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Igor... I got an Application Error when testing a slideshow in RC2. Here is the error message: Exception EAbort in Module PtePreview.exe at 000071D6. Asseertion with message: "Unhandled Exception at "TAffinn" Disiposing' (D:\D_Common\WnLib\Win32\WpTypes.pas,line:532). I had made the show in the last Beta but now I have the RC2 installed and use it. I was in PTE doing a Preview. The slidehshow has a Menu.exe. When I clicked on one of the slideshows to play it, I got the message and the PC locked up. I had to do a CtrlAltDel to stop the Preview (it showed it was Running). Got back to the PTE program. Then when I would click on the same show, the error message flashed on the screen and disappeared and the slideshow went on to play. I openned a similar slideshow but slightly different version. I went to play one of the slideshows off the Menu.exe and the monitor only showed the background colors, not the slideshow, but the music played. Hit ESC. Replayed and it then seemed to work OK for now. Got any ideas if it is my PC (Windows XP Pro) or the RC2??? Thanks... Gary

============================= Lin.... I didn't mean to hijack the topic but this thread brought up some good points that I did not realize before. Just one more question on the Hardware Acceleration. Does the jerkyness in the menu.exe with the HA activated happen when there is any animation or does it happen when there is extensive animation? My menu.exe only has some text that zooms in and I don't notice any problems with HA activated in the menu.exe. I have not made extensive use of animation yet in the menu.exe. I just re-read your post, Lin, and I think I understand it better now. It would not matter how much animation you would have in the menu.exe. It is just the fact that a HA from the menu.exe would be running with the HA that would be running in a main slideshow. Would the jerkyness that one might see in the main show depend on how much animation you have in the main show (while using HA in menu.exe)? I guess that if we see the jerkyness in the main show and we would then go back and uncheck the HA in the menu.exe? Is this a way to see if you need to uncheck the HA in the menu.exe??? I just did a quick test. I unchecked the HA in my menu.exe and I did notice that the zooming in of a block of text in the menu.exe was jerky. And then, with the HA checked in the menu.exe, I did not see any jerkyness in either of the main shows where I had some text zooming in. Thanks.... Gary

Thanks... I just noticed the reference in Lin's Help PDF about not activating the Hardware Acceleration in the Menu.exe. But he says to have it checked in the main slideshows. So, if this is done, what happens when you have run both shows from the menu.exe. Will two Hardware Accelerations be running at the same time? What if someone runs the shows several times without exiting the program? Will there be several Hardware Accelerations running at the same time??? What might happen if this does occur??? Thanks.... Gary

Geoff... Would you please explain why you recommend that the hardware acceleration should be turned off in the menu.exe. I just main a slideshow that has a menu.exe that has two buttons to run separate PTE shows. I did not turn off the hardware acceleration in my menu.exe but everything works OK. What am I missing? Thanks... Gary

Super! I told Fly that I tried to reproduce the problem but could not. Hope you squished the bug. But, what is "Win+L"? Thanks... Gary

Igor... While I was trying to do a copy/paste of some text from one PTE show to another PTE show, I got a few error messages. I can not remember if I was in Beta 9 or 10 when this happened. It might just be my system (Windows XP Pro), but just in case, let me pass some of the error messages I got. Maybe it will mean something to you. -"Exception EAssertionFailedin module apr.exe at 000D58F4" -"Access violation at address 004648CF in module apr.exe. Read of address" -"Access violation at address 7C918FEA in module NTdll.dll write of address 00000010" After getting out of the error message, everything continued Ok. Hope this helps... Gary

Hawk... Ok...!!! I transformed my slideshow to work as your Index files work. Thanks... It was a bit of re-working but I got it done. Now, the music on the slide#1 in the Index file will play a music file until I click on its button to proceed to the slide#2 in the Index file, which now has 2 buttons for two independent slideshows. The music that was playing on the slide#1 stops as it goes to slide#2, and then when I choose either one of those slideshows, their music will start when either of the slideshows start. I put in slide#3, but I could not figure out why I needed it. So I remove it and everything works as it should. Can you tell me why it was there??? The Action on Mouse Click was to take you to slide#2...but I don't think we needed it (?). Kinda of a hard way just to stop the music on slide#1 from playing when you continue to the next slide, but it works. The unfortunate thing is the sound effect plays when you go from slide#1 to slide#2. What we need to be able to do is to have the capability for a sound effect to be place directly on a button. Also, is there a way to change the font size on the text you place in a button????? I've searched high and low, but no luck. Gary

Hawk... This morning, I took another look at your files and it is slowly sinking in. All the files work and I (I think I) see what you have done. Very cool. I am going to see if I can duplicate it with my show. However, one of the things that perplexes me is that the music file in Slide #1 of the Index slide list repeats itself. This is good. However, I don't see why it does. I see the music file is inputed using Customize Slide/Music. I would think it would play only once. I also looked in the Project Options and its Music tab has the 'Repeat music after playing' greyed out. I am confused as to what makes this music file repeat and what made the 'Repeat music after playing' to be greyed out. I hope this clear enough.... Gary

Hawk... Thanks so much for the reply and the shows. Let me digest what you sent and fiddle around with it. It looks like you have done what I need to do. I just need to understand how you did it. Thanks so much. I'll let you know later how it turns out. Gary =============================

Thanks, Igor, for clearing up this question. I thought I was going a bit nuts. I didn't realize you could have control over whether Windows would allow the association or not of an installed program. And let me add my thanks for all the improvements and work you and your crew are doing. I'd like to ask further if it would be possible to allow sound files to be added to the buttons we can create in O&A. And, is there is a way to stop the music from playing in a menu slide as soon as a button transfers you from the menu slide to a slideshow which has its own music? Thanks... Gary

thedon.... I gave it a try. But I don't think it will work the way I have it set up. If I understand what you suggest, it appears that I would have to have only one slideshow, instead that of my 3 slideshows (a menu slideshow and 2 primary slideshows). I need to have them separate because the 2 main slideshows are synch's to different lengths of music. Maybe I could combine them but it is above my head at this point to try to rearrange everything. But I don't think I would be able to get each button to have a different sound effect to be played. I just don't see how it would allow me to put a sound when I just click each of the buttons. Anyway...I am confusing myself so I must really be confusing you. I just hope Igor could provide the ability of adding a sound to a button and have the ability to stop the music of one slideshow when you want to run to another slideshow....... It gets too complicated when you have to do a work-around for something like this. Gary

thedom.... Interesting to hear you have a similar problem with associating PTE with the program. I'd like to hear if your reinstall changes anything. I will try to digest what you suggestions are for my other 2 problems. Thanks for the ideas. I'll fiddle around to see if I can get it to work. Thanks... Gary

Tom... I understand your procedure very well. I have done it many times in the past for other programs. But for some strange reason, it does not work for my PTE, on my PC. I can only assume that it has to do with something in my Windows since it works for your system. I have installed my PTE directly in the C:\ as opposed to where it defaults to the Programs folder. But I don't think this has anything to do with it... Thanks... Gary =========================

Ken... That is not the problem. I created the slideshow in 5.5 Beta9. I can not get Windows to associate the PTE extension with the PTE program so that it will open the PTE program when I click on the PTE slideshow in MyComputer. I have tried the making the association in Windows XP but it will not put the PTE association in the Open File listing. Are other people having the same problem or is it just something going wrong in my system???? Does it even have anything to do with the way PTE installs itself??? Gary ===============================================

Tom... this exactly what I have been doing but Windows XP will NOT put the PTE choice in the "Open With" listing. Is this a Windows thing or a PTE thing??? Gary

Greetings, I just created a slideshow with 5.5 Beta 9. I have 3 questions that have arisen. 1- File association: With the 4.3 version, I could click on a .PTE file and the PTE program would open with this file. However, I have dumped 4.3 and now only have the Beta 9 to work with. When I click on a .PTE file in MyComputer, it does not find the 5.5 Beta 9 PTE program. I have tried to force the File Association but it does not work. I have tried to do the 'Open With', 'Choose Program' and Browse to the location of APR.exe and select it. But it never shows up in the file list and it will not associate the .PTE extension with the PTE program. I am using Windows XP Pro. Of course, I can open all PTE file in the program with File Open, but I'd like to be able to click on a PTE file in MyComputer and open the program with it. Any ideas why I can not associate the PTE extension with the PTE program??? 2- In the slideshow I just created, I have made a 'Menu' slide that has 2 'buttons' that run external applications (2 other PTE slideshows). I would like to have a sound effect played when each of the buttons is chosen. I can not find anyway to play a sound when a button is chosen. Is there a way??? 3- In this same slideshow, I'd like to have a long music file play until one of the buttons in the Menu slide is selected. I have tried this but the problem is that the music file from the Menu slide continues to play while the music from the selected slideshow plays. I'd like to know how can I get the music that plays during the Menu slideshow to stop as soon as one of the main slideshows starts. I'd appreciate any suggestions... Thanks... Gary PS. I forgot to add that the slides are sync'd to music (in the 2 main slideshows).

================================ No, please be as obvious as you can!! When I read, "click on 'Write these files to a CD'", I thought it was trying to tell me to use a Windows method of burning the files. After reading your reply and thinking a bit, what I need to do is just open Nero, for example, and Add the files to the list to be burned from the folder with the files that I ran the Autorun program on. I did create all the files needed by the Autorun program (the files to burn with the launcher and the inf files). I didn't try an actual burn yet but I think this is the solution. I just could not interpret what the "click...." statement meant. Am I on the right track??? Thanks.... Gary

--------------------------------------- Brian... I tried the Autorun program you mentioned in your response to Barbara. I installed it and I gave it a try. When I get to the end to do the Browse, the next step is to click on 'Write these files to a CD'. From what I can determine, I should see this choice in the Send To menu. I did put a CD in the writeable drive. However, the 'Write these files to a CD' is not there or anywhere I can find in my Windows XP. Can you point me in the right direction to get this to work??? Thanks.... Gary

Al and Lin... I actually made an MPEG. Thanks, for the steps, Lin. And I tried the 'wrinkle' and it worked. Since doing that, I have made several different sizes and codecs and all the AVI's worked!!! Super. The thing that I do not understand is having to go into the Timeline to select 'Autospread'. In the old versions, when you chose the slides to be sync'd with music, the slides were automatically spread over the music's time. Now, I think itis a mistake to have to go into Timeline to have this done. Even though I know that it now has to be done, many times I just forget that it has to be done and I spend lots of time trying to figure out why it does not work until I remember to go to the Timeline. I wish Igor would put the 'Autospread' back to make it automatic when you select sync'ing the slides with music in the Main tab. Am I missing something here??? I think I have seen many new users having this problem until someone tells them they have to go into the Timeline and select Autospread. I also think most newbees would want to stay away from the Timeline at first until they get the basics down. I have made many slideshows and never use the Timeline...mostly because I have not figured it out... Thanks all for helping me through my problem with creating AVIs. Gary ==================================

Wow, Powtwnc and DicK!!! Glad to hear I haven't been going crazy for nothing. I hope Igor reads your findings and can fix the bug. Super work for you guys. Thanks. I guess I just have to wait to see what happens now. Thanks... And thanks for the MPEG steps and I'll see if I can do your new 'wrinkle'. Sincerely, Gary PS I'll have to look for 4.49 and give it a try. ===============================

Thanks for the heads up. I was just about to do it. Gary ========================

Lin...Thanks for going the extra miles with this problem. I'll try what you say about Irfanview and let you know. By the way, how can you create an MPEG with PTE? I don't want to open another can of worms but I don't see that option. Thanks... Gary ==================================

Lin... Thanks for the AVI and MPEG. So it looks like it can be done. I have tried doing this with the original images and after the images were reduced in size (used NetGraphics Optimizer2). I sent a message to Igor to see if he wants to see the files. Appreciate your help... Gary ==================================

Dick asked: Does it play ok when you preview the slide show? As already mentioned, it looks like your images are on a different and possibly slower drive? If it previews ok with images from the same location, it should make an avi ok! Yes, in Preview it plays perfectly. Yes, my E: drive is a separate hard drive but I don't think it is any slower. How big are your image files? I checked the actual image size in dimensions and they are about 2.5" x 3.5"(about 100 k each). Gary

Hi All, I put all the files on my C: and ran it through the Create AVI but it did not make a difference. I have 154 GB of free space on the C: drive. This time, I numbered al the slides so I could see what was going on. I have 31 slides and the first and last ones play twice. The only slide that play in the AVI are as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, and 30 (the 2nd 30 does not play). Here is the file with the slides numbered: http://www.sendspace.com/file/gn5mo3 Here is a zipped file with all the images and the PTE file: http://www.sendspace.com/file/fimba8 I appreciate your help and how some one can figure this out.... Thanks... Gary ================