Copyright: Copyright ©1994 PolyVision Software
Citation: Copyright ©1994 PolyVision Software


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Installing the TipTap Lite Program

©1994 PolyVision Software

The installation of TipTap Lite is very straight forward. Click on any area in the picture below for information concerning that topic. For a more in-depth discussion on installation (system) requirements and what occurs during installation see Setup Requirements.


TipTap Directory
TipTap Directory: Directory where the TipTap program files are to reside. The default is c:\TipTap but you may choose another directory.


Current Directory
Current Directory: Indicates the directory the installation utility is working from and where the files it is to install are located.


Monologue Directory
Monologue Directory: Indicates the directory where Monologue for Windows resides. TipTap Lite is mainly interested in knowing where to find fb_spch.dll. Be sure that Monologue is included in your path statement in your AutoExec.Bat file.


WinG Library
Microsoft WinG 1.0: Windows graphics library released by Microsoft to increase the performance of graphical output to the screen. Soon to be incorporated as part of Windows 95.


Monologue Compatibility
Monologue Compatibility: Indicates whether or not Monologue for Windows is available on your system and if so to allow TipTap Lite to use the speech engine. Monologue for WINDOWS is distributed with Sound Blaster and Media Vision sound cards. See Monologue for Windows for more details.


TipTap
TipTap: An interactive, multimedia, educational tool designed to present the relationships between the vocalized sounds, letters, words, computer interface, handwriting, objects and ideas.


TipTap Symbols
TipTap Symbols: A symbol font used by TipTap Lite to give clean output for objects that relate to words given in the spelling exercises. Required for printing. This gives high quality output on dot matrix, laser, and PostScript printers.

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Note: Unless you're doing a reinstall, both font boxes should be checked.


TipTap Gothic
TipTap Gothic: Font used by TipTap Lite to display words and print the writing exercises. Required for display and printing.

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Note: Unless you're doing a reinstall, both font boxes should be checked.


Help File
Help: Brings you to this Help file for your information.


Cancel Button
Cancel Installation: Closes installation program without doing anything.


Begin Button
Begin Installation: Starts the process of installing the TipTap Lite program files onto your hard drive.


Monologue for Windows

Monologue for Windows is a speech engine created by First Byte, Inc. and is distributed with the Sound Blaster and Media Vision sound cards. TipTap Lite can interface with this engine if installed on your system. It uses this to say the words in the Word Exercises. If unavailable, TipTap ignores saying the words but still allows you type the Word Exercises.

Monologue Setup

Due to the nature of Windows and the way Monologue must be setup, you must have the path for Monologue in your autoexec.bat file. Also if when installing TipTap you claimed it to be there when it was not, Windows will not allow you to start TipTap. You will receive an error message stating that one of the files needed to run the program is not available. To get around this, the installation utility installs an alternate version of tt_say.dll that does not require Monologue to be present and allows the program to run. You should delete tt_say.dll and rerun the installation utility if necessary.

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First Byte and Monologue for Windows are both trademarks of First Byte, Inc.


Setup Requirements

The installation program automatically sets up the TipTap Lite onto your computer based on your choices.

Minimum Requirements:

Windows 3.1 or higher installed

VGA 640x480 display with a 256 color palette

8 bit sound system to play both midi and wave data

(Included)Microsoft WinG Windows Graphics Software Library 1.0

(Optional) Monologue for Windows

Installation:

The installation utility considers Windows to be located on your harddrive at C:\Windows. If it is not, you should inform it so by going to the menu Set Windows directory.

The install.exe utility places the file ctl3dv2.dll into your Windows\System directory if it has not been previously installed..

Selecting "Start Installation" from install's menu runs pvsetup.pvl. It allows you to create a directory called TipTap (or the alternative directory name you may have chosen) and installs tt1.exe, tt_say.dll, tt_vox.dll and tiptap.hlp into that directory. The animation files are stored in the subdirectory Anim. The lesson files are placed in the subdirectory Lessons.

It then installs the two fonts tiptaps.ttf (TipTap Symbols) and tiptapr.ttf (TipTap Gothic).  These are then placed into the Windows\System directory and are then available to the program. It also installs the Microsoft WinG software libraries into the Windows\System directory and informs system.ini that the device is available.

Based on the installation the tiptapl.ini file is created in the Windows directory.

After all files have been set in place, it finally creates a Windows' Program Manager group called PolyVision  and places two icons in that group:

the TipTap Lite icon

and an icon for the WinG Text file which explains more about the system.

You should reboot your system for WinG to take effect.

That's all there is to it. After this you may begin the TipTap Lite program. After successful installation, you may delete all the files in your temporary directory.


ctl3dv2.dll
ctl3dv2.dll: this is a redistributable file provided by Microsoft for Windows. It is used to give dialog windows a three-dimensional look. Current documentation indicates that when the final version of Windows 95 (Chicago) is released, all dialog boxes will have this design. PolyVision is providing it now to bring you the future today.