Installing CueLine® ED

A simple text version of these installation instructions is provided in the file INSTALL.txt on the CD.


Installing on Windows

CueLine® ED installs to your hard drive to run.

You must be an administrative user to install CueLine® ED on the computer's hard drive. This means the user has been granted administrator privileges. Ask your system administrator for assistance if in doubt about which user you should log onto your computer as in order to install CueLine® ED.

Insert the CueLine® ED CD to start the install. There is a long delay while a Java runtime environment is started from the CD.

You are prompted to confirm the installation and accept the end user license agreement. After confirming the installation and accepting the end user license agreement, files are copied from the CueLine® ED CD to your hard drive. It can take several minutes to copy files from the CD. After installing to your hard drive you are prompted to restart CueLine® ED from the new hard drive installation.

The Client Server Version needs to be pointed to the network server where user preferences and a log file are kept. This server directory must be accessible to the CueLine® ED client systems and users. The first time CueLine® ED's Client Server Version runs from the hard drive you are prompted to browse to and select the network server's directory. After selecting the network server's directory you are prompted to restart CueLine® ED for it to reinitialize with this configuration.

You must run CueLine® ED once as an admininistrative user to initialize the local, and optionally the remote, data directories with appropriate permissions. Afterwards you can log onto your computer as a normal, i.e. non-administrative, user and access your students' preferences and bookmarks.

Installation directories and files summary:

  • Program files installed to:
      C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\VisAssist\CueLine ED.app
  • Local data directory:
      C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\VisAssist\CueLine ED
  • Desktop shortcut (Vista):
      C:\Users\_your_name_\Desktop\CueLine ED.lnk
  • Desktop shortcut (other than Vista):
      C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\CueLine ED.lnk
  • Remote server data directory:
      (...designated server directory....)\VisAssist\CueLine ED

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Vista Installation Notes

Vista enforces a new security mechanism called User Account Control, or UAC. UAC prevents a Windows install of CueLine® ED from writing its shortcut to C:\Users\Public\Desktop where it would be visible to all users.

Follow these additional steps to make the CueLine® ED Desktop shortcut visible to all users:

  • as a user with administrator rights
  • click on the Start button
  • click on the Computer button
  • double click on Local Disk (C:)
  • click once in the top text entry slot
  • C:\ appears
  • click to the right of C:\
  • append Users\Public\Desktop
  • C:\Users\Public\Desktop should now be in this text entry slot
  • press Enter on the keyboard
  • drag and drop the CueLine® ED shortcut from your Desktop onto this explorer window for C:\Users\Public\Desktop
  • a UAC dialog pops up noting the need for administrator permission to continue
  • click on the Continue button
  • a UAC dialog pops up asking permission to write to the C:\Users\Public\Desktop directory
  • click on the Continue button
  • close the file explorer window

You will need to manually delete the shortcut if you uninstall CueLine® ED.

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Installing on OS X

On OS X it is possible to run CueLine® ED directly from the CD, but running from the CD is not recommended because accessing the CD is slower than accessing your hard drive and because of the possibility of damaging the CD while handling it.

You must be an administrative user to install CueLine® ED on the computer's hard drive. On OS X this means the user is a member of the group admin. Ask your system administrator for assistance if in doubt about which user you should log onto your computer as in order to install CueLine® ED.

When you insert the CueLine® ED CD an icon representing the CD appears on your desktop. Open the CD by double clicking on this icon. The Finder's folder repesenting the CD's contents appears.

Drag and drop the CueLine® ED icon from the CD's folder to the Applications folder. Start CueLine® ED by double clicking its icon in the Applications folder.

The Client Server Version needs to be pointed to the network server where user preferences and a log file are kept. This server directory must be accessible to the CueLine® ED client systems and users. The first time CueLine® ED's Client Server Version runs you are prompted to browse to and select the network server's directory. After selecting the network server's directory you are prompted to restart CueLine® ED for it to reinitialize with this configuration.

You are prompted to accept the end user license agreement the first time you run CueLine® ED.

You must run CueLine® ED once as an admininistrative user to initialize the local, and optionally the remote, data directories with appropriate permissions. Afterwards you can log onto your computer as a normal, i.e. non-administrative, user and access your students' preferences and bookmarks.

Installation directories summary:

  • Program files installed to (recommended):
      /Applications/CueLine ED.app
  • Local data directory:
      /Users/Shared/VisAssist/CueLine ED
  • Remote server data directory:
      (...designated server directory....)/VisAssist/CueLine ED

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Client Server Version Installation Notes

If you need to change the remote server data directory delete the file named clientserver.server from the local data directory. The next time CueLine ED starts it will notice the missing file and reprompt you for the remote server data directory.

Depending on your network configuration, a network administrator may need to manually grant read/write access to the remote server data directories.

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