Aliu's Magic Lantern
Reference guide
Projector

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1. Main screen
2. Displaying / hiding the remote control
3. Displaying / hiding the mouse pointer
4. Remote control usage
   1. Manual control using the on-screen remote control
   2. Manual control using the mouse as a "real" remote control
   3. Manual control using the keyboard

4 ways to run the projector: double-click the projector's icon on Windows desktop or select "AML Projector" in "Start / Programs / Aliu's Magic Lantern" menu or drag a slide tray icon and drop it over the projector's icon or click the toolbar's "Run slide show" button in the workbench program.

Many options are available in the Preferences dialog box, "Projector" tab and "Text & Date" tab. Use them to customize the projector's behaviour: screen resolution, graphic mode, picture resizing, autostart, etc.

When the projector has been started by double-clicking its icon or from the "Start" menu, the remote control is displayed in the lower right corner of the screen. The projector is in stand-by mode, waiting for you to open a slide tray file with the "Open slide tray" button .

When the projector is launched from the workbench program, the remote control is hidden. To display it, move the mouse pointer to the lower right corner of the screen, or click anywhere in the screen. To hide it again, move the mouse pointer towards the upper left corner of the screen.

Move the mouse pointer into the upper left corner of the screen to hide it.
Move it elsewhere to make it visible again.

The projector has two working modes:

1. automatic
2. manual

The default mode is "automatic": the slide show is displayed according to the slide tray's contents, and no manual intervention is needed.

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Manual control using the on-screen remote control

The remote control's buttons let you gain manual control over the slide show:

stop the automatic mode, enter the manual mode

resume the automatic mode

jump to the first frame of the slide tray

jump to the previous frame

jump to the next frame

jump to the last frame of the slide tray

open a slide tray file

exit the projector program; you may also quit the program with the "Esc" key.

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Manual control using the mouse as a "real" remote control

Right-button click: jump to the next frame

Right-button double click: jump to the previous frame

Right-button "long" click (button pressed down, staying down for at least 1 second and then button up): stop on current frame

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Manual control using the keyboard

<Left> arrow or <Up> arrow : move one slide backwards

<Right> arrow or <Down> arrow : move one slide forwards

<Home> : goto first slide

<End> : goto last slide

<PgUp> moves 5 slides backwards

<PgDwn> moves 5 slides forwards 

<S> turns sound on, <Ctrl-S> turns sound off

<A> enters "automatic" mode, <Ctrl-A> stops on current frame and enters "manual" mode

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