Copyright: Copyright © 1996, Dvorak Development


Bronco
This region is currently scrolling Sports headlines.

By right-clicking on a specific headline as it slowly

scrolls downward, "Bronco finds reality wildest

ride of all", for instance, NavSprite will display a

short summary of the article:

"John Elway, quarterback of the

 Denver Broncos, finds running his

 five car dealerships to be..."

The user can then select Fetch if the story looks

interesting and NavSprite will retrieve the story

on its next online pass.


Bug fixes in v1.8
Features and Fixes in NavCIS v1.8

The following features have been added to NavCIS v1.8:

 2-pass mail allows you to scan your e-mail headers before picking up your e-mail.  This allows you to choose only the e-mail you recognize.  This feature has been added because of the prolific increase in junk mail.  Now e-mail messages that you don't want to read can be deleted without you needing to download them.  Why pay for other people's junk mail?

 "Hot"URLs (Web addresses) allow you to easily check out a referenced website by simply clicking on the underlined URL.  NavCIS will launch your favorite web browser and take you directly to that site.

 Improved database access and performance makes NavCIS v1.8 a bit faster and more reliable.

 Automatic internet-header stripping, strips unwanted header info from internet routed messages.  Header info can be easily viewed if desired, but is normally not displayed.

 NavSprite support... only NavCIS version 1.8 can communicate with NavSprite.  We added the necessary code to make NavCIS 1.8 (a 16-bit Windows app) work seamlessly with NavSprite (a 32-bit Windows 95 app).

The following fixes have been added to version 1.8:

 Improved "re-sync" code improves connection-maintenance once communications are established with CompuServe.

 Weather access improved.

Now that you've got a good idea of what's in NavCIS 1.8, click on Next to learn about NavSprite...

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Cholera
This region is currently scrolling ENS News

headlines.  By right-clicking on a specific head-

line as it slowly scrolls upward, such as

"Cholera outbreak in Mongolia",

NavSprite will display a short summary:

"Four more people have died in a

 small village near Ulan Bator,

 bringing the total count to 24..."

The user can then select Fetch if the story looks

interesting and NavSprite will retrieve the story

on its next online pass.


CompuServe
CompuServe Inc.

Net change: 1/4

Time:	15:05

Open:	11 7/8

High:	12 1/4

Low:	11 3/4

Vol:	25650


Contents
Dvorak Development proudly announces

NavCIS v1.8 Upgrade with NavSprite

Off-line navigation never looked so good, or did so much, so easily!

Many of you have been asking us for the next version of NavCIS... we're happy to say, "version 1.8 is well under development".  Read this carefully so you can take advantage of the special pre-order upgrade offer and purchase the new version of NavCIS and our new product --NavSprite-- at a substantial discount.

NavCIS v1.8 and NavSprite offer you a powerful combination -- the ability to get your data from CompuServe, and the ability to see that data in a truly useful way.  Imagine being able to keep track of stocks, breaking news headlines, current weather, waiting e-mail, new files released on your favorite forums, and much more, without having to lift a finger!  Better yet, regardless of what you're doing... NavSprite can show you the info you want in a handy mini data window that can be placed wherever you want! Click on the "ticker" window below:

As an added bonus, you are not limited to CompuServe... NavSprite can fetch and display data from great web sources as well... making sure you get the most complete information available in cyberspace.  CompuServe provides excellent access to both internal CompuServe information and Web-based information all in one fast, reliable winsock connection.  Using NavCIS to communicate with the CompuServe host computers, and NavSprite to talk to Internet web sites is seamlessly merged and requires no special work or knowledge on your part.  Add to that NavSprite's incredible ability to animate and display information in a new and visually exciting way, and you've got the information that you want and need without effort or hassle. But before we describe NavSprite in detail, here's some information about the new version of NavCIS... click on [image] Next or press the [  >>  ] button at the top of this Help window to continue...

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ENS
Executive News Service.  This CompuServe area is a great source

for current and breaking news stories.  ENS is a powerful function of

CompuServe because it allows a user to easily define a clipping

service.  For instance, clip all stories from AP, Reuters, and UPI

news feeds concerning "Hillary Clinton" and save them into my

FirstLady folder.  To learn more, GO ENS using WinCIM or

CompuServe 3.0.


Executive News client for ENS

NavSprite uses "clients" to talk to different information sites such as websites, or a news service.  If you are an ENS user, you'll really like the ENS client that's included with NavSprite.  The client goes out and picks up the stories in your personal ENS folder (containing the news stories that have been automatically clipped for you), then NavSprite will then display the headlines for you.  Right-click on any  headline to read the summary or fetch the entire story.

Click on the Back key in the toolbar in this Help window to return to the previous topic.


Fetch
If there was a story associated with

this item, you could download the

whole story by selecting Fetch. It

would be retrieved on the next online

session.


Fetch News Story
If the Ross Perot story sounds interesting once

you've read the summary, you can select Fetch

and NavSprite will retrieve the entire story on its

next online pass, then visually alert you that the

entire story is now available for review.


Go to URL
If there was a URL associated with the item you selected,

choosing this menu item would launch your Web browser

and take you to that URL.


Handy ticker window
This handy "ticker" window is great for displaying a wide variety of useful information that fits your needs... be it stocks, city weather stats, time zone info, or miscellaneous info like home interest rates, the price of gold, or sports scores.  NavSprite updates its data as often as you want it to... every 5 minutes, once an hour, once or twice a day... ensuring that you've got the up-to-the-minute data you need.  You have full control too... you choose what information you want fetched and where the mini-window should display it on your desktop.  You can even choose how the mini-display window looks and what order your data should be shown (stocks, followed by sports, followed by time zones, for instance).  You can even choose the font, size, and color for each data type (stocks in green, sports in white, time zones in light blue for instance).  Besides this handy "ticker" window, NavSprite provides other mini-data windows well suited for headline, e-mail, and forum info.  And there's a cool screen-saver mode as well.


Hot URL
Clicking on any URL address will automatically

launch your favorite Web browser and go

directly to the named website.


IBM
IBM International Business Machines

Net change:	-3/4

Time:	17:01

Open:	114 5/8

High:	115

Low:	113 5/8

Vol:	1529400


Independent region mode
NavSprite can be configured to display its data in independent data windows called "regions".  These independent regions can float anywhere on your desktop or applications, providing visual access to new data as it comes in.  For example, you can see updated stock prices scroll by as soon as they arrive.  These regions remain on top, even when you load and run new applications.  This means you are immediately aware of new information as soon as it comes in since NavSprite continues to fetch data at its regularly scheduled intervals in the background.  These independent regions can be moved or closed at any time.

Below is a screen capture of an actual Windows 95 desktop (in 800x600 mode) showing two independent data regions.  Each region can contain one or more types of information, such as news headlines, followed by e-mail headers.  In this example, the blue region currently has scrolling news headlines, and the purple region (at the bottom of the screen) has weather ticker information.

Click anywhere in the blue "headlines" region to learn more about what you can do with it.  You may wish to maximize the help window to make viewing this large screen easier.  Click in the purple "ticker" region to see an example menu that would normally pop up when you right-click on an item in the region.

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Infonautics
Infonautics Inc.

Net change:	-1/4

Time:	16:17

Open:	5 5/8

High:	6.00

Low:	5 1/8

Vol:	9750


Intro to NavSprite
Introduction to NavSprite

NavSprite (shown in screen-saver mode below) combines both CompuServe information sources (using NavCIS v1.8) and Web-site sources (using built-in NavSprite sub-clients) into a single, exciting interface unlike anything you've seen before.  We call NavSprite an "off-line graphics engine".  It takes information such as your e-mail headers, What's New headers, forum file titles, ENS news, stocks & weather and other info and displays it in exciting new ways using advanced 2D and 3D animated graphics.  Bandwidth stays low while visual appeal increases dramatically.  The information comes from both CompuServe host computers as well as Internet web servers.

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MSFT
Microsoft Corp..

Net change: -1 5/8

Time:	16:18

Open:	124 1/4

High:	124 1/4

Low:	122 1/2

Vol:	1750000


More NavSprite
More info about NavSprite

NavSprite uses many different "sub-clients" to communicate with different information sources.  For instance, NavSprite requests info from NavCIS and NavCIS does the actual query (such as "fetch current e-mail headers") then relays that data to NavSprite so it can be animated and displayed.  This allows NavSprite to use many different sources for information.  Below is a list of the types of information NavSprite can fetch and what sub-clients it uses to get this info:

 Displays e-mail headers from your CompuServe mailbox (using NavCIS)

 Displays forum file-catalogs and conversation headers (using NavCIS)

 Displays ENS News headlines (using NewsFetch)

 Displays current stock info (using StockTicker)

 Displays CompuServe What's New (using CISAlert)

 Displays Weather (using WeatherFetch)

 Displays current sports scores (using SportsFetch)

 Displays daily Trivia (using TriviaTicker)

 Displays web search results (using WebSearch)

These sub-clients are included with NavSprite.  They are well designed so its easy to select the information you want NavSprite to display... for instance, selecting the portfolio of stocks you want to track, or the cities whose weather you want to be kept informed about is simple.

Sub-clients and NavSprite are well integrated making the entire system easy and seamless to use.  The advantage of sub-clients is that new ones can be easily added later.

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Movie Cube
This is the rotating ImageCube.  Each side of the cube

can display a different image.  By right-clicking on a side,

the cube will stop and display a 3-item menu from which

you can view a summary, fetch any associated story or

info, or go to to the associated website.  The summary for

this side of the cube is:

"PC Magazine list its top 100

 website choices and why it

 chose them.  For the complete

 story, select Fetch."

If the user selects "Go to URL" from the menu, NavSprite

will launch the web browser and go to www.pcmag.com.

Once a "fetch" action has been defined, the next time

NavSprite goes online, it will fetch the selected story, then

inform you visually that it can be read whenever convenient.


NavCIS v1.8: Features and Benefits
NavCIS v1.8: The power of "hot" URLs

Because we know that CompuServe is adding more Internet functionality, we've decided to add features to NavCIS v1.8 that fit CompuServe's new direction, such as "hot" URLs (if someone sends you a message with a URL in it, e.g. http://www.dvorak.com, NavCIS v1.8 will spot the URL, underline it and show it in blue.  If you then click on it, NavCIS will launch your favorite browser and take you directly to that Web site.)  Hot URLs work in e-mail as well as forum messages.

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NavSprite data updates

You can schedule how often NavSprite will log on

to CompuServe to update itself.  As often as once

every 15 minutes, or perhaps just once a day.  Many

dial-in users like to update once every two hours.

NavSprite's scheduler makes it easy to set up how

often you want your data updated.


NavSprite in Independent region mode
Other NavSprite features

NavSprite also has the ability to display multimedia information.  Do the forums you visit contain movie and sound files?  If so, use NavSprite to see what's hot in that forum.  Right-click on a picture-side of the ImageCube, read the summary info, and if it looks like a movie you want, select Fetch to download it.  The movie, once downloaded, can be played on one side of the ImageCube while the cube rotates, or viewed with a more traditional viewer.  NavSprite can display AVI, MPG and QuickTime movie files.

NavSprite can even be used as a screen saver.  It's perfect for watching data when you are busy with other tasks such as phone calls.  You can even review Summary data while in screen-saver mode... mouse movement does not close the screen saver, unless you've set NavSprite to do so.

Setting up windows in NavSprite is simple; just use our easy to use configuration system.  If, for example, you wish to create a window that will display scrolling stock ticker text, you can tell NavSprite what you want the window to look like, how to scroll the text (speed, direction, justification), and how the text should appear (color, font, size, and more).

Sub-clients are applications, such as NavCIS v1.8 and the Executive News Service applet, that are designed to interact with NavSprite.

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News Headline pop up
ENS news headlines

NavSprite will scroll your ENS news headlines

from bottom to top as soon as they come in.

If you right-click on a headline, you can read

a quick summary of the current news story.

You can either fetch the story, or you can

preset the ENS sub-client to download the

stories in their entirety on the first pass

(after all, you've already preselected the

stories if you've set up clipping rules in ENS).

The choice is yours...  a two-pass or a

single-pass system.


News Summary
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential candidate

Ross Perot is giving voters a peek at how his

billions in personal wealth are invested,

including $450 million in foreign government

bonds.


News headlines
This region is currently scrolling news headlines.  Right-

clicking on one of the headlines as it slowly scrolls upward

would allow you to read its summary or fetch the full story.

As with any region in NavSprite, you can adjust its

background color, pattern, and size, along with the

text's font characteristics.  You can also tell NavSprite

what kind of information you want to scroll in the region,

such as sports headlines, followed by news headlines,

followed by waiting e-mail headers, and then daily trivia

questions.  To view an example of what happens when

you right-click on a specific headline, click here.


Next 10
Clicking on this button will display the next 10

 items that were found in the search.


Order Form
Special Offer Pre-Order Form

The deadline for this pre-order is Friday, September 27th, 1996 at 5:00pm MDT.

Actual shipping is anticipated on or about Oct. 20, 1996.

Ship To:
Name:
E-mail address:
Company:
Address:
City:	State:                     ZIP:
Country:	Phone: (      )
	Pre-order Price	Total
Complete Upgrade (For paid NavCIS owners only.  Includes NavCIS Pro v1.8, NavSprite and Address Book Utility) NavCIS Pro Serial number: _____-___________	$39.00*
NavCIS v1.8 & NavSprite (For TE and new users.  Includes NavCIS v1.8, NavSprite and Address Book Utility.)	$99.00**
Colorado residents add 4.3% sales tax
Shipping and Handling (USA - $4.50, Int'l - $7.50)***
Total
Method of Payment

	Visa	Full Name on Card:
	MasterCard
	AmEx/Discover	Credit Card Number:
	EuroCard	Expiration date:	______/______  (mm/yy)
	Check or Money order
		Signature:	__________________________________________

*  v1.8 Upgrade and NavSprite normally $79.00 (For Pro Owners Only) - save $40.

** Full NavCIS Pro and NavSprite normally $148.00 (For TE and New Users) - save $49.

*** Shipping and Handling:  Due to new laws for US Postal shipping that went into effect Aug. 15,

rates have increased for both domestic and international delivery.  If you would like to download NavCIS

and NavSprite (instead of receiving them on disks), you can save on the shipping and handling charges by

putting a checkmark in the Shipping and Handling box above.  If you would rather receive your order on disks,

please use the following table for the shipping and handling charges: (Note: the download will be 5 - 6Mb in size)

Domestic shipping (U.S.):	$4.50

International shipping:	$7.00

Sending your order to Dvorak Development

Thank you for your order.  Orders may be faxed to us at 303-661-0635, or sent via US Mail to:

   Dvorak Development, Attn: NavSprite, 385 S. Pierce Ave., Louisville, CO  80027, USA

Note regarding NavSprite

NavSprite is still under development at the time of this writing. Features, formatting and other details are subject to change.


Questions & Answers

When will NavCIS v1.8 and NavSprite be available?

The NavCIS v1.8 upgrade and NavSprite will ship together, as an integrated package on or about Oct. 20, 1996.  If ordered now via the special pre-order offer, you can save substantially - over 50%.

How much will the upgrade cost?

Normally $79.00, NavCIS Pro owners can get the v1.8 upgrade and NavSprite for only $39.  A savings of $40!

I'm a NavCIS TE user, do I get a special price?

You bet.  NavCIS Pro is normally $69 and NavSprite is $79 for a combined total of $148.  But you can get both if you pre-order now for only $99.  A savings of almost $50!

Is NavCIS v1.8 a 32-bit application?

No, NavCIS v1.8 remains a 16-bit application, but is fully able to communicate and work seamlessly with NavSprite.  NavSprite is a 32-bit application and as such, requires Windows 95.  NavSprite does not support Windows NT at this time.

What are the requirements for NavSprite?

NavSprite is a state-of-the-art, off-line graphics engine.  It is a 32-bit application which means you must have the following:

Windows 95

486/66 or faster processor

16Mb of RAM

Graphics board with at least 1Mb video ram (VRAM)

A working Winsock connection

What does it take to set up NavSprite?

NavSprite is very easy to set up.  With a handy, built-in WYSIWYG editor, defining data display regions, fonts, colors, backgrounds, animation movement, and other items, is a cinch.

Can I choose what information I want?

Yes, NavSprite's sub-clients support "agent" and "portfolio" technology that watches for the information you want.  This eliminates hours of wasted browsing and surfing.

Can NavSprite's free floating data windows be "on top" of anything, even applications like WinWord?

Yes, the free floating data regions stay on top of any application being used... this way, the info is always available for instant viewing.  Free floating regions can be easily moved or even closed whenever the need arises.

Special Offer for registered Pro & TE users:  Pre-order and save!

NavSprite will be priced at $79.  If you already own NavCIS Pro, you can pre-order and get both NavSprite and the NavCIS v1.8 upgrade for only $39.  And we'll throw in the new NavCIS Address Book Utility for free.  If you don't already own NavCIS, we have a special price for you too: NavCIS Pro v1.8 is regularly $69 and NavSprite is $79... that's $148.  But you can pre-order and get both for just $99.  We'll even throw in the Address Book Utility for you too.  One word of caution however, you must place your order before September 27, 1996 in order to take advantage of these special prices. You can order four easy ways:

Via our Web Site:  go to http://www.dvorak.com/cis/sprite.htm and fill out the online form

Via Fax:  print out and fill in the Order Form and fax it to 303-661-0635

Via Phone:  call 303-661-0345

Via Snail-mail:  print out and fill in the Order Form and mail it to:

Dvorak Development

Attn: NavSprite

385 S. Pierce Ave.

Louisville, CO  80027

USA

We accept Visa, MasterCard, EuroCard, Discover, American Express, personal and company checks, and money orders.

Note: Features, screens, and other information is subject to change.

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Results area
This text box displays all the items that were found

during the search.  This data is automatically passed

to NavSprite so it can be scrolled in the region you've

defined along with the font, color and animation

characteristics you've picked.  This means that boring

text data is converted into visually appealing animated

headlines.


Sub-clients

Here are some sub-clients that come with NavSprite:

   NavCIS v1.8 - handles CompuServe e-mail and forum data.

   CISAlert - handles CompuServe What's New announcements

   NewsFetch - works with CompuServe's ENS area to bring you up-to-the-minute news.

   SportsFetch - fetches current sports headlines and scores from the web.

   StockTicker - retrieves your stock issues from the web.  (15 minute delay).

   TriviaTicker - fetches trivia data from the web.

   WeatherFetch - gets weather forecasts from the web.

   WebSearch (example below) - allows you to search the web and display results in NavSprite.

Once the sub-client retrieves the data, the headline portion of the data is passed to NavSprite to be automatically displayed in the proper scrolling region using the defined animation, font, size and region characteristics set up by the user.  Since these clients only fetch small HMI and HTTP data packets, the online bandwidth is very small, and online time is quite short.  Like other Dvorak products, NavSprite uses off-line navigation technology to keep your online time to an absolute minimum.

You can click on the Back button in the toolbar of this Help window to return to the previous topic, or click here to go to the Questions and Answer section and the order form.


Summary
Denver

Evening forecast:

  Clear and windy

  NW 15-20 mph


Ticker window
This is a "ticker" region.  The text inside it scrolls horizontally.  Many types of data are

well suited to a ticker type display region: stock info, weather info, sports scores, and

even index data points such as the Dow Jones Industrials Average, the current price of

gold, crude oil, and home mortgage interest rates.

Here's an example of a stock data being displayed in the ticker region.  The same ticker

can be used for multiple types of ticker data.  After each type of data is displayed (such as

your stock portfolio), the next type of ticker data (such as sports scores) is then displayed.

Each time NavSprite goes online, ticker data is updated.  Click on a stock symbol

in the picture below to see an example of the summary info provided by NavSprite.


URL
Uniform Resource Locator.  The technical term for

a web address.  URLs usually appear underlined

and are often colored blue.  Examples:

http://www.dvorak.com

www.whitehouse.gov


User authoring
Configuring NavSprite

Configuration mode allows you to easily create and configure data display regions in NavSprite using our handy WYSIWYG region editor.  The picture below shows the user is about to create a new data display region.   Configuration mode makes it easy to select where a region should be located, if it can act as a free-floating mini data region, what color and frame-style the region has, and what data the region can display (for instance, display news headlines and waiting e-mail headers in the blue region).  Configuring NavSprite is easy... you can customize NavSprite to fit your needs.  But if you don't feel like customizing NavSprite, that's OK... NavSprite comes with predefined themes that you can choose from.

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WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG: What You See

Is What You Get.  A fancy way

to say that layout is done in a

highly visual, click-and-drag

fashion... much like popular

desktop publishing programs.


Weather ticker
Summary

Fetch

Go to URL


What to search for
This is where you type in whatever you want to search for.


Winsock
NavSprite is a 32-bit application and requires

that you use the Windows 95 Dial-Up

Networking winsock.  A built-in Install Wizard

included with NavSprite will verify and test

your Windows 95 winsock connection when

you install NavSprite.  NavSprite works with

direct connections such as T1s and

firewalls via Windows 95.


agent
Watch for specific things: key words in

headlines, or IDs in e-mail headers for instance.

Then NavSprite handles the data according

to the rules you've defined.  For instance, any

e-mail header from bobjones@xyzcorp.com

should be completely ignored... don't display

it at all.


edit a region
Size an area and place the area where

you want it using standard WYSIWYG

techniques.  Then right-click in a region

to call up an editing menu.

The menu allows you to define what

data will be displayed in the region

(such as sports headlines  and news

headlines), and how that data should

appear.  You can also define different

fonts, font sizes, and font colors for

different data in the same region. For

instance, sports headlines might be

Times Roman 14 point Bold in yellow,

while new headlines appear in Arial

12 point Italics in white.  This makes it

distinguish, at a glance, what type of

headline you are looking at.  You can

define many other items too... text

scroll direction, scroll speed, sounds,

frame type and frame color, region

backgrounds and more.


menu
Summary

Fetch

Go to URL


portfolio
Portfolios allow you to easily define a

set of information that you want checked

on a regular basis. For instance, a stock

portfolio would consist of a set of stock

symbols, a weather portfolio would consist

of a set of cities for which you want regular

forecast information, and a sports

portfolio would consist of a set of your

favorite sports teams.