Introduction

About this manual

This manual is a reference document that explains the functionality of the core features of GRiNS. It is not intended to be tutorial in nature. Readers should also consult other GRiNS documentation:

the Quick Start Guide, which contains installation and initial use instructions;

the Templates Guide, which describes the basic GRiNS template set;

the HowTo Guides, which gives a step-by-step overview of how GRiNS can be used to solve particular design tasks.

Readers should also consult relevant documentation for each of the players to be used: the RealOne IQ Guide (for the RealOne player), Microsoft’s Knowledge Base (keyword: time2) (for the IE-6.0 HTML+TIME SMIL implementation), the 3GPP consortium (for 3GPP/Wireless+Mobile SMIL) and, as a final authority, the official W3C SMIL 2.0 Specification (available at: http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/). Note that all of the SMIL 2.0 functionality provided by the GRiNS editor is also available in the GRiNS family of players.

Published Formats

GRiNS documentation is available in the following formats:

PDF

The PDF version, to be used with the Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and later viewer, is intended as an off-line reference document, suited for printing on a 600-dpi or greater printer.

HTML

An HTML version, installed in the GRiNS home directory, suited for on-screen viewing.

Program Interface

Contents of this Reference manual will be linkable through the GRiNS help system (via the Help pull-down menu). This requires a connection to the Internet as it accesses the latest in documentation.

Note that not all versions may be available in early product releases.

Text Formats

A series of type faces are employed to distinguish information groups.

Code

Text used to show SMIL coding is in a Courier format. This is an example.

Hyperlink

Hyperlinks are used to navigate to other documents. They are bold, blue and underlined. This is an example.

IMPORTANT

The GRiNS editor comes in a variety of configurations. This Reference Manual describes all of the features available in all of the GRiNS implementations. Where appropriate, functions that are only available in limited configurations will be labelled. Unless otherwise stated, functionality is available in all GRiNS versions.