These are notes for installing Green Globs & Graphing Equations, PC Version 3.

System requirements:

You will need 4 MB of disk space, less if Escape! or Relating Graphs to Events are 
already installed.

You need a monitor with screen resolution at least 1024 by 768.  The graphing displays 
in Green Globs.exe use most of a 1024 by 768 screen.  These windows assume a display 
DPI setting of Normal (96 DPI), which is the default.  (In Windows XP, you see the 
DPI setting by choosing Control Panel  Display  Settings  Advanced  General.)  If 
you need a screen resolution or DPI setting which the current program does not 
display well, contact us.

Files:

You need two files to install this software:

PC Green Globs & Graphing Equations.zip  a compressed file that can be 
downloaded from the updates page of www.greenglobs.net.  It contains the application 
file Green Globs.exe and associated run-time support files.

Green Globs Records.ggg - a document file that contains your individual license 
information.  Green Globs.exe will not run unless you put a copy of Green Globs 
Records.ggg in the same folder as Green Globs.exe.

PC Green Globs & Graphing Equations.zip also includes these two files:

Read Me Install Green Globs.txt - a text file about installing the PC version.

Manual for PC Green Globs & Graphing Equations.pdf  - a teachers manual for the 
PC version.  

The above two files are available without running the installation program.  The 
installer does not do anything with them.  You can copy them like other files in 
Windows to another folder.  (If you want, you can copy them to the same folder you 
designate for the installer.)

Installing Green Globs is a two-step process:

Step 1.  Run file setup.exe.

You will be asked to select or create a folder where you want the installation program to 
place Green Globs.exe.  Green Globs.exe will run in any folder, as long as a copy of 
Green Globs Records.ggg is put in the same folder (see Step 2 below).  The remaining 
files in the package are support files for running Green Globs.exe, which is a Visual 
Basic 6 (32-bit) application.  The installation program will automatically place those 
support files in the appropriate Windows or System folders, if needed.  (File 
SETUP.LST lists where each file goes.)  The installation program will not replace an 
existing file on your disk with an older version.

After this step, you will have these two files in the folder you designated during 
installation:

Green Globs.exe - an application file whose title screen says Green Globs & 
Graphing Equations.  The file name is shortened for convenience in Windows.

ST6UNST.LOG  a text file created automatically by the installation program during 
installation to record which files were installed in which folders.  It is used by the 
Windows Control Panel if you uninstall  Green Globs.  (If the folder already had a file 
with that name from installing previous applications, the file name will be 
ST6UNST.000 or ST6UNST.001, etc.)


Step 2.  Copy your file Green Globs Records.ggg to the same folder where you 
installed Green Globs.exe. 

Green Globs Records.ggg is a document file (called a Records file) that contains your 
license information displayed on the title screen.   The highest scoring games in Green 
Globs and Tracker are saved in Records file (files with extension .ggg).  Teacher 
Options  in Green Globs.exe lets you create more of these Records files;  each Records 
file that you create contains a copy of your individual license information.

After Step 2 above, installation is complete.  Teachers should put a password on their 
Records file(s) before students use them.  See the section Teacher Options Password 
in Getting Started, the first chapter in the manual.

If the folder you designated for installation is one where users do not have write 
access, you can start Green Globs.exe, select Teacher Options, and choose the option 
to create new Records files in folders where users do have write access

See the first chapter, Getting Started, in Green Globs Manual PC.pdf for more 
information about file name extensions, converting old format Records and List files, 
creating shortcuts, different ways to start Green Globs.exe, and uninstalling.

A special note if you are installing more than one application to be placed in the 
Green Globs group on the Start menu:  in Windows XP (and maybe in other versions 
of Windows), the Start menu may not list the files in the Green Globs group in the 
order you installed them.  If you want the files to be listed in the order you installed 
them, it appears that you can get that by selecting each application from the Start 
menu immediately after you install the application, before you install the next 
application in the Green Globs group.

For licensing or contact information, please see www.greenglobs.net. 
Dave Kibbey

