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Mike, Please set checked the option shown on the attached screenshot.

Judy, Thanks, I planned this feature for future versions and I'll try to realize it in v5.2

Updated Release-Candidate (December 3, 2007) * Fixed bug of previous versions when mouse wheel didn't work in Open/Save dialogs. http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe_beta.zip (4 MB)

Dave, I wouldn't recommend use "Original" size mode for objects, especially for DVD-Video. When we render DVD-Video we render it at larger size for further post-processing. In your slideshow please set "Cover slide" mode (instead "Original") and it will look exactly as you want.

Thanks, Lin. Bernand, Currently you can reach this goal if you will create DVD-Video disc without menu at all. In the next version we'll add an option "Skip DVD menu at startup" (which can by called by "Menu" button on a remote).

Al, In Manual advance mode, animation of slide still work. And if duration of a slide 4 seconds, pressing of Space bar toggles between Play/Pause modes. When internal time cursor reaches end of a slide, animation stops and pressing of Space bar will change to a next slide. Please see attached example. ManualAdvance.zip (270 KB)

Al, Space bar switches between Play/Pause mode, not for a transition to a next slide. Because slideshow can be partially manual controlled (for example, from 1st to 5th slides) and timer mode (6th to 9th slides), I think Space button should always work as Play/Pause switcher. Probably if it really necessary, we can add new option "Press Space bar to show next slide"?

Thanks, I've reproduced and fixed this problem. http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....ost&p=47921 Updated Release-Candidate (November 30, 2007) * Fixes bug with "Wait for a key press..." option in Project options. http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe_beta.zip (4 MB)

I apologize for this stupid bug! We mistakenly assembled Beta 10 and Release Candidate with old version of one module. Updated Release Candidate fixes this problem: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe_beta.zip (4 MB)

Thanks, I'll try to reproduce this problem tomorrow and fix it.

It's Pre-Release. If there will be no bugs more, it will be marked as Final release.

Release-Candidate (November 29, 2007) http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe_beta.zip (4 MB) + Update language files. + Fixed problem with working of slideshows under Windows 95/98 with very old version of DirectX (6.0 and earlier). Steve, It fixes that problem you have found. p.s. this beta doesn't include ATI gamma fix, we need more time to test it and more likely it will be included to version 5.11 right after v5.1 final release.

Ray, Thanks, probably I can improve this fix in this case.

Al, Please say me what date of your ATI drivers? (Control Panel | System | Device Manager | Video card, Drivers tab)

Al, Thanks for details! Yes you discovered one case which I couldn't fix - when use together adjusting of gamma/brightness/contrast in ATI control panel and in Adobe Gamma, and other calibration tools. It happens because ATI control panel uses alternate ways to change gamma and no way to determine who changed gamma last time - ATI control panel or Adobe Gamma loader. The problem not in Adobe Gamma, but in ATI control panel and in ATI drivers. How you consider can we include this fix to PicturesToExe in its current state if it can cure gamma settings in all other cases?

Al, As I've understood color shift occurs in versions 5.0, 5.1 and special test slideshow? In other words new ATI gamma fix doesn't make it worse that it was before? It helped cure gamma on other ATI video cards and no effect on one ATI video card?

I consider that Geforce 7400 with shared video memory is an entry-level videocard for PicturesToExe and to get perfect playback of Pan/Zoom effect it better to prefer at least Geforce 7600 and that's also important - with onboard video memory. Windows Vista also will not work enough fast on Geforce 7400.

Mary, Yes, I adjusted manual advance mode and right mouse key for a next slide in this slideshow.

Thanks for testing! That all what I can do with bug in ATI drivers. Al, Please run Test_ATI_gamma_fix.exe and press Win button on the keyboard. Do you see shift in colors? Then click left mouse button on a slide (it will switch back to exclusive fullscreen mode). In slideshows created with v5.1 Beta or earlier you could see color shift when you pressed Win button. Now with test slideshow Test_ATI_gamma_fix.exe no shift should occur on ATI video card with calibrated display. Fred, You can solve even this problem if you set to default colors in ATI Control panel (for both modes - Desktop and Fullscreen applications) and restart Windows.

If you have ATI video card please help us with testing of new version of PicturesToExe which will solve old bug of ATI drivers with incorrect color gamma on calibrated displays under Windows XP only. Please read this topic: http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7674 I very need to learn: - How it works on calibrated displays (where earlier was a problem) - And how it works on non-calibrated displays (where v5.xx always worked fine).

We prepared internal version of PicturesToExe which should fix this problem with gamma on ATI video cards. I publish EXE file of slideshow which should has same gamma as on desktop. Also you'll find inside source files of this slideshow and you can compare images and create this EXE file in current version of PicturesToExe where problem with gamma exists. http://www.wnsoft.com/test/ATIGammaTest.zip (1 MB) If all will be fine, we'll publish beta version of PicturesToExe with this fix. I will very grateful for your responses.

xahu34, Probably these products don't use exclusive fullscreen mode, just a simulated fullscreen as we used in old version 4.48?

Markus, Yes, exactly! We can save gamma settings before activating of the fullscreen mode and when ATI drivers corrupted it, load gamma profile back. The task a little complicated by a fact that ATI additionally suggests alternate desktop gamma settings and fullscreen gamma settings in ATI control panel. We have to correctly handle all these combinations of color settings. Please test special beta when I publish me, it is important to test how it will work with Pantone software.

There are good news. After reading of your message today I've experimented again with ATI settings and fullscreen mode and probably I will able to cure this ATI problem. I better understand now how ATI damages gamma settings and I can restore damaged gamma for fullscreen mode of slideshow. If my testing during next a couple of days confirms success, I'll publish the public beta for more wide testing. This problem happens only under Windows XP on ATI video cards with fullscreen slideshows (hardware accelleration). It is definitely an ATI bug. Please visit this topic next days to download special beta version later.

Yes, unaccelerated slideshow doesn't require DirectX for graphics, but we use DirectX for sound output even if you didn't add music (internal sound based timer). For sound we need DirectX 6.1 or later. Version 6.1 included to Windows 98SE, Me. If you set "Use hardware acceleration (D3D)" option, slideshow will try to use DirectX for graphics and if video card has 16 MB or lesser video memory, slideshow will not use DirectX for graphics. If you uncheck "Use hardware acceleration" slideshow never use DirectX for graphics. DirectX 8.1 is a minimal requirement for hardware acceleration of graphics in slideshow. It seems to be a bug on Windows 95/98 with very old version of DirectX (6.0 or earlier). We'll try to solve this problem, and slideshow will play, but without sound and it will show warning message "Please install latest version of DirectX".