The Views documentation assumes that you are familiar with the PC or UNIX® environment in which you are going to use Views, including its particular windowing system. Since Views is written for C++ developers, the documentation also assumes that you can write C++ code and that you are familiar with your C++ development environment so as to manipulate files and directories, use a text editor, and compile and run C++ programs.

When using the Views Component Suite documentation, you may encounter some links that point to documentation pages for products or options that you have not installed. A message page will be displayed. To access the documentation, you will need to install the applicable product or option.