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- PCXALBUM organizes pcx file into a pages of an album along with
- sound messages for each of the pages (if a recording and playback
- borad is installed such as Voice Master Key by Convox inc). The
- pages of the album can be veiwed at randon or in a slide view
- fashion. Pages can be added or removed at any time. An album can
- have up to 127 pages. The sound messages can also be changed at
- any time. PCXALBUM require a VGA card and 640K of memory. Read
- the following before using pcxalbum.
-
- SELECTION MENU
-
-
- Option 1: Enter the filename of album and a slide view of pcx files can be
- displayed by using the pageDown key to advance to the next album
- page or by using the pageUp key to go back to the previous album
- page. By pressing the ENTER key the pcx file is display again
- along with a recorded message if the sound setup program was
- executed. To return to the Selecton menu press the ESC key.
-
- Option 2: Enter the filename of the album and the discription menu will
- appear. Enter the page number of the album page you want to
- display. Once the pcx file is displayed along with recorded
- message if it was setup by executing program sound.exe, use the
- pageUp, pageDown, ENTER, and ESC keys as in option 1 above, except
- that pressing the ESC key returns you to the discription menu
- instead of the Selection menu. To return to the Selection menu
- enter the appropriate page number from the discription menu that
- is the page whose discription is "Quit".
-
- Option 3: Enter the filename of the album and the discription menu will
- appear. Enter the page number of the album page that you want to
- change. The pcx file will be displayed along with a message like
- "Press any key to begin recording"; Press any key and record your
- message after which the discription menu appears again. To return
- to the Selection menu enter the page number whose discription is
- "Quit".
-
- Option 4: Enter the filename of the album and the discription menu appears.
- Enter one of the page numbers of the album pages to be exchanged.
- Then enter the second page number and the page will be exchanged
- along with their recorded messages. To return to the Selection
- menu enter the page number whose discription is "Quit".
-
- Option 5: Enter the filename of album and then enter the directory of where
- the pcx file is located. Next, a directory of pcx files appears,
- enter the filename of the pcx file you want to store in the album.
- The pcx file will be displayed along with the message "Press a key
- to began recording(appears only if the sound program was executed).
- After recording your message, the message "Save? (Y/N)" appears on
- the screen. If you answer "Y" or "y" enter the discription of the
- pcx file that was displayed and this pcx file will become a page
- of the album. If PCX display type is not in the PCX file a screen
- will appear that has the possible display types. Enter a type to
- see if the PCX file is displayed nor not. Press the ENTER key twice
- to display, record a message, and save the pcx filoe in the album.
- Or enter "Q" to return to the Selection menu.
-
- Option 6: Enter the filename of the album and the discription menu appears.
- Enter the page number of the album page that is to be removed.
- Enter the page number whose discription is "Quit" to return to the
- Selection menu.
-
- Option 7: Terminates the program.
-
-
- SOUND.EXE program
-
- The sound.exe program setups a configuration file to be use with
- the pcxalbum.exe program. When the sound.exe program is executed
- the following enteries are made:
-
- 1. the directory path of sound programs
- 2. recording program filename with exectensions .exe or .com
- 3. playback program filename with extensions .exe or .com
- 4. filename extension of sound files
-
- The following entries are an example of entering information for
- the Voice Master Key sound board:
-
- 1. enter "vmkey" directory of programs record and say
- 2. enter "record.exe" recording program
- 3. enter "say.exe" playback program
- 4. enter "v3s" file extension of sound files
-
- The sound.exe program much be executed before the pcxalbum
- program is executed in order to record or playback messages in
- the album.
-
-
- Creating an album
-
- To create an album select option 5 from the Selection menu and
- enter the album's filename. Follow Option 5 above to connect pcx
- files to the album. Use options 1 or 2 to view the page of the
- album.