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- Shortcuts and Hints
-
-
- NAVIGATION
-
- Several shortcuts have been built into CD-Runner to help an
- experienced user more quickly navigate through screens and
- options. One of the biggest shortcuts involves the mouse;
- although you can use the pulldown menus and/or command buttons
- to access everything in CD-Runner, a faster and more efficient
- way is to click directly on the item or "hotspot" on the screen.
- These hotspots are easy to spot; when the mouse is moved over
- one, the mousepointer will change from the default arrow pointer
- to a "hand" pointer.
-
- For example, in the Audio CD player you may click directly on
- the Time display to change it's display mode, or directly on
- the Artist or Song Titles to display the CD Info box. Likewise
- if CD Jacket art (graphics) have been scanned in for a specific
- CD, then left-click the mouse on either the CD Jacket text in
- the music calendar window or directly on the display itself to
- directly bring up the display selection box.
-
- Another useful hotspot is the Audio CD and CD-ROM Runner disc
- drawers; simply left-click the mouse on this hotspot to eject
- the audio CD or CD-ROM. Note that you can also identify the
- hotspots by bringing up the CD-Runner help module (press
- function key F1 anywhere in CD-Runner to see context-sensitive
- help). Simply move the mouse to the different parts of the
- faceplates and a pop-up help box will display the hotspot
- and describe its function.
-
- Note that both left AND right mouse clicks are available on
- some hotspot areas.
-
-
- TIPS
-
- The CD-Runner Main Menu screen includes a Tips popup box.
- Even if you have disabled the "display on startup" option on the
- tips box, you may view any or all of the tips by selecting the Main
- Menu Tips option.
-
- The following tips are available:
-
- 1. To move the Audio CD, CD-ROM, RD or Media Runner
- faceplates, simply click and hold down the left mouse button
- and move the faceplate to the desired position.
-
- 2. To re-center the Audio CD, CD-ROM, RD or Media Runner
- faceplates, simply click the right mouse button on the faceplate.
-
- 3. To exit or quit a screen, press the Esc key (this is the same
- as clicking on the Cancel, Quit or Exit command buttons).
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- 4. To get help at any time, press function key F1.
-
- 5. To access the menu bar selections or commands buttons using the
- keyboard, press and hold down the Alt key and press the letter
- which is underlined (e.g. press "Alt F" to access the "File"
- menu selection).
-
- 6. To play a movie file (*.avi,*.mpg,*.dat,*.qt,*.mov,*.m1v,*.mpeg,
- *.mpe,*.mpa,*.mp2,*.enc,*.mmm) or a wave or midi file directly,
- enter the command line "CDLAUNCH <drive\path\filename>"
- (e.g. CDLAUNCH C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA\CLOUDS.MID). This
- will load the Media Runner and automatically play the file.
-
- 7. To run an application using CD-Runner directly, enter the command
- line "CDLAUNCH <drive\path\filename>" (e.g. CDLAUNCH
- C:\WINDOWS\WORDPAD.EXE). This will run the specified
- application and unload CD-Runner.
-
- 8. To change your default Web Browser for use with CD-Runner,
- access the Setup-Advanced section.
-
- 9. If you minimize the Audio CD or Media Runners while they are
- playing a desired selection, a convenient popup volume and
- track control will be displayed on top of all screens. This
- allows you to change volume or access the track commands
- while using another Windows application.
-
- 10. To move to any position in an Audio CD or Media Runner track,
- click directly on the horizontal status bar (under the track
- number and time display).
-
- 11. If you are using multiple CD-ROM or Removable Drives, if you
- originally entered a new application on the default drive
- and later place the CD-ROM or RD in a different drive,
- CD-Runner will automatically find it and run it.
-
- 12. All hotspots in CD-Runner are designated by a "Hand"
- mousepointer. Any time the mousepointer changes from a
- arrow-type pointer to a hand, you may click directly on
- the text or graphic to perform the associated action.
-
- 13. Click directly on the Audio CD or CD-ROM Runner Disc Drawer
- to automatically eject the CD in the default drive.
-
- 14. Click directly on any time display to change it's format type
- (e.g. click on time when in elapsed mode to change to a
- remaining time display).
-
- 15. When playing a movie in the Media Runner, click and hold the
- left mouse button and move the playback screen or faceplate
- to any desired position. Click the right mouse button on
- either screen or faceplate to re-center both.
-
- 16. If there is no CD in the primary drive and the Disc Prompt
- screen is shown, you may click on the "Ejected CD" icon
- to automatically load the CD and close the drive door if
- you are using a "caddyless" CD-ROM drive.
-
- 17. You can easily turn your PC into a screen saver which plays
- audio CDs by using the "CD-Jacket" option in the Audio
- CD Runner Library and selecting a directory containing your
- favorite bitmap (BMP) files!
-
- 18. To hide the CD-ROM and RD Runners control panel, click
- anywhere on the recessed panel. To open the door, click
- anywhere on the door panel. You may also set the default
- control panel door state (open or closed) in the Setup section.
-
- 19. To remove the "on-top" volume and track controls popup screen
- (visible when Media or Audio CD Runners are minimized and
- playing), click the right mouse button on the popup screen.
-
- 20. You may remove the main CD-Runner screen from loading and go
- directly to the Audio CD or CD-ROM Runners by changing the
- "display main menu on startup" checkbox in the Setup section.
-
- 21. You can easily modify the colors and/or fonts used on all of
- the CD-Runner faceplates and Disc Prompt screen by accessing
- the "Customize" option in the Setup section.
-
- 22. The CD-Runner background wallpaper used may be changed
- (select new bitmap or BMP file), eliminated, set to a custom
- solid color, tiled or stretched to fit full screen in the Setup
- section.
-
- 23. You may select a custom Mixer to be used with CD-Runner or
- modify the internal CD-Runner volume control options in the
- Setup section.
-
- 24. The CD-Runner Setup section contains an "Advanced" section
- which allows you to set your Web Browser, Enhanced CD
- players and Password and other Miscellaneous options.
-
- 25. Click the left mouse button on the Title or Description display in
- any of the faceplates to display a drop-down selection box to
- select songs, movies, applications, etc..
-
- 26. If you are using the background wallpaper, you may minimize or
- restore it by clicking on the "WP-On" or "WP-Off" hotspots in
- the faceplate display windows.
-
- 27. To register CD-Runner to be used by the Windows 95 Autoplay
- feature, select "My Computer", "View", "Options", "File Types",
- and "Audio CD"; highlight "Play", click "Edit" and in the
- "Application Used..." line type: C:\CDRUNNER\CDLAUNCH.EXE
- (or if using a different CDRUNNER directory enter the correct
- name).
-
- 28. If CD-Runner is registered to be used by the Windows 95
- Autoplay feature, then you may use the Windows Explorer to
- display the Audio tracks on the CD loaded & launch the
- Audio CD Runner to play a desired track simply by clicking on it.
-
- 29. To launch the Audio CD Runner directly from Windows, setup a
- shortcut using the following command line:
- C:\CDRUNNER\CDLAUNCH.EXE AUDIOCD (or if using a
- different CDRUNNER directory enter the correct name).
-
- 30. To add CD-Runner to your Start button, right mouse click on
- the Windows taskbar, select "Properties", "Start Menu Programs",
- "Add", at command line box enter CD-Runner executable (e.g.
- "C:\CDRUNNER\CDLAUNCH.EXE") or Browse, select the Folder
- to place CD-Runner in (or create new folder), and enter a
- shortcut name (e.g. "CD-Runner").
-
- 31. To launch an Audio CD or CD-ROM and bypass all CD-Runner
- screens, use the CD-Runner Lite menu option (Start/
- CD-Runner Applications/CD-Runner Lite). Note that CD-ROMs
- must initially be setup in CD-Runner to use this option.
-
- 32. To create a "CD Runner Lite" shortcut, add a new shortcut
- using the following command line:
- C:\CDRUNNER\CDLAUNCH.EXE CDLITE (or if using a different
- CDRUNNER directory enter the correct name).
-