ViewTouch Demo Information

    If you have X and SSH installed on your computer (Windows, Apple, Linux, BSD, whatever) and have at least 1024 x 768 resolution on your display then you can logon our POS demo box and see what ViewTouch actually looks like exactly as a customer would see it.  If you have 1280 x 1024 on your display you'll see ViewTouch the way our customers do.  We think you'll be surprised at how fast your remote display performs over the Internet.  You'll need more than an X terminal - you have to have X installed.  Open an X terminal, then type:
    ssh -X viewtouch@demo.viewtouch.com openterm

    The password is 'demo'.  When you see the graphical logon or Start page, logon with 1, then Start.  You'll see instructions from that point onward.  If you want to talk to us while you are first learning the demo just call us on Skype and we'll make your visit to the ViewTouch demo more efficient and enjoyable.  Our Skype info is on our home page and here's our Skype help page.

    If you have installed Skype, click & call Call me! You can talk with us on your computer while it's running the X terminal and allowing you to see our demo program.

    If you have any difficulties or questions you may email us.   If you want help learning how to edit the GUI we can schedule a time for you to do that on Skype.  If you have Windows running X you're in a very small group that's already good to go for the demo.  You probably don't have X so you have to follow the instructions in the next section to put X on your Windows computer. 

Installing X on Windows, The Short Version

    Download Cygwin for X, Install default plus Open SSH (in Net), plus X.  Then navigate to C:/cygwin (the Cygwin installation root folder), and go to the /usr/X11R6/bin and send strtxwin.bat (i.e. a batch file) as a shortcut to your desktop.  When the terminal window opens type the ssh command line from the first paragraph at the top of this page and follow the directions after it.

Installing X on Windows, The Long Version

Cygwin/X is an X server for Windows which allows you to open a display to a remote host on your desktop. Windows 95 and later is OK, but Windows 2000 or XP is recommended. Cygwin/X is a free software package. For more information, refer to the Cygwin/X homepage. To install Cygwin/X:
  1. Download and run "setup.exe" from http://cygwin.com.
  2. Accept all of the defaults and click "Next" until you get to "Choose a Download Site". (The default settings should be OK for most installations. The default Cygwin installation directory is C:\cygwin.)
  3. Choose a download site. "http://mirrors.kernel.org" is a good choice.
  4. The installer downloads a list of packages and then presents you with a package selection screen. Expand the window to see it better.
  5. Scroll down to "X11" in the "Category" column and click on "Default", change it to "Install".
  6. Install openssh (Open SSH). Click the "+" next to "Net" in the Category" column and scroll down until you see "openssh" in the "Package" column. Click once on "Skip" in the "New" column. "Skip" will be replaced by the version number of the most current version (e.g. "3.9p1-1"). The openssl package will be automatically selected too.  Open SSH requires Open SSL.
  7. Click "Next". The Installer downloads the files and installs them. Click "Finish".
  8. Open C:/cygwin (the Cygwin installation root folder) and go to the /usr/X11R6/bin folder.
  9. Right-click on "startxwin" (it might appear as "startxwin.bat", depending on your settings), select "Send" to put the StartX icon on your Desktop.  You can move a Desktop icon to the task bar if you prefer to have it there.
To use Cygwin/X:
  1. To start the Cygwin/X server, (double-)click the startxwin shortcut that you created. After a few seconds, the "X" icon appears in the system tray and an Xterm window opens. This Xterm window starts with a local shell on your Windows machine. To run programs on a remote host, such as Strauss, you must first log into that host.
  2. If you are running Windows XP and have installed Service Pack 2 (highly recommended): the first time you run Cygwin/X, Windows will prompt you that an unknown program (XWin) is attempting to access the Internet Answer Yes.
  3. At this point, you can use an ssh client to run programs on remote hosts.
    1. Using openssh, if you installed it with Cygwin:

      From the Xterm window that opened when you started the Cygwin/X server (or any Cygwin shell window), the command is:

      ssh -X -C viewtouch@demo.viewtouch.com openterm
  4. To shut down the Cygwin/X server, right-click on the "X" icon in the system tray and click "Exit".
  5. For more configuration information, refer to the Cygwin/X home page.
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