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MediaScape Changer Contents
MediaScape Changer

The MediaScape Changer lets you easily change the configurations of several applications.  The settings are saved in MediaScapes, or "scapes", which can be saved, edited, and selected.

Selecting MediaScapes

Saving MediaScapes

Editing MediaScapes

Deleting MediaScapes


Selecting MediaScapes

When you select a new MediaScape, the settings used by all MediaScape aware applications will be updated with those from the new MediaScape.

To select a MediaScape:

o	Choose the new MediaScape from the list of scapes.

o	Press Select

o	The Load MediaScape Settings dialog will appear, allowing to select which parts of the selected MediaScape to use.  Press Cancel if you do not want to select the scape, or press OK to use the selected parts of the scape.

o	The Install and Remove Files dialog will then appear.  You can choose which files from the previous scape to remove and which files in the new scape to install.  When done, press OK to remove and install all selected files.


Editing MediaScapes

The Edit option lets you change the description or icon associated with a MediaScape.

To edit a MediaScape:

o	Choose the MediaScape from the list of scapes.

o	Press Edit.

o	You can change the description of the MediaScape if you desire.  You can also change the icon by pressing the "Change icon..." button.  You can select icons from any .EXE or .DLL; ICONPLUS.EXE and SCAPE.EXE have many icons to choose from.


Saving a New MediaScape

When you save a new MediaScape you can choose a description and an icon for it.

To enter a description:

o	Type the description in the "Description" box.  The description will be shown in the list of MediaScapes.

To choose an icon:

o	Press "Change Icon...".

o	You can select icons from any .EXE or .DLL; ICONPLUS.EXE and SCAPE.EXE have many icons to choose from.

To create the MediaScape:

o	Press OK.

If you do not want to create the MediaScape:

o	Press Cancel.


Deleting MediaScapes

The Delete option lets you delete a MediaScape.

To delete a MediaScape:

o	Choose the MediaScape from the list of scapes.

o	Press Delete.

Note:	Once a MediaScape is deleted, there is no way to recover it.  Be sure you don't want the scape before deleting it.  If you accidentally delete the current scape, you can use the Save As function to recreate it, provided that no settings have been changed since it was selected.


Saving MediaScapes

The Save and Save As options let you save or create MediaScapes.

To save the current settings into an existing MediaScape:

o	Choose the MediaScape you want to overwrite.

o	Press Save.

o	The Save MediaScape Settings dialog will appear, allowing to select what settings you want to save in the scape.  Press Cancel if you don't want to save anything or press OK to save the selected parts into the scape.

Note:	Saving the current settings into an existing scape will overwrite all settings in that scape.

To save the current settings as a new MediaScape:

o	Press Save As.

o	You can enter a description and choose an icon for the scape if you desire in the Save MediaScape dialog.

o	The Save MediaScape Settings dialog will appear, allowing to select what settings you want to save in the scape.  Press Cancel if you don't want to save anything or press OK to save the selected parts into the scape.

Note:	Only settings in applications which are currently running will be saved.


Loading MediaScape Settings

The Loading MediaScape Settings dialog lets you choose which settings to load from a MediaScape.  For example, a MediaScape may have Windows desktop colors saved in it, but if you don't want these changed when you restore the MediaScape, you can unselect this setting.

To select which settings to load from the MediaScape:

o	Select the settings in the list you want to load.  You can hold down shift or control to select multiple settings.  Any settings not selected will not be loaded from the MediaScape.

To load the selected settings:

o	Press OK.

If you don't want to load anything from the new scape:

o	Press Cancel.


Saving MediaScape Settings

The Saving MediaScape Settings dialog lets you choose which settings to save into a MediaScape.  For example, you may want to save the current Windows desktop colors in the MediaScape.  If so, make sure the Windows desktop settings item is selected.

To select which settings to save into a MediaScape:

o	Select the settings in the list you want to save.  You can hold down shift or control to select multiple settings.  Any settings not selected will not be saved into the MediaScape.

To save the selected settings:

o	Press OK.

Note:	For best results, the applications which you are saving settings for should be open.  MediaScape Changer will ask each open application to save its settings to disk, allowing the most recent settings to be incorporated in the MediaScape.  If the application is not open, the previously saved settings will be saved into the MediaScape.

If you don't want to save anything:

o	Press Cancel.