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WWPlus 2.65 <ASP>
⌐1992-1996 All rights reserved
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By Don Bradner ____|__ | (R)
Arcata Pet --| | |-------------------
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The online help file is the primary documentation for WWPlus.
This text document is meant primarily to get you started.
Contents of this file:
I. Program Description
II. Program Requirements
III. Installing WWPlus
IV. Getting Started
V. Files and Uninstalling
VI. Troubleshooting
VII. Obtaining wallpaper images
VIII. Getting future upgrades
IX. Registration and distribution
X. ASP Ombudsman Statement
I. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION.
WWPlus is a program for organizing and displaying Windows
wallpaper files. With this program you can easily maintain a
collection of wallpapers, automatically change them at an interval you
select, and use image formats (GIF, PCX, TGA, TIF, .ICO and .JPG) that
would otherwise be unusable by Windows as wallpaper. GIF and PCX
provide compression of 256-color images, and .JPG provides compression
for 16-million color images, thus saving disk space.
There is a screen saver module that will turn your wallpaper files
into a screen saver after a period of inactivity. Extensive setup
options, including password protection, are available both from the
Windows Control Panel Desktop icon and from the main WWPlus screen.
Sixteen transition effects are available. Users may select a single
effect or a menu of effects that will occur randomly.
WWPlus has editing features and file conversion routines built in,
which allow you to change images to suit your wallpaper needs. You
can crop, resize, stretch, rotate, mirror, flip, sharpen, soften, and
adjust brightness, contrast and gamma.
Wallpapers may be tiled (small images displayed in multiples to fill
the entire screen) or not, individually determined. Each non-tiled
wallpaper may be precisely positioned anywhere on the screen, not just
centered (the Windows default). Non-tiled images may be resized
on-the-fly to full screen or a user-set dimension. A universal gamma
correction option allows for display-time lightening or darkening of
images.
Multiple sets of wallpapers called "queues" may be built, with easy
changing of queues. A wallpaper may appear in more than one queue.
Some program configuration items are maintained with the queue, others
are "Global." Queues may be specified as command line options, and
the .QUE extension may be associated with WWPlus to allow the program
to start by running the queue from File Manager or Program Manager
icons.
Full documentation is included in the form of a Windows Help file.
When you desire help, press your F1 function key for context-sensitive
help, or press the help key if you are in a file dialog box.
An uninstall program and log are created when the program is
installed, making removal of the program easy.
WWPlus contains functions which can read and right the .GIF format,
which contains compression technology covered by U.S. Patent No.
4,558,302, owned by the Unisys corporation. The author of WWPlus has
obtained a license from Unisys, and pays a royalty on each
registration, to use this technology. The following statement is
required by that license:
"Use of this software is permitted only to the extent
reasonably required to determine whether to purchase
the software.
"After payment is made, use of this software is limited
to use on only a single personal computer or
workstation which is not used as a server. An
additional payment is required for each use on
another personal computer or workstation.
"Only a single copy may be made of this software
solely for backup or archival purposes. The software
may also be transferred to a single hard disk.
"Any use of this software in violation of the above is
not licensed.
"For information concerning licensing the LZW
compression and/or decompression capability, please
contact:
Unisys Corporation
Welch Licensing Department - CISW19
Township Line & Union Meeting Roads
P.O. Box 500
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19424"
II. Program requirements.
WWPlus requires an IBM compatible 386 or better, running
Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, or Windows NT, with at least 8 megs
of RAM and VGA or better graphics. Recommended: 486DX with 12
or more megs of RAM and accelerated graphics adapter.
Some operations require a mouse.
Graphics files can be quite large, particularly with true-color, so a
large hard disk is recommended. WWPlus will require under 2
megs for program installation.
III. Installing WWPlus
If you obtained WWPlus by downloading it from a computer
Bulletin Board (BBS) or another online source, one necessary
file may not have been included. The file is called
VBRUN300.DLL. Since it is widely used (and included with
Windows 95, for example), you may already have it. Check your
Windows\System directory before hunting for the file. If you
do not have it, you may almost always get it from any source
that would have WWPlus. On BBS systems the file will usually
be called VBRUN300.ZIP or VBRUN3.ZIP. If you obtained the
program on disk, the file should be included. If it is
missing, contact the supplier of the program. Registered
versions obtained from the author will always include
VBRUN300. If you are installing VBRUN300 separately, it MUST
be put in the \Windows\System directory.
To install WWPlus, run the included setup program
WWPSETUP.EXE. If the program is on a floppy disk, you can use
File/Run in the Program Manager and type a:wwpsetup or b:wwpsetup,
whichever drive is involved. You can use the same technique to
run wwpsetup from a directory on your hard drive by supplying the
full path, such as c:\temp\wwpsetup. Alternatively you can use
File manager to find the files and double-click on WWPSETUP.EXE.
Windows 95 users can use the "Add/Remove Programs" item in the
Control Panel to find and start WWPSETUP.
At the end of the setup operation you will be given the option of
adding WWPlus to your Startup Group. Doing so will cause the program
to start whenever you start a Windows session. This is the
recommended procedure; you can always delete the icon from the group
at a later time if you wish.
IV. Getting Started.
Double-click the WWPlus icon to start the program. The first time
that the program starts it will be a full program window. Click
the "folder" icon at the left end of the icon bar, and then
browse for image files to add to the wallpaper queue. There
will be normally be images in your Windows directory, and you
may have others which you have obtained. If the images are
small ones which you would like to have "tiled," check that
option in the dialog. After you have selected OK in the
dialog, you will see the files listed in the queue.
Double-Click one and see it become your wallpaper.
In later sessions, once images have been added, the program will
start as an icon which you may double-click at any time to
show the main window. If you have chosen the hidden icon
option, the program will not be visible when started. Simply
start it a second time; the first instance will become visible
and the second will end itself.
Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the program elements on
screen. If you press the F1 key, a help file will be displayed, and
you may graphically choose different program elements to see an
explanation of their function.
When you move your mouse pointer across the toolbar icons and some
other screen elements a small "Tool Tip" will appear to giv