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AutoCD - Version 2.0 Free tool for CD distribution of one Presentation (exe) for PTE members. User can Run from CD, Run from Hard Drive, Install and Uninstall. You can display your Logo image on window, your email (click), link to your web site (click) and your own Readme text. Nice window. Please feedback. Autorun Utility "PTEautorun" - Version 3.0 When inserting the CD with your shows a window will open from where user can run up to 7 PTE shows and install to Hard Drive, if he likes. Add your Readme and your email to autorun window. Very easy to use and free. Granot

Hi Igor 1) Run app and go to slide... 2) Embed app in the exe (Run embedded app) 3) In "Show first transition effect from desktop" - can you make it also in "out" ? - What I mean is for example, if all my slides are Fade in/out - to see the desktop between slides. This effect can be great for screen savers. 4) Using our images for Navigation Bar buttons and locate the Bar wherever we want. 5) All other I requested and forgot Thank you Granot

Guido, you are right, really excellent Italian site. Very professionally made with beautiful pictures and background music. I didn't noticed I'm in the Italian version till read this "Ho scelto questo scatto fatto a Radka per la luce ben dosata in ambiente agreste." ... Haaa...nice "view". The masks pictures are a beauty (the slide show of the masks is great). There are also many pictures from other countries like France, Turkey, Egypt.... You all must visit. Thank you Luigi for your site. Granot

Hi, Ron, Alan, Granot and some other members are working now to find finall bugs in "FlashMe3". We have tested dozens of beta version but since combinations are almost endless we need some volunteers to play with it a little and send feedbak, comments, sugestions, cakes and coffee You can check the web page of "flashMe3" here. Please post here all you have to say Thanks you Granot

jopo Try my "SopaDarkTable". This is a utility I started but due to many problems and no interest from members I left it aside. ....and thank you for using my utilities.

Toscana, Italy. Great place to live. I liked very much especially two pictures, the pine trees with the halos and the row of sheeps. Beautifull narrow alleys with old brick houses. Matching music to romantic place.

Isabel So I was joking but I made the "GeniusCat" free program for cats and dogs. All you have to do is run the exe, browse for images folder, and let your darling hit the keys. Each click on any key (not including numbers) will show a random image full screen. Also there are two cats and two dogs hiding inside. Click with your mouse in secret places to hear them. It's not too much but it can be enhanced to include all kind of animals and voices. I uploaded it Here. Granot

WOW !!! What a Site !!! ...here comes another sleepless night Don't miss it.

Yes, how about placing for him an old computer with cats, rats and dog images, when every key on your clipboard will change the image and even make some animal sound. ... and the best of all, the Cat's program will be free

Hi all, - important notice ! Since Ron West has found a small bug (thanks Ron) I had to make some changes as to exit time. Now it will be after XX frames and not after time or loops as before. This change was needed to fix the bug and to give you more control over your flash display since you can display it up to any frame you want (for example: if you make a flash with your logo or show name at the first 1-50 frames and credits at the 60-100 frames, you can show same flash once before show till a frame 50 and once at end of show till frame 110. Notice that utility needs few extra frames time from the minute it realize you reached the exit frame to the minute it execute the Exit command. That's why you need to add to your flash some extra frams at the end and at any place you will exit, in this example, after frame 50). I uploaded the updated version and now working on the new HELP file so you will still have the old Help, which means,all about loops and exit time (in milliseconds) is not relevant any more. The configuration tool will ask you after how many frames you want to exit flash and no more questions about loops or time. If you find any unseen bug or problem please let me know. I will upload updated version with updated Help file when done. Thank you Granot

145meg zipped !!!!!!!!!! Please don't do this to me..... this is worse than SARS or AIDS !!! Just send swi file and txt file. H E L P ! ! !

ABC_Images - Freeware For people who work with images (like PTE members) This program works with JPG and BMP image files. First you "Select Folder" by browsing. The names of all images in that folder will be displayed in the upper box. You can see thumb of any image you select with your mouse and you can see a thumbs slide show of all images. Speed of slide show can be adjusted. You an also see any image in its full size. Information about original dimensions of image is displayed. There are two types of search to find images in the selected folder. "Start With" button will open an input box where you write the beginning of the name you are looking for. Example: If you write "Po", program will look for all images which name starts with "Po" and will display them, each with its full path, in the lower box. The second type of search is using "contain" button. This will look for any image which name contain the words or characters you wrote. Note that it will not include names start with your input. Important feature is the "Append Result" mark box. This will enable you to add all images found in a search to the images found in previous search. As in the upper box, here too you can see thumb of any image and you can see a thumbs slide show of all images. In addition you can copy any file, or all files, to any folder you like. You can add images from Explorer by Drag and Drop, remove an image, or remove all and clear list. Also: New improved version of "RemindMe" Enjoy Granot

tgpbug With which program did you make your Flash ? Please zip in a folder the flash swf file, Flash.txt file, and the project file of your flash and send it to me. In the meantime try same configuration with another flash file and then with another pte show to see if you get same results. (don't forget to zip before you send) Granot

atomiton, Welcome to our forum. Swish 1.5 is old version but, in my opinion, if your needs are not much, it is easier to use and cheaper. I have versio 2.0 also but almost never used it. I found that you can make almost same things, and have more control on what you are doing. If you don't want to make very advanced movies or don't want to spend time on making your flash, better use 1.52.

Hi all members. I know you like flash, especially as welcome page before your presentation or as scrolling credit list when show is finished. I know also that many member use it and some had some difficulties with the configuration tool. So I made a new utility, with very easy configuration tool and very similar to the original "FlashMe". That's why it's called "FlashMe2". I like to thank to Ron West and to Alan Thacker for their great help if finding my bugs and giving useful ideas. The first "FlashMe" has some features which "FlashMe2" don't have, so you can still use it too, and get ideas from the very good Demo which Marcovelo made when he was helping me with "FlashMe" (thank you Marco), and last but not least, Al Robinson who helped me a lot. Be sure to read the Help file, which you can open while using the tool and follow all steps. So here are very few words about "FlashMe2": "FlashMe2" is a separate version similar to "FlashMe" with few changes as: Hide cursor option during Flash Playing. Curtain Effect exit option when full screen. Display full screen on any screen size. Copy Flash and show files to working folder. Quick button for full screen. Run your show from the flash. Content: 1. General information 2. Configuration Tool 3. Synchonized mode show 4. Minimum Requirements 5. Legal, Disclaimer and License 6. Contact 1. General information ====================== The purpose of this utility is to enable adding a little action to your show. It is not intended to be used massively but mainly to add an introduction on first slide, run credit list at the end of show (like in the movies) or some text effect in middle of show. Among the effects you can use are: Text effects (wav, explode, type, slide etc) Image effects (zoom, rotate etc) (this depend on your Flash program). It is very simple to add a flash onto your show by "Run external file" command but it is not so easy to fit your flash so it will not be noticed as being not part of the show. First you have to make your flash. You can use any flash program but if you don't want to make any complicated effects and just make some text effect or other simple image effect you can use "Swish 1.5" (not Swish 2.0) which is very simple to use and very cheap to buy. The main difficulty in integrating the flash with your show is to find the right position where to open it and the right time you need to give the slide where you use it. You will overcome this by testing it on your hard drive and making the necessary changes. It can look very complicated on first try but with a little practice you can master this tool and achieve great effects. Since you can't use transparent flash with this utility, the best results are when you make the flash background color and your slide color to be the same, or use same image of the slide in your flash. The most easy effect to make is a text effect on your one colored first slide. The utility comes with a "Configuration Tool". In this tool you will write all the information the utility needs to follow your instructions. It will create a text file called "Flash.txt" in the same folder. This text file is very simple, containing 13 short lines. You can make your own "Flash.txt" file (new file) with Notepad if you like not to use the "Configuration Tool" but do not edit files created by the tool. Below is a detailed explanation of each step of the "Configuration Tool". You can't use a flash file with one frame only so you can always check how many frames your swf file has by using the "Check Frames" button on the "Configuration Tool". Another utility included is "Screen Ruller" which can help you find locations, distances and positions on screen. This has its own help button. I want to thank Marco for his great contribution working with me on the first version of this utility and the great work he put in his excellent demo for FlashMe. Also thanks to Al Robinson who helped me bring the Configuration Tool to it's final stage. This utility is a Donationware, which means, you don't have to spend money if you don't want. But I will be very thankful for any donation which can help me keep my web site. Also I expect people who are using my utilities in projects that help them make money to make me happy too. This utility can be customized by me for bigger projects. 2. "FlashMe2" Utility Configuration Tool ======================================== There are maximum 12 short steps, depending on your configuration. If for example you want to display your flash in a full screen, than you have only to decide how many loops you want your flash to run. When you click on "Make Configuration File" button, a box will open and you will be asked to write your preferences. Notice that once you make a mistake you will have to start again (don't worry, it is one minute to finish your configurations). Mostly your flash will not have loops as it will be used for welcome screen at start or for credits at the end. The loop can be used for any small flash which you run in the middle of show. Step 1: Do you want to hide mouse cursor during flash ? Step 2: Do you want your Flash to run your show when exit ? You can run "FlashMe2" from your first slide to display a welcome flash animation but you can also run your flash first and then "FlashMe2" will run your show. Step 3: Write name of your show. Do not add the exe. Step 4: Give time for show to load. If you write 10 then your flash will tell your show to run and exit. If you write any positive time (milliseconds like 3000 for 3 seconds) then your flash will wait that specific time, after telling your show to run, and then close. You can use this option to avoid empty screen in your show upload time. Step 5: Do you want your flash file to run full screen ? If Yes, then you auto jump to step No. 10. If No, then you go to next step. If you choose FullScreen you will have option to add Curtain Effect (whole flash movie scrolling up and disappearing) when exit. Write 1 if you want or leave the "No Curtain Effect" if you don't. Step 6: Write width in pixels of your Flash movie. You can resize your flash by writing smaller or bigger size. In other words, you can display your flash in any size you want. Step 7: Write height in pixels of your Flash movie. You can resize your flash by writing smaller or bigger size. Step 8: Write the X position of your flash on screen. You can choose between "Center", "Top-Left", or "Any Number', which means you write the number of pixels from left edge of screen. If you choose "Center", which means your flash will be displayed on center of screen, you auto jump to step No. 10. If you choose "Top-Left" , which means your flash will start from top-left corner of screen, you auto jump to step No. 10. If you write a number, you go to next step. Step 9: Write the Y position of your flash on screen. Step 10: How many loops you want your flash to run. Notice that flash will close when all your loops are done, unless you gave another instruction in another step. If you scroll your flash and it exit screen frame then not all loops are played. Notice that if you scroll your flash and write smal number of loops (depend on your flash) it may stop looping before end scrolling and exit screen. Step 11: Choose direction to move your flash movie on screen. You can choose between "Right", "Left" (both will move Flash on screen Horizontally), "Up", "Down" (both will move Flash on screen Vertically), and "No-Scroll'. Notice that small number of loops can terminate your flash before reaching screen frame. Step 12: Speed of scrolling. Bigger number will make it move faster. Use numbers between 1-10. When finish, your configuration file "Flash.txt" will be created (and over-run previous file). Quick button: ============ One click to make a configuration file that will run your flash full screen only one loop, will hide the mouse cursor and will not run your show (to use on first or last slide) Check Frames button: =================== With this tool you can check how many frames your swf file has. Notice that if your file has only one frame the "Exit" feature will not work so don't use such files. From this tool you can also copy the swf file to utility folder. Screen Ruller ============= Can help you find locations, distances and positions on screen. This has its own help button. Copy Flash File button: ==================== Browse and copy a swf file to utility folder. The file will be renamed to "Flash.swf" as needed for the utility. Copy exe File button: ==================== Browse and copy exe file to utility folder. The file will keep its original name. Important ! ========= You must rename your flash file to "Flash.swf". Put your flash file together with the configuration file (Flash.txt) which will be created by this tool, and the utility (FlashMe2.exe) in same folder and check how your flash behave before distributing it. If you use Full Screen your Flash dimentions must be in screen ratio, better 800x600 otherwise there will be white strips at the edges. In General: ========== If you want to use more then one time the utility in one show, you will have to make two sets (folders), each include the utility, the flash file and the configuration text file. You will have to specify the path to the utility on the "Run external file". Explanation about all lines in "Flash.txt" file: ================================= Line 1: Width in pixels of your Flash movie. Line 2: Height in pixels of your Flash movie. Line 3: The X position of your flash on screen can be a number or "Center" or "Top-Left". Line 4: The Y position of your flash on screen can be only a number. Line 5: Number of Loops. Line 6: Direction to move your Flash movie on screen can be: "Right', "Left", "Up", "Down", "No-Scroll". Line 7: FullScreen or No FullScreen. Line 8: Speed to move your Flash movie on screen can be any number from 1 to 20. Line 9: RunShow or Do not RunShow. Line 10: YourShow.exe Line 11: Delay flash exit time. Line 12: Hide or show mouse cursor during flash. Line 13: No Curtain Effect when exit on full screen, or 1 for Curtain Effect Notice: Only advanced user should change this manually since writing mistakes can result in malfunction. 3. Synchonized mode show ========================= Warning for "synchonized mode": Because FlashMe is an external program independant from PTE, it makes no sense to call it in a synchronized show. Real rendering time of a Flash movie depends on CPU power, graphic card, and the movie itself (size, framerate, complexity). Moreover, it may result in unexpected behavior and can disturb the show and PTE itself. 4. Minimum Requirements ======================== Macromedia Flash version 6 or above must be installed on client system (98% of internet users are already "Flash enabled"). CPU: 500 Mhz and above, depending on the Flash animation you want to use. Fullscreen movies are extremely demanding. "FlashMe2" is a Donationware. Please let me know of any bug or new idea. Enjoy Granot

Welcome Glenys I liked your idea of importing psd files. Maybe Igor (who created this wonderful program) will find a way how to do it one day. As for now, you will have to save your images as JPG (BMP are too heavy to make a slideshow) and try also to compress them (can use compression level 8 in Photoshop). You can save each layer as JPG and then use fade effect to add or remove layers. You can make wonderful things using those layers. I hope you'll enjoy PTE as all of us do, and meet many nice people in this forum. Granot

Thanks Igor. As for second parameter it will be nice if it can work both ways, example: 1) Access to a specific slide: Run show.exe, [slide 5], or Run("show.exe","Slide 5") 2) Access to external (or embedded) app: Run("app.exe","Page 2") Also to remind you a very needed feature: Run app+go to page = This will enable to force users to run app if he wants to go to a specific slide. I'm sure you can see the possibilities of this feature. Thank you Granot

Norbert you are right, this was asked a long time ago ! NB should be able to get (at least) our small images as button so it will somehow fit the presentation.

Hi Igor, It has been asked before so I'll ask again: Can you please add the ability to add parameter in Run app ? Can you please add the ability to run PTE show with parameters like: Run("Show.exe","Slide2") Can you please add the ability to embed external app and use Run app ? Thank you Granot

Added new feature: "Mouse Ruler" (click on small red dot). This will open small window. It will detect your mouse wherever you point it. If for example you want to know a distance between two points on screen, put your mouse on the first point and click Enter. Then on second point and Enter. You will see the location of two points and the distance will be sent to clipboard. Find size of object/image on screen. Find space between two objects. Granot

Ed, Check this topic about protecting your files.. If Igor will allow store files in the show ( a very old request of mine) this can be solved by adding a checker file. As long as this will be external, user can find it and remove it or just copy the show to HD. There is a way to run a small program that will install this checker file to user HD or write in his registry where he can not find it, but people don't like things happening behind their back. Granot

Fixed ! Fixed ! Done ! - with new features as: All images selected are appended to the list. You can choose any image to paste or copy file. View thumb of any selectd image. When see folder list will show only images from folder. When see folder any added image will append to list. Settings button for default graphic editor program. Thank you Fred for all good suggestions Granot

Hi Sam, I'm following this topic and sorry can't help. It is very intersting to know the reason. Very strange indeed and I hope you will solve this with all advices from our friends. But where is Igor ??? Good Luck Granot

Hi Fred, Again very useful comments and I will fix those two things. As for No. 3, I have to think how to do it... I mean, I know how but how to do it the easy way because all was programed for one file, so if I can change it easy enough to show list of files and then you choose from list. Good idea. Granot

"VideoChain" - v2.0 This program is good for your avi created files and for all other video files you have. If you put all your videos (*.avi,*.mpeg,*.mpg,*.wmv,*.asf) with this utility in one folder, you can view them all in a chain, jump "Next" or "Previous", view "FullScreen" and.. that's all. Use "F" key to change FullScreen/Original Size. Use arrows for "Next/Previous" movie. Use "L" to loop movie/cancel loop. Use "H" to get my web site address to your clipboard. Use "Esc" to close. Name of file is displayed above movie. Feedback, suggestions, complains... Enjoy Granot