═══ 1. Help Contents ═══

                               Image Notebook 2.01
                                 A Bitmap Viewer
                                       and
                                Multimedia Player
                                    for OS/2

Double-click on a highlighted word or phrase for more information. 

What is Image Notebook? 
Author Information 

How do I View Bitmaps? 
How do I Play Multimedia Files? 
How do I Remove a Page? 

What's an Album? 
How do I Open an Album? 
How do I Create or Save an Album? 


═══ 2. What is Image Notebook? ═══

What is Image Notebook? 

Overview 

Image Notebook is a fun utility you can use to view your bitmaps (*.BMP files) 
and play multimedia files supported by OS/2 (currently this includes Wave 
(*.WAV) files, MIDI (*.MID) files, and Video (*.AVI) files). 

Just use the right mouse button to bring up the menu, or drag 'n' drop bitmap 
or multimedia files right onto Image Notebook. It's that easy! 

You can use the numbered tabs at the bottom of Image Notebook's screen to move 
between different images. To play a multimedia file, just press the play 
button. Have FUN! 


═══ 3. Author Information ═══

Author Information 

Image Notebook was written by Lou Miranda. Lou is a former Contributing Editor 
to PC WORLD magazine. He is currently an OS/2 C++ Programming Consultant based 
in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also Managing Director of the Minnesota OS/2 User 
Group. 

Lou Miranda
P.O. Box 65707
St. Paul, MN 55165-0707  USA

CompuServe: 73567,471


═══ 4. How do I View Bitmaps? ═══

How do I View Bitmaps? 

Opening a Bitmap 

There are two ways to open a bitmap: 

 1. Click the right mouse button and select Add Page.... Then choose a bitmap 
    file from the File Dialog box. 

 2. Drag a bitmap file from one of your OS/2 desktop folders and drop it on the 
    Image Notebook window. 

Viewing a Bitmap 

Bitmaps are automatically displayed after you open them. If you have more than 
one bitmap open, press the numbered tabs on the bottom of the notebook to 
change between them. 


═══ 5. How do I Play Multimedia Files? ═══

How do I Play Multimedia Files? 

Opening a Multimedia File 

There are two ways to open a multimedia file: 

 1. Click the right mouse button and select Add Page.... Then choose a 
    multimedia file from the File Dialog box. 

 2. Drag a multimedia file from one of your OS/2 desktop folders and drop it on 
    the Image Notebook window. 

Playing a Multimedia File 

Multimedia files need to be played, they don't play automatically. Just press 
the Play button. If you have more than one file open, press the numbered tabs 
on the bottom of the notebook to change between them. 


═══ 6. How do I Remove a Page? ═══

How do I Remove a Page? 

To remove a page, click the right mouse button to bring up the menu. Then 
choose Remove Page and choose either This page or All Pages. 

Don't worry about removing pages. It doesn't delete the file on your hard disk, 
it only removes the file's name from Image Notebook's album. 


═══ 7. What's an Album? ═══

What's an Album? 

An Album is a way of collecting several bitmaps and multimedia files into a 
collection. 

Just think of an Album as a photo album: you can have several different photo 
albums, each with its own collection of pictures. For example, you could have 
an album of your children, or you can have an album for a business 
presentation. 

A sample Album comes with Image Notebook. It's called ReadMe.INB. It contains a 
list of several images that come with OS/2. Albums are really just text files 
that contain bitmap and multimedia file names. (Look at ReadMe.INB in the OS/2 
System Editor if you're interested in its format.) 

To open an Album, see How do I Open an Album? To save or create an Album, see 
How do I Create or Save an Album? 


═══ 8. How do I Open an Album? ═══

How do I Open an Album? 

There are two ways to open an Album: 

 1. Click the right mouse button and select Open Album. Then choose an Album 
    (*.INB) file from the File Dialog box. 

 2. Drag an Album (*.INB) file from one of your OS/2 desktop folders and drop 
    it on the Image Notebook window. 

To save or create an Album, see How do I Create or Save an Album? 


═══ 9. How do I Create or Save an Album? ═══

How do I Create or Save an Album? 

Creating and Saving albums are done the same way. Just click the right mouse 
button, and choose Save as Album... from the menu. 

Then enter the name of an Album (*.INB) file. You will be warned if you try to 
overwrite a file that already exists. 

The Album that is saved is the collection of bitmaps and multimedia files that 
you current have open in Image Notebook.