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What is Drag And View
What is Drag And View?

Drag And View is three programs in one.  It’s a file viewing program, a graphics conversion and manipulation program and a screen capture program.

As a file viewing program Drag And View displays the contents of files on your computer.  Drag And View can display graphics files, spreadsheets, databases and word processing files.  In addition Drag And View will play Windows sound files and video files.

As a graphics conversion and manipulation program, Drag And View will let you convert between 17 different bitmapped graphics formats.  You can also modify the color depth or the look and colors of the graphic.

As a screen capture program, Drag And View will let you capture windows, rectangles or the entire screen of your computer and save the capture in up to 17 different graphics formats.

Drag And View can also display World Wide Web HTML files provided you have Microsoft Internet Explorer installed on your computer.


Installing Drag And View

Installation of Drag And View is very easy with the setup program provided. Run SETUP.EXE from the Win 95 Control Panel or the Win NT program manager.

The Setup program will ask you which drive and directory you want to install Drag And View to.  There’s a browse button provided to help you find the appropriate path.  If you enter a path name that doesn’t exist, Drag And View will give you the option to create that path.  After entering the pathname, Drag And View will install the files and add itself to your Start Menu or create a program group.


Uninstalling Drag And View

Under Windows 95 you can choose to uninstall Drag And View by choosing Add/Remove Programs from the Control Panel and then choosing to remove Drag And View for Win 32.


Viewing Files

Highlight the file that you want to view in Windows Explorer or and file manager that supports shell extensions and right click on the file.  From the menu that pops up choose Drag And View.  The Drag And View program will run and open a window displaying the file that you right clicked on.

You can select more than one file and right click on them and Drag And View will open a window for each file selected.

Another way to run Drag And View is to create a shortcut to it on your desktop and drag files to the shortcut.  Drag And View will display each file that you drag to the shortcut.

If Drag And View can recognize the file format that you are viewing then it will say what kind of format you are displaying in the status bar at the bottom.


Converting and Manipulating Graphics Files
Converting and Manipulating Graphics Files.

To convert a graphics file to another format, right click on the file in Explorer and choose Drag And View from the popup menu.  Drag And View will open a window displaying the file.

Click on the Save As button or choose Save As from the File menu.  The dialog box that comes up will have a “Save as Type” field at the bottom.  Choose from 17 different formats to save the file and then choose OK.  The file will be converted and saved in the new format.  Some graphics formats don’t allow as many colors as others so the color depth might have to be changed when converting files between different formats.

When viewing bitmapped graphics files there are three menu options on the main menu bar. Image, Colors and Zoom.

The Image option allows you to flip or reverse the image or add special effects to the image.  Many of the effects options will open a dialog box where you can see what the effect will look like before applying the effect to the original file.  In addition, there is an undo option under the Edit menu so you can undo the last effect.  The effects that you are applying to the file are only in memory.  If you want to save the effects, choose the Save or Save To buttons.

The Colors option allows you to manipulate the colors of the file being viewed.  You can convert the file to a gray scale or increase and decrease the number of colors in the file in addition to doing other color manipulations.  Any color changes will not be saved until you click on the Save or Save To button and there is also an Undo option under the Edit menu if you don’t like the changes that you’ve made.

The Zoom Option allows you to enlarge or shrink the picture.


Doing Screen Captures

With Drag And View you can capture the contents of any window, any rectangle that you define, or the entire screen.  Before you can perform screen captures you first must define a hot key that you will use when you want to capture the screen.

From the Capture menu choose Set Hot Key and enter the hot key that you want to use.  You can always redefine your hot key at a later time if you want to change it.

If you just want to do screen captures with Drag And View you can just run it from the Start Menu.

Capturing the Full Screen.

Choose “Full Screen” from the Capture menu.  Drag And View will minimize itself on the Task Bar so it won’t be showing in your capture.  If you restore Drag And View it will turn the capture option off.  Setup the screen to look the way that you want and then enter the hot key that you previously defined.  Drag And View will restore itself and open up a window with the screen capture.

Capturing a Window

Choose “Window” from the Capture menu. .  Drag And View will minimize itself on the Task Bar so it won’t be showing in your capture.  If you restore Drag And View it will turn the capture option off.  Press the hot key once you are ready to start capturing.  After the hot key is pressed, each window that you move the mouse over will be outlined showing you the window that is currently capturable. If you want to capture a window with a caption bar and toolbar you will probably have to move the mouse to the edge of the window to get it outlined.  When you have the desired window outlined, click the mouse on it and Drag And View will restore itself and open a window displaying the captured window.

Capturing a Rectangle

Choose “Area” from the capture menu.  Drag And View will minimize itself on the Task Bar so it won’t be showing in your capture.  If you restore Drag And View it will turn the capture option off.  Press the hot key when you are ready to start.  Move the mouse to the upper left corner of the rectangle that you want to capture.  The cursor will change to a small cross.  Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse to the lower right corner of the rectangle that you want to capture.  As you drag the mouse, you will see a rectangle drawn on the screen showing the area that you are capturing.  When you get the rectangle that you want, let go of the mouse button.  Drag And View will restore itself and open a window displaying the captured rectangle.

Saving Screen Captures

Once you’ve performed a screen capture the picture only exists in memory.  If you want to save a copy of it for future use, click on the Save as button and choose a bitmapped format to save it to.


Other Features in Drag And View

Attach To

The Attach To function makes Drag And View act like part of Explorer.  This option is in effect by default but you can turn it off from the View menu.  When Attach To is on, and you are viewing files by right clicking on them, Drag And View will attach itself to the right side or bottom of Explorer.  If you move Explorer, Drag And View will move itself too.  When Drag And View is attached to Explorer, it will turn off the toolbar so you have more viewing room.

You can have Drag And View attach to the right side of Explorer, the bottom of Explorer or to either side depending which side has more room.  These options are available form the View menu.

If you don’t want Drag And View to be attached to Explorer, then uncheck the Attach To option from the View menu.

Reusing Windows

Different users use Drag And View differently and Drag And View tries to adapt to all users.  When you’ve selected multiple files, Drag And View will open up a window for each one of them.  Other users like to view one file at a time.  When you run Drag And View to view one file, Drag And View will open up just one window and expand it to fill the screen.  If you highlight a single new file and choose Drag And View from the popup menu, Drag And View will place the file in the same window as the file you were previously viewing instead of opening up another window.  This will save on memory and improve Drag And View’s performance.  If you don’t want this option, then uncheck Reuse Windows from the View menu.

Tile Windows, Cascade Windows, Maximize Windows

When you use Drag And View to view multiple files at one time, you have the option of how you want the windows to be placed.  You can have them tiled, cascaded or zoomed to fill the parent window.  When you view them as Maximized, you can use the arrow buttons on the tool bar to scroll through them.

Selecting and Copying to the Clipboard

Selecting areas of views to copy to the clipboard is very easy with Drag And View.  Simply place the mouse pointer at the beginning of the area that you want to copy.  Then press the left button and drag the mouse to the end of the area that you want to copy, still holding down the left button until you are finished selecting.  You can also select the entire file by choosing “Select All” from the “Edit” menu.  To copy a selected area to the clipboard, click on the copy button or press Ctl+C or Alt+C and the selected area will be copied.  Text, spreadsheet or database files will be copied as text.  All graphics files will be copied as bitmaps.

All viewers allow selecting and copying except the WAV file player, the HTML viewer and the Hex viewer.

Pasting from the Clipboard

Drag And View allows you to paste bitmaps and text from the clipboard.  When the clipboard contains a bitmap or ASCII text, the Paste button and the Paste option on the Edit menu will be available.  When you choose this option Drag And View will open up a new window displaying the clipboard contents.

Editing Text Files

You can edit text files of any size.  Click on the Edit button or choose Edit from the View menu and the viewer will turn into an editor.  You can save your work by choosing Save As from the file menu.  If the clipboard contains text you can paste it into a file you are editing as well as a different window.  If you want to paste it into the current file,  choose Paste\Paste into Current Document from the Edit menu.

Launching Files

To launch a file, click on the Launch button and Drag And View will run the program associated with the file that you are currently viewing.  If you are viewing a data file or a picture, Drag And View will query Windows to find out the name of the program that you have associated with the file.  If there is an associated program, Drag And View will run that program and pass to it the file that you are currently viewing as a command line argument.  For example, if you are viewing a document from Microsoft Word for Windows, Drag And View will run Word for Windows and have it load up the document that you are currently viewing.  If you don't have a program associated with the file, Drag And View will not be able to run any program but will let you browse through your programs to choose one.  When choosing a program to launch, you will be given the opportunity to make the association permanent.

If the file you are viewing is a program, Drag And View will run it when you choose this command.

Viewing files as ASCII or Hex

In addition to displaying files in specialized viewers, you can display any file Drag And View’s ASCII or Hex viewer.  Just choose ASCII or Hex from the View menu and Drag And View will change the view accordingly.

Goto a Cell, Record or Hex Address

The Goto button will only be active when viewing a database or spreadsheet, or in the Hex viewer.

For database viewing, this button will open up a dialog box where you can enter a specific record to go to and view.

For spreadsheet viewing, this button will open up a dialog box where you can enter a specific cell to go to.

In the Hex viewer, this button will open up a dialog box where you can enter a specific hexadecimal offset into the file that the viewer will show.

Searching for Text

Choose the Find button of click on Find from the Edit menu to search for text in all views except the graphic and WAV viewers. In all viewers except the Hex viewer you can specify that your search be case sensitive.  In the Hex viewer you can search in ASCII as well as hexadecimal.

Choosing this command will open up a dialog box where you can enter your search information.  Choosing OK will find the first match in the file.  Choosing OK each time will find each subsequent match.

Printing Files

To print a file click on the Print button or choose Print from the File manu.  This will bring up a dialog box from which you can print a file.  If part of the file is selected, you will be able to print just the selection or the entire file.  Spreadsheet, text and database files will be printed in the printers default font.  Graphic files will be printed the way they are displayed. The WAV file player and the Hex viewer do not allow printing.

Playing Multimedia Files

The play button will be available when you are viewing a file that can be played.  Files that can be played are video (AVI) files, Sound (WAV and MID) files and animated GIF files.  Clicking to this button will play the file.

Zooming Files

Use this option to quickly zoom in the view of your file.  This command will be available with all files except WAV files and the Hex display.

Displaying Files with Multiple Pages

Some spreadsheets and graphics may have contain multiple pages.  When viewing one of these files, Drag And View will have a Page option on the main menu bar.  From the Page menu you can choose what page to view.


Drag And View DWG

Drag And View DWG is a special version of Drag And View that displays AutoCAD drawing files in addition to other formats.

Drag And View DWG contains special features especially suited to displaying AutoCAD drawings.

Auto Zoom

This option is available from the Zoom menu. Create a rectangle by dragging the mouse with the left button pressed from one point to another.  When you let go of the left button, the rectangle will be zoomed to the entire window automatically.

Zoom Selection

Create a rectangle by dragging the mouse with the left button pressed from one point to another.  Then choose Zoom Selection from the Zoom menu.  The selected area will zoom to fill the screen.  If you have Auto Zoom turned on, this will happen automatically.

Zoom Extents

This option will zoom the view to the drawing’s extents.

Model Space/Paper Space

This option toggles the view between Model and Paper space.

Background Color

This option enables you to choose between black and white background colors


File Formats Supported by Drag And View

File formats supported in this version of Drag And View are:

ASCII

Hex

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word for Windows, including Office 97

Microsoft Works

Microsoft Works for Windows, including version 3

Windows Write

Word Perfect

Word Perfect for Windows, including version 7

Ami Pro

Q&A Write

dBase

FoxPro

Clipper

Excel, including Excel version 6

Lotus 123

Symphony

Quattro, Quattro Pro

Quattro Pro for Windows

Windows Metafile (WMF)

Windows Bitmap (BMP)

Icon File (ICO)

PCX

GIF

Interlaced GIF

Animated GIF

TIF

TIF/LZW

JPEG

Progressive JPEG

TGA

WinFax

Compuserve PNG

Photo Shop PSD

MacPaint

DCF

Kodak Photo CD

Kodak Flash Pix

ZIP

LZH

True Type Font (TTF)


Posterize
Postereize (Image Menu)

This option creates a poster effect on a picture by quantizing the bitmap's colors to a specified number of color levels per plane. For example, two levels means two of red, two of green, and two of blue.


Mosaic effect
Mosaic (Image Menu)

This option creates a mosaic effect by dividing the picture into little squares. To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Averaging Pixel Colors
Average (Image Menu)

This option changes the color of each pixel to the average color of pixels in its neighborhood.  This is similar to Average but it is used for noise reduction rather than blurring. To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Median Pixel Colors
Median (Image Menu)

This option changes the color of each pixel to the median color of pixels in its neighborhood.  This creates a blur effect. To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Sharpen Picture
Sharpen (Image Menu)

This option increases or decreases the sharpness of the image. To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Emboss Effect
Emboss (Image Menu)

This option creates an Emboss effect.  To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Edge Enhance
Edge Enhance (Image Menu)

This option will enhance the edges of the picture making it look sharper. This option will only be available for bitmaps with color depth of 16 bits or more. To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Halftone Effect
Halftone (Colors Menu)

This option converts a picture to a halftoned bitmap. A halftoned bitmap is a 1-bit bitmap that has been dithered for black and white printing or display. To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Gray Scale Effect
Gray Scale (Colors Menu)

This option converts the picture to an 8-bit gray scale picture.  To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Invert Colors
Invert Colors (Colors Menu)

This option inverts the colors in a picture.  To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Color Resolution
Color Resolution (Colors Menu)

This option allows you to change the pixel depth or the amount of colors the image can contain.  Any picture with 16 bits or more per pixel can contain any color.  Pixel depths of less than 16 bits per pixel require a pallete of fixed colors and some sort of dithering to bring the colors to a nearest match.

The Windows palette is the palette that Windows uses.  An optimized palette is a palette that is optimized for the colors in the picture so the least amount of dithering will be required.  The Netscape palette is the fixed palette that Netscape and Internet Explorer use.

A number of different dithering methods are given to enable you to pick one that gives the best resolution of the picture.

To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Brightness/Contrast
Brightness/Contrast (Colors Menu)

This option allows you to change the brightness and contrast of an image.  A thumbnail of the image is provided in the dialog box so you can experiment with different effects.  To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Hue/Saturation
Hue/Saturation (Colors Menu)

This option allows you to change the hue and saturation of an image.  The hue and saturation controls work the same way they do on a color TV. A thumbnail of the image is provided in the dialog box so you can experiment with different effects.  To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Gamma Correction
Gamma Correct (Colors Menu)

Use this option to change the intensity of colors in a bitmap.  A thumbnail of the image is provided in the dialog box so you can experiment with different effects.  To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


Histogram Equalize
Histogram Equalize (Colors Menu)

This option can be used to bring out details in the dark areas of an image.  A thumbnail of the image is provided in the dialog box so you can experiment with different effects.  To undo this effect, choose Undo from the Edit menu.


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