Shutdown and reboot the system
-
- 4. Upon completion of the tutorials, copy the modified CONFIG.SYS
- to CONFIG.TUT.
-
- COPY C:\CONFIG.SYS C:\CONFIG.TUT
-
- 5. Restore the orignal CONFIG.SYS which you saved in the first
- step.
-
- COPY C:\CONFIG.OLD C:\CONFIG.SYS
-
- 6. Shutdown and reboot the system
-
-
-
-
- TRADEMARK INFORMATION
- _____________________
-
-
- Terms which have been marked with a (R) in this document are
- registered trademarks as follows:
-
- IBM and OS/2 are registered trademarks of
- International Business Machines Corperation.
-
- TARGA is a registered trademark of Truevision, Inc.
-
-
- Terms which have been marked with a (TM) in this document are
- trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation as follows:
-
- Ultimedia