Copyright: © Expomedia GmbH, Berlin 1998


Contents

Introduction

Major tasks

The Setting Dialog Boxes

The Image Display

The Slide Show

The Registration


Introduction

Introduction

The program window


Major tasks

The Image Gallery

Searching the WWW

The WWW Scan

The News reader

ANPX

Index create

Posting Image(s) to a Newsgroup


The Setting Dialog Boxes

General Settings

Adjustments for the search in the WWW

The WWW Scan Settings

Newsreader Settings

Excluding Links

Proxy Settings

Adding new News Servers


The Image Display

The Image Display


The Slide Show

The Slide Show


The Registration

The Registration


Introduction - Introduction
Introduction

Mister PiX is a search agent for images in the World Wide Web (WWW) and in Newsgroups. Apart from the major task, finding images, Mister PiX serves likewise to simplify the downloading and the organizing of these image files.

Many useful functions have been added, for example: Posting of image series in Newsgroups with automatic creation of a posting index in ANPX format. The display of the images with a zoom function. Viewing by slide show or organizing through drag &drop. Mister PiX makes the work pleasantly simple and easy.

This introduction will give you a short overview of the possibilities of Mister PiX. For more information, please click on the appropriate hyperlinks to the left. The help menu of Mr. PiX is context sensitive. This means that pressing the F1 key in any part of the program will take you directly to the corresponding help menu.

The already available (and newly downloaded) images are organized in the main application window of Mister PiX. There are different setting dialog boxes, with which you can change Mister PiX to suite your needs. The slide show makes it possible to view the downloaded images in random or selected sequence.

To find and load images please see the following areas:

1.	The WWW (meta) search
Here you can find images by keying in search words. The sites found will be summarized into a list and the images found automatically displayed as thumbnails.

2.	The WWW Scan
If you already know the address (URL) of a Web site, which contains the images you are looking for, you can use the WWW Scan. Here all links are searched for images beginning with the site indicated. The search ends after an adjustable depth (levels beginning from the start page). The scanning process can be adjusted through the different options available. You can indicate for example, whether links which refer to other Web sites should also be checked.

3.	The Newsreader
This area discusses Newsgroups. You must first indicate your News server in settings (an Assistent will help you) and determine, which Newsgroups you would like to search. From these "subscribed" Newsgroups, individual message or whole series can be downloaded. (See also Fig. 4 - ANPX.)
Mister PiX can store several News servers.

4.	ANPX
With the ANPX function it is possible to monitor all subscribed Newsgroups. As soon as Mister PiX finds an ANPX index in these Newsgroups, it is downloaded and displayed.

Important: As long as Mister PiX is not registered, all images are saved in black/white only. It is worthwhile to register Mister PiX not only to be able to display images in color, but any future updates are free of charge to registered users as well.

Current information is available on our Homepage:
http://www.mister pix.com


The program window

The program window of Mister PiX consists of five areas, which are explained here. Click on one of the hyperlinks below, in order to view the corresponding help topic.

The windows of Mister PiX are completely scalable. You can increase or reduce their size, the other items of Mister PiX adapt automatically to the new form. After leaving the program the new positions are saved.

The Menu Border

The menu border contains "File", "View" and "Help".

The "File"

This menu contains the "Register" and "Quit" commands.

The "Register..." option opens a dialog box to unlock Mister PiX.

Selecting the "Quit" option will close the Mister PiX program. The images, which Mister PiX downloaded for you, are saved on your hard drive.

The "View" menu

You can change the actual work area displayed with this menu. Selecting "View..." opens a dialog box, in which you can choose additional settings associated with the general or actual work area.

The "Help" menu

Selecting "Help Topics" opens the help menu related to the current work area.

Selecting "Contents" opens the entire help menu table of contents.

Selecting "Mr. Pix - Online ..." will take you to the Mister PiX web site. The program will automatically start the preferred Internet browser on your computer. On the Mr. Pix web site you'll find more information, software updates and technical support.

With "ANPX web site..." the web site of ANPX will be displayed. Here you'll find further information in regards to ANPX.

Selecting "Info..." will open a window with additional program information.

The Button Bar
The Button bar contains 7 buttons. When you point you mouse to one the buttons and rest the mouse for a short time, then a Tool tip appears. These Tool tip explain the function of the appropriate Button.

The first five Buttons offer you the option of changing the actually displayed work area (Image Gallery, search for Images on the WWW, WWW Scan, Newsreader and ANPX).

This Button has the same function as "Settings" in the "View" menu bar.

This Button launches the slide show (source of image is the current directory).

The Work Area

There are five functions, which you can perform in the work area:

1.	Saving (downloaded) images to hard disk (image gallery).

2.	Looking for images with Internet search engines (look for images in the WWW ).

3.	Looking for images in the WWW (WWW Scan).

4.	Looking for images in Newsgroups (Newsreader).

5.	Monitoring of subscribed Newsgroups on index Postings in ANPX format.

Further information to the individual functions can be found, by clicking on the hyperlinks.

The Status Line
The status line is located at the lower edge of the of Mr.PiX window. Within this line you'll find information in connection with the actually selected work area. The most important information of the status line is explained here briefly.

The "Image Gallery"
While a directory is searched

Field 1 	Path of the directory, which is searched

Field 2 	Name of the image, which is currently downloaded

Field 3 	Note: <ESC> will cancel the current scan process

Other

Field 1 	Path of the directory, which is searched

Field 2 	Number of images, which were downloaded

The status line of "Images in the WWW Search"

Field 1 	Number of processed links

Field 2 	Number of images already downloaded

Field 3 	Number of active searches

Field 4 	Indicates the search progress

The "WWW Scan" status line

Field 1 	Number of processed links

Field 2 	Number of images already downloaded

Field 3 	Number of active searches

Field 4 	indicates the search progress

The "Newsreader" status line

While a Newsgroup is downloaded

Field 1 	Name of the News server

Field 2 	Status of the connection ("Waiting..." or "Connected")

Field 3 	Number of downloaded headers

While marked entries are searched

Field 1 	Name of the News server

Field 2 	current internal message ("Loading header..." or "Loading Message...")

Field 3 	Number of already searched messages

Field 4 	indicates the search progress


The Image Gallery

The work area of the Image Gallery is divided into two windows. The left resembles the file window of the Explorer in its appearance and has a similar function. The right window represents the actual gallery. The images of the selected directory are displayed there as thumbnails.

When you move with the mouse over the line between the file and gallery windows, the mouse pointer changes to:

By clicking and holding the left mouse button, you can now move the mouse to the right or left and re-sizes the two windows.

Below you'll find a list of functions that can be performed in the image gallery.

see also:

Viewing Images in a Directory

Viewing Individual Images

Creating and Deleting Directories

Working with Images


Viewing Images in a Directory

When clicking on a file symbol in the file directory, all images within that file are displayed in the image gallery window as thumbnails. If the gallery window remains empty, no images exist in the selected file that can be read by Mr. PiX.

A plus sign before a file symbol indicates that there are subdirectories. When you click on the plus sign, these subdirectories are displayed

In this way you can explore the entire directory structure of your hard drive and other files containing data on your computer and search for any images these files may contain.

The entire path of the actual directory will be displayed in the status line.


Viewing Individual Images

If you double-click on a thumbnail, the appropriate image is opened in a new window. For further information see Image Display.


Creating and Deleting Directories

Highlight a directory in the file window by clicking on it with the mouse, then press the right mouse button, a Pop-up menu appears.

Select "New Directory" from the menu to create a new subdirectory within the highlighted file. Enter a name for the new directory into the text field of the dialog box and click OK.

When "Delete Directory" is selected, the highlighted directory and all its contents are being sent to the recycle bin. Please note that the Mr. PiX Gallery window only displays images in certain file formats. All other images and files are not displayed, but are also removed when deleting a directory.

Selecting "Download directory" will designate the highlighted file as the current Download directory. You can also designate the Download path from the Options menu.


Working with Images

Clicking with the mouse on a thumbnail will highlight the image with a blue frame. Right clicking on the selected image will open a pop-up menu. Double clicking on the appropriate thumbnail will accomplish this as well.

"Display" opens the selected image in a new window. Further information can be found under Image Display.

Images can be sorted by name with the "Sort by Filename" command.

"Copy" copies the image to a temporary file on the computer for touch-ups or use in other applications.

"Copy (Directory)..." marked images can be copied into another directory.

"Delete" will remove the image. The image is n permanently deleted and not placed into the recycle bin. You can highlight and delete several images at once. If you want to highlight individual images that are not next to each other, press the <Ctrl> key while clicking on the individual thumbnails. If you want to highlight several successive thumbnails, click on the first image to be highlighted then press and hold the <Shift> key until all desired thumbnails are highlighted.
If you selected the "confirm" option in the general option menu, a pop-up window will ask you if you are sure that you want to delete the selected image(s). You can cancel deletion by clicking No to proceed click Yes.

"Rename..." opens a dialog box in which you can enter the new name for the marked image. This option allows you to rename only one image at a time.

"Create index..." allows you to create one or more "indexes" of the marked images. Also see create Index.

"Post to Newsgroup..." opens a dialog box, which enables you to post the marked images. Further information in addition finds it here.

Moving Images with Drag & Drop
Dragging & dropping can move images: With the mouse, point to one of the images, press and hold the left mouse button. The mouse pointer will display the following:

Depending on whether you marked one or more images, the mouse pointer changes to an arrow with one or more pages of paper. Drag the mouse to the directory, into which you would like to move the images.

The directories will highlight as the mouse moves over them. When the desired directory is highlighted in blue, release the mouse button to drop the images into the selected file.

If you selected the "Confirm" option in the general option menu, a pop-up window will ask you if you are sure that you want to move the selected image(s). You can cancel the move by clicking No to proceed click Yes.


Searching the WWW

There are various search engines in the Internet, which using one or several key words, return URLs that are connected with these key words. Mr. PiX searches these URLs for images and downloads these to your computer. The images are stored in the directory, which you designated in "General Settings" as the Download path. Hyperlinks contained within these URLs, are also followed and searched for images.

In the work area of the Search in the WWW you'll find:

•	A text field for entering key words

•	Buttons for starting and terminating the search process

•	A number field to specify the search depth

•	A log window

•	A gallery window similar to that of the image gallery

Enter one or more key words and click on Start. Each search engine, which is indicated in the WWW Search Options, is asked for these keywords. The search process can be canceled at any time by clicking Stop. The search engines are simultaneously queried. Several processes are started automatically. You see the number of active processes in the status line.

The size of the log window and the gallery window can be changed the same way as the image gallery.

You can switch to other work areas while the WWW Search is running to the other work areas to at any time switch. The WWW Search continues to run, even if you complete additional different search functions (WWW Scan, Newsreader).

see also:

The Log Window of the WWW Search

The Gallery Window of the WWW Search

The WWW Search Status Line

What happens during a WWW Search?

Step by step instructions: How to complete a WWW search


The Log Window of the WWW Search

The log window shows important information about the progress of the WWW search.

It is organized as a table whose columns have the following meaning:

URL
The URL a search engine returned as result of the inquiry.

Name
If a HTML document was downloaded, the title of the corresponding page appears here. This is often more "descriptive" as the URL and can offer additional information. Depending upon the search depth, these pages are likewise searched for images.

Filename
If a search engine supplies the URL of a image as result, the appropriate file name of the image is entered into this column. This name also appears under the appropriate image thumbnail in the gallery window.

Engine
This column displays which search machine supplied the result.

The log window has a Popup menu:

In each instance, options refer to the URL in the currently highlighted line.

Exclude this URL...
A dialog box asks you for confirmation that the URL is to be excluded. It is then automatically entered into the list of the excluded links and can be modified or deleted.

Scan this Site
The program changes automatically to the WWW Scan when the URL is entered into the input field. If you click the start button, the WWW Scan begins.

View in browser
The program automatically starts your default web browser and displays the URL in the browser.


The Gallery Window of the WWW Search

The gallery window displays the downloaded images. Through double clicking on one of the thumbnails the image display opens. If you change to the image gallery and view the contents of the Download directory, you will notice that the images appear there as well, since all downloaded images are stored there. The gallery window of the WWW search shows only the images, which were found with the current search.

If you mark a image in the gallery window, the appropriate line in the log window is marked as well, so that you can see, which search engine supplied this image and from which URL it came.

The gallery window has a Pop UP menu:

"Display" opens the appropriate image in a new window. Additional information can be found under image display. You can also double-click on the appropriate thumbnail.

"Delete" will remove the image. The image is n permanently deleted and not placed into the recycle bin. You can highlight and delete several images at once. If you want to highlight individual images that are not next to each other, press the <Ctrl> key while clicking on the individual thumbnails. If you want to highlight several successive thumbnails, click on the first image to be highlighted then press and hold the <Shift> key until all desired thumbnails are highlighted.

If you selected the "confirm" option in the general option menu, a pop- up window will ask you if you are sure that you want to delete the selected image(s). You can cancel deletion by clicking No to proceed click Yes.

"Rename..." opens a dialog box in which you can enter a new name for the marked image. This option can only be used on one image at a time.


The WWW Search Status Line

The status line will show how many URLs where already searched by the search engines, how many new images were downloaded and how many current search processes are running.


What happens during a WWW Search?

When you enter a search word and click on start, queries are sent to the individual search engines. Which search engines are queried and how the inquiries are formulated, is determined by you in the setting dialog box for the WWW search.

Each search engine returns the results in the form of a list of URLs for pages or images. For many search engines the number of URLs returned can be selected in the query.

Mr. PiX then searched all displayed pages and downloads the images to your computer.

The URLs returned by the search engines are searched up to the selected Scan depth.

These processes run parallel to each other. As soon as a search machine supplies a result, Mr. PiX begins to search the appropriate URLs even if another search engines has not returned an answer yet.

Important: Results of 100% are rare. The result greatly depends on the quality of the search engine and the key words entered.

Tip: Include "image", in order to improve the result. Example: "Elephant image".


Step by step instructions: How to complete a WWW search

1.	First open the WWW search work area by clicking on the appropriate button.

2.	Enter the key words for which you would like to search in the "Key word(s)" field. Separate multiple search words through spaces.

3.	Click on the start button. You can cancel the process through clicking stop button.

4.	The progresses of the search as well as the results of the search engines are displayed in the log window. Downloaded images are displayed in the gallery window.

The list of search engines can be modified. When you click on the settings button...

... The image search setting dialog box, in which you can change this list, appears.


The WWW Scan

Differently than with the search in the WWW you can specify within the WWW Scan, which URL Mr. PiX is to use as a starting point of the search.

In the work area of the WWW Scan you'll find:

•	A text list field for the entering the start URL

•	Buttons to starting, interrupting and terminating the search

•	A log window

•	A task window

•	A gallery window

Mr. PiX checks the page that is found under indicated URL, for images and downloads these to your computer. If hyperlinks to other pages exist on the page, Mr. PiX also searches those pages and looks for images. Frames are also considered.

The size of the log window and the gallery window can be changed the same way as the image gallery.

The status line shows how many links are followed altogether, how many of them were already read , how many new pictures were downloaded and how many Download tasks are active.

Various options exist with which you can influence the mode of operation of the WWW Scans. These options can be adjusted in the appropriate dialog box.

see also:

The WWW Scan Log Window

The WWW Scan Task Window

The WWW Scan Gallery Window

Step by step: How to scan the WWW Scan


The WWW Scan Log Window

The log window displays how many links and how many images a page contain. During the search, the thread will be opened and the links searched as well.

Links, which were already followed, are represented in bold print. Likewise with images, which were already downloaded.

If you cancel the search, the search thread in the log window is preserved and you will be able to search it yourself.

Clicking on the plus symbol expands the thread in the appropriate place, clicking on the minus symbol collapses the thread there.

Clicking with the right mouse button on a URL or an image name brings up a Pop UP menu.

"Restart from here": resumes the search. The marked URL is used as start address. This URL is automatically written into the text field for the start URL and the search is started.

"Exclude this URL": If this URL is found in the future with a WWW Scan or with the Search in the WWW, it is automatically not followed. URLs, which are uninteresting to you, can simply be excluded in this way.

"Load this": When an image name is not found in bold typing in the log window, means that the image was not downloaded yet. If you select this option, the appropriate picture is downloaded


The WWW Scan Task Window

If several pictures are located on a page, they are not downloaded successively, but simultaneously. There are up to 4 Download tasks. The task window displays the status of each task. "Current URL:" will show the currently searched URL.

Under "task 1" to "task 4" you find to the names of the images, which are downloaded by appropriate task. A status meter displays, to what extent the Download task has progressed.


The WWW Scan Gallery Window

The gallery window displays the downloaded images. Double clicking one of the thumbnails opens the image display. If you change to the image gallery and then view the contents of the Download directory, you will notice that the images also appear there, since all downloaded images are saved there. The gallery window of the WWW Scan shows only those images, which were found in the current Scan.

The gallery window has a Pop UP menu:

"Display" opens the appropriate image in a new window. Additional information can be found under image display. You can also double-click on the appropriate thumbnail.

"Delete" will remove the image. The image is n permanently deleted and not placed into the recycle bin. You can highlight and delete several images at once. If you want to highlight individual images that are not next to each other, press the <Ctrl> key while clicking on the individual thumbnails. If you want to highlight several successive thumbnails, click on the first image to be highlighted then press and hold the <Shift> key until all desired thumbnails are highlighted.
If you selected the "confirm" option in the general option menu, a pop- up window will ask you if you are sure that you want to delete the selected image(s). You can cancel deletion by clicking No to proceed click Yes.

"Rename..." opens a dialog box in which you can enter a new name for the marked image. This option can only be used on one image at a time.


Step by step: How to scan the WWW Scan

1.	First open the work area of the WWW Scan by clicking on the appropriate button.

2.	Enter the URL, which is to be searched into the "URL" field.
Tip: Last used URLs are stored and can be used again by clicking on the arrow beside the input field. You can determine the number of URLs that are stored, in settings under "URL entries".

3.	Click on the start button. You can cancel the process by clicking on the stop button or temporarily stop it with the pause button.

4.	The progresses of the scans as well as the results are displayed in the log window. Downloaded images are displayed inthe gallery window.


The News reader

You can read messages from Newsgroups and search for pictures with the Newsreader. The following steps are necessary to do so:

1.	Before you can begin with a search in Newsgroups, you must have selected least one news server in the dialog box under Settings and have subscribed a Newsgroup.

2.	Select a server and a Newsgroup.

3.	Read individual message or let messages be searched for pictures.

Further information can be found in the individual paragraph of this

section.

The work area contains the following items:

•	List fields for the selection of the Newsgroup and the news server

•	Buttons for starting and terminating the search process

•	A window for the display of the message headers

•	A window for the display of the message text

•	A gallery window

The size of the windows can be changed the same way as the image gallery.

see also:

The selection of Newsgroup and servers

The Window for the Message Headers

Sorting the Entries in the Header Window

The Window for the Display of the Message Text

The Gallery Window

Step by step: How to work with the News reader 1 – Download Headers

Step by step: As you work with the News Reader 2 – Messages Search


The selection of Newsgroup and servers

Please note the step by step instructions.

Select first a news server from the "Server" list:

If this list is empty, you must select a server in the dialog box under Settings. The "Newsgroup" list contains all of the Newsgroups to which you subscribed on the selected news server.

If this list is empty, you must subscribe to Newsgroups in the dialog box under Settings. As soon as you selected a Newsgroup, the message headers are downloaded and displayed in the appropriate window.


The Window for the Message Headers

This window contains the message headers of a Newsgroup. Not all headers are downloaded. You can indicate on the main page under "More Settings" then in the dialog box "New Settings", how many headers max. are to be downloaded. By double clicking on a line in this window the appropriate message is downloaded. The text of the message is displayed in the window for the display of the message text. Included images are displayed in the gallery window

You can mark several headers and then click on the start button to begin the search for images.

The headers of unread messages are displayed in bold.

The status column

A green checkmark, followed by the word "loaded", means that the selected message was already downloaded.

During the search an arrow indicates that the selected message is currently being downloaded.

A blue dot, followed by the word "marked", indicates that these headers are marked for download and are yet to be retrieved.

The Subject field
This is the title or the topic of the message.

The From field
This is the name of the author of the message.

The Date field
This is the creation date of the message.

The Size field
This is the size of the message.

Right clicking on a line opens the following Popup menu:

With Select All you can highlight all messages. Select by Keyword... allows you mark messages that contain the search you entered in the subject line. The command Load selected articles corresponds to the start button.


Sorting the Entries in the Header Window

If you click on Subject, From, Date or Size, the headers in the list are sorted according to the clicked attribute in ascending order. Repeated clicking leads to the sorting in reverse order. If you click on Status, sorting is canceled and the headers appear in the order of the individual discussion threads.


The Window for the Display of the Message Text

By double clicking on a downloaded header, the message text will be displayed in this window.

The subject and the name of the author are displayed as well. You can highlight sections of text and copy it to the clipboard.


The Gallery Window

The gallery window displays the images downloaded from the posts as thumbnails. Double clicking on one of the thumbnails opens the picture display.

The gallery window has a Pop UP menu:

"Display" opens the appropriate image in a new window. Additional information can be found under image display. You can also double-click on the appropriate thumbnail.

"Delete" will remove the image. The image is n permanently deleted and not placed into the recycle bin. You can highlight and delete several images at once. If you want to highlight individual images that are not next to each other, press the <Ctrl> key while clicking on the individual thumbnails. If you want to highlight, press and hold the <Shift> key until all desired thumbnails are highlighted.

If you selected the "confirm" option in the general option menu, a pop- up window will ask you if you are sure that you want to delete the selected image(s). You can cancel deletion by clicking No to proceed click Yes.

"Rename..." opens a dialog box in which you can enter a new name for the marked image. This option can only be used on one image at a time.


Step by step: How to work with the News reader 1 - Download Headers
Step by step: How to work with the News reader 1 – Download Headers

When you use Mr. PiX for the first time it is necessary to complete some important steps, so that the image search in Newsgroups can be executed. These steps may appear somewhat complex at first, however are not complicated and easy to remember. By later News searches these steps are only necessary, if you liked to modify your subscription or the list of the News servers.

1.	First open the work area of the Newsreader by clicking on the appropriate button.

If you are using Mr.PiX for the first time continue with step 2, otherwise go to step 7.

2.	When you click on the Settings button...

... the News settings dialog box appears. Since it contains no new servers yet, you will be asked whether you would like to start the News assistant. Click Yes.

3.	Page 1 of the News assistant is shown. Enter the names of the news server or click on Search..., Mr. Pix will look for servers used. Then Click on Next.

4.	On page 2, if your news server requires you to log on, enter all necessary information such as your user name and password. Then Click Next.

5.	Before Mr. Pix can search individual Newsgroups, the list of all available Newsgroups must first be downloaded from the server. Answer the questions on page 3 of the News assistant and click on Finish.
The list of the Newsgroups is now downloaded from the server. This can take some time.
If you prefer not to download the list at this time, you can do this at a later point in time. However, unless you do this you will not be able to use the Mr. PiX Newsreader.

6.	The News assistant is now closed. The news settings dialog box remains open. In the News server list, the server indicated by you appears. The Newsgroups list shows the downloaded Newsgroups. You can add more servers by clicking on Add....

7.	Click on one of the News servers in the list. The list of the Newsgroups on this server is shown. In order to subscribe to the Newsgroups, select one or more Newsgroups and click on the download arrow. They will then appear in the appropriate list. Then click OK. The dialog box is closed.

8.	Click on the text field next to the word "Server". A list with the News servers, which you created in step 3-5, is shown. Select a News server from the list.

9.	Click on the field Next to the word "Newsgroup". A list of the Newsgroups, which you subscribed to on this server, appears. Select a Newsgroup.

10.	The list of the headers is downloaded and appears in the window for the message headers.


Step by step: As you work with the News Reader 2 - Messages Search
Step by step: As you work with the News Reader 2 – Messages Search

If you would like to view an individual message:

1.	Double-click on the appropriate header.

2.	The message text is displayed in the appropriate window. The in the message contained images are displayed in the gallery window.

If you would like to search several messages for images:

1.	Mark the headers, which are to be searched.

2.	Click on the Start button.


ANPX

The ANPX (=Advanced News Picture IndeX) system represents a simplification for loading of image series from Newsgroups. If Mister PiX finds any ANPX index postings within the subscribed Newsgroups, it will extract the thumbnails and present them for easy viewing. Simply double clicking on it downloads the thumbnail.

When you post image series with Mister PiX, ANPX index postings will automatically be produced. You can find out more about ANPX at http://www.anpx.com.

see also:

Step by step: Using ANPX


Step by step: Using ANPX

Press the Start key. Mister PiX then searched all subscribed Newsgroups for ANPX postings and displays these in the list to the left of the window. Clicking on a list entry will display the thumbnails belonging to the respective index in the right part of the window.

To download the images highlight the desired thumbnails and right-click with on them.

Then select the desired action from the Popup.

Double clicking on a thumbnail corresponds to the function "Load and Display Picture".


Index create

It is sometimes useful to create an image overview. To do this the Create Index function is used. If you mark the images from the gallery, which are to be used to create the index, click with the right mouse button on a thumbnail to highlight it and select Create Index...

The following dialog box appears:

Background Color
Select the background color for your index by clicking on the Color tabs.

Text Color
By clicking on the color tabs you can determine the text color.

Title
The title entered here also appears on the index itself.

Max. Width
Max. Number of images (thumbnails) per line.

Max. Height
Max. Number of lines. If you selected 5 columns and 5 lines for example, but you want more than 25 images per index, as many index files as necessary are automatically created.

Filename
File name of the index; do not enter a file extension, since this is added automatically.

The newly created index is then displayed:


Posting Image(s) to a Newsgroup

If one or more images are selected in the image gallery, these can then be posted easily to a Newsgroup. Right click and select Post Images to a Newsgroup... this will bring up the following dialog box:

News settings
The list fields "News-Server" and "Newsgroup" are for the selection of the server and the Newsgroup, to which the images are to be uploaded. The Sender Information... opens a dialog box (see below).

Auto-Index
If you post more than one image, thus a series, you need to check the Add Series Index. In the Series Name field, enter a descriptive name for your image series. Mister PiX then produces automatically an ANPX compatible index, which enables other users to download your series quickly and easily.

The index is generated as explained under Create index and automatically posted at the end of the series. If it more than 25 images are posted, a index is created every 25 images. With altogether 28 images this would be one with 25 thumbnails and a second with 3 thumbnails.

Message
Enter the text for the subject field and the message text here.

There are substitute symbols, which you can enter you into the subject field, these are replaced by the current value for each message.

Substitute symbol	Meaning
%fn	File name: the file name of the image, which is dispatched with this message.
%i	Index: the image number, which is sent
%n	NUMBER: the number of images, which are altogether sent.
If e.g. three images were marked with the names "Picture1.jpg", "second_picture.jpg" and "anotherpicture.jpg", the appropriate reference texts reads:

1.	Mr. PiX AutoPost -- Picture1.jpg (1 OF 3)

2.	Mr. PiX AutoPost – second_picture.jpg (2 OF 3)

3.	Mr. PiX AutoPost-- anotherpicture.jpg (3 OF 3)

Add Post-info
The text message, which is sent with the images, will have an information line placed in front. Registered users can turn the information line on or off with this option box.

Send
The AutoPosting starts.

Cancel
Cancels the process.

The "Sender" dialog box

The information, which you enter here, is entered into the header of the messages.


General Settings

This command opens a dialog box for the selection and specification of general opened in various ways settings. This dialog box can be

1.	If you are in the image gallery, select "View", and "Settings..."

2. 	You can click on the Settings button in the task bar.

3. 	You can open this dialog box from all areas of the program through clicking on the General Settings... button

Further explanations concerning contents and function of this dialog box can be found under the following headings.

see also:

"General Settings"

"Slide Show" Settings


"General Settings"

Minimum Image Size
Here you can indicate the minimum image size to be downloaded by Mr. PiX . A large number of the images in the Internet are uninteresting and reduced to thumbnail or are advertising banners. These images can be automatically filtered within the download task.

Ignore duplicate Filenames
If Mr. PiX finds a picture within the search, the program compares the name of this picture with the names of the pictures, which are already in the Download directory. This option let's you decide whether pictures with same names are downloaded or whether such images are to be ignored.

Confirm Move and Delete
When you delete or move images from the gallery, Mr. PiX can ask you for an acknowledgement. Since pictures are deleted and not moved to the recycle bin, this option can possibly be useful.

Download Path
You can indicate in which directory the images Mr. PiX finds are to be downloaded.

By clicking on this button a window with the directory tree on your computer opens. You can then select the Download directory.

Language
The language used, i.e. all menus, tool tips and dialog box inscriptions, can be displayed both in English and in German.


"Slide Show" Settings

Random Order
If you select this option, the images are displayed in random order. If this option is not selected, the images are displayed in the order of the gallery window.

Full Screen
If this option is selected, the pictures are enlarged to fill the display area as much as possible.

Interval:       Sec.
Indicate here, how much time is to elapse, until the Slide Show changes to the next picture.

See also:
The Slide Show


Adjustments for the search in the WWW

This dialog box contains a list of the search engines, which are queried with the search in the WWW. If a search engine is not to be used in the search queries, you can deactivate it with the small box at the beginning of the line, in which the search machine is located.

You can activate the search engine again at any time, by clicking the small box. You can also add or delete entries in this list.

Add
Clicking on this Button will activate the search engine field, the text fields are empty. Till out the text fields and thereby add a new search engine to the list.

Edit
Highlight the search engine to be changes by clicking on it then clicks on modify. The appropriate dialog box will be displayed and you can modify the entries.

Delete
By clicking on this button the highlighted search engine is removed from the list.

The "Search Engine" Field
You'll find three text fields in this display, which are necessary for modifications of existing or addition of new search engines:

Name	Enter a representative name for the search engine here. If you start the search in the WWW, this name is displayed in the log window of the work area.
URL	Here the URL of the search engine is entered.
Query	Here the query of the search engine must be entered. If you start a search with a search engine in a commercial Browser, then you can copy this query from the URL input line. If you input the text "one word" e.g. in the search machine Yahoo and start the search, then the text appears "http://www.search.com/bin/search?p=oneword" in the URL input line of your Browsers. The first part of this line (http://www.search.com") is the URL. The second section ("bin/search?p=oneword") is the search query, i.e. an instruction or a character sequence, which is sent to the search engine. In this example the search query refers to the concrete word "one word". Please change this to the character sequence "{KEYS}". This character sequence is a substitute symbol. If Mr. PiX sends the search query to the individual search machines, the character sequence "{to KEYS}" is substituted by the search words input specified by you. The "query" line should look like this example "bin/search?p={KEYS }".
The Button General Settings... opens the appropriate dialog box.

The Button Excluded Links... shows the list of the excluded links.

The Button Proxy Settings... opens the dialog box for the Proxy settings.


The WWW Scan Settings

Scan-Type

You can specify the order, in which pages are searched for images.

In the recursive search on each page found the search continues with the first hyperlink found. Only then are the other links of a page searched (depth run). This form of the search is preferable with web pages containing normal link patterns, visible contents and branch depths.

With the level for level search first all links, which are found on the first page are searched, then all links contained within these links (width run). You should use this form of search, if you search web pages, which consist of link lists. The branch depths can be very different in these pages.

Depth
Here you determine up to which depth to search links.

Auto-close thread after scan
When the links within a page are searched, the corresponding threads will expand. If you select this option, the treads are collapsed after the search is concluded. Adjustments for the News reader


Newsreader Settings

News Server and -groups

Further adjustments


News Server and -groups

News-Server
This list displays the News servers within the Newsreader, listed in the work area besides the word "server". You can change the entries in this list with the Add..., Edit... , and Delete… buttons. If you click on one of the servers in the list, the list of Newsgroups available on this server is displayed. If no Newsgroups were downloaded yet, this list will be empty.

Search
Enter key words here. All Newsgroups are shown, which contains these key words. Under the list it is displayed how many Newsgroups contain this word section. Enter for example "pictures", all Newsgroups containing "pictures" will be displayed.

Subscriptions
This is the list of the Newsgroups selected for the current server.

With this Button you can subscribe to Newsgroups highlighted in the list. These Newsgroups then appear in the lower list "Subscriptions". Additionally these Newsgroups appear in the upper list in bold typing. This makes it easy to see all Newsgroups to which you have already subscribed.

You can also subscribe to individual Newsgroups, by double clicking on the selected Newsgroups.

With this Button subscription are removed. The selected Newsgroup is deleted from the list of the subscriptions. You can remove individual subscriptions by double-clicking the appropriate Newsgroup.

Add...
This Button is for adding new News servers. Depending upon the options selected in the "more settings" menu either the News assistant or a simple dialog box is opened. In both cases you can enter the necessary information for creating the new News server for Mr. PiX.

Edit...
This opens a dialog box "News server", and you can make the desired modifications.

Delete
Remove the marked news servers from the list.

Load Group-List
The Newsgroups of the marked server are loaded.

General Options...
Opens the dialog box with the general setting options.


Further adjustments

Number of Headers to load on connect
Here you indicate the maximum amounts of headers in a Newsgroup that are to be downloaded.

Delete articles after... Days
Items, which were viewed by you, are stored on your computer and can be read at a later point in time, without repeated downloading. In order to avoid that these messages occupy too much storage space, you can specify after how many days the program will delete these messages.

Use Assistant when adding servers
With this option you determine whether the assistant opens or just a simple dialog box when adding new News servers.

Mark all messages as "Read" when leaving a group
Unread news in a group are set in bold type. Read articles are set in plain type. This Option allows you to determine wether all news are marked as "read" when leaving a group or exiting Mister PiX. This enables you to recognize new articles in the next session.

General Options...
Opens the general settings dialog box.


Excluding Links

This is a list of URLs, which are ignored both when searching WWW and when scanning the WWW. If Mr. PiX discovers this URL during a search, this URL is not searched.

Add

This Button opens the above dialog box. Enter the URL which is to be added to the list.

Edit
With this Button you can modify a highlighted URL.

Delete
With this Button you can remove a highlighted URL from the list, so that it is searched the next time.


Proxy Settings

Use Proxy
Select this option, if you use a Proxy server with the WWW connection.

Proxy-Server
Enter the names of the server here.

Proxy Port
Indicate the number of the port used here.

Username
Enter the user name, with which your are logging onto the Proxy server.

Password
Enter the appropriate password here.


Adding new News Servers

When adding new News servers, either the News assistant or a simple dialog box is opened. This depends on which options were selected in the "Further Adjustments" dialog box.

see also:

The News Assistant

The News server Dialog Box


The News Assistant

The News assistant consists of three steps.

Step 1

Enter the name of the News server here. You can also click on the search button.... Mr.Pix will then look for your default News server and enters the information into the appropriate text field. Then click then on Next.

Step 2

If the News server requires you to log in, select the option "yes". Fill out the username and password fields. Otherwise select "no".

Click on Next, in order to go to the next step.

Click on Next, in order to proceed.

Step 3

You can now add the new News server. If the list of available Newsgroups is to be downloaded automatically, select "Yes". If you select "No", the new server is added to the list of the News servers, but the Newsgroups available are not downloaded. You can retrieve them at a later point in time.


The News server Dialog Box

Name or IP-Address
Enter the name of the News server or the IP address here.

Servers requires authentication
If the server requires you to login, select this option and enter the user names as well as the password for the login.


The Image Display - The Image Display
The Image Display

The image display opens in its own window. The selected image is displayed first in the original size. The name of the image is located in the top bar of the window.

The window has a few menus and buttons, which are briefly explained here.

The "File" menu contains the "Close" command. This will close the display window.

The "Print..." option will incorporate the print dialog box of Windows and the current image can be printed.

The "View" menu contains options to change the image display:

Original size	The image is displayed again in the original size.
Full Screen	The image window is increased to its max. size. This size depends on the current video card settings.
Zoom to fit	With this option the image is increased so that it fills the entire window.
Zoom-Settings	Here you find a submenu, with which you can select, as precise scaling options for the displayed image. A very precise scaling is however connected with longer processing times and uses much more storage space.

This button corresponds to the "Original size".

This button corresponds to "Full Screen".

This button corresponds to "Zoom to fit".

The number besides "Faktor" indicates with which factor the image is presently zoomed. You can modify the zoom factor and the display sizes of the image with the sliding control.

This button allows you to copy the current image to another program.

This button will print the current image.


The Slide Show - The Slide Show
The Slide Show

The Slide Show functions are very simple. All pictures, which you see in the picture gallery, are displayed in sequence or in random order.

Click on this Button for the Slide Show. The display becomes black as it loads the first image. After an adjustable time period the next image loads.

You can select the length of time between the image changes in "Slide Show" menu settings under "general settings". There you can also select in which order what images are to be displayed. You can find the dialog box "General Settings" by changing to the "Picture Gallery" work area and then clicking on the Button for the settings.

With the following keys you can select the order of the Slide Show:

"P"	Pause/Resume: The Slide Show is paused, the actual picture stops or the Slide Show is continued
SPACEBAR / RETURN key	The next image is displayed immediately (Quick Display )
Any other key	The Slide Show is terminated


The Registration - The Registration
The Registration

If you do not register your version of Mister PiX, the full ability of the program is available to you with two restrictions:

•	All downloaded images are saved only as gray tone images.

•	All downloaded images are displayed with a red information text.

As soon as you registered your version these restrictions are omitted. Mr. Pix then downloads all images to their full color extent. The red information text, which otherwise covers sections of the images, is also no longer visible. The registration of Mr. PiX can be completed in the following steps:

Open the "Registration..." Dialog box
In "Help" menu click on "Registration..." And the appropriate dialog box opens. You can also register at the start of the program.

Finding the Public key
You'll find a Public key in the above dialog box. You will need this number to unlock Mr. PiX.

Connect to the Web site of Mr. PiX
Click on the Connect... button, the Mr. Pix web site will be opened in your in your default Browser. A page is displayed, on which you are prompted to enter the Public key, your e-mail address and to pick a desired user name as well. With the help of the Public key and the user name a Private key is generated. This is transmitted to you via e-mail to the address entered by you and should arrived within short time providing there are no network problems.

Enter the Private Key

Enter to your user names and the Private key into the dialog box then click on unlock.

This box confirms that the registration was successful


Glossary

ANPX

URL

Download directory

Thumbnails

Tool tip


ANPX

Advanced News Picture IndeX


URL

Uniform Resources Locator: The position of all information in the WWW (the same for all whether text, tone, picture, video etc.) Is uniquely determined by a URL and can be charged by specifying this address of the WWW. Beispiel: www.mr-pix.com


Download directory

In the Download directory is where all images Mr.PiX finds are stored.


Thumbnails

Thumbnails are strongly reduced preview images, which enable an overview.


Tool tip

Tool tips are short notes, which give information about the function of display items.