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CANTICLE IMAGES by ACCIDENTAL SOFTWARE (If it's good, it's ACCIDENTAL) Copyright (C) 1995 all rights reserved NOTE: To print a copy of this file from DOS, type "TYPE README.TXT > PRN" then push Enter. Visit our Home Page (http://www.primenet.com/~accident) to downlaod the most current version of this program. This program is SHAREWARE. Distribution of the UNREGISTERED version of this program is encouraged as long as it is copied in whole and remains unaltered. No fee may be asked for this program itself, but a nominal distribution fee may be charged for the diskette used to distribute this software as long as the purchaser of said diskette is informed that the fee for acquiring the diskette does not constitute payment of the REGISTRATION FEE. Vendors, see the file VENDOR.TXT for details. Distribution of the REGISTERED version of this software without purchasing this program by paying the registration fee or without a license granted from ACCIDENTAL SOFTWARE is prohibited. NOTE: You may have a version of this program without the, file "VBRUN300.DLL" provided. This was done to save disk space and download time. VBRUN300.DLL is widely available and in fact may already be in your windows\system sub directory. Vbrun300.dll is required for this program to function. It will be necessary to obtain a copy of VBRUN300.DLL in order to install and run this program. System requirements. The minimum system needed to run Canticle Images is an IBM 386 with a 256 color video system. The images provided with this program are 24 bit highly compressed pictures. Due to the extreme compression and extensive decompression needed to display these images, a 486/33 processor is recommended as the minimum system necessary to provide satisfactory program performance. A video mode of 16 bits (65536 colors) or higher will provide photo quality images, 256 color video modes provide a less satisfactory picture. 1. Canticle Images is a screen saver and image viewer for windows. Canticle Images can play music from a CD-ROM. Music can play as pictures are being displayed. You can select Password protection if desired. Messages can be left on the screen. 2. Canticle Images can be installed as a standard Window's Screen saver from Window's desk top, or can be used from the Program Group that Canticle Images makes for windows. Canticle Images can be used as both. 3. Canticle Images can be used as a screen saver and/or an image viewer. If you have installed Canticle Images as a screen saver, and want to use it from the program manager to leave a message or make your system password protected while you have to be temporarily away, you can do this by double clicking the Canticle Images Icon. If Canticle Images is running from the program manager, it will not invoke itself as a screen saver even if the amount of time has passed to call it as a screen saver from the desktop. How do I install the program? 1. Install Canticle Images for Windows from a disk. a. Start Microsoft Windows. b. Insert the disk in the proper drive. c. From the Window's Program Manager, select FILE MENU and choose RUN. d. Type B:\SETUP and press Enter. Substitute your drive letter for "B:" if your disk is in a different drive. 2. Install Canticle Images for Windows from a modem download. a. Unzip you Canticle Images archive. b. Start Microsoft Windows. c. From the Window's Program Manager, select FILE MENU and choose RUN. d. Select Browse, then find the drive and directory to which Canticle Images was downloaded. Double click on the file "SETUP.EXE" then click on the O.K. command button. e. Follow the prompts from the setup program. Trouble shooting. 1. In some cases, if you are using a program that is accessing or using a DLL or other file that Canticle Images uses and installs, you may receive a message during installation that warns you that a file can not be installed since it is already in use by your system. You can choose Ignore to this warning and the program should install correctly. 2. If you receive a message that tells you the file THREED.VBX cannot be copied, your system already has the file THREED.VBX in the windows/system sub directory. Some versions of the file THREED.VBX fail version checking by the Canticle Images setup program and cannot be overwritten. This will cause the Image Master + setup to fail. If this occurs, you must remove or rename the existing file THREED.VBX already in your windows/system subdirectory so that the setup program provided with Canticle Images can install the newer version of THREED.VBX to your system. How do I install photo libraries for this product. 1. Insert your photo library disk in the proper drive. 2. Double click on the 'Lirary Installer' icon in the Canticle Images program group. 3. Follow the prompts from the 'Library Installer' program to complete installation. 4. Your Canticle Images shareware will be converted to the registered version after your Canticle Images picture library has been installed. How do I register? 1. How much? $24.95 (includes 1 Canticle Images Photo library) 2. Select REGISTER from the program menu for more information. How do I make Canticle Images the active screen saver? 1. Select "yes" to the inquiry during installation that asks if you want Canticle Images to be installed as the current screen saver. This will place Canticle Images as the current screen saver on your system with a 5 minute time of inactivity to start the program. The 5 minute "time out" will not take effect until windows has been exited and reentered after Canticle Images installation. 2. You can select Saver Set Up from the Miscellaneous menu to access the Saver Set Up utility in the program. Turn the Canticle Images screen saver function on or off as well as selecting the amount inactive keyboard or mouse time before the screen saver portion of the program starts. Alternative method for making Canticle Images the active screen saver. 1. Once Canticle Images is successfully installed, it may be selected as the current screen saver from windows. a. From the Windows Program Manager, select MAIN. b. From MAIN select CONTROL PANEL. c. From CONTROL PANEL select DESK TOP. d. From DESK TOP select the arrow key next to SCREEN SAVER. e. From the menu, select Canticle Images. 2. The above steps will select Canticle Images as the current screen saver. Use the SET UP button to select the features of the program you want. It is possible to select and preview pictures, MIDI files, and CD-ROM audio. 3. Push the TEST button to run the screen saver program as a test. 4. Select the desired inactive time for the screen saver program to implement itself. How do I use the program from the Windows Program Manager? 1. If the Canticle Images program group is not open, double click on the Canticle Images program group. 2. To run Canticle Images, double click on its Icon. 3. The program will start in the Set Up Mode. Select the options you want, then push the Screen Saver button to start the program. 4. Touch Start: Double click the Touch Start Icon to activate the touch start hot corners. A green line appears at the bottom left of your screen to indicate where to place your mouse to start Canticle Images. Touch Start activation can be terminated by moving the mouse pointer to the bottom right (red line) of the screen. Copy the Touch Start Icon to the program manager's Start Up program group to have Touch Start activate each time windows is started. If the Touch Start check box is activated (Picture Attributes, Utility portion of Canticle Images set up), Touch Start will reactivate itself after the screen saver portion of Canticle Images has terminated. What are the program features? 1. Users can use photo libraries supplied by Canticle Images as is. Slide shows can be developed by choosing photos from any of the supplied libraries. 2. Users can add up to 100 Midi selections for each Slide Show or your library photos to be played by your midi software as the program displays your pictures. 3. Set the length of time for the picture to remain on the display before the next one replaces it. This time can be adjusted down to 3 seconds. 4. Pictures can be displayed as 1. Full Screen, 2. 75% of screen, or 3. 50% of screen. In this case screen refers to screen height. Pictures will retain the correct aspect ratio regarless of Screen mode or screen size selected. You can elect to have your picture displayed with a frame around it or without frame. 5. You can randomize the order in which your images are displayed. Click on the Randomize Picture Order check box to choose this option. 6. The speed that Canticle Images uses to put your images to the screen can be adjusted. Select Picture Attributes, then slide the selector bar to the slower or faster end of the adjuster bar to vary this speed. 7. Any mouse button press and most keyboard keys will terminate Canticle Images and return you to the application you were using before Canticle Images started. The following keys have special meaning. 1. If MIDI is selected, pushing the "M" key on the keyboard will toggle the MIDI selections playing to mute and back on again. 2. If you have CD-Audio selected, pushing the "space" bar will bring up an audio selector panel. You can select Previous, Next, Play, Pause, and Stop with this selector bar. 3. The "P" key will pause Canticle Images on the present image. Pushing "P" again will toggle pause off. 8. You can use a Password to protect access to your computer when Canticle Images is running. 9. You can leave a message for any visitors you may have while you are away from your computer, or messages you may want to display to the public. 10. CD-ROM audio is available. If your CD-ROM is capable of playing CD-AUDIO, you can select it as the source of music for Canticle Images. 11. Touch Start is available. The touch start Icon will will set a "HOT" corner that will allow Canticle Images to be started by moving your mouse to the GREEN HOT CORNER of your screen. Touch Start can be terminated by moving your mouse to the RED CORNER of your screen. You can place the touch start icon in your windows start up program group to have it run automatically each time windows is started. Activate the Touch Start check box (in Utilities of Picture Attributes) to have Touch Start reinstate itself after Canticle Images has run. Common Questions! Q. When I double click on the Canticle Images Icon the program will not start. What is happening? A. Multiple instances of Canticle Images cannot be started. If the program was started by double clicking on its Icon and a subsequent click outside the form hides the application, it is still running in the background. You need to bring up the Windows Task Manager to switch back to Canticle Images or minimize the program manager to reveal Canticle Images. It is always best to end Canticle Images by clicking on the EXIT button in the Set Up form if you are not going to run the screen saver portion of the program immediately. Q. I want to use several of my own MIDI songs to be played by the program when my pictures are being displayed. How can I do this? A. You can select any valid MIDI file ".mid" that is available on your hard disk. It can be placed in a List of Songs to Play (up to 100) that will be played in order. Once the last file is played, the tunes will start over in a continuous loop. Choose the drive and directory that your MIDI files are on. Highlight this file or as many files as you want to add to the list of Midi Files to Play. Once the file or files are highlighted, click the Add Files button to place them in the list of Midi Files to Play. You can listen to any Midi file in the Midi Files To Play window by double clicking on it. Uninstall. Use this Icon to remove Canticle Images from your hard drive. This Icon will remove all files that were installed to your hard drive by this program, with the following exceptions. MCI.VBX THREED.VBX VBRUN300.DLL These files may be required for other windows programs and are not removed by uninstall for this reason. These files reside in your windows\system sub directory and can be manually removed if desired. Uninstall will not remove the Canticle Images program group from windows. The Canticle Images program group must be removed in the usual manner by the user. Canticle Images program files installed to your hard disk! The following is a list of files Canticle Images installs to your hard disk or generates as the program runs. This list can be used for manual uninstallation if desired. Files in your Windows directory.... SSIMAGEC.SCR SSIMAGEC.EXE HOTSPOTC.EXE REMOVEC.EXE IMASTERC.INI IMASTERC.RRG IMASTERC.GRP EXCLUDED.MSC MESSAGE.MSC MIDI.MSC TRANSIT.MSC SLIDES(1 THRU 10).MSC SLIDET(1 THRU 10).MSC Files in your Windows\System directory... FXCMP210.VBX FXLBL210.VBX FXSND210.VBX FXTLS210.DLL LEAD45.DLL LEADDIB.DRV * MCI.VBX * THREED.VBX * VBRUN300.DLL Files in the graphics directory used by this program... PP(1 THRU XX).CNT SI.MID README.TXT Any *.CNT photos found in the LIBS\LIB001 through LIBS\LIBxxx directories. * Delete these files with caution since they may be used by other programs. Disclaimer: This product is distributed "as is". All warranties, either expressed or implied, as to the software quality, performance, or fitness for any particular reason are disclaimed. You will bear the entire risk of relating to the quality and performance of this product, and will, in no event hold ACCIDENTAL SOFTWARE liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damage resulting from the use of this software.