Igor

I added your suggestioon to our TODO list. Good idea. I can't promiss exactly when it will be added, but it is in our plans. If you created slide-show with aspect ratio 16:9 and see it on your 4:3 display you see black strips. With "Cover screen" option slide automatically will be proportionally enlarged and will cover entire screen. On 16:9 screen no difference. Alternatively you can enable this mode for any slide-show using command line. Type pteshow.exe -cover for example We'll add speeds (Linear, Smooth, etc) to Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects. Ron, Buttons, Hyperlinks and Text objects are not included to beta #2 and still not actions like "Run application". We're working on these functions.

Please try my example: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow.zip Will it unload color profile? If yes, I think the most likely problem in MonacoGamma program. And any DirectX application or game will cause same problem. I'll try to find and install this MonacoGamma, probably I can do something with this problem.

Forum in 2001: 2003 As we tested even on Geforce 4 MX440 in 1280x960 Fade effect with new graphical engine using hardware acceleration works more smooth than in old versions of PicturesToExe. I'll think more about optimization for old video card. Same slide-show with maximal sharpness and quality on fast video card and a little blurred reduced picture on old video card. If it will possible, it will be good result of this discussion!

Patrick, First of all, v5.00 will suggests all possibilities as v4.48 We don't discard support of old PCs. PicturesToExe always suggested new effects (Fade in 2001, Push effect in 2004) which were intended for modern PCs. I read recently Microsoft's statement that about half of video cards are ready for Windows Vista. It means that these video cards will great work in PicturesToExe 5, too. It means that we may consider that about 50% of PCs are ready for PC. Probably not all, but home PCs really. I understand your worrying. But there will be as usually slide-shows for all PCs with simple effects and some slide-show with Pan/Zoom effects. And in 2-3 years almost all PCs will able to play any kind of slide-show. p.s. It's good that there is such kind of discussion - it's feedback and intended for improvement of the program.

Ok, I agree with you. It will be changed in beta #3

Patrick, If final version of v5.00 will do all that previous versions did (with same speed on old PCs) and additionally Pan/Zoom for new PCs only - it's progress, isn't it? I think at this moment about 52% of users have powerful video cardы, according recent voting. In the nearest betas we will solve all reasons of jerks on Pan/Zoom effects on power video cards. This is only one-time upgrade. Never it will be required again. So for Pan/Zoom effects 50% of PCs are ready. Classical slide-shows with Fade in/out, Circle and other effects as earlier will work an all PCs ideally smooth. Probably we'll find some solution for old video card. Maybe that 720x576 which I don't like. Also we'll show one additional solution I will not spoke about right now. If don't realize Pan/Zoom now in PicturesToExe, other products will do it. In 2-3 years almost all PCs will able to play Pan/Zoom with ideal quality. We can't miss this moment. I don't know other products that provide *same picture quality* and same effects, as PicturesToExe v5.00 created by our team, and which could work faster on old PC. Beta is beta. It's issued to find these problems. And of course there are some problems. For really new product as v5.00 there is very small number of problems. In fact one serious problem only -jerks because of antiviruses. This problem exists in another slide-show product, too. But we will solve this problem. Other several problems not related with video cards which will solve in beta #3 WnSoft: - New graphical engine written together with Aleksey Yelin and me. He also created new system of objects, and all transition effects for old and new versions of PicturesToExe. And we always discuss together all question and problems. - Pavel Koshkin developed system libraries for PicturesToExe v5.00 and WinNavigator v2.00 Thanks to his help, EXE file with slide-show still very small (about 150 KB at this moment). He works on WinNavigator v2.00 - Sergey Malyshev wrote code for music player for PicturesToExe (with my help), AVI video output. Also he fully created PixBuilder Studio. Now he's working on our new sub-project for PicturesToExe. - Dima Boarintsev wrote some code for "Create backup in ZIP" (ZIP packin and unpacking) He fully working on our another future project - WinNavigator v2.00 - Sergey Kiprov is fully working on WinNavigator v2.00 - Alena Tomilova reads and responses on emails from support@wnsoft.com address. She leaves for me only the difficult letters. - Pavel Malyshev is our new web master and designer. - Artem is our new programer. Sorry, I forgot his surname. He will help with Curling of page effect and re-work "old" effects from v4.48 to second CPU based graphical engine for v5.00 - My work - 70% for programming and 30% for the forum and emails.

Patrick, What can you suggest? Final v5.00 will have two engines - CPU based for simple slide-shows which work on all PCs and slide-show with Pan/Zoom for PC with modern video cards. For Pan/Zoom we use maximal quality of picture and don't limit real picture to 720x576 as some does. I'm not magician, please understand. I do all that I can.

I very apologize about this incident! Of course, we have full backup, but latest dated by May 22, 2006. p.s. it seems that only web site with simple HTML files can't be hacked...

Somebody found access to the forum and placed pinned message with request for money to support of this forum. This message was signed as admin1. Please ignore such requests! I don't know what scoundrel could hack the forum and did such thing. We installed all latest updates for the forum, and I'll speak with Invision Board support about this incident.

Robert, Theoretically it possible to use standard open dialog (as now) or show FileView (as "Insert slide" button in "Customize synchronization" window). Let leave this question on a month. We need time to realized other promissed functions.

Yes, this option in the next beta.

It happens because in this nice show almost all images has mode "Original size". It's potentially dangerous option, as I wrote earlier. And this mode must be used only for stand alone main image (if it really necessary to have no resizing) and never for animated objects.

To improve and make more easier work with masks, backgrounds I added special parameter for an object - "Transparent for Click". With this option object can't choosed, dragged, or rotated visually. Only if you select object via List of Objects. So mask which cover entire slide will not be problem to work with other objects.

In v5.00 hyperlinks will work in Preview mode.

I plan to improve these moments in Visual editor and make work with multiple objects more easier.

Thank you for good news! We plan to use idea tested in PteShow_H variant in the next beta #3. It seems that there is an essential difference between PCI and AGP. Although PCI video cards almost not presented now. With good video card no difference. For example, ATI Radeon 9600 Pro theoretically can show 300 frames per second. GeForce 6800 more than 400 frames per second. So even 85 FPS is simple task for video card.

Robert, I just thought why 780 Mhz, it's not standard CPU frequency?

Nick, It's very strange problem. I just sent you personal message. Please reply me.

In case of NVIDIA video card we disable antialiasing even, if antialiasing enabled globally. NVIDIA gives this ability. In case of ATI, antialiasing doesn't affect on quality and sharpness of picture. So both NVIDIA and ATI no problem with quality of picture.

If PteShow_H variant even on second loop has problem with smoothness, I suppose that 700 MHz CPU or PCI's video card are not enough for ideally smooth playback. Unfortunately, mt likely problem in PCI based video card. AGP much faster and probably doesn't disturb to work of slide-show when new slides load. I have second PC at my home with 900 Mhz P3 Celeron and AGP ATI Radeon 9600XT 128 MB which works fine.

Not only you, I also don't understand how this animation works, although I see all objects

Nick, Test two variants of PteShow, please: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/PteShow_H.zip http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow.zip

Interesting article about new graphical format from Microsoft. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+shows+off+JP...ml?tag=nefd.top p.s. I a little bit afraid about color space in this WMP format. Many people doesn't like even sRGB format, but as I tested similar Windows Media Video (WMV) format strongly compresses sRGB color space of images and we see vastly faded colors. Try to encode some slide-show AVI video with Windows Media Encoder to WMV and you will see this problem. Let me wish good luck to Windows Media Photo and with hope that they will solve all these problems.

Robert, We plan to use improvement realized in PteShow_H variant for beta #3. So it will vastly help and antivirus/some other programs in working in background will not disturb to work of slide-show. Question. Try to wait for second loop of PteShow_H variant (when first slide will be shown again). Will at this second loop stutters occur? Try to install latest drivers from NVIDIA web site - www.nvidia.com

Thanks for sending me project files! With "Hold time points" enabled, Slide list works exactly as in v4.48 with "Synchronize slideshow to music". If you insert new slide in Slide list, all keypoints on timeline will be hold. In this mode, you need in exact synchronization of slides to music, slides can be any, but they must be exactly shown at specified time on the timeline. Without "Holf time points", Slide list works as usual non-synchronized project in v4.48. As you noticed, inserted slide to Slide list, will has globally set value. So two modes work with Slide list. In fact all slide-shows in v5.00 always synchronized (it's necessary because of Pan/Zoom effects), but authors need to have two options: - Exact time points locked on the timeline - primary goal. Any slides, not particular, but with exactly synchronized to some moments in music. (Sorting of such slides in the Slide list will not affect to keypoints on the Timeline) - And when every particular slide should be shown specified duration (e.g. 4 seconds) For author no difference - they can be shown in any order, but every slide with specified duration. (Sorting of such slides will affect on keypoints, but duration of every slide will be same.) p.s. specially for fast show of slides (simulation of video) when every slide should be shown and not skipped we'll add special option.