ABOUT

TeleTale ver 1.01

Author Tom Miles  (c)1996

Compuserve Address  102610,52

Internet Address  102610.52@compuserve.com

Requirements

                IBM or compatible PC 386 or higher

                Microsoft Windows 3.1

                Graphics VGA

                mouse

Windows and Paintbrush are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp.

IBM is a reg. trademark of International Business Machines Corp.

TeleTale is shareware. The shareware version is full featured but the

number of pages is limited to four, enough to evaluate the program to

decide whether it is of use to you. The number of pages in the registered

version is only limited by the disk space available.To receive the

registered version on a 3.5in disk send $10 U.S. to:

Tom Miles 801 Fraser Rd. Glenside, PA 19038 USA.


                            INTRODUCTION

The opening screen shows a mini picture window with a text window below.

The program allows Paintbrush to be accessed from within TeleTale

to create a picture with Paintbrush tools.The picture is then

transferred to TeleTale.

Text to accompany the picture can be typed in the text window below

the picture.  Picture and text are saved as a page.

Successive pages can be created and saved. Pages can be displayed by

moving to each page (clicking on an arrow button) or by turning on AUTO

to show the pages in slide-show fashion.

TIMER sets one of three time intervals between each page display.

The window containing text can also be TOGGLE'd closed. This also allows

a slide show of pictures without the text window being displayed.

Sound (wav files of the user's choice) can be added in the

slide-show presentation.

Photographs that can be imported into Paintbrush can also be used.

In addition to making a picture story or album, flash-card type instructions,

question and answer presentations and a variety of other presentations

for children can be created. The user can also use the cycling through

existing pictures to permit a match-picture-to-text type of instruction.


                            CREATING A PICTURE

Open Paintbrush by clicking on the PBRSH button. Size the Paintbrush

window to the approximate size of the TeleTale picture window. Do this

by moving the Paintbrush window over the TeleTale window and changing

the size of the Paintbrush window.

Create a picture using any of the Paintbrush tools including text of

various sizes and types.

When the picture is completed select the Pick Tool (The scissors that leaves

a dotted line in the shape of a rectangle). Outline the picture.

Choose Edit then Copy. Exit (save is your choice) the Paintbrush file.

You are now back in TeleTale. Click in the picture area. The choices

"Use Existing Picture" and "Paste from Clipboard" appear. Choose Clipboard

and the picture created in Paintbrush will appear in TeleTale.

Type accompanying text in the story area and then click on SAVE.


EXISTING PICTURES

                           CHOOSING EXISTING PICTURE

Any picture pasted into TeleTale is saved as an Existing picture.

To use an existing picture, click on the picture area.

One of the choices that appears is "Use an Existing Picture". Choose

it. The existing pictures will appear and can be cycled into view with

Next, Previous, First and Last. To place one in the picture area, choose

Accept when the picture is in view.  Choose Save to make it part of the

page.

This feature can be used to create match-picture-to-text type of tests

or instructions.


ADDING PAGES

                           ADDING THE NEXT PAGE

Click on the NEW PAGE button.  The picture and story areas are now blank.

Use PBRSH and follow the procedure for creating a picture and adding text

or use the Existing Picture instructions to add a picture to the page.

Click on SAVE.


                        DELETE

DELETE removes the page in view when DELETE is clicked.

Although pages can be deleted, pictures remain until the file is deleted.

For ease of use, the program works with one file named tale.crd.

This file can be renamed in order to keep a completed story. When the

program runs again it looks for a file named tale.crd and if one is

not present it creates a new tale.crd file.


                           SLIDE SHOW

The pages can be shown in slide show fashion by clicking on AUTO.

The program returns to the first page, displays it for the length of time

chosen in TIMER, then moves to the next page. It continues until

the last page is displayed.

Clicking on TIMER brings up a dialog box. Choose either 5sec. 10sec.

or 15sec. as the interval between showing of pages during AUTO display.

The default time is 5 sec.


                     SOUND

Sound can be added (assuming a sound card is present) by placing wav

files of your choice in the same subdirectory as TeleTale and renaming

them sound01.wav sound02.wav sound03.wav etc. for the first, second,

third etc. pictures displayed. If sound were desired with the third

picture only, for example, the wav file would be renamed sound03.wav.

No wav files are included with the program. Sound plays only in slide

show.


                     SAVE

Whenever text or picture are changed while a page is in view, click

on SAVE before leaving the page if you want those changes to become

a permanent part of the page.


                     LEGALITIES

       There is no warranty expressed or implied as to the suitability of

       TELETALE for any express purpose.  As with any software, it is

       impossible to guarantee that all incompatibilities have been

       discovered and corrected.

       By registering TELETALE, you are purchasing a single user license to

       use the program.  No registered copy may be further distributed

       in any way to any other potential user.

       The unregistered version may be distributed in unmodified form to

       anyone wishing to evaluate it and may be placed on BBS' for this

       purpose.


Index1

ABOUT

 INTRODUCTION

 CREATING A PICTURE

 SLIDE SHOW

 ADDING PAGES

 EXISTING PICTURES

 SAVE

 SOUND

 DELETE

 LEGALITIES