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PMS Pictures - Music - Sound by ACCIDENTAL SOFTWARE (If it's good, it's ACCIDENTAL) Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 all rights reserved Our Home Page address is "http://www.accidental.com" Overview. 1. PMS is a great program for developing and showing a computer, image based presentation when operating in the Presentaion Mode. This mode allows the user to individually step forward and backwards through a slide show. Change slide shows at will, and select music from any slide show. Documents associated with each picture can be shown with a simple mouse movement. An easily accessed "Presentaton Menu" provides flexibility and and unlimited possibilites for your presentations. Wave files developed and recored by the user can be associated and played with pictures if desired. 2. PMS is a screen saver and image viewer for windows that can use your own images and midi or wave files when operating in the Screen Saver mode. PMS can play music from a CD-ROM. Music can play as pictures are being displayed. You can select Password protection if desired. Messages can be left on the screen. 3. PMS can be installed as a standard Window's Screen saver from the Window's desk top, or can be used from the Program Group that PMS makes for windows. PMS can be used as both. 4. PMS can be used as a screen saver and/or an image viewer. If you have installed PMS as a screen saver, and want to use it from the program manager to leave a message or make your system password protected while you have to be temporarily away, you can do this by double clicking the PMS Icon. If PMS is running from the program manager, it will not invoke itself as a screen saver even if the amount of time has passed to call it as a screen saver from the desktop. 5. PMS is ideal for corporations that need a screen saver that can use their own pictures or corporate logos. It is also ideal for users who want a way to display their own images (regardless of format) as a screen saver or as a stand alone program. 6. PMS is shipped with CSA, the Calendar - Scheduler - Alarm utility from Accidental Software. This utility provides a quick reference calendar and scheduler. It also allows you to Set an alarm so that items will pop up on your screen when the specified date and time are reached. NOTE: Touch Start must be running for the alarm portion of this application to function. See How do I use the program from the Windows Program Manager (#4.) below for information on how to active Touch Start each time windows is started. Trouble shooting. 1. In some cases, if you are using a program that is accessing or using a DLL or other file that PMS uses and installs, you may receive a message during installation that warns you that a file can not be installed since it is already in use by your system. You can choose Ignore to this warning and the program should install correctly. Known program limitations: 1. PMS requires that approximately 60% of windows system recources are free if you are attempting to use JPG compressed pictures. If the program behaves irratically or doesn't show your JPG pictures correctly, insure system recources are at or above 60%, check About. How do I make PMS the active screen saver? 1. Select "yes" to the inquiry during installation that asks if you want PMS to be installed as the current screen saver. This will place PMS as the current screen saver on your system with a 5 minute time of inactivity to start the program. The 5 minute "time out" will not take effect until windows has been exited and reentered after PMS installation. 2. You can select Saver Set Up from the Miscellaneous menu to access the Saver Set Up utility in the program. Turn the PMS screen saver function on or off as well as selecting the amount inactive keyboard or mouse time before the screen saver portion of the program starts. Alternative method for making PMS the active screen saver. 1. Once PMS is successfully installed, it may be selected as the current screen saver from windows. a. From the Windows Program Manager, select MAIN. b. From MAIN select CONTROL PANEL. c. From CONTROL PANEL select DESK TOP. d. From DESK TOP select the arrow key next to SCREEN SAVER. e. From the menu, select PMS. 2. The above steps will select PMS as the current screen saver. Use the SET UP button to select the features of the program you want. It is possible to select and preview pictures, MIDI files, and CD-ROM audio. 3. Push the TEST button to run the screen saver program as a test. 4. Select the desired inactive time for the screen saver program to implement itself. How do I use the program from the Windows Program Manager? 1. If the PMS program group is not open, double click on the PMS program group. 2. To run PMS, double click on its Icon. 3. The program will start in the Set Up Mode. Select the options you want, then push the Screen Saver button to start the program. 4. Touch Start: Double click the Touch Start Icon to activate the touch start hot corners. A green line appears at the bottom left of your screen to indicate where to place your mouse to start PMS. Touch Start activation can be terminated by moving the mouse pointer to the bottom right (red line) of the screen. If the Touch Start check box is activated, Touch Start will reactivate itself after the screen saver portion of PMS has terminated. Copy the Touch Start Icon to the program manager's Start Up program group to have Touch Start activate each time windows is started. Once the Icon has been copied to the Start Up Program Group, highlight the Start Up Groups Touch Start Icon, then select Properties from the Program Manager's File Menu. Next edit the Command Line Box by removing the "/I" switch. When you are done editing this line it should read "HOTSPOTP.EXE". NOTE: Do not remove the command line switch "/I" from the touch start icon that exists in the PMS program group. What are the program features? Slide Show Mode (pictures) 1. Add imagest to each Slide Show provided. These images can be located in any directory on your hard drive or floppy drives. You can even us your CD-ROM as a source of pictures. If you have Kodak's Access software, you can use PMS to show you photo CDs. 2. Add up to 100 Midi or Wave Audio selections for each Slide Show to be played as the program displays your pictures. 3. Set the length of time for the picture to remain on the display before the next one replaces it. This time ranges from 3 seconds to 1 minute. 4. PMS will access the following additional file formats. .PCX, .BMP .DIB, .TGA, .EPS, .TIF, .JPG, CMP, .CAL, .IMG, .MAC, .MSP, .PCD, PCT, RAS, WPG. NOTE: Photo CD images (.PCD) require Kodak's Access Software. 5. You need not copy any picture or midi file to any other directory to use it. PMS can find and use your files from any valid hard drive, floppy or CD-ROM drive and directory on your computer. 6. You can add or delete picture and midi files and set the picture delay through the standard setup button provided by windows for screen savers or by starting PMS from the program manager by double clicking on its Icon. 7. You can use scanned images as long as the image is saved in a format that is compatible with PMS (see 4. above for details.) 8. You can display your pictures with their original size or you can select a size based on a percentage of your screen size. If the [ ] Maintain Original Picture size check box is not selected, the picture display size can be varied from 100% of the screen to 50% of the screen size. Pictures will retain the correct aspect ratio regardless of Screen mode or screen size selected. You can elect to have your picture displayed with a frame around it or without frame. 9. You can randomize the order in which your images are displayed. Click on the Randomize Picture Order check box to choose this option. 10. The speed that PMS uses to put your images to the screen can be adjusted. Select Picture Attributes, then slide the selector bar to the slower or faster end of the adjuster bar to vary this speed. 11. Any mouse button press and most keyboard keys will terminate PMS and return you to the application you were using before PMS started. The following keys have special meaning. 1. If MIDI is selected, pushing the "M" key on the keyboard will toggle the MIDI selections playing to mute and back on again. 2. If you have CD-Audio selected, pushing the "space" bar will bring up an audio selector panel. You can select Previous, Next, Play, Pause, and Stop with this selector bar. 3. The "P" key will pause PMS on the present image. Pushing "P" again will toggle pause off. 12. You can use a Password to protect access to your computer when PMS is running. 13. You can leave a message for any visitors you may have while you are away from your computer, or messages you may want to display to the public. 14. You can use Photo CD as a source for your pictures You can also choose one of several options available for displaying your pictures such as gray scale and flipping your image. 15. CD-ROM audio is available. If your CD-ROM is capable of playing CD-AUDIO, you can select it as the source of music for PMS. 16. Touch Start is available. The touch start Icon will will set a "HOT" corner that will allow PMS to be started by moving your mouse to the GREEN HOT CORNER of your screen. Touch Start can be terminated by moving your mouse to the RED CORNER of your screen. You can place the touch start icon in your windows start up program group to have it run automatically each time windows is started. Activate the Touch Start check box (in Utilities of Picture Attributes) to have Touch Start reinstate itself after PMS has run. Touch the lavender line at the top center of the screen to activate the CSA utility shipped with this program. What are the program features? Slide Show Mode (video) 1. AVI files can be played as a screen saver in this mode. Use the Video (avi) command button to set up the AVI played with the avi files you want to play (Permanent Video List). Insure the path to these AVI files is still valid (the CD-ROM is still in you drive if using a CD-ROM as a source for these files. 2. If the path is no longer valid or no Permanent Video list exists. The screen saver will revert to the Screen Saver Mode (pictures) when the screen saver attempts to run. What are the program features? (Presentation Mode) 1. Select Presentation Mode to individually step through the pictures selected for a library. Use the left mouse button to advance through the pictures in order, and the right mouse button to decrement through the pictures. 2. Presentation Menu. After a picture shows with Presentaion Mode selected, move the mouse pointer (+) to the top left corner of the screen to bring up the Presentaion Menu. The Presentation Menu can also be brought up by pressing the center mouse button on a 3 button mouse, or by pressing the Enter Key on the keyboard. 3. Use the Presentation Menu to jump to any picture in the selected library, or choose a menu item and adjust PMS to suit your needs. 4. Showing Documents. Any picture you show can have an associated document (.WRI) file that can be shown on the screen over the picture. Push the W or S key on the keyboard to show your .WRI file. Alternately, you can move the mouse to the right top corner of the screen to activate windows write or wordpad to show your document. Any document you wish to show must be named with the first portion of the file name as your picture, and the last 3 letter (file extension) must be WRI. The WRI file for a picture must be located in the same directory as the picture file it supports. 5. Additional information is available on the Presentation Mode by selecting Info from the Mode menu choice, or by selecting Info from the Presentation Menu. A manual detailing the mode choices is available from the Help menu by selecting Manual. How to use Sequenced Wave, and what is it. 1. Sequenced Wave is a term used to describe Wave files that are recorded by the user for individual pictures. When sequenced wave is selected with the Screen Saver mode, the wave file for each picture plays, then the time selected for sequencing to the next picture starts. In the Presentation mode, the wave file for the picture plays, but the next picture is not placed on the screen until the proper mouse button or keyboard key is seleced. See the Mode, Info menu choice for a details concerning keyboard keys and mouse button interface with this mode. When auto is selected from the Presentation Menu, the pictures are sequenced as in the Screen Saver (pictures) mode. 2. Sequenced Wave files must be recorded by the user for each designated picture. A sequenced wave file is tagged to a particular picture by the wave file name. The first part of the picture name is used as the first part of the sequenced wave file name. The file extension must be ".WAV". Example - You have recorded a wave file for the picture "HORSE1.BMP" that you have selected to use in Slide Show #1. You then record a wave file with information about the HORSE1.BMP. The wave file must be named "HORSE1.WAV" and it must reside in the same directory as the HORSE1.BMP file. If these guide lines are followed, each picture can have an associated wave file that will play if sequenced wave is selected. If sequenced wave is selected and no associated wave file is found by PMS, the picture is displayed in the normal manner. Additional Services from Accidental Software: 1. Site licenses are available. Contact Accidental Software for details. 2. Accidental Software can modify this program to provide a unique application for Company or other large groups of users. Custom applications can be developed to your needs. Contact Accidental Software for details. 3. Other less elaborate screen savers are available in both customized and uncustomized form. Call for details. Contact: ACCIDENTAL SOFTWARE 13245 SKIOMAH RD. APPLE VALLEY, CA. 92308 1-760-247-2804 -- VOICE 1-760-247-6819 -- FAX Uninstall. Use this Icon to remove PMS from your hard drive. This Icon will remove all files that were installed to your hard drive by this program, with the following exceptions. MCI.VBX THREED.VBX VBRUN300.DLL MSGBLAST.VBX These files may be required for other windows programs and are not removed by uninstall for this reason. These files reside in your windows\system sub directory and can be manually removed if desired. Uninstall will not remove the PMS program group from windows. The PMS program group must be removed in the usual manner by the user. PMS program files installed to your hard disk! The following is a list of files PMS installs to your hard disk or generates as the program runs. This list can be used for uninstall information if desired. Files in your Windows directory.... SSIMAGES.SCR SSIMAGES.EXE HOTSPOTS.EXE IMCALS.EXE REMOVES.EXE IMASTERS.INI IMASTERS.RRG IMASTERS.GRP Files in your Windows\System directory... FXCMP210.VBX FXLBL210.VBX FXSND210.VBX FXTLS210.DLL LEAD45.DLL LEADDIB.DRV * MCI.VBX * THREED.VBX * VBRUN300.DLL * MSGBLAST.VBX Files in the graphics directory used by this program... EXCLUDED.MSS MESSAGE.MSS MIDI.MSS TRANSIT.MSS SLIDES(1 THRU 20).MSS SLIDET(1 THRU 20).MSS PP(1 THRU XX).BMP SI.MID README.TXT WELCOME.WAV * Delete these files with caution since they may be used by other programs. END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR ACCIDENTAL SOFTWARE IMPORTANT-READ CAREFULLY: This Accidental Software End-User License Agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a single entity) and Accidental Software for the Accidental Software product identified above, which includes computer software. By installing, copying, or otherwise using the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, you agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA. If you do not agree to the terms of this EULA do not use this software product. SOFTWARE PRODUCT LICENSE The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties. The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed, not sold. 1. GRANT OF LICENSE. 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You may not reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation. * Termination. Without prejudice to any other rights, Accidental Software may terminate this EULA if you fail to comply with the terms and conditions of this EULA. In such event, you must destroy all copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT and all of its component parts. 4. U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS. The SOFTWARE PRODUCT and documentation are provided with RESTRICTED RIGHTS. Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of The Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 or subparagraphs (c)(1) and (2) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted Rights at 48 CFR 52.227-19, as applicable. Manufacturer is Accidental Software / 13245 Skiomah Rd. / Apple Valley, Ca 92308. 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