MidWavi - Shareware for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4
What's new...
Version 2.21
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This release is free to registered users.
Additions to the MidWavi Graphic Viewer module.
MidWavi now allows you to send BMP, JPG and WMF graphic files to the Printer. A new button called "Print" has been provided for this purpose (and you can also DOUBLE LEFT CLICK WITHIN A DISPLAYED graphic to summon the print).
Please note the following:
1. You can only print graphics when in "TV Mode".
2. The file must be currently on display.
3. Printing of Icons is not supported.
4. You cannot print whilst MidWavi is playing CD tracks or sound.
5. You cannot print if a Slide Show is running.
MidWavi will either prohibit use or issue suitable warnings if any of the above criteria are not met.
In view of the fact that printing is (in the main) handled by your printer driver, it is urged that you ensure you have the latest version of the driver (same goes for the video driver!).
MidWavi will offer you options re the size of the printout and whether or not you want filename details printing.
I leave you to experiment with these settings, but as rule of thumb, it is probably well advised not to go more than one up on MidWavi's suggested default. An example:
When you have selected your file for printing, there are five possible output sizes - zoom x2, x4, x8, x10 and "Original" - and MidWavi will "select" what is considered to be the most suitable. If (say) x4 was the default, x8 is probably as high as you should go.
A sign that the "zoom" factor is too high will be that the printer merely form feeds the paper with no output on it!
If your printer driver supports it, you can opt for Landscape or Portrait output, Best Mode, Normal Mode, EconoMode, type of paper, number of copies and so on.
Help is provided for this new option under the "Print" section of "Displaying Selected Graphic Files" in the MidWavi on-line help system.
Once again, it is stressed that much will depend on the quality (or not) of your printer driver and in this respect all bets are off regarding the output you will obtain...please "play" with this option and see how it goes.
Version 2.20
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This release is free to registered users.
Now, when you take the "Sub Select" option, the totals for each file type are shown... e.g. suppose you have searched a CD ROM for ALL graphic types (.BMP, .ICO, JPG and .WMF) and there were (say) 112 WMF's, 78 BMP's, 590 JPG's and no WMF's then beside each relevant checkbox you would see 112, 78, 590 and 0 etc..
Also, when you return from a "Sub Select" option, the very first file name in your listbox now has the highlight (saves you the bother of relocating the cursor).
Version 2.20 now has "self personalising" (or is that "self personalizing") so that you can now receive the necessary information "on line" (email) to register and personalise your copy of MidWavi.
It is hoped that by mid February 1998, you will be able to purchase MidWavi using your credit card (see on-line Help for full details).
As with 2.19, JPEG (.jpg) is now supported (please see notes below under "Version 2.19").
Version 2.19
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Registered users release only (free release).
Support now added for JPEG (.jpg) image files. In "search disk" mode, you may now include *.jpg as a search option and like the other supported graphics (BMP, WMF & ICO), any JPG found will be automatically added to the list of found items.
Also, JPG is now an option under the "Sub Select" option.
Please keep in mind that you must allow sufficient time for processing large graphic files with 16 million colours (i.e. if you have the "Slide Show" setting at (say) 2 seconds, this may not be enough time to allow the graphic(s) to be processed and displayed).
In this event, the graphic(s) will only appear momentarily on screen (looks like flicker).
Obviously, the solution is to allow more time between "slides" (e.g. a setting of (say) 10 seconds or use the "Next" - "Previous" options in non slide show mode.
Version 2.18
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To be honest...a bug fix release!!!
Fast CD drives could cause MidWavi to eject an Audio CD disk soon after it started to play!!!
NT 4 users will probably have had various error messages on starting/closing MidWavi.
Both fixed.
Sorry 'bout that.
Version 2.17
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MidWavi now supports Windows NT Version 4 (earlier versions not tested/supported).
You can now leave an audio CD playing your selections whilst viewing graphics when you click the "Graphics" button on the MidWavi Audio CD Player screen.
Providing you are playing your selections when you hit the "Graphics" button, you will be offered the chance to leave your audio CD selections playing (i.e. you can listen to your selected CD Tracks whilst viewing graphics).
NB you must be already playing your audio CD selection(s) in order for this option to be offered.
Please note however that MidWavi will prevent you from trying to play audio CD tracks simultaneously with MID or/and WAV files.
Also, if you take the option to leave MID and WAV files playing when viewing graphics (see more details below under Version 2.16), any AVI playing at the time of the request will now be stopped immediately.
Version 2.16
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Loadsa new goodies in 2.16...
Now, when you hit the "Graphics" button on the AVI-MID-WAV screen, providing you are playing your selections when you hit this button, you will be offered the chance to leave your selections playing (i.e. you can listen to your sound files whilst viewing graphics).
NB you must be already playing your sound files in order for this option to be offered.
Please note that all (any) AVI selection(s) will be automatically de-selected (there would be no point in displaying them as you would not be able to see them on the Graphics Viewer screen!!!).
If however an AVI is currently on display when you take this option, it will be played to its end (you will be able to hear but not see it though).
Also, "Auto Play" mode will be forced to ON if you choose to leave sound playing (this is to allow a sort of "Slide Show" of sound whilst you are viewing graphics).
Please bear in mind that some systems may not take too kindly to playing WAV and MID files whilst trying to display graphics or search drives etc. (you will just have to try it on your system and see how it goes).
Now on exit, if you take the option to leave an audio CD playing, the whole CD will be played from the current track until the end of the CD (prior to this, the CD would only be played until the end of the current track).
Please note that, at present, MidWavi will only "see" one Audio CD Drive in your system, so if you have more than one CD Drive just ensure that Audio CD's are placed in the first available CD Drive letter or set a default CD Music Drive in the MultMedia control tab (contained in the Control Panel).
Version 2.15
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If an audio CD is playing when you exit MidWavi, you are now given the option to leave it playing (or not).
When you choose a drive to search, the chosen drive is now "remembered" so as to keep in sync (e.g. if you choose to search drive D: for sound files, drive D: will be the default offered to search for graphic files etc. etc.).
Version 2.14
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The 'All' checkbox has been replaced with a button called 'Sub Select'.
This button will yield a small box offering the chance to filter your original selections even
further.
Let us say that you are in the AVI/MID/WAV player module, and that you have taken the
'Search Drive' for 'ALL' option (which will build a list of all files found and automatically select them for playing) but you only wish to play (say) AVI and MID files.
If you take the 'Sub Select' option and then click the checkboxes marked AVI and MID, your selections will automatically be made for you from the original list meaning that only these file types will be selected for playing from the list.
This new option is also available in the Graphics Viewer module.
Play and Auto Play (Display and Slide Show in Graphic Viewer mode) will now commence playing from the highlighted file onwards (not the top of the list as was).
This means that, for instance, if you have a graphic on screen and click the 'Slide Show' option, the slide show will commence from the current graphic on display, forwards.
Actually, the original version of MidWavi used to behave like this, but it seems to have got lost somewhere along the way!
Depending on the setting (Elapsed Time or Remaining Time), progress bars now decrement or increment (formally only ever incremented).
MidWavi will no longer run if it detects it is running with 'Large Fonts' set.
See on-line Help for further details on all of the above.
Version 2.12
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A feature called sub selection (a kind of secondary file selection
option) has been added.
In both sound/video and graphics view modes, once you have made your
initial selection (i.e. the File List Box has been populated), you will
notice that every single file name now has its own CheckBox beside it (they
will all be ticked when first selected).
This means that by clicking IN THE CHECKBOX AREA of the file name, you
can toggle that individual selection ON/OFF (i.e. ticked/checked - not
ticked/unchecked).
Let us say that your initial selection produced ten file names. If you
were to then uncheck file names that appeared in the order 2, 4, 8 and 10
and then opted for a slide show, file names 1,3,5,6,7 and 9 only will be
displayed/played.
As an aid, a new CheckBox called 'All' has been provided the purpose of
which is to toggle ALL selections ON/OFF (ticked/not ticked). When 'All'
is ticked (checked) all selections will be ticked and of course when
'All' is not ticked (by clicking on the Check Box), no selections are
