Welcome to Aporia! Aporia is a powerful object oriented user interface for Windows 2.x and 3.0. It lets you organize your work simply and clearly by providing a variety of advanced features that make its icon interface really work. The heart of Aporia is the concept of tools. A tool is not just a pretty picture, it also has enhanced abilities. It can be dropped onto another to be run, or chained together to form a new tool. A tool can store other tools letting you run multiple programs with one mouse click. A tool can size and position the programs it runs. And, tools are fully integrated into a powerful file management scheme. Windows 3 is great and Aporia is a powerful enhancement to the Windows 3 environment. ------------------------------------------------------------- Aporia Can Do Things That The File And Program Manager Can't. -------------------------------------------------------------- INSTALLING and RUNNING Aporia ----------------------------- From the Aporia floppy disk run the program: SETUP_AP.EXE This program installs and sets up Aoria for first-time users and for those updating from earlier versions of Aporia. This program copies Aporia to your Windows directory, and for Windows 3 users installs a library of images and can make Aporia your shell (replacing the Program Manager). To run Aporia under Windows: ---------------------------- If you choose to install Aporia as the Windows shell just run Windows as you normally do and Aporia will come up automatically. If you have not installed Aporia as the Windows shell at the DOS prompt type: WIN APORIA ORDERING INFORMATION -------------------- To registration your copy of Aporia or to order additional copies contact NewTools at: NewTools P.O. Box 3269 Church Street Station New York, NY 10008-3269 (800) 924-0018 Complete ordering information is provided in the file ORDER.TXT. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE -------------------- For technical assistance call: (718) 789-5980 As always, we welcome your comments, criticisms, and your feedback regarding features you would like to see in future Aporia releases. APORIA DISTRIBUTION FILES ------------------------- SETUP_AP.EXE The Setup program for Aporia. This program copies Aporia to your Windows directory, and for Windows 3 users installs a library of images and can make Aporia your shell (replacing the Program Manager). APORIA.EXE The Aporia executable program. APLIB.EXE Aporia dynamic link library. IMAGEMKR.EXE Create Aporia icons with this tool. APORIA.MAN* This is the Aporia manual text. This file contains everything you need to use Aporia. The printed version, available with the $50 registration, is fully illustrated. APORIA.INT This is the tutorial section of the manual in Microsoft Write format. It takes you step by step through the basic operation of Aporia. It is available online when you double-click on the Help Tool, which is the icon with the question mark. NOTES.TXT The default Aporia note file. CHANGES.TXT* A list of changes in this release. AP_READ.ME* This important information text that you are currently reading. Always read this file first. ORDER.TXT The Order Form for Aporia. Please use this form when you order. AIF_16.EXE Self extracting file containing Aporia image files for the basic Aporia tools and for programs supplied with Windows 3.0. This file contains image files for use systems running in 16 color EGA, VGA, and SuperVGA display modes under Windows 3. AIF_256.EXE This is a self extracting compressed file containing Aporia image files for the basic Aporia tools and for programs supplied with Windows 3.0. This file contains image files for use systems running in 256 color SuperVGA display modes under Windows 3. APORIA.GRP A Program Manager group file for Aporia. AP_ICONS.EXE Self extracting file containing the icons for the basic Aporia tools in Windows 3.0 icon (ICO) format. Note that some of the above files (marked with *) are user manual and introductory text. If you are short on disk space, you might want to delete them, from your Windows directory after you have become acquainted with Aporia. TO GET ON-LINE HELP FOR APORIA: ------------------------------- Put the mouse cursor on the question mark icon (the Help tool) and click twice quickly with the left mouse button. To get help on any of the Aporia tools (icons) drag them onto the Help tool. LATE BREAKING PROGRAM INFORMATION --------------------------------- The following useful information in not included in the user manual. * Creating your own icons with Paintbrush: Here's an easy way to create your own icons using Paintbrush and the Image Maker program supplied with Aporia. 1. Run both Paintbrush and Image Maker. 2. From the Paintbrush Options menu select the Image Attributes command and set the image size to 33 by 33 PELS. 3. From the Paintbrush File menu select the New command. 4. Draw your icon in the Paintbrush window. 5. In Image Maker select the Capture Icon command and click the mouse over your the icon you drew in Paintbrush. 6. Your icon will appear in Image Maker and then can be saved to an Aporia image file. * Problems installing on 3Com networks: Some users have had problems running the Aporia setup program on some 3Com networks. If you are running on a 3Com network and have problems with the setup program trying running it while you are NOT logged on to the network. Once setup has run Aporia should work fine with your network. * Registered users can specify text to appear when the screen blanker is up in place of their registration name. To do this enter the following line in the Aporia section of your WIN.INI file: BlankName= Where is the text you want displayed. For example if you work for Acme Scrub Brush Ltd. you could add the line: BlankName=Acme Scrub Brush Ltd. This feature is NOT available for unregistered users. LIST OF IMAGE FILES PROVIDED WITH APORIA: ----------------------------------------- Aporia Icons (14) ------------ Desk Tool desk.aif Dir Tool dir.aif Copy Tool copy.aif Trash Tool trash.aif Tree Tool tree.aif Hide Tool hide.aif Notes Tool notes.aif Help Tool help.aif Size Tool size.aif Options Tool opt.aif Aporia aporia.aif Image Maker imagemkr.aif Tool tool.aif File file.aif Windows 3.0 Bundled Apps (20) ------------------------ File Manager winfile.aif Program Manager progman.aif Clipboard clipbrd.aif Control Panel control.aif Setup setup.aif Print Manager printman.aif DOS Prompt dos.aif Write write.aif Paintbrush pbrush.aif Terminal terminal.aif Notepad notepad.aif Recorder recorder.aif Cardfile cardfile.aif Calendar calendar.aif Calculator calc.aif Clock clock.aif PIF Editor pifedit.aif Windows Help winhelp.aif Solitaire sol.aif Reversi reversi.aif Windows SDK Apps (8) ---------------- Font Editor fontedit.aif Dialog Editor dialog.aif SDK Paint sdkpaint.aif Zoom Utility zoomin.aif Heap Walker heapwalk.aif Shaker shaker.aif CodeView cvw.aif Spy spy.aif Popular Windows Programs (10) ------------------------ Excel excel.aif WinWord winword.aif Almanac almanac.aif SuperBase2 sb2w.aif SuperBase4 sb4w.aif MS Project winproj.aif Ami Pro amipro.aif IBM Current current.aif Corel Draw corel.aif ToolBook tbook.aif