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| Slide tray window's layout |
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This window displays the slide show's contents as a list
of "frames".
Just after opening a slide tray file, the first frames are shown. Use the vertical scroll bar to browse the show, or the Up/Down arrows and PgUp/PgDwn keys. Each frame can be easily modified. Use the "cut", "insert frame" and "paste" commands to change the frames sorting order. Most edit commands are applied to the current frame. This frame is outlined with brown pads surrounding the frame number (here, it is frame #1) There is always an empty frame at the end of the slide tray (not visible here), which is used to append more pictures. Pictures can also be inserted in the middle of the show with the "insert frame" command. |
With a 800x600 resolution screen, you can see up to 5 frames at the same
time.
Set the slide tray window's height in the
"Preferences" dialog box.
You can open only one slide tray window at any given time.
| Frame contents |
Frame
number. The current frame number is surrounded with brown pads.
Click anywhere in a frame to make it current.
Image
area. This is where a small preview picture is shown. Drag and drop a
picture from the preview window into this area
to set it. Double-click this area to display the picture full-screen.
Frames which contain no picture are displayed as title screens (see 
below).
Image
file name. This is the original path of the image file in your disk. It
is automatically set when you drop a picture into the frame.
Sound
file name. This is the original path of the sound file in your disk. It
is automatically set when you drop a sound into the frame. To remove this sound,
do Edit / No sound file.
Picture
date. This is supposed to be the date when the picture was taken. You
can set its default value with the "Preferences"
dialog box. The projector program will display
this date if the "show date" setting is checked,
using font, style and color defined by the same
"Preferences" dialog box.
Transition style. Select the kind of visual effect to be used by the
projector program when the picture will be displayed.
You can set its default value with the
"Preferences" dialog box. Transition quality
depend much on your computer's speed and video board memory size. The faster
the computer, the more video memory available, the smoother the transitions.
Delay. Select how many seconds the picture will stay on screen when
projected. You can set its default value with the
"Preferences" dialog box.
Rotate. Select a rotation angle to straighten the picture, if needed.
Look a the results in the image area. The image file is not actually modified:
the picture is only rotated on screen.
Text
area. This is the place where you can enter a short description of the picture.
The projector program will display this text if the
"show text" setting is checked, using font, style
color and alignment defined by the same "Preferences"
dialog box. Frames which contain no picture are displayed as title screens.
Their background color is set by an option in the Preferences
dialog box, "Text&Date" tab : "Blank screen background color". The position
of the text when overlaying an image may be moved up or down by the insertion
of "Returns" before or after the text to have it appear where you wish.
| Filling the slide tray |
There are several ways to fill the slide tray:
Dragging a picture file from the preview window and dropping it into the slide tray will insert this picture into a new frame, or will overwrite the target frame's picture, depending on settings "Dropping slide action from slide tray" in the Preferences dialog box, "Workbench" tab.
Dragging a sound file from the preview window and dropping it into the slide tray will assign this sound to the frame.
Dragging a picture from one frame to another will swap the pictures or will overwrite the target frame's picture, depending on settings "Dropping slide action from preview" in the Preferences dialog box, "Workbench" tab.
You can also merge another slide tray by doing File / Insert slide tray.
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