Copyright: ImageWIZ PLUS V1.0 Copyright © 1996 Sausage Software Limited
Citation: ImageWIZ PLUS Help File © 1996 Sausage Software Ltd


Add Image: Add button

Transmit the files selected in the ImageWIZ Plus File Manager into the Sequence tab picture list as an image sequence.

If this is the first time you have pressed the Add button, ImageWIZ Plus will request that you save the current project so it can resolve future references. You should put your ImageWIZ Plus project into the same directory as the rest of the HTML for your Web page.

You may select multiple files (using Shift-Click for contiguous lists, and Ctrl-Click for individual file selection) before you left click the Add button, and all of them will be loaded into the Image Sequence in the order they appear in the File Manager Files list. Effects will be applied to each successive image in the Sequence List.


Add Image: Close button

This button closes the ImageWIZ Plus File Manager immediately, abandoning any selections you may have made in the Files list and returning to the Sequence tab.


Add Image: Directories list

Use this list to navigate to the directory where your image files are located.


Add Image: Drive list

Use this list to navigate to the drive where your images files are located.


Add Image: Files display

Use this list to select the actual files you propose to add to your ImageWIZ Plus image sequence.

As you select a file, the Preview window displays it for you. When you are selecting multiple files, the Preview displays the last filename clicked.


Add Image: Image File filespec

This field displays the last filename clicked. If you know which file you want, you may enter it directly into this field.

To save typing and transcription errors, however, we recommend that you use the Directory and Files lists to specify the file you want.


Add Image: Help button

The ImageWIZ Plus File Manager is a special dialogue which operates in a very similar way to a standard Windows file dialogue. It allows you to find and specify lists of bitmaps to add into an ImageWIZ Plus image sequence.

 Click here for access to the context sensitive help for the ImageWIZ Plus File Manager.


Add Image: List Files Of list

This field allows you to specify the type of bitmap file you wish to be visible in the ImageWIZ Plus File Manager.

The allowed defaults are GIF and JPEG files. If you want to import single bitmap files of other types, use the Convert Files dialogue, which is accessible via the Edit button on the Toolbar.


Add Image: Preview box

The Preview window displays a preview of the last GIF or JPEG file clicked on in the ImageWIZ Plus File Manager Files list.

It will not attempt to display any other type of file that you select.


Upload Files

Click this button when you are ready to upload your Web page (including your ImageWIZ Plus project) to your Web server. The Upload Files dialogue will open to assist you with the process.

Don't forget to ensure that all the .class files relating to your project are in the same directory as your HTML files before you do this upload.


Auto Upload: Add Files button

This button allows you to add files to the File List to be uploaded with the rest of the files in the list.


Auto Upload: Add .html to Filenames checkbox

If you have not specified a .html extension on your HTML files, this option will add it for you before uploading them to the Web host.


Auto Upload: Check Files button

This executes the ImageWIZ Plus Check Files function on all HTML files in the File List.


Auto Upload: Close button

Left click here to close the Upload Files dialogue and abandon any ongoing attempt to upload.


Auto Upload: Directory field

If the destination of your HTML files on the Host is other than your normal user directory, specify the target directory here.


Auto Upload: File display

This is the list of files that will be uploaded to your specified Web host when you click the Send Files button.


Auto Upload: Host list

Enter the URL of your Web host here.


Auto Upload: Login As field

Specify your login name for the Web host.


Auto Upload: Lower Case radio button

Turn this button on if you want all filenames converted to lower case (often required by unix based Web hosts).


Auto Upload: Password field

Enter your Web host password here. This is a password that you will have been given by your Idependent Service Provider (ISP).


Auto Upload: Preserve Case radio button

Turn on this button if you wish to preserve the case of your filenames (eg for a Windows NT Web server)


Auto Upload: Remove Files button

Select files in the file list, then use this button to remove them from the list.


Auto Upload: Send Files button

Everything ready and A-OK? Click here to initiate the ftp transfer of your HTML and class files to your Web host!


Auto Upload: Upper Case radio button

Turn this button on to have ImageWIZ Plus convert all your filenames to upper case (eg for MS DOS or Joliet file naming conventions, usually associated with MS DOS and / or Windows Web hosts).


Auto Upload: Win or unix Path Spec checkbox

The unix operating system uses forward slashes '/' as the path separator character, while Microsoft based operating systems use the backslash '\' character.

This option will convert pathnames from Windows to unix conventions for you.


Effects tab: Delay Before Image field

Specify the delay (in milliseconds) before this image appears in the applet box with the specified effect.


Choose an effect from the pull down list.

Effects which do not re-scale the image will generally be more efficient and run closer to their specified speed.


Effects tab: Image URL

Specify a URL (Web address) that will be taken as a hypertext jump if the user clicks on the specified image while it is displayed in the applet box.

The Target field allows you to specify which frame in a Web page using Frames will be the one to display this image of your project.


Effects tab: Image filespec

This is the filename of the image selected in the Image Sequence window on the Sequence tab.


Images tab: Convert Image button
Toolbar: Edit button

If you have TIF, BMP or almost any other image file format that you would like to import to make an ImageWIZ Plus image sequence, this button will open the Image Conversion dialogue.

This will allow you to convert from virtually any 'foreign' bitmap format into ImageWIZ's native GIF or JPEG formats.


Sequence tab: Image Sequence window

This is your main visual reference during assembly and tuning of an ImageWIZ Plus Image Sequence. This window holds all the images of the Image Sequence currently being constructed.

Use the Add button on the Toolbar to add frames to your Image Sequence. This will allow you to load JPEG and GIF bitmaps into your Image Sequence.

If you have images in other bitmap formats, ImageWIZ Plus will probably be able to import them using the Edit toolbar button. Select your target image file, and the image conversion routines will convert it (if they can) into either a GIF or JPEG image. You may then proceed as normal for GIF or JPEG images.

The Image Sequence window has a scroll bar to be used when a sequence gets bigger than it can display.

You may move entries in the list simply by dragging them from their current location in the list to their new one. A scrolling region off each end of the Image Sequence window allows you to quickly navigate to any other position in even a very long list. The list will scroll in the selected direction for as long as the mouse cursor is over this region at each end of the Image Sequence window.

To delete entries from the sequence, simply drag them to ImageWIZ's beaker, and drop them there. They will be removed from the current Image Sequence.


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Sequence tab: Beaker icon

Drag the relevant image from the Image Sequence Display to this icon (click and hold the left mouse button while moving the image). When you drop it, the relevant file will be deleted from the Image Sequence and the ImageWIZ Plus project.


Effects tab: Image Preview window

This preview window allows you to see the currently selected frame from the Image Sequence on the Sequence tab.

This preview is of the image as originally loaded, with no effects applied.


Image Processing: Close button

Finished with image conversion? Click here to return to the Sequence tab.


Image Processing: JPEG Compression Factor 100% radio button

The JPEG compression factors control how much compression is applied to the original image when you create a JPEG image. In general, the greater the compression, the more 'lossy' the compression process will be. This means that the compressed image will contain less and less of the original image as the compression increases, and the uncompressed picture quality will suffer progressively.

In general, you should choose a low compression for images whose quality you wish to protect, and a high one for those that don't matter so much. The preview display on this dialogue demonstrates the image quality loss as you increase the JPEG compression.

100% is the lowest JPEG compression factor. It will hardly alter your image quality. Use it when you want the best quality of reproduction.


Image Processing: JPEG Compression Factor 80% radio button

The JPEG compression factors control how much compression is applied to the original image when you create a JPEG image. In general, the greater the compression, the more 'lossy' the compression process will be. This means that the compressed image will contain less and less of the original image as the compression increases, and the uncompressed picture quality will suffer progressively.

In general, you should choose a low compression for images whose quality you wish to protect, and a high one for those that don't matter so much. The preview display on this dialogue demonstrates the image quality loss as you increase the JPEG compression.

80% represents a fairly low JPEG compression. It will hardly alter your image quality. It is probably the best compromise available between image quality and file size. Preview your actual image at higher compressions to see whether the quality holds up.


Image Processing: JPEG Compression Factor 70% radio button

The JPEG compression factors control how much compression is applied to the original image when you create a JPEG image. In general, the greater the compression, the more 'lossy' the compression process will be. This means that the compressed image will contain less and less of the original image as the compression increases, and the uncompressed picture quality will suffer progressively.

In general, you should choose a low compression for images whose quality you wish to protect, and a high one for those that don't matter so much. The preview display on this dialogue demonstrates the image quality loss as you increase the JPEG compression.

70% is an intermediate level of JPEG compression. It will alter your image quality a bit.


Image Processing: JPEG Compression Factor 60% radio button

The JPEG compression factors control how much compression is applied to the original image when you create a JPEG image. In general, the greater the compression, the more 'lossy' the compression process will be. This means that the compressed image will contain less and less of the original image as the compression increases, and the uncompressed picture quality will suffer progressively.

In general, you should choose a low compression for images whose quality you wish to protect, and a high one for those that don't matter so much. The preview display on this dialogue demonstrates the image quality loss as you increase the JPEG compression.

60% is an intermediate but heavy level of JPEG compression. It will alter your image quality somewhat.


Image Processing: JPEG Compression Factor 50% radio button

The JPEG compression factors control how much compression is applied to the original image when you create a JPEG image. In general, the greater the compression, the more 'lossy' the compression process will be. This means that the compressed image will contain less and less of the original image as the compression increases, and the uncompressed picture quality will suffer progressively.

In general, you should choose a low compression for images whose quality you wish to protect, and a high one for those that don't matter so much. The preview display on this dialogue demonstrates the image quality loss as you increase the JPEG compression.

50% is the highest JPEG compression. It will significantly alter your image quality. Use it only when you can afford the loss in quality of reproduction.


Image Processing: Open File button

Click here to select a 'foreign' image file for conversion to GIF or JPEG format. You will note that the resulting file selector dialogue box allows a very wide range of file types.

In general, you should probably leave the Files of Type entry on ALL FILES *.* and try selecting your target file for conversion. If ImageWIZ Plus doesn't recognize it, you will be informed!!

To see a list of those file formats definitely supported, click on the Files of Type list.

Once the file opening process is complete, you will see three images displayed in the Image Conversion dialogue: the Original on the left, the GIF version in the middle, and the JPEG version (at whatever compression level is in force) on the right.


Image Processing: Save GIF button

Click here to save the GIF version of the file you have just converted and viewed in the Image Conversion dialogue.

A file dialogue will open which invites you to choose a suitable location and filename for the new GIF file. May we suggest that you place it in your HTML default directory immediately?


Image Processing: Save JPEG button

Click here to save the JPEG version of the file you have just converted and viewed in the Image Conversion dialogue. The version that will be saved is the one displayed, which includes any compression factor you may have selected with the checkboxes.

A file dialogue will open which invites you to choose a suitable location and filename for the new JPEG file. May we suggest that you place it in your HTML default directory immediately?


Check Project button

This Toolbar button runs a program which resolves all text, bitmap and class file references in a HTML file (especially the Web page you are about to upload to your server).

It requires them to be in the same directory as the Web page file you are dealing with. Clicking the button opens a file dialogue which asks where your HTML page(s) containing your ImageWIZ Plus project and other Web stuff are located. You nominate the HTML file, and ImageWIZ Plus performs the checking function. It will produce informative error messages telling you which file is missing, and asking what you want done about it.

After Check Project has run with no errors, your Web page(s) are ready for upload to your Service Provider.


Options tab: Choose Browser before Preview checkbox

When this option is checked, ImageWIZ Plus will ask you to identify the executable of the browser you want to use for the next Preview of your work.

This is useful when you wish to ensure that your project is compatible with more than one browser. If you have Netscape and Explorer installed, you can easily preview your project in each browser.


Options tab: Class Files Directory filespec

This option sets the 'code base' for your ImageWIZ Plus applets. You can use it to specify a directory (eg C:\applets) which contains all your ImageWIZ Plus class files.

When you use the ImageWIZ Plus uploader to upload your Web page to the server, these files will be copied into your HTML directory automagically.

The rule we keep hammering remains true: your Java class files MUST be in your HTML directory before you upload to the server. ImageWIZ Plus just helps you do it, IF you have specified the class files directory on the Options tab.


Options tab: Default Browser filespec

Specify the path and executable filename of your favourite browser here. ImageWIZ Plus will use it for previews by default unless the Choose Browser option is checked.


Options tab: Default Directory filespec

Specify the path and directory name for your HTML working directory. Then ImageWIZ Plus will open and save projects defaulting to this directory, and will make all path references to other assets (eg bitmaps) relative to this directory.


Properties tab: Background Colour selector

This colour chip allows selection of a background colour for the whole applet bounding box.

If you select a Background Image that is of similar dimensions to the applet bounding box, the background image will override any background colour selection.


Properties tab: Background Image filespec

You can specify a background image for your whole image sequence.

If the applet bounding box is smaller than your nominated background image, the image will simply be cropped. If it is larger, the image will appear with blank space (usually in the background colour) around it.

You may also opt to tile a smaller background image so that it fills the applet bounding box.


Properties tab: Stop Image Scrolling at Centre

Select this option to stop the scrolling function of any image at a point closest to the centre of the applet bounding box.

For effects which have a starting position offset from the centreline in the direction of movement, this means stop the image when it reaches the other centreline at right angles to the direction of movement. For instance, a Scroll Up effect from the bottom left of the applet box will stop in the centre left position.


Properties tab: Height field

Specify the height (in pixels) of the proposed applet bounding box. This will be the height in pixels of the final ImageWIZ Plus image sequence on your Web page.


Properties tab: Repeat Sequence N Times field

Specifies how many times the whole Image Sequence will repeat when it is running on your Web page.


Properties tab: Width field

Specify the width (in pixels) of the proposed applet bounding box. This will be the width in pixels of the final ImageWIZ Plus image sequence on your Web page.


The FIE Tabs
The ImageWIZ Tabs

Nearly all the operations you perform to create and package an ImageWIZ Plus image sequence take place in the four tabs in the ImageWIZ Plus sub screen. Choose one to view all the context sensitive help entries for the tab.

(You can also see any one of these entries by pressing F1 while you are in the particular field concerned).


Toolbar: Add button

Left click this button to add images to the selected ImageWIZ Plus image sequence. The ImageWIZ Plus File Manager dialogue will open to help you identify and load images.


Toolbar: Output button

Left click here when your project is just about ready to 'ship' to your Web server.

ImageWIZ Plus will compile the project and place the resulting HTML code on the Windows clipboard. From here, you may paste into any text or HTML editor (we recommend Hot Dog, of course!!) to construct your Web page.


Toolbar: Help button

There is extensive context sensitive help throughout ImageWIZ Plus.
 Context sensitive help.

There is also a detailed tutorial and general help book.
 The tutorial.

Connect to our Web site (if you are on the Net) for news about this and our other products.

See our Web site!


Toolbar: New button

Clear all current ImageWIZ Plus assignments, and commence a new, clean project in the ImageWIZ Plus workspace. You will still have to save this new project before you can add images and perform other ImageWIZ Plus tasks.


Toolbar: Open button

Open a previously saved ImageWIZ Plus project and load it into the ImageWIZ Plus workspace. The file will be an ImageWIZ Plus (.wiz) file. ImageWIZ Plus will also read ImageWIZ Standard (.fie) project files.


Toolbar: Preview button

Selection of this option initiates your preferred browser and loads the ImageWIZ Plus applet and image sequence project into it for preview purposes. You specify the default browser in the Options tab.


Toolbar: Quit button

Left click here to leave ImageWIZ Plus. If you have made unsaved changes, you will be invited to save them before ImageWIZ Plus closes.


Toolbar: Save button

Save your current project as an ImageWIZ Plus image sequence project (filename *.wiz or *.fie) on the nominated drive. The project may later be recalled using the Open button.


The Images tab
The Sequence tab

This tab is where you set up Image Sequences, choosing images and their order, and editing the sequence. It also contains the access to the Image Conversion functions, which can convert most image formats to the .GIF and .JPG formats required by most Web software.

Image Sequence display	Image Conversion
Image Deletion


The Options tab

This tab controls ImageWIZ Plus defaults such as directories and Web browsers. You should set up these options early in your relationship with ImageWIZ Plus!!

Choose Browser before each Preview	Default Directory
Don't Show Tutorial at Startup	Default Browser
.class Files Directory


The Effects tab

This tab controls most of the dynamics of an ImageWIZ Plus image sequence, such as speed, effects selected and overall duration.

Image Filename	Image URL
Image Preview window	Start Position
Delay Before Next Image	Image Effect
Image X of N	Apply to All Images
Repeat Effect N Times	Apply to Subsequent
Speed of Effect


The Properties tab

This tab controls most of the presentation properties, or how the overall image sequence will look on the Web page. It includes parameters for overall size and common properties such as background and startup images, background colour and sound.

Width	Height
Repeat Sequence N Times	Stop Image Scrolling at Centre
Background Colour	Background Image


View this Help

Provides access to all the context sensitive help entries for the ImageWIZ Plus File Manager.


The FIE File Manager
The ImageWIZ File Manager

Use the access panel below to access the Context Sensitive Help entry for any control or field within this dialogue box.

Filename display	List Files Of field
Directories list	Add button
Files list	Close button
Preview window
Drives list	Help button


The Upload Files dialogue

This dialogue is designed to help you upload your completed Web page (including your ImageWIZ Plus project) to your Web server. You need to specify various communications parameters, and which files you wish to upload. The buttons below access the individual context sensitive help items for all the elements of this dialogue.

Host	Preserve Case
Directory	Upper Case
Login As	Lower Case
Password	Change \ To / In Paths
File list	Add .HTML Extension to Files
Add File	Check Files
Remove File	Send Files button
	Close button


The Image Conversion dialogue

This dialogue is designed to help you convert 'foreign' bitmap files into GIF or JPEG format for use in ImageWIZ Plus image sequences.

The buttons below access the individual context sensitive help items for all the elements of this dialogue.

JPEG Compression Factors:   100%	Open File
80%	Save GIF
70%	Save JPEG
60%	Close
50%	Make Transparent


Make Transparent checkbox

Any transparent GIF file that you load will display its transparency color in the color chip at the bottom of the screen.

If you want to make another color the transparency color, click the Make Transparent checkbox and then the eyedropper icon. The cursor will change to an eyedropper that you may use to select another color.

Point to the desired color in the compressed GIF image preview with the eyedropper and left click the mouse. You have selected a new transparency color for the GIF file.


Don't Show Tutorial at Start

Click this checkbox to stop ImageWIZ Plus displaying the tutorial option on the startup screen every time you start it up.


Effects: Scroll Left

The target image is scrolled from right to left, starting either within the applet box or from any allowable position outside it (ie initially invisible).

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Scroll Left and Overlap

The target image is scrolled from right to left, starting either within the applet box or from any allowable position outside it (ie initially invisible). The preceding image is retained (in whatever state the previous effect left it) until the start of the image following the current one.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Scroll Right

The target image is scrolled from left to right, starting either within the applet box or from any allowable position outside it (ie initially invisible).

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Scroll Right and Overlap

The target image is scrolled from left to right, starting either within the applet box or from any allowable position outside it (ie initially invisible). The preceding image is retained (in whatever state the previous effect left it) until the start of the image following the current one.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Scroll Up

The target image is scrolled from bottom to top, starting either within the applet box or from any allowable position outside it (ie initially invisible).

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Scroll Up and Overlap

The target image is scrolled from bottom to top, starting either within the applet box or from any allowable position outside it (ie initially invisible). The preceding image is retained (in whatever state the previous effect left it) until the start of the image following the current one.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Scroll Down

The target image is scrolled from top to bottom, starting either within the applet box or from any allowable position outside it (ie initially invisible).

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Scroll Down and Overlap

The target image is scrolled from top to bottom, starting either within the applet box or from any allowable position outside it (ie initially invisible). The preceding image is retained (in whatever state the previous effect left it) until the start of the image following the current one.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Appear

The target image simply appears at the nominated position inside the applet bounding box.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Appear/Remove

The target image appears at the nominated position inside the applet bounding box, then disappears.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Rotate Horizontally and Shrink

The target image rotates and shrinks, starting from full size and finally disappearing down to a line inside the applet bounding box. This looks like the image is being compressed vertically to a single line. The Repeat control is active for this effect, so you may tell the effect to run on the selected image multiple times.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Rotate Horizontally and Grow

The target image rotates and expands, starting from a single horizontal line and finally reaching full size inside the applet bounding box. This looks like the image is being expanded vertically from a single line. The Repeat control is active for this effect, so you may tell the effect to run on the selected image multiple times.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Grow Up

The target image grows from a point inside the applet bounding box, finally reaching full size. This looks like the image is being expanded both horizontally and vertically from a single point.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Shrink Down

The target image shrinks from full size to a point inside the applet bounding box.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal Left

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the right side and moving left until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal Right

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the left side and moving right until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal Up

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the bottom and moving upwards until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal Down

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the top and moving downwards until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal In

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the outer edge and moving inwards towards the centre until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal Out

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the centre and moving outwards towards the outer edge until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal Left Top

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the top left corner and moving down and right towards the bottom right corner until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal Right Top

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the top right corner and moving down and left towards the bottom left corner until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal Left Bottom

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the bottom left corner and moving up and right towards the top right corner until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Reveal Right Bottom

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively revealed starting from the bottom right corner and moving up and left towards the top left corner until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Wipe Left

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is progressively made invisible starting from the right side and moving left until the whole image is invisible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Wipe Right

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is progressively made invisible starting from the left side and moving right until the whole image is invisible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Wipe Up

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is progressively made invisible starting from the bottom and moving upwards until the whole image is invisible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Wipe Down

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is progressively made invisible starting from the top and moving downwards until the whole image is invisible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Wipe In

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is progressively made invisible starting from the outer edge and moving inwards towards the centre until the whole image is invisible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Wipe Out

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is progressively made invisible starting from the centre and moving outwards towards the outer edge until the whole image is invisible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Vertical Blinds

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively made visible in vertical strips until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Horizontal Blinds

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively made visible in horizontal strips until the whole image is visible.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Spiral In

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively made visible by strips which spiral in from the outer edge towards the centre of the image until the whole image is visible. The speed of the spiral is proportional to the speed, that is, the slower the speed (higher speed number), the slower the spiral will be. Also, the number of squares increases with speed. i.e. A speed of 20 is slow, with a 2x2 spiral.  A speed of 2 is fast, with a 7x7 spiral.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Spiral Out

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively made visible by strips which spiral out from the centre towards the outer edge of the image until the whole image is visible. The Java applet attempts to keeps the overall timing accurate, so the width of the strips in the spiral will change as you specify different speeds of execution (faster makes the strips thinner, slower makes them wider).

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Trails Left

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is moved to the left until it reaches its final position. As it moves, it leaves behind a 'trail' of copies of itself which smear out from the origin to the destination, and are progressively removed until the image is left in its final position.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Trails Right

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is moved to the right until it reaches its final position. As it moves, it leaves behind a 'trail' of copies of itself which smear out from the origin to the destination, and are progressively removed until the image is left in its final position.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Trails Up

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is moved upwards until it reaches its final position. As it moves, it leaves behind a 'trail' of copies of itself which smear out from the origin to the destination, and are progressively removed until the image is left in its final position.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Trails Down

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially visible, and is moved downwards until it reaches its final position. As it moves, it leaves behind a 'trail' of copies of itself which smear out from the origin to the destination, and are progressively removed until the image is left in its final position.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position.


Effects: Slider

The target image is stationary at a point inside the applet bounding box. It is initially invisible, and is progressively made visible by horizontal strips which slide in alternately from left and right until the whole image is visible. The slower the speed (smaller speed number), the fewer the number of panels and the slower they move. The slowest speed is 20 and the fastest is 2.  Speeds less than one are set to 2.  Speeds greater than 20 are set to 20.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects: Double Slide

The target image is stationary at two points outside the applet bounding box. It is therefore initially invisible. Each of the two copies of the image scrolls in from the left and right sides of the applet bounding box, and when they meet they become a single stationary image.

The Start Position keypad automatically re-configures to show the available start positions for the image. Click on any open button and the green tick will move to indicate the new starting position, which is always inside the applet bounding box.


Effects tab: Speed

The contents of this field control the speed with which the effect is applied. For effects involving geometric distortion of the image, the 'comfortable' range of values is around 1 to 20.

For scrolling effects, you may use higher speed settings, but be aware that these will produce strange results when applied to effects such as Grow, Shrink and others which physically change the size of the image. They may simply run too fast.

Generally, you need to use a faster speed for a larger image, because the Speed parameter actually controls the number of pixels transferred per second. Larger images have more pixels, so for the same perceived effect duration, you need to increase the Speed parameter to compensate for larger image size.


Effects tab: Image Effects Preview window

This window uses a simple pre-computed animation to illustrate the operation of each effect. It does NOT display your project, and uses a simple step animation to illustrate the effect currently selected in the Image Effect pulldown list.


Effects tab: Image Preview Window

This panel displays the image you have currently selected for application of an effect. It is one of the numbered sequence of images in your current ImageWIZ Plus project file, as shown in the field immediately below it.


Effects tab: Start Position keypad

This set of 21 'push buttons' provides a simple way to specify the starting position of an image to which the selected effect will be applied.

In particular, for scrolling and other effects which move the image, the allowed starting positions include positions outside the applet bounding box such that the image will move into the applet box (or field of view) under the influence of the effect as it executes.

Allowed start positions are specified by buttons which are clear or have a green tick. Non-allowed starting positions are shown by a red cross on the button. Specify a starting position for your effect by left clicking on any allowed starting position button.


Effects tab: Apply Effects Globally

This checkbox allows you to set up an effect along with all its parameters, then apply it uniformly to all the images in the current Image Sequence.

You may then go and 'tweak' the effects for individual images if you wish to make them different in some way from the others (eg different effect, speed change, etc).


Effects tab: Apply to All Subsequent Images

This checkbox allows you to set up an effect along with all its parameters, then apply it uniformly to all the images following the current one. Any images in the Image Sequence preceding the current one will be unaffected.

You may then go and 'tweak' the effects for individual images if you wish to make them different in some way from the others (eg different effect, speed change, etc).


Effects tab: Image X of N

This field displays the position of the current image (as shown in the Image Preview window and image filename field above it) in the overall Image Sequence.

You may change the current selection by either entering the new number directly into this field, or by using the up and down arrow controls at each end of the bar where the image number is displayed. The one on the left decreases the image number by one, while the right hand one increases it by one.


Effects tab: Repeat Effect N Times

For some of the available effects, you may specify a repeat as part of the effect itself. This field allows you to specify the number of repeats.

If an effect does not support this function, this field will be unavailable (ie 'greyed out').


The ImageWIZ Plus Effects

Use this list to access the context sensitive help entries for all the available ImageWIZ Plus effects. Maximize the window to see all the ImageWIZ Plus effects at once.

Appear	Appear/Remove	Slider	Double Slide
Scroll:	Scroll with Overlap:	Reveal:	Wipe:
Left	Left	Left	Left
Right	Right	Right	Right
Up	Up	Up	Up
Down	Down	Down	Down
		In	In
Trails:	Blinds:	Out	Out
Left	Vertical	Left Top
Right	Horizontal	Right Top	Size:
Up		Left Bottom	Up
Down		Right Bottom	Down
Rotate Horizontally and:	Spiral:
Grow	Shrink	In	Out