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  • FAQ
    • Where are the boardviews?
      A: Boardviews and schematics are not legally able to be distributed because they are not our intellectual property. Fortunately there are several websites/forums that can supply boardviews to you such as Badcaps Forums
    • There's no boardviews, I want a refund!
      A: It's clearly indicated in multiple places prior to purchase that boardviews and schematics are not included; there's also the 10-Day Demo and the Free edition of FlexBV for you to try before purchasing. PayPal will not refund your purchase because the product is clearly described.
    • What's the best way to organise my boardviews?
      A: It's strongly recommended that each boardview is kept within its own folder along with its same-named schematic PDF. ie, 
      c:\boardviews\820-00165 folder
	c:\boardviews\820-00165\820-00165.brd  (boardview)
	c:\boardviews\820-00165\820-00165.pdf  (schematic)
      Using this organisation style will result in the automagical association of boardview to the schematic and will make syncing with OBData easier too.
  • Repair Support / Forums
  • Tools
  • Boardviews and schematic suppliers

    Boardview and schematics are the intellectual property of their respective owners. "Paul L Daniels" and FlexBV does not endorse or distribute the contents of any of the following sites.

  • Guides and Reference sites for repairing items
  • Attributions & Thanks
    Many successful projects are because of being able to stand on the shoulders of the work done by other people, and FlexBV is no different. The following projects have been key to making FlexBV (and OpenBoardview) happen;
    • LibSDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer. Cross platform library that gives you a consistent API to work with graphics, audio, input peripherals.
    • Dear ImGui - UI engine that is easy to use and very well supported across multiple platforms and continues to be feature enhanced on a daily basis.
    • fmt - allowing for simple formatting of complex text & strings
    • NativeFileDialog-Extended - if you're needing a cross platform solution for a file picker with important features such as filename filtering and still using the native file picker for the OS in order to not alienate your users, then NFD-Extended is an excellent solution with a very easy API.
    • SQLite3 - before the days of SQLite3 trying to store data in a database, let alone a SQL type database was either a costly affair or a complex affair (if not both). SQLite3 bought to the world a genuinely viable replacement for the venerable local flat-file database and is instrumental to simplifying so many complex data tasks.
    • ImHex - while not used in FlexBV directly this deserves a special mention; ImHex has been unquestionably instrumental in the process of reverse engineering multiple boardview file formats. The powerful processing language coupled with the excellent hex editor & dataviewer make decoding unknown file formats quite a lot smoother.