This software is an interactive, electronic, multimedia book - it is made up of pages, sections, and chapters.
At the top of this text box, you will note the current page number, and the total number of pages in this section.
Near the top of the screen, in the \BStatus bar\b, (just below the toolbar), you will see the current chapter, section, and perhaps page name.
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"The Toolbar",2,0,c,demo2.wav
This CD is simple to operate. At the top of the screen is the \BToolbar\b. The toolbar is always present, and provides access to all functions at all times. To view the name of any toolbar button, move the mouse over that button, and the name of that button will appear below it. Some Toolbar buttons contain a small red arrow - this denotes that a menu will appear when you click on this button.
The main control buttons are in the middle of the \BToolbar\b - \IBack One Page\i takes you one page back, and \INext Page\i takes you to the very next page.
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"Toolbar Buttons",3,0,c,demo3.wav
For example, if you wanted to see the previous page again, click on the \IBack One Page\i button. To move forwards, you click on the \INext Page\i button.
To move to a new section in this book, click on the \IContents\i button. This will provide you with the Contents screen, from where you can select new chapters and sections to view.
On the following pages we will show you how to operate the \IContents\i screen, and various other features of this software.
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"Text Box",4,0,c,demo4.wav
Before we move on, take a look at the text box you are reading from - it appears in a moveable, resizable window. At any stage, you can move or resize this text box as you wish.
Once you start viewing photos, videos and maps, you can even hide, and show this text box, using the \IHide Text\i button in the \BToolbar\b (which becomes the \IShow Text\i button when this text box is hidden).
This text box will also display a scroll bar down its right hand side if there is more text to be displayed.
This text box also contains a \IMinimize,\i and a \IClose\i button in its top right-hand corner. The \Iminimize\i button is like a normal Windows minimize button - it reduces the size of this text box, so that, for example, you could view more of a picture. The \Iclose\i button is the equivalent of selecting the \IHide Text\i button in the Toolbar - the text box disappears altogether.
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"Contents Screen",5,content.bmp,d,demo5.wav
This illustration of the \IContents\i screen you can now see is similar to the screen that will appear whenever you select the \IContents\i button from the \BToolbar.\b
You do not have to have completed a section before you select the \IContents\i button. You can do it at any time.
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"Selecting a Chapter",6,content2.bmp,d,demo6.wav
To move into any section, click once on your selection.
Once you select a chapter you are taken directly to the first page in that section or chapter.
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"The Page",7,page.bmp,d,demo7.wav
Here you see a representation of the average page - the text box appears on the right-hand side, and an element - in this case a picture, appears on the left-hand side.
The toolbar is of course always there at the top of the screen.
There are a variety of ways you can move around from here - either using the toolbar buttons at the top of the screen, or by clicking on any of the range of buttons or options within the text box, or on the picture.
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"Pictures in General",8,01630005.bmp,c,demo8.wav
Every picture, regardless of what it is, has a range of standard features.
To see these, move the mouse over the picture, and click the right mouse button once. A submenu will appear, providing a range of options - from copying this picture to the clipboard, viewing it full screen - all the way through to creating a jigsaw puzzle out of this picture.
This menu is active right now - give it a try!
Note the icon (or icons) at the bottom left-hand corner of pictures - click on these icons for a range of effects - including sounds, changing default picture size, scrolling pictures, captions, and more. Try these now as well!
\BDescription:\b This is the caption that accompanies this photograph.
\BPic2:\b picture3.bmp
\BDescription2:\b This is the caption for the second picture.
\BPic3:\b picture4.bmp
\BDescription3:\b This is the caption for the third picture.
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"Videos",9,0,c,startupi.avi
On some pages, you'll get a video, instead of a picture. Along the bottom of the video window are controls that allow you to play, pause, or resize the video.
P.S. You can search for all videos in the current CD by clicking on the \BSearch\b button in the Toolbar, and on the \BVideo\b button in the Search dialog box.
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"Sound",10,01630002.bmp,d,demo10.wav
If a page contains sound, as this one does, the \IStatus Bar\i, just below the Toolbar, becomes the area where this sound can be controlled.
First, at the far left of the Status Bar, a play/pause button will appear. As the sound plays, an icon travels across the Status bar, indicating the progress of the sound. You can drag this sound icon to the left or right to fast forward or rewind the sound.
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"This Text Box",11,01630019.bmp,d,demo11.wav
This text box, as you know, can be moved around and resized as you wish.
If you click the right mouse button when the mouse is over the text box, a submenu will appear with a range of options, ranging from altering text size and color, copying to the clipboard, and more.
Every now and then you will see an \Punderlined\p word. This denotes that you can click on this word to get a more detailed explanation of that word (try it now)!
At the bottom of some text boxes, you will see a panel reading \IClick here for Related Topics.\i Click on this panel to see a list of pages that relate to the current page. Select one of these pages and you will move to that page.
\BDescription:\b
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"Settings",12,c1s1f8.bmp,c,demo12.wav
You can select the \ISettings\i button to set some basic user options, including the size, font and color of the text you are reading right now.
\BDescription:\b
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"Searching",13,c1s1f12.bmp,c,demo13.wav
You can select the \ISearch\i button to search for a specific topic, video, animal, word - whatever.
Click on the option you require from this dialog box, and a list of pages matching your requirement will appear in the page list.
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"Printing",14,c1s1f13.bmp,c,demo14.wav
You can select the \IPrint\i button to print a single page, a whole section, or a range of pages.
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"Projects",15,c1s2f8.bmp,c,demo15.wav
Using the \ICreate Project\i button on the toolbar you can create a 'project' of your favorite, or required pages, and save the list of these pages as a file using the \IProjects\i rollup shown here.
This is a great way to create projects, collate and annotate your information. You can collect a whole range of pages, including sounds, movies, pictures, graphs and charts, add your own text, name your own pages, and create your very own on-screen, or printed, presentation.
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"Add Note",16,c1s1f16.bmp,c,demo16.wav
You can select the \IAdd Note\i command from the \BEdit\b menu (or from the Toolbar) to add your own notes to any page. These notes are saved automatically to your local hard disk.
The \INote\i window appears at the bottom left hand corner of the screen, and you can click in this window and enter your notes. When you return to a page you have added notes to, this window, and your note, will reappear.
\BDescription:\b
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"Bookmarks",17,c1s2f9.bmp,c,demo17.wav
Want to mark a page so that it is easy to find later? Use the \ICreate Bookmark\i command, from the \BPage Options\b menu.
The dialog box illustrated here will then appear. In here, enter the name that you would like to save this page under, and click on \IOK.\i At any later stage, you can move directly to this page by selecting the \IGo To Bookmark\i command from the \BPage Options\b menu.
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"Highlighting Text",18,c1s1f17.bmp,c,demo18.wav
You may wish to try a rather unique command found in the \BE
