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Welcome, Rob Freeman Igor is always enhancing PTE features and effects. As for A basic "Push" Transition may just be your ticket : As for realistic " Movie " visuals ... PTE is more like a SLIDE PROJECTOR. Trying to make a slide projector run like movie films is not currently in PTEs bag of tricks. PTE is a great product though ... if SLIDE SHOWS is your game !

pushu, To begin ... first determined how many categories or sections you want to separate your photo review into. Since a wedding is really a series of multiple picture settings and step of events ( example: rehersal/diner, the wedding itself, reception, cake cutting etc.) ... create a manual advance show of each setting/event using no transitions and no music. Since you already have a complete show for the entertainment part. The Review Photo portion (several individual exes) is more or less simple in setup as to give the client time to quietly browse thru at their own speed. Creating a Menu : This is just a 1 page ( or more pages is nice too ) show with a list or row of buttons (objects) that are linked to the separate settings/events shows you create. For each (setting/event name) Button ... select properties/action to RUN APPLICATION OR OPEN FILE.The file you want to run is the name given to one of the settng/event exes you create. So if you have 6-7 etc settings/events ... you will have that same amount of Buttons and photo review exes to make. In the properties/ enter program name ... here you enter the relative path of the filename given to 1 of your photo review exes. With PTE you can make great menus ... as it has quite a bit of flexability to perform many variety of actions. You can be colorful ,dramatic and simple witout being just a bland looking menu.

Quite exciting, Igor How is the access /control to move to any slide going to be implemented by the user ? Is there going to be a expanded navagation bar, right click menu or hot key accessability ? Is there any affect or limitation if using multiple music files and/or/with additional sound effects? One last question for the moment as I sure your going to get overwhelmed by many other too ... is this move to any slide going to jump to a specific slide # by user input or actually be like a fast forward/rewind frame to frame view? This is really getting exciting !

pushu, Follow Boxigs suggestion ... and/or just create a menu exe that will link to several others exes ( example create 5 of 100) Reviewing a single 500 photo spread can be quite overwhelming to customers that are already quite excited about the event. I personally recommend creating separate sections of your your entire Photo/ Image review ... and then access each section or category thru your menu exe. Limiting the total count of photos to be reviewed in several exes will be alot easier for your customers to thumb thru.

Boxig, Sorry about the delay in responding and working on this test of your Pano Tool. I was unexpectedly called out of town for the week ... so I havent had the time to catch up on alot things. I see you have released a new improved version ... very good. I guess at this point in time is to wait and see how flexable is for your users.

Boxig, I have just downloaded both versions ... and will give them a Spin ! I have 3 PCs with various capabilities, so I will let you know the full results in a day or so. I dont have a LCD Screen which inheirently has lower "refresh rates" capabilities than CRT Screens. I will also test from CD play. You have a nice weekend too !

Boxig, I havent as yet tried out your pano tool ... but it can be quite a useful addition if users know its limitations in use. As mentioned: By nature of the beast ... playing pano views can be demanding on a variety of PCs. Selection of the proper size and speed of the image used will help promote smooth operation on most PCs. Users must take into account that fast, large full screen Images must be redrawn quick enough not to promote jerkiness. Also, a users PCs monitor "refresh rate" must also be capable as not to promote further jerkiness. This will be most evident on Monitors and LCD screens with low "refresh rates " capabilities. I can see why Igor is maybe not so quick to implement pano views in PTE as of yet. Trying to run panos in combination of slide timing ... and then consider most users want smooth CD operation too ... is going to take some great thought in calibratiing.

Andrew You may want to try and reduced your screen size if possible (I dont know what size screen you are trying to capture). A little compromising here may benefit you here You'll also most likely get better results trying to capture a borderless window show rather than a full screen show. I dont know what frame rate your capture programs are capable of ... but less capture area (window vs full screen) would most likely be smoother for your fades. Since PTEs fade transistions can be quite demanding on any PC in normal play ... trying to capture it smoothly may also be quite challenging. I suspect you may need to adjust the slide transition fade timing to closely match the capture programs frame rate capabilities to get the best results. Hopefully you dont have to compromise to much to get your desired effect. Wow ... a 156MB @ $650 Screen Capture program ... that more than a killer price tag !

Mark, Follow Barts direction but use a IMAGE as your object. This image can be your Logo or just about anything and any size. Its a just a copy and paste to each page you have your photos on. You can make it multiple color or just 2 color with setting to transparency. I have a full page 2 color ( B&W ) text image that just strings the entire page size ... watermark The watermark text is White and the backgroud is Black . Black is set to transparent. All in all ... this works just like a MASK ...but it is layerd onto your photo in PTE and requires no editing of your main photo. Ive been meaning to make a PTE demo using this MASK function and showing its variety of possible uses.It would include the .pte file and a few mask objects used. (Ijust havent got around to it yet) NOTE: Do not supply to high of quality of a Photo in your show. Why should someone buy it if they can print from the screen. Always protect your Photos with some means of watermarking etc ...or the above possible method using masking.

JRR. You are correct about the #2 function. Also , if you have a wheel mouse or use the hot keys or have show end on last slide checked ( without showing the Navigation Bar) ... you can still get that reversed slide action from slide 1.

Guido, Im using latest v4.12 and the PAUSE button reveals itself as long as i have entered a time duration and check the box. If i remove the check box ... PAUSE wont reveal itself. Give it a try ...

JRR You may want to check that your settings are correct. Make sure you have DISPLAY EACH SLIDE FOR check box checked. You need some type of manual timing set ( min,sec) for it to pause the show... otherwise pause button wont show and would be kinda useless on a totally manual advance .

Welcome Spike, Knowing what burner program you use may be helpful. My first guess is that , since you can see the image files on the CDR Disc, is that maybe possible you burned other than a DATA Disc with Joliet File system. Some users who burn alot of music and also those that use disks esp formated for music ... sometime burn using the wrong the discs,settings, or properties by mistake. Check your BURN modes, settings and verify proper Disc Type being used.

Welcome, snapshots photo Not at All .. service is for the most part very good and quite prompt ... but in a timely manner. Since you have been acknowleded by a receipt message of your order ... your Key is then processed and then mailed separately. This takes minmal time, so a little patience is needed on your part. The electronic age may be fast ... but people still operate the other functions. Im sure you should receive it within resonable time ...

Marianne You can create your own BROWSE CD BUTTON. Create a Button in your object editor Select the Action : Run Application or open file Action to perform (enter program name label): \ (this will open the Root of the CD if your Show exe is on the Root. or another example : \Photos (this will open the Photos folder on the Root of the CD if your Show exe is on the Root) Got the idea ?

Bill, Believe it or not I totally aggree with you on this statement : My previous posts were merely comments on the general issues related to clicking functions. Its not that PTE has any real clicking issues . I pretty much know what to expect when I run my programs from the HARD DRIVE, clicking buttons, and if Ive got all kinds of background pc processes happening ... I also know what to expect when its run from the CD DRIVE in the same above conditions. I dont expect PTE to make my CD DRIVE run the same as my HARD DRIVE ... nor do I expect PTE to close unneccessary pc processes so my Show runs at its best. What Im getting at here is that I dont expect PTE to correct the inheirted traits and weaknesses of my PC ... and my own personal habits and expectations for that fact. But in reality, PTE has done a great job in performing alot of this ... Also , as to your latest comment : If Igor finds the time and real necessity to implement this click feature ... I will welcome it as a nice bonus ... and not require it as a needed necessity.

Congratulations Boxig ! Happy 100. You seem to show your total amount very well Hope to see you kicking ... eerrrr ... scripting to 200 !

I personally believe if you first "nip it in the butt " immediately by ignoring/disabling the multiple clicks ... PTE would not need to go thru the process to detect/stop multiple instances of other files that may get launched from its button actions. This would take into account any and all files launched within Pte ... and not just pertain to launching the Pte executable itself.

Welcome, DELSUPSERVE Sorry to here of your first experience with PTE is a bit frustrating. Have you taken time to read all of PTEs Help and Faqs documentation ? I dont quite understand this comment : Are you saying you have created a START-UP window thru PTEs check box option to use a customized start-up window? If so ... it will not autorun past the START-UP window till you click the button. You have to disable the START-UP customization window to have your Show continually run thru its course. And this comment : Are you running the Show executable (.exe) you created or the .pte file you used to create the Show executable ? The only way a user can see and access your PTE files and pictures ... is if your running the .pte file and supplied and burned all your relative PTE program files to the CD? You need only to create a exe of your Show and distribute it ... nothing else is required. Lets begin there ... and then continue

The need to limit multiple running instances of a SHOW has actually been lying around in the suggestion box for quite some time now. I believe the occurance of this issue must have been happening with less frenquency due to Igors later versions implementing better optimization and faster loading of the executable ... therefore many users may not have experienced this issue to comment on it. swan_atn, just a few questions. Is this a XP optional system setting or what OS do you have ? If you have this setting enabled ... does it also work within your PTE button actions and not just the executable itself , thus stopping the multiple instances of any file run from the PTE button action ?

swan_atn, As I prevously stated : Multiple clicking (whether once or dlbclick) button actions will still promote this problem. User habits/conditioning are really the controlling factors here. MS conditions a user to click once in some program access situations ... but also conditions them to do dblclick in others. So usually when a user is in doubt of how many clicks to perform .. their reflex is to over click . Note: Ever wonder why in your BROWSER window you cannot overclick and get multiple pages ? This is because its designed to detect/ignore over clicking. I think this function is what you really reqiure.

Al, It is amazing. Most problems I usually encounter is from CLICK HAPPY users. Maybe I should have said the best resolve is to detect/ignore click happy/impatient users.

Hello swan_atn, I have to pretty much aggree with Al on this clicking discussion. Whether Its 1 or 2 clicks ... it still has the potential for problems. Most Users today are pretty much aquainted to their BROWSER functions ... which is only a 1 Click operation. So I think its a common practice everyone gets use to. The real issue to address to is restrict/detect muliple clicks and ignore them ... its not going to be resolved by enabling or allowing more clicks.

Welcome Diana, As Ken has quoted to you from PTE FAQs ... their is a 32000 picture limit and a max overall file size of "The resulting EXE file cannot be larger than 2100 Mb" The real limitation here if using these maximum limits to make your show is the Clients patience/endurance to review such a huge show. With that aside ... the real limitations are the Clients PC capabilities. By your comment do I also assume you want to distribute and play it from a CD ? By using this CD medium you also set more limitations that directly effects how your show will perform on another Clients PC . Basic Run Requirements I follow : 800 x 600 Screen Size JPG : (100 -150 kb Size) MP3 Music( No WMA music) Reasonable Tranisition Timing - (or set to no Transistion effect ... use no demanding Fades - these can be CPU intensive) No Demanding Slide Timing (Nothing too fast ) I use a old test Pc to perform my tests. Using these settings from a CD Disc on a P2/233/66h w/96 memory and (4X CDrom/2MB VideoCard) I recieve no issues from my Clients. These are pretty much BASIC for all PCs Ive encountered. Most likely if you did a search of SHOW PROBLEMS or something similar in context ... you will find out lots of what not to do ... and how to resolve it.

Truelight, As with any multiple image compostions ... this can be alot of work depending on the complexity of your objective ... whether its thru the normal process of cutting and pasteing your main image into several sections or pieces or using the alternative method Ive described. The method Ive described requires no cutting and pasteing of your main image into several pieces and then adding these pieces back into the slide as Objects. The MASK method only uses the main image as the photo/slide and a BITMAP OBJECT (added as a Picture Object in Object Editior) as the MASK. You can use the same BITMAP OBJECT 1 time or 20 in the same slide pending your needs. So all this only requires 1 main photo image and 1 BITMAP MASK ( .bmp,.jpg,.gif) ... with no cutting/cropping and pasteing time spent in your image editior. So the end result of sequencially fading mom, pop, and baby is only 3 or 4 slide positions, 1 photo containing mom, pop, and baby (in the same photo), and 1 BITMAP MASK(used as many times as you like). I find this method very fast in particular situations ... and a great space saving of images used (less mb,kb used in overall exe). Its simple , effective and less work. But again , all methods require work depending on the needs and complexity of your effects desired.