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The Digital Light & Color Screen Saver 2.5

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The Digital Light & Color Screen Saver lets you display a sequence of images as a screen saver. You can customize the list of images to be displayed, the rate at which they advance, and, if your computer has sound capability, the sound it makes when you transition from one image to the next.

Installing the Screen Saver:

To copy the screen saver files to your computer, click on the Install Screen Saver checkbox when you install Picture Window. The files Ssdlc.scr, Ssdlc.hlp, and Snbd6w9s.dll are copied to your Windows directory. To uninstall the screen saver, simply delete these files from your Windows directory.

To activate the screen saver, click the Start button, Settings, and then Control Panel. Next, double click on the Display icon. Then click on the Screen Saver tab and select ssdlc or dlc from the Screen Saver list. To configure the screen saver, click on the Settings... button (for details see below). To test the screen saver, click on the Preview button.

To make the screen saver display a set of your own image files, first place them in a folder and then change the Image Directory configuration setting (see below) to the pathname of the folder containing your image files. Images are displayed in the order in which they appear in the image directory. Files in the image directory that are not images are ignored.

Configuring the Screen Saver:

The screen saver has several settings available from the Settings dialog box:

Delay Between Images

Enter the number of seconds you want the screen saver to wait. This delay is measured from the time it starts to display one image to the time it starts to display the next image.

The first image is displayed 5 seconds after the screen saver is activated; subsequent images are displayed at the selected interval.

Image Directory

Enter the pathname of a folder containing the image files you want to display.

File Name

Enter the file name including wild card characters of the image files you want to display. All valid image files in the specified directory matching this filename template will be displayed in sequence.

For example, to display all valid image files in the image directory, select *.*; to display only BMP files, select *.BMP.

Sound Options

If your computer has a sound card and can play WAV files you can enter the pathname of a WAV file here to play a sound each time the images change. Before you can enter a pathname, you must check the Play sound between images checkbox. To temporarily disable the sound effects, just clear the checkbox.

Testing the Screen Saver:

To test the screen saver, click on the Preview button in the Screen Saver control panel dialog box. The screen saver will display its logo screen for 5 seconds and will then start displaying the image files in the image directory. Moving the mouse, clicking a button, or pressing a key will clear the screen saver.

If your display is currently configured for less than 256 colors or if there are no valid image files in the image directory, the screen saver will display an error message and terminate.

When displaying 24-bit color images on a 256-color display, the images are automatically dithered.

Limitations:

The image files must all be in BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PCX, TARGA, PNG, or GIF format.

Your display must be configured for 256 or more colors.

In some cases, the auto shutdown features of some portable and desktop computers can interfere with the correct operation of screen savers. We recommend disabling power management when using the sceen saver.

For more information about this product or about Picture Window, our complete system for photographers, please contact us at:

Digital Light & Color
P.O. Box 382908
Cambridge, MA 02238

(617) 489-8858  Information
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Web site: http://www.dl-c.com
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