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- JX PHOTO CLOCK for Win95,Win98,WinNT 0.99 Release Note NOV 1998
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- Author: Jeffrey Xuan zlxuan@csie.nctu.edu.tw NCTU CSIE
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- Official Download Page:
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- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/1102/
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- JX PHOTO CLOCK is a round clock which allow you to use your own image
- (BMP, JPG, GIF, WMF, ICO ....) as clock face and to define every detail
- clock preference by yourself!!
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- For Win95, Win98, WinNT4.0 only.
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- Free for Home users, government, educational and non-profit organizations only.
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- 1.Install (Full Version)
- (1)Extract jxclk***.zip to a directory.
- (2)Execute "SETUP.EXE"
- (3)If necessary, setup will update your OLE dlls and request you to restart Windows.
- Run "SETUP.EXE" again after restart.
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- 2.Basic Operations
- * User define clock size (just DOUBLE CLICK on the clock to get into RESIZE MODE)
- * User define clock face (bmp,jpg,gif...just drag & drop your file on to
- the clock, or you can choose it in SETTING page)
- * User define clock face position (Use mouse to move clock face in RESIZE MODE.
- You can also use up, down, left, right key to move it, use +, -, *, / to ZOOM it.
- Press SHIFT to adjust.)
- * User define clock color.
- * Stretch your bitmap file to clock size
- * Zoom your bitmap file.
- * A SCREEN SAVER with anime background. Clock will be "maximized", and restore its
- size after screen saver!
- * Font, Display, other detail setting.
- * Always on top
- * "Corner Active". Move you mouse pointer to specified screen corner will active
- the SCREEN SAVER immediately! You can alos define a HOT KEY to do this.
- (Default HOTKEY: Ctrl + ~)
- * SCREEN SAVER AutoON: Enable the SCREEN SAVER when clock launched. Restore it when
- clock exit.
- * Screen Saver background anime. You can specify the speed and direction of it.
- * Alarm Clock. Startup, Hour Chime, Half Hour Chime, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly,
- Yearly, Once only. Can play wav, mid, CD AUDIO, or execute other program.
- (for example: Call Winamp to play MP3!!). And you can set a popup message.
- * Press Ctrl + Alt + Left mouse click to HIDE the clock and disable the SCREEN SAVER.
- It's useful when you want to watch TV Program, VCD, play full screen games, or use
- CDR to burn a CD....Click the icon in system tray will restore everything.
- * Multi language support, English sample:
- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/1102/download/jxen.zip
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- For detail, check the HELP on WEB:
- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/1102/help/help.html
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- 3.What's new?
- * Bug Fix: Fix the "black line" on ssaver background animation.
- * Bug Fix: some form position problem.
- * Bug Fix: make the screen saver sensitivity more precisely.
- * Bug Fix: Space appear in Directory name caused error in shortcut.
- * Bug Fix: OLe dll registration error.
- * Feature change: Some change in Chime setting.
- * Add Feature: Add font setting in multi language support.
- * Code optimize
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- 4.How to play MP3?
- First, you need a MP3 player program. If you don't have, try WINAMP:
- http://www.winamp.com
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- After you install you MP3 player, you have to do the procedure below:
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- (1)choose any .mp3 file
- (2)press "SHIFT"
- (3)mouse right click on that .mp3 file, a popup menu will display.
- (4)choose "Open With...", a window showup let you choose your application.
- (5)mark "Always use this program....", and then click "browse" to find you MP3 player.
- click "OK"
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- Now, you have you MP3 chime clock. Specify your MP3 file to any chime event, it will
- be played and stoped just like other WAV files.
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- 5.Trouble Shoot
- Most of the problems can be corrected by deleting JX PHOTO CLOCK setting
- in the Registry:
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- (1)Close JX PHOTO CLOCK
- (2)click Win95 "Start" button.
- (3)choose "Run".
- (4)Browse to find REGEDIT.EXE. if you don't know where it is, it might be:
- "C:\WINDOWS\REGEDIT.EXE"
- (5)Find "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\JX Clock",
- then delete it.
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- After doing this, JX PHOTO CLOCK will restore it's original setting.
- WARNING!! DO NOT edit the registry manually if you don't know what are you
- doing. It might cause some terrible trouble.
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- 6.Uninstall
- (1)Delete the screen saver "jxclkscr.scr" in the window directory, usually
- "c:\windows\jxclkscr.scr"
- (2)Delete the ShortCuts on Desktop(usually "c:\windows\Desktop\JX PHOTO CLOCK.LNK")
- and startup(usually "c:\windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\JX PHOTO CLOCK.LNK")
- (3)Delete the JX PHOTO CLOCK directory, default is "c:\jxclock".
- (4)If you really need, you can delete the registry setting follow 3.
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- 7.Copy
- You may make copies of the original Software. But, you may not
- modify, transrate, merge, disassemble, or de-compile the Software nor
- attempt to reverse engineer the source code of the Software.
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- 8.Bug report
- email: zlxuan@csie.nctu.edu.tw
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- All rights reserved. Copyright (C) Jeffrey Xuan 1998.