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Monty A simple and fast test still would be to just rename the 2 SHOWS that dont work ... to something short, simple and space free (using no numerals or other symbols ). You can even do it there on the Schools computers. It will atleast be a starting point to trace out your issue ... and a very simple way at that.

Monty Are your various SHOWS all accessed thru a pte MENU you have setup ? If so ... are you using spaces, symbols or longfilenames for your SHOWS names? If the answer is YES ... try renaming your SHOWS to a shortfilename and with no spaces or other characters. You will also have to re- edit your button destination links . I mention this remedy ... because this same or somewhat issue has popped up in the past. This problem is all due to how the different OS read filenames . Hope it solves your issue

Boxig I may possibly reconsider doing one last final improved version of the Loader ... since it does serve other uses for other projects PTE users may otherwise have need for. In reply to other features needed in PTE and timelines for their appearance ... everything has its own priority in the main scheme of things I suspect. I personally give great credit to Igor for the attention and improvements hes giving in the Sound features. I would have to persume the main objective or primary ingredient of any Slide Show program ... would be to implement " Premier" picture and sound features to perfection. The added features you speak of are mainly "supplemental" and enhancements to main needs ... not that they dont warrant attention. My way of creating a package is quality first , functionality, ease and speed of use and then supplemental enhancements to expand the overall functionality. Oh well ... Im patient ... for the best. ... and keep up all your program enhancements ... as you know its not as easy a task to keep on implementing improvements.

Hello Mouse, Where have you been ... we havent heard nare a squeak from you in quite awhile it seems ! Hope all is well ... and good to see you back.

Boxig I had given thought to including such a ini generator for the Loader in the past ... however, it would have only been useful for the user who produced their Shows in Full Screen Mode. Their was no way to dectect the Users given Title Bar Name if created in Windowed Mode. I wanted to Loader to be useful for all types. The Loader is somewhat out dated now for any practical use in PTE ... since Igor has addressed and resolved the loading lag issues in the exe execution. And again, most recently with Igors announcement of the loading optimization for all types of Shows loading . So, the Loader at its time of conception served a useful purpose for PTE users then ... but, now the Loader needs to pack up and move on to other things. The add on Tools I create for PTE serve to temporarily give the users the flexability of what PTE may lack at the given time untill Igor addresses our needs. Igor has done and is doing a wonderful job in addressing these user needs ... superbly. (Even though these needs may not be addressed in the users priority order of things as they want them)

RudiRe I was hoping you could see first hand the differences various screen size setting may affect your Jukebox. But when using any Windowed Mode settings ... your Show will reveal (display within) the current users pc background desktop choices . Only by choosing a Full Screen Mode type show you can hide the current users pc desktop. Since your Show is Windowed Mode, 800x600, and using multiple Objects ... your Shows final view within other screensizes will maintain your Objects original relative placement. If you made your Jukebox 800x600 Full screen ... you run the risk of your mulitple Objects being displaced. Grouping your Objects may correct this issue in alot of cases ... but not always. Since you cant test your Show at different Screensizes ... its hard to determine what Objects may become displaced. So your left with making a choice ... hopefully the best one.

RudiRe Depending on the type of setup you made your show ...I dont believe you are going to be able to change the background color other users PCs desktop settings. As a test .... check your own desktop color settings in your manager. What ever color you or the user has selected as their personal choice background color ... is what is going to be displayed in the different screen size variations. Ways to test easy is ... change your own resolution to 1280 x 1024 and run your 800x600 show ... what color do you see ?

Captain America If you tell me the NAME of your .EXE of which you plan to load and whether its a FULL SCREEN show or a WINDOWED type show ... I will Email you a copy of what the INI should look like. You only need to enter the NAME of your show in one location if its a FULL SCREEN show . You need to enter the NAME of the show 2 times only if its a WINDOWED type show. We wil get you working.

Oh Yes ! Many thanks for this new fast loading optimization !! This is quite a gift ... for all of us PTE users and ore potential viewers.

marlun What you describe in your Shows timing issue using MANUAL SETTINGS is a normal action (or conditon) ... either playing from a CD or on any other PCs hard drives ... this conditon can even exist on your own Pc at various times or loads . You cannot have total SYNCRONIZATION using any navagation bars or any other settings other than AUTO SYNC. The timing of all PCs are different ... and your Show will play differently on all PCs ( even on your own sometimes) using any type of manual settings. Igor created this (magic) AUTO SYNC to address (resolve) the timing differences in PCs. So if you want perfect timing ... you can only use AUTO SYNC.

Boxig Keep up the great work ... your continious effort to enhance and simplify the functions and capabilities of your Utility Tools is becoming very useful to the needs of many users. Currently, I havent personally had much time to review and use in depth your arsenal of Tools ... but I have been keeping up with their progress ... and they are impressive I must admit. Once I get my current projects timetables and schedules sorted out for this new year ... I will be able to keep up with all the new happenings around here in the forum

Jim The making of a Project Template is exactly what you need to do. I believe this is wonderful and valuable feature of PTE is greatly under used by most Users. Creating templates simplifies lots of multiple and tedious settings and tasks ... especially if your project has lots of objects that get reused thru-out your presentation. Create and save one page within your Template with all your objects that you know will be repeatedly used often. One this page, create your various button sizes , text format settings, colors, etc. Now that you have this custom page of OBJECTS preset with your needs ... all you need to do now is use COPY SLIDE to wherever within your presentation. Add , Remove or Customize the OBJECTS according to your current Slide needs. Lots of multiple and repeated tasks are greatly simplified ... greatly reducing your presentation time to setup.

Rick I use W98 on my main processor ... as its been near almost flawlessly free of troubles for me. Thru the years of using W98 I have learned to know the ins & outs of this OS like the nose on my face . .. so I will stick with W98 till iam forced to upgrade to a newer version. Right now, Im more afraid of XP cause I cant fully dig into it guts and tweak and control it the way I want it to ... XP may give you lots of options ... but it wll not let you take control ... its too smart a system for its own good and doesnt fit into my current needs.

Rick Im sorry to hear your experience with AutoLink and AutoPlayer have been so unsuccessful as I recall our previous contacts ... however , many Users have had great success with AutoLink. As answer to some of your questions as to my way of setting up things: If upon Reading all the FAQS and other information splayed about the menu interface you will have noticed the KNOWN ISSUES ( yellow color text): -Autolink and AutoPlayer will not work in FOLDERS such as : C:\Program Files ( This folder you have mentioned has spaces within it naming ... my FAQS states this often, as it not possible to function in those or any locations with " name spaces" at all. -Autolink and AutoPlayer "will work" in any DRIVE ROOT and not just C:\Autoplayer\Shows . I have selected the ROOT as to avoid the above FOLDER naming conditions ... SPACES ... and as to avoid more USER errors. -AutoLink and AutoPlayer Abort function : Basic info about how to stop a LINKED program run: When you normally play your Show ... you must ESC to close that Show. However if running in AutoLink ... ESC only closes your Running Show ... not the LINK between all the Shows. Therefore you MUST hit ESC agian ... and it must be during the LOADING window between the SHOWS ... otherwise your only closing the SHOW and not ALL the SHOWS. Remember here ...they are all LINKED together as a GROUP not as a single Show ... so hitting ESC just once isnt going to work. -The WINKEY is a key (hot key) function to bring up any Shows (minimized to taskbar) that may not have been fully flushed out the LINK during ABORT. This is a just another "precautionary" function to make sure all Show Links have been cleared out and closed after an ABORT has been performed. -Copying and not Moving a Show was to assure all Users their ORIGINAL Shows are left safe and secure. If they clear,remove or delete something in AutoPlayer ... its GONE. I think alot more users would be happier with their COPIES gone and not their ORIGINALS. - As for your LOADING ISSUES of LINKED SHOWS ... you may have your XP setup running serveral background processes. The LINK detection to LOAD the next LINK fails due to these processes interfering somehow. I have only had very few comments about failure rate ... only from XP and ME. I suspect its all in the PC setup the USER has configured. I also mentioned users using ACTIVE DESKTOPS ... This may cause failure also. So again, Rick, Im sorry with your unpleasant experience with AutoPlayer. Maybe one day XP users will enjoy all the programs we all like to use. Happy New Year

Happy New Year ... to ALL !!! As promised ... I have recently uploaded my AutoPlayer... a belated Holiday Gift from me to you. Available from Beechbrook Cottage Site : http://beechbrook.com/pte/ AutoPlayer ... plays your Shows in a chain-link ... in a unique player-style interface. Extremely easy and fast to use. 8 Shows to a Link Group 4 Groups 2 Link Modes Full Screen Loading Auto Play or Menu Play Settings Auto Play any single group Error Checking during Set-Up and Play more ... much more Note: AutoPlayer incorporates AutoLink functions ... but it is vastly different than my AutoLink V2 program also available. AutoPlayer has limited features if used on CD media whereas AutoLink V2 doesnt. Please read all use and faqs to fully enjoy this utility. Give it a Spin !!! Hope you all enjoy

Pete Your senario has gotten all of us at one time or another. Follow Guido's advise ... plus ... Its always best to gather all your Pictures and show resources into a single working folder ... parts splayed about your pc will become moved or changed sooner or later. Disaster will then follow. To SAVE your current .PTE project file .... remove the missing file name and insert a new or another file in its replacement. SAVE the file. Best to use a odd photo ... so you can easily track down the real one to replace as originally intended.

The news is out ... but the project is still in the PC drawing table ! I had hoped to have my latest UTILITY for PTE ... ready for you by the HOLIDAYS ... as a gift from me, to all the forum members here ... but ... its not quite ready for gift wraping quite yet. So you will have to wait till early in the NEW YEAR to get it ... Oh well ... I guess I can tell you what it is ... a AutoLink Player - A unique and very, very easy to use presentation player for linking your PTE shows togther. Shall I say more ? .... naaaaahhhhh ... except Wishing you and your family a merry and festive HOLIDAY SEASON !!!

Boxig and others ... please dont give me so much credit in this venture. I have aided Boxig in writing some SCRIPTS for this PresentationLists Utility ... so I more or less acted in the capacity as a Teacher or Tutor . How Boxig applied these scripts is his creativity. All Credit and work should be well served to Boxig ... as it is all his imigination and development that made this utility what it is ... ... Thanks for the plug anyhow ...

mhwarner, Thanks for the confirmation that they can be used ... as this will be helpful to future users with the same question. Monty, My suggestion ??? Was that concerning this Karoke topic or some other previous topic ?

cameraman Such a function is quite effective in detering even the most sauvy user. However ... PTE does not have this function . Such a function needs to be able to be implemented internally by the compiled show exe. Using external 3rd party apps that execute this function wont work to your benefit.

Boxig, WOW ... Custom ordering ... COOL !!! Im working on some scripts now ...

Monty, I have never used or tried .kar file types in any of my presentations ... nor have I used them on my Pc or Music player itself. I have noticed on the ONLINE FAQ SHEET it mentions use of these .kar ... but the Program FAQ SHEET seems to state a little differently: * Supports for sounds to slides (.wav or .mp3) * Supports for background music (.mp3, .wav, .mid, .wma) (no mention of kar .... so who really knows .... ?) If it is supported .... I imagine the users PC also must support and play them ... so here you may need to check your PCs music properties/file type for support. Note: It may only work as background music if it functions at all for you ... but ... I would be aware if distributing with kar types, as other users pc may not support them. Sorry for not much help to offer .... Id be interested to find this out myself also.

Jan Ive been trying to follow this post and its relating comments ... so bear with me as Im still trying to grasp your presentations needs, while still seeing if they are easily adaptable into PTEs options available. Here are some of my Techniques used to implement a presentation that needs page control and diveristy during a presentation ... this requires users mouse interaction : Basic Requirements of setup is .......................... 1- Display all slides for a pre dertmined time, customise if required (project options/ main tab) 2- Control by: a- Action for Right Click : Pause (no navagation bars used) b- Action for Left Cick : None c- Use Keybd SPACE BAR to advance next slide The above SHOW will run at the predetermined times set ... but pauses when needed when RIGHT CLICK mouse ... enabling discussion breaks and ther interactions. Other Interactions Setup .................... 1- Object activated by LEFT CLICK mouse: a- Use buton or object to RUN other appliications or functions. * Here I use a BLACK PICTURE OBJECT that is set to transparent mode, made to a certain size and placed where needed within the current SLIDE. Give the OBJECT a property action to perform. I usually call this OJECT a HOTSPOT ... as it remains totally hidden to all viewers ... only I know where it is placed within the SLIDE. I often use multiple exe presentations(exes) within 1 presentation display. So in the above senario, I have Presentation that auto plays ... pauses when I need it to ... and displays other content variety at that paused SLIDE. If you catch the idea and need more detailed info ... I will get back to you.

Jan It is not possible to mix or combined the actions you desire. You cannot have parts of a show run manually and other parts run auto or syncronized ... sorry

Rick, Always give us as many details about your show build : -Image : type, size and resolution, size mb -Music: type, multiple and size mb -Show built to Sync, Custom, or ? When you say it crashes: Explain to me what your CRASH is doing. Does the show instantly go to "blue screen" and give ERROR MESSAGE and you have to ESC out... or ... Does the show lock up on the first slide and you have to ESC out ... or ... any ERROR MESSAGES ? One simple test to see if it a music issue within your SHOW ... build the same SHOW without music and see if the issue continues. Sometimes the issue is beyond your control and even though WnSoft says it will play on those various OS types ... however ... those PCS must all be properly maintained with all driver updates (esp all MS DirectX and MEDIA files)