Ken Cox
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could i so bold to ask
where has the thread for beta gone to -- never never land -- i cant seem to find it
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as had been said many times it has been beat to death
the next thing some author would have forgot they enabled your feature -- lost all their originals and would want to retrieve their picts from the exe using screen shots -- now the author is sol
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so then i guess people better not bet the house on things working right -- like anything else the world is full of surprises [
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download a fresh zip and put it in a separate folder -- the key code is in the registry -- currently i am running beta 4 but yeterday i fired up 3.65 to start putting a little joke show with no probs -- then closed it and reopened with the beta
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I thought a couple years back there were a pile of probs with NT and Casey or one of the OS gurus brought it to light - some quirk -- people could run their stuff real good but it wouldn't run right on their work NT systems - was pre xp release era -- oh for the archives IGOR
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Guido, it must be midafternoom in Italy --05:40 EST here -- did you find why the background was changing
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Whhy dont you put it in a zip complete with a text file describing the show,music etc and upload one of these problem shows to Bills site and see if some of us xp users can play it
see
http://beechbrook.com/pte/index.asp
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Guido, i suppose you have but have to ask
did you recheck the colour settings for backgrounds gradients and custom -are they all there etc - and did you try restting to a different b/g colour then going back to your "black is beautiful" b/g -- things might just need a nudge
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Larry, please provide name of show -- i thought i had them all and dont remember any special effects -- we had a little scare
last novemeber were norton and another co's anti virus software siad a couple shows were infected -- at that time myself and others downloaded all the shows and verified they were aok 
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Was it a p2e show with the fancy transitions??
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This is an fyi re icons.
i whipped up a little comedy show with cartoons this morn for my email friends -- it was < 1/2 meg. i saved and created it with no music or icons. -- then i thought i would enhance it a bit -- i got a little midi out of my files and an icon from my collection -- did a save as under a different name, and then tried a create as under the new name -- got an error message that i couldnt do that or words to that effect -- i checked the folder and the new files were there with the new name -- the new file would run and the music would play -- but the icon i had installed in the program was not showing on the exe -- scratched head a bit -- checked properties of the icon -it was READ ONLY -- unchecked the box and checked the archive box -- did a save as and create as and no error messages now -- and icon is on the exe
btw the show was called Smile --TGIF
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see
http://stephenh.home.texas.net/atw.shtml
for some possible sources of icons.
I love icons and use
FavOrg, Version 1.2
Copyright © 2000 Ziff Davis Media, Inc.
Written by Patrick Phillipot
First Published in PC Magazine, US Edition, November 17, 2000, v19n19
http://www.pcmag.com/utilities/
this program stores all the icons it gets in a file and there is a ready supply in the folder
C:\Program Files\FavOrg\Data
also do a google search for free icons and you will soon have a collection
I am ashamed to tell how big my collection is
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people seem to forget things:)
http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...act=ST&f=2&t=87
one of the reasons why some of us wanted some organization to the forum
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Larry, i dont mean to be smart but please save your key to floppy and put it in a place where you will remember -- many times memebers have a crash -- reformat etc and they need another key RIGHT now!!! and the discussion gets unnecessarily UGLY -- it seems to happen on weekends or holidays
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Iaske d Bill if he wanted me to advise thhe forum -- the latest from Bill
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That would be great. I have no further info to give anyone other then the server status page advised hard drive failure. I quote
"2/1/2003 1:36:05 AM -- WEB 61 - 63.99.209.29 Harddrive failure restore in progress ETA: 6 hours"
Thanks
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JUST IN FROM BILL
Server has been down since last night. No information was passed on to customers. I have no idea. Very frustrating!!!!!
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Visit our home - Beechbrook Cottage
i imagine he will be reporting in himself when things get squared away --ken
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I think Igor missed it as well
and he seems to have forgot this one
http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...T&f=2&t=4&st=20
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: Dec 8 2002, 01:46 AM
I'll set a number of postings (including from an old forum) on the next week.
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CC see
http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...ct=ST&f=2&t=107
www.wnsoft.com link does not work properly on
http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index....php?act=SC&c=2
-- it does not take one to
http://www.wnsoft.com/main.htm
no fix as yet
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I wrote a letter to Bill -at 08:18 est - no reply as yet 09:14
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I should have qualified my reasoning for scanning the auto picts so big -- i was trying to get rid of the jaggies -- with Andrew Busst coaxing me and critquing I searched www.scantips.com and read what he had to say re MOIRE effect - it was a real exercise in scanning but the principle can be applied with all your picts if you want to take the time and have the space on your drives
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United Way 2001
(6.2M)
ashleyphoto@hotmail.com
is his address if that is any help
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for some theory on pictures
see
www.scantips.com
Wayne makes the statement on his site that if you are scanning in a picture that you dont have access to again, scan it as big as you can as a tiff then resize it and save it as a jpg with 75-80% compression -- most of the shows that are offered at the cottage i dare to say are 72 dpi jpgs at either 800/600 or 1024/768 -
my auto calendar show at the cottage was scanned at 300 dpi saved as a tiff and each picture was 20 to 25 meg in size - i then resized them to 640/480 and saved as a jpg using irfanview default settings at 80% -- the resulting picts were in the 70 to 80 kb size each - the 240 picts =15.3 mb disk space the rest of the show is the 6 mp3's music + the overhead of p2e
on the old forum there were many times this subject was brought up and some of the best shows were 75 to 100 kb as told by the authors. Guido and Ian Bateman to name 2 members have said time and time again that they are getting satisfactory results with 800/600 72dpi jpgs with projection shows.
with prices coming down for large hard drives, burners, blank cd's etc it is wise to save your picts at various sizes etc to evaluate things -- i quiite often use the magnifier with irfanview and play with the picture to see what you can get away with --- i used to show the picts on a tv and see where the break point occurs -- i found if you get much below 70 kb size you get the chunky pattern showing up -- the tv is a worst case condition for viewing -- but it is the ideal testing tool for evaluation
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Kim it has been proven many times that a very satisfactory show can be produced using jpgs 75 to 100 kb in size with compression ratios of 75 to 80%
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with my install of xp home there were a pile of things that wouldn't work --too old - a popup would come up telling you to read the compatiblity report that was generated when xp was installed -
source for report is
C:\WINDOWS\upgrade.htm
- it also -- and i kinda vague on this -- would give you the option of making it work by clicking another button -- this was w95 software --
- i still have software from win 3.1 days that is still working -- and still have win 3.1 in a folder on a partition for oldtimes sake
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PicturesToExe v4.00 beta #2
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Igor,
thks
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