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Nick... Gee...I missed the Scroll Down thing. BUT, I see that it was already set to "95%" but I don't see the Nav Bar and I don't get the 5% frame. But be something else going on??? Thanks.. Gary

Greetings, Just opened a slideshow that was made in 4.48 in the new Beta9. I usually have the Nav Bar showing and I have the "% of the screen to show slide image" set to 95%. So when I previewed this show in Beta9, the Nav Bar did not show up. After thinking about this for a minute, I noticed that the Beta9 did not have the 5% boarder showing, therefore not allowing the Nav Bar to show. My problem is that I can not figure out where the "% of the screen..." function is in Beta9. I'd like to have my slideshows to appear with this 95% screen function in Beta9 with the Nav Bar showing. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks... Gary PS Or is there some other reason the Nav Bar does not show up?

Thanks, thedom, Conflow and Alrobin, Good news and bad news. The good news is that I was fiddling with the file and fixed it. The bad news is I don't know why it was fixed. I got it to play just fine before I got your suggestions so I could not experiment with your fixes. I was having the problem with the slideshow that I created with the large jpgs (each file was about 8mb after Photoshop tweaks). Usually I reduce the file size for the final show but at this point I had not. So I then ran my large files through my NetGraphics Optimizer to reduce the size of each file down to about 122kb per file. Then the slideshow ran as it should. The music played all the way to the end of the slideshow. Not sure why this "fixed" the problem. I wish I had waited to try your suggestions but it seems to work fine now. I uploaded the short show onto the Beechbrock Cottage site. Thanks again for offering suggestions. Gary PS Yes it was synched to music and I used the fade transition.

I have made many shows but this one does not seem to want to work correctly. This is a short slideshow with only 26 frames. The music duration is only 1:01 minutes. The problem is that when I run the show, the normal ending of the music stops at frame 21. If I start the slideshow at, say, 19, the normal ending of the music does play all the way to the end of the slideshow. The music file is an MP3. I am not sure how to diagnose this problem. (I did edit out any silence in the music file with Audacity). Can anyone tell me why this might be happening??? Thanks... Gary

Ok... I did not have the "Fit to Screen" checked. I figured using "100%" would have done the trick. However, only the left and right edges go all the way to the left and right. This must be happening because the images were scanned from slides and the aspect ratio is not 'right'. No problem. At least now I understand it takes "Fit to Screen" and "100%" to make it work. Not sure why Ken's arrows work fine and mine do not. I remove the Help and Print buttons and the functions of my arrows get reversed.... Al seems to have found a similar problem with the Nav Bar buttons. Thanks all for the Help... Gary

I am still using 4.48. One thing that has me baffled every time I use the Nav Bar is that the arrows for 'Next Slide' and 'Previous Slide' seem to be reversed. The arrow that points to the left is labeled as 'Next' when I think it should be 'Previous'; the arrow that points to the right is labeled as 'Previous' when I think it should be labeled as 'Next'. Are these labeled backwards or is it is just me??? My next question has to do with '% of the screen to show slide images'. While I normally put this at 95%, I recently have tried using 100%. However, I can't get the show to take up the full screen. It always has a boarder around the image (the Full Screen mode is checked) and I have it at 100%. Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong? Thanks... Gary

Thanks, Lin... I'll give it a try. Gary

Lin... I had tried several ways of copying the text from PTE into the PNG window but I could not. But I just went back into PTE 4.x and went to the 'raw' text window and the copy/paste thing worked. I was trying to copy the text after it was in the Object Editor window with the font and color already applied. I can not get any 'screen capture' to copy the text in the Object Editor window. I was trying to get around having to find out which font it was and what size font and having to retype everything in Photoshop. But I can live with not having to retype the text, since I can just do a 'copy' from the text input window. I will just have to doublecheck which font I used and go through the PNG creation process. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do all of this within PTE. I find using the Text tool in Photoshop is not real intuitive. Sometimes I can't seem to be able to get back into the editing mode no matter what I do. Then all of a sudden, I do. And I just figured out how to be able to add a second line of text (going to the Paragraph tab). I need more practice.... And thanks again for your PTE instructional AVI. Gary

Pardon me if I my assumptions are incorrect. I am trying to deal with the text issue. I have made many PTE shows with unusual fonts that might not be on someone elses PC. So I sometimes have included the font for them to copy to their Windows font file. When I try to open 4.x shows into 5.x, the text do not yet transfer into this beta version. I assume that it will in the final version. So, many thanks to Lin's teaching AVI on creating transparent PNGs text files, I learned to create PNG text files for 5.x. And, is it correct that I can only bring in PNG files into 5.x, but not 4.x??? My main question has to do with converting the text in my old 4.x shows to the new 5.x version. I assume that it will convert so that I would still have the same problem in 5.x if the viewer does not have that unusual font on their PC. So, I will want to recreate all of my text in my 4.x shows as PNGs when the final 5.x version is out. Is there any fast way to just copy and paste the 4.x text boxes into a PNG file in Photoshop? Or will I have to follow all the steps as I now do with 4.x to make each PNG file from scratch??? Thanks... Gary

Hi Tom... Thanks for the clarification. I was fairly sure that was the case but since I am a bit lost with the new version, I was not sure. But the more I play with it, I seem to get a bit further in cranking something out. And thanks for the suggestions... Can't wait for the final version.... Gary

I converted the wav to mp3 using Audacity (export) but it did not help. It still plays the sound over and over. It is a 12 second sound of thunder. Gary

I understand that many functions are not yet working in 5Beta. However, I am trying it out and I have a couple questions. I made a simple single slide with 3 png text images that rotate into the single frame. In 'Objects and Animations', I tried to put a wav sound file to one of the 3 png text images as they rotated into the frame. But it did not work. In fact, I got an error message when clicking on Preview, "Assertion failure (C:\Worlds\PicPack\MusicUtils.pas, line 125". I don't even have this folder on my PC. Will I eventually be able to put a different wav sound to each of the 3 png text files as they rotate into the frame??? Also, when I then changed it so that the wav file was in the Project Options/Music, the sound played find, but it keeps repeating itself over and over. I do not have the 'repeat' box checked. Is this also a beta thing? Thanks... Gary

When I tried to make a PTE video, I found that my MovieFactory2 SE would not open. I got "Ulead DVD MovieFactory has encountered a problem and needs to close." After some research, I found that Quicktime7 was the problem. I uninstalled QT7 and installed QT6. MovieFactory2 SE then worked OK. Maybe others might find that they are having this problem, too. Perhaps this problem will be mute with the new version PTE but if someone else has this problem, this might be the cure. Gary P.S. Added later: I just installed ITunes, which automatically also installs the latest version of Quicktime, 7.1.3. I checked to see if my MovieFactory 2 SE still worked and it does. I must have had an earlier 7.x version. But this latest version of Quicktime seems to be working well with MovieFactory 2 SE. No conflicts. Maybe I was the only person with this problem but the conflict seems to have cleared up.

Dom.... Hey, I've gone on to a couple beers (Redskins just won!!! ) And, yes, that is what I was thinking of. Looks nice. Gives the hint of the next slide and then the nice fade into the next slide. Thanks... Gary

Very cool. I, too, think that it might be better just a little slower. Or.... perhaps have the incoming image just slip under the existing slide and then the exiting slide fade away revealing the 2nd slide. Maybe I've had too much coffee!! But I like the effect you have made. Gary

Yes, Ken....I did have it correct ("Run Application or Open") in the 1st slide of the Menu show, as Ken told me...BUT I forgot to change it in the 2nd slide that had it set to "Run Application and Exit". Sort of 'seeing the forest but not the trees' effect. I had thought I had changed both slides to the "...Open" choice. But there are so many setting that you have to get right, it can get confusing when something does not go right, especially when I have a Menu show to run 3 main slideshows. My brain can get confused pretty easily nowadays. But thanks to all here who have stuck with me to solve my problem. Gary

I am standing in the corner for a while. I see what I did. I have 2 slides in the Menu show. Both exactly the same, except I wanted the 1st one to have one spooky sound to play and the 2nd one to have a different spooky sound to play, with a 1 second display time. So after it changed to the 2nd slide, I could use the mouse buttons to go back and forth to the 2 slides to recreate the halloween sounds until I started the main show. HOWEVER... In the 1st slide's 3 main show buttons, I had each slideshow buttons set to "Run Application or Open" and the 2nd slide's 3 main show buttons were set to "Run Application and Exit". So you are right, that is the conflict. Thanks... Here is some of my confusion: When I read "Run Application and Exit", I am thinking it is saying "Run the Application and then Exit the Application" and then it would return to the Menu slide. If I now understand this correctly in this case, what it really means is "Run the Application and Exit the Current Slide (the Menu Slide)". It would make more sense if they were changed to "Run this Application and Exit the Current Slide" and the other, "Run this Application and Keep the Current Slide Open". Yikes... I am having such problems with 4.48....just wait until 5.x is finalized.... Thanks very much for your help and others in deciphering my problem. I'll check out the HideShowTaskBar after I catch my breath with this project. Thanks. Sincerely, Gary

I tried to attach the ZIP, but apparently will not upload such a big file, about 6.5Mb. I stripped out all the sound files but it still is over 6Mb..... And this is with just the Menu file and just one of the 3 main shows. I can email it directly to you if that works with you??? I have to go out right now so I will check back later today. Sincerly, Gary

Ok... I am going to try to attached just the PTE file as a ZIP to see if it works. Hopefully, you can look at this file and see what is going wrong....? Thanks... Gary Added later... Ah...yes, that did the trick. Thanks... Menu_Halloweens.zip

Yes.. I Browse and selected the file and I clicked on Add This Attachment...let me try again. Gary Added later... No, I don't see it. I got the grey bar to show as if it was uploading it but it does not appear. Maybe, I don't have permissions from the site to do any uploads. I looked around but don't see any way to ask to get such permission. The file is only 16K. Not sure what is going on here.... Tried again to attach file...does not seem to be working...Gary

I think I still have the faulty PTE file. I will send it to Igor. Hopefully, he will have some time to scope out the problem. Thanks... Gary

Hi Fred and Dominque... I am a bit baffled that Dominque's test Menu works but mine does not. I have attached the PTE file for my Menu file (is that the one you need to see?). If anyone can take a look at it and determine what might be causing the problem, I would be grateful. I am also wondering why Igor's suggestion did not work. Thanks... Gary Added Later: Hmmmm... I added an attachment but it does not show up. Can I attach a file to a reply???

Fred.... Wonderful!!!! Thanks for the tip. I did not think of using the Copyright Logo. I made some text in Photoshop and it worked just great. Super thanks to all for your help. Now I just have to figure out why I can't get the Menu show to remain on the screen. Sincerely, Gary

Greetings... Yep, it worked just fine. I played the show and hit the ESC key and it went back to the Menu slide. And the Exit button worked to. I wonder why mine does not work.... Thanks for the demo. Gary P.S. You did yours in 5.x. Wonder if there is a difference...since I am using 4.48.

I looked and I already have "When show ends keep last slide in show on screen" checked. When I run a slideshow or the menu show with this item checked, the last slide does stay on the screen...until the next slide show is run. Then it goes away. Gary