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INSTALLATION AND IMAGE DISPLAY: IMAGES OF CREATION
1) INSTALLATION
a) Make certain you are in Windows. The installation program
will not run in DOS.
b) Put Disk 1 (or the shareware disk) into your floppy drive.
From you File Menu choose the Run option. Type a:\setup.exe
or b:\setup.exe, depending upon whether a or b is the letter
assigned to your 3 1/2" diskette drive. Click on OK.
c) Alternatively, open the directory and file display for
your floppy drive and double click on setup.exe.
2) IMAGE QUALITY: SUPER IMPORTANT!! DON'T SKIP THIS!!
a) The graphics files in this product are superb 24 bit, 16
million color images sized to 510 x 383. This nonstandard
size is a limit of the developer environment we author within
and will no longer be a constraint as of 1996.
b) Unfortunately, 24 bit color images show degredation when
displayed at 256 color. To view these images with all the
brilliance and resolution they contain, change your monitor
resolution so as to display 16 million colors at 640 x 480
pixels. If you installed these images as a screen saver,
they will look best at 640 x480 because the image then
occupies most of the screen area.
c) Unless you have an old pre-1990 monitor, you already have
installed software to change the resolution of monitor. Such
software comes with all graphics cards and is preinstalled
when you buy a computer in the retail market. I cannot give
specifics here for the dozens of different graphics cards on
the market. If you haven't discovered this monitor utility, which
will be a Windows applet, consult the manual that came with
your graphics card. If you lost it, call the store where you bought
the computer or the manufacturer of the computer.
3) SCREEN SAVER
Either accept the default path and directory for installation or
edit to your own specifications. Choose whether or not to install
IMAGES OF CREATIONS as one of your screen saver options
in the Desktop Item of the Control Panel. Notice that the word
'default' in the dialog is confusing. There is no 'default' screen
saver in the Desktop Item. If you choose this option, IMAGES OF
CREATION will be installed as just one of your screen saver choices
under the name MINICAT in the proper alphabetical position. However,
it will automatically become the active screen saver. See below for
an explanation of 'MINICAT'. See the text file 'Your Windows
Screen Saver' in the album for detailed information about IMAGES
OF CREATION as a screen saver and how to configure it.
4) The installation will create a program group called MINICAT
with a single item in it also called MINICAT. You may change
the title of this icon to IMAGES OF CREATION if you wish but
there are reasons not to do so as explained below.
5) Double Click upon the MINICAT icon and the opening screen of
MINICAT is displayed. Notice the bar on the upper right which
is labeled either IMAGES OF CREATION SHAREWARE or
IMAGES OF CREATION REGISTERED. Double click on this
bar and you will be presented with the IMAGES OF CREATION
album main screen. If you pause at theopening screen for several
seconds, a slide show of all images in the album will begin in the
left window. Notice that you can only exit the program from this
opening screen using the Close Button.
6) Registered users should realize that:
a) if you did not UNINSTALL the shareware version of IMAGES OF
CREATION (see manual) and also,
b) installed the registered version into the same directory as the
shareware version (which happens automatically if you accept
the default installation path),
c) THEN BOTH versions now reside within your MINICAT. If you
click the Open button at the bottom of the main screen, you will
see a list of installed CATALOGS: IMAGES OF CREATION
SHAREWARE and IMAGES OF CREATION REGISTERED.
If you wish to delete the shareware version, you MUST use the
uninstall procedure outlined in the manual. If you simply delete the
directory and files, it is very likely your MINICAT viewer will not
function and you will have no access to the program album.