Contents
   
Introduction
  Welcome
  Features
  Requirements
  Getting Started
Using MySlideShow
  Starting Program
  Exploring Workspace
  Browsing and Viewing
  Creating Slide Show
  Slide Parameters
  Slide Information
  Settings
  Start Screen
  Sound
  Playing Slide Show
  Executable Slide Shows
  Autorun CDs
  Albums
  Web Galleries
  Video files, CDs and DVDs
  Slide Editor
  Timeline Editor
Support
  Contacting Anix Software
  Troubleshooting
Ordering
  How to Order?
  After Getting Registration Code
 
Settings  


The program allows you to change the settings of the whole slide show as well as each slide. These settings are collected in the Settings dialog. Each slide may be customized, but by default it uses the slide show (or global) settings. If you customized a slide, but want to reset its settings to the default state, click the Reset button in its Settings dialog.

Slide Show Settings

To change the settings of the current slide show, select the SlideShow menu, then click Settings or click on the Settings button at the right of the Slide List. The slide show settings are placed on General, Advanced, Slide and Effects pages of the dialog.

The settings are individual for each slide show. If you save your slide show, the program will also save the settings. When you create a new slide show, the settings revert to the original (default) state. To save the current project settings as the default settings, click on the Default button. The program will use them for each new project you create.

Individual Slide Settings

To change the settings of an individual slide, select this slide, select the SlideShow menu, then click the Slide Settings item or right-click on the slide and click Slide Settings in the context menu. The slide settings are entered on the Slide and Effects pages of the dialog.

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The Settings dialog displays which settings it contains in the Title Bar or the dialog window. The Title Bar caption may be "Settings - Slide Show" for the current slide show project or, for example, "Settings - MyPicture1.jpg" - for a MyPicture1.jpg slide.
 

For the slides having individual settings the program displays a small indicator (check mark) at the leftmost column of the Slide List.


General
settings (available only for slide shows)

onestep.gif To repeat the slide show after the last slide has been shown, select the Repeat checkbox.

onestep.gif To close the slide show after the last slide has been shown, select Close after finish.

onestep.gif To shuffle the slides during the show and ignore the order you set, select Random order.

onestep.gif To display a timer at the top-left corner during the slide show, select Show timer.

onestep.gif Click here to open a picture demonstrating the effect of the selected Transparent text checkbox (the top part).


onestep.gif To hide the mouse pointer, select the Hide mouse pointer checkbox.

onestep.gif To display the Start Screen, which allows you to view the slide images as Previews and Filmstrip, select Show Start Screen.  

onestep.gif To synchronize slide timing with the background playlist or slide playlists, select Synchronize slides with audio: Background playlist or Slide playlists. Read more in the Sound topic.

onestep.gif To change the sound volume, use the Background and Slide-specific sound sliders


Advanced settings (available only for slide shows)

onestep.gif To display the navigation bar during the slide show, select the Show Navigation Bar checkbox. To hide/show the separate bar buttons and to change the bar screen position, click on the Customize button.

onestep.gif To hide/show the separate items of the slide show pop-up menu, click on the corresponding Customize button.

onestep.gif To display the file name, size, date and the current slide number at the bottom of the screen, select the Show file information... checkbox. 

onestep.gif To open the Help window with the File info parameters, click on the ? button. The program uses the File info text template to display the information text during the slide show.

onestep.gif To customize actions for left and right mouse clicks, click on the Mouse Click Actions button.

onestep.gif To make your output slide shows time limited (that is useful for professional photographers), click on the Trial Functionality button. You can use a plain HTML file (without images) for the expiration dialog. See ExpirationInfoSample.html in the program folder.



Slide
settings

onestep.gif To change the background color and font of the captions and information messages, use the corresponding controls. The program also uses the background color for the Full Screen mode. Click the Border & Shadow button to change the Margin, Border, Padding and Shadow options for the slide picture. The Margin options allows you to define the minimum margins around the picture border. If you select the In percent option, the value will be calculated as a percent of the width (for the Left and Right margins) and height (for the Top and Bottom margins) of the slide show window. The Border options defines the slide picture border size and color. The padding is the internal space between the slide picture and its border. Select the Drop Shadow option to display a shadow that falls behind the slide picture border. To make the shadow visible, set some margins around the slide picture.

onestep.gif By default, the Fit image option is selected. In this case, the program fits large slide images to the screen size. The Stretch image option can be useful for small slide image to stretch them to the slide show window size.

onestep.gif To change the caption position on the screen use the Horizontal and Vertical combo boxes. You can align text inside the caption box selecting the Align Left, Right, Center and Word Wrap buttons.

onestep.gif The Manual mode allows you to go to the next slide using the keyboard (DOWN ARROW or SPACE) or the mouse wheel. Under Advance, click Manually to set this mode.

onestep.gif In the Automatic mode the program goes to the next slide after the pause that you set in the dialog. Click Automatically after, Interval and then enter the number of seconds/milliseconds you want the slides to stay on the screen. To make the slides wait for the playlist to finish, select Slide playlist finish.

It's required some time for loading slide images and playing transition effects. By default, the program starts the interval timer after complete loading and transition effect. To calculate the length of your slide show or synchronize it with the background music more carefully, mark the Start timer before image loading checkbox.
 

Effects settings

This page allows you to set transition effects for the slide show or separate slides.

onestep.gif To change the effect type use the Effect selector. By default its value is None. Click on the Random to make the program use a random effect from the list. If you select the Custom option, you can define a specific effect.

You can disable some of the effects for the Random mode. Right-click on an effect or group item and use the popup menu. During the slide show disabled effects won't be used by the program for the slides having the Random option.
MySlideShow doesn't use some of the effects in the Random mode. These effects are slow for real-time full screen slide shows but can be used by the Video Generator plug-in for creating video files. The effects are marked by the icon. You can still select them in the Custom mode (not recommended).


Click OK when you finish changing the slide show settings.