Thankyou for trying SLIDE 2.5 for the Psion Series 3a ------------------------------------------------------ New for v2.5 (over v2.4) ------------------------------- Clarification in documentation about where to put the help file, plus new address and contact details; SLIDE is now 100% fully working shareware, restriction on deleting files removed; line breaks now allowed in slide text (i.e. bullet points are now possible); PIC graphics can now be tiled in the background across the screen; Synopsis -------- SLIDE 2.5 is a slide-show/demo/tutorial system for the 3a, with graphics, WVE sound files and special effects. Registration etc (please read) ------------------------------ SLIDE 2.5 is (C) UK 1995 Steve Litchfield and is released as shareware. The program is NOT free, and anyone making serious use of it should register with the author (address at end) by sending the appropiate amount in Sterling, US dollars, German Marks or French Francs, cash is most welcome if other methods of payment don't appear suitable. This program is NOT heavily nagged, is 100% fully working and contains no crippling. The only indication of having an unregistered version is the welcome screen displayed at the start of each SLIDEDIT session. Upon payment of the registration fee, a code will be supplied to disable the welcome screen and emblazon your name in large 'friendly' letters on the slide editor backdrop. The registration fee for personal use is 10.00 UK pounds of equivalent in $, DM or ff. If you are using SLIDE in a company, please contact me for details of site licenses. If you have (or your work, or a friend has) Compuserve access, SLIDE can be personally registered using GO SWREG and id no. 6564 Installation of the SLIDE program --------------------------------- (Note that I include a small SCR file. This is an installation script for MCLINK users. It can also be used with RCOM, provided you manually make the necessary directories on the Psion first. If you use, PsiWin, just follow the instructions below!) (i) Copy SLIDE.OPA and SLIDEDIT.OPA into an \APP\ directory of your choice on any drive and use Psion-I to install each of them, as usual. You'll see two icons, one showing the RECORD video buttons and one showing PLAY/PAUSE buttons. It should be obvious to you that the RECORD icon is for SLIDEDIT etc .... (ii) Put the SLIDEDIT.RSC help file into a \SLIDES\ directory on any drive. (iii) Make a \SLIDES\ directory on your working (not Flash) disk and copy the SDEMO.DBF file into it. This is an example slide-show, and is optional. (iv) If you wanted to see the example slide-show in (ii) above, you need to put the .PIC files into \PIC\ on any drive and the .WVE files into \WVE\ on any drive. Editing ------- Use SLIDEDIT to modify existing slide-shows or create your own, in the usual Psion way ... The system screen will show up any slide-show DBF files it finds inside any \SLIDES\ directory ... Playing ------- Just press ENTER on the correct filename under the SLIDE PLAY/PAUSE icon and your chosen slide-show will kick off. Use the Menu button whilst playing a slide show to alter the way the show is presented .... Note: PIC files wider than 80 pixels will be centred on the screen and displayed for 'background' effect in the grey plane unless the 'Gallery' option is used, as shown in the example slide shows. PIC files less than 80 pixels wide will remain in the black plane and will appear on the left of the slide text. Note: The pause is the wait time in seconds at the end of each slide before the screen is cleared and the next slide shown. The user can press any key to go directly to the next slide without waiting for the time delay to expire. If no pause is specified, the default is 5 seconds. If the user wishes to pause for longer on a particular slide, pressing 'Psion-P' will pause the slide-show until another key is pressed. For 'infinite' pause, you can specify 0 seconds. Creating new graphics --------------------- You can draw your own PIC graphics on the Psion using Rick Andrews' excellent DRAW v2.8 application, which is also fully working shareware. You can download it from his web site, or from the same source as SLIDE itself. Slide-show distribution ----------------------- If you want to upload your slide-shows to bulletin boards etc for others to try, please keep them separate from the SLID25.ZIP file that you obtained this program in, although you're welcome to include the SLIDE.OPA viewer program with your slides. Summary ------- That's about it. I do hope you find SLIDE useful and that you will want to support development of this and other 3a products by registering. I can be contacted as follows: Steve Litchfield 22 Grays Crescent Woodley Reading RG5 3EN ENGLAND email: slitchfield@cix.compulink.co.uk or on Compuserve: 100640,107 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/slitchfield Tel: 0 118 9265081 NB: Reverse engineering of SLIDE is strictly forbidden. If you really want a say in what the code of SLIDE does, then please contact me and discuss your requirements. If the suggestion is helpful to the product I may consider registering you free of charge anyway! If you suspect the copy of SLIDE that you received has been hacked or altered in some way, please contact the author at once, stating where you received the program. For more information about how this program is protected against reverse engineering, please contact Marco Aircardi, Via G Acerbi 6/3, 16148 Genova, Italy.