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Of course, you can use any command line tool (cmd.exe, command.com, powershell, ...). The command "C:\> slideshow.exe -slide 4" will only work if slideshow.exe is located in in the root. Otherwise, the path has to be included into the command, or the directory has to be changed to the one which contains the slide show. Best regards, Xaver Munich

Hello JRR, There are several ways to run a command. Method 1. You go to: Start menu > run, then type the command including the (absolute) path information (e.g. c:\Folder1\Folder2\...\SlideShow.exe -slide 7) Method 2. Write the the same command into an empty text file (using notepad), call it "Start". Change the file extension from txt to bat. Double-click Start.bat. If Start.bat is located in the same folder as SlideShow.exe you can omit the path information. Best regards, Xaver H. Munich

Hello Peter, The attached project works well on my office PC with on-board Intel graphics, and 1280x1024 monitor. Best regards, Xaver Munich test_1280_v55.zip

Hello Igor, does a description of the command line options for PTE-exe-files exist? Best regards, Xaver Munich

Hello Argonaut, For an exe-show you can try the following: Start your show with a black image or any other one. Place big transparent frames on top of this slide (non-overlapping). Use positions you will remember! For each frame specify an "Action on mouse click": Go to slide number ... 13 or 22 or 31 or 45 ... While the first slide shows up you have the option to go to the specified fixed positions inside the show. Best regards, Xaver Munich

Hello Bruno, I opened your project with version 5.5. I saw 7 slides, each of which has been given its own transition effect using "customize slide" (4 different effects were used: 2 different diagonal page curling effects, unrolling from top, mosaic). The mini-player, as well as the project preview show exactly what has been programmed! Best regards Xaver Munich

Hello Argonaut, Volker, have you ever thought of organizing, editing, shifting etc. your audio files (in wav-format) within an Audacity project (in a non-destructive way). You can export this project at any time (as mp3-file) to the location where the corresponding PTE project expects to find its background music. In this way, Audacity works as kind of audio plug-in for PTE. Best regards, Xaver Munich

Kurt Tucholsky once wrote: "Wer keine Sorgen hat, der macht sich welche." Sorry for writing German! Best regards, Xaver Munich

Hello Peter, a similar effect is to be seen if you change the main image. If you do it in the main window, the object name remains as it is, while changing the image in the O&A window, the corresponding object name changes, as well (in 5.1 and in 5.5beta). In the first case you have to use the name field in the common tab to give the object any name you like. Best regards Xaver Munich

Hello, let's return to the subject of this thread, or at least a related topic: Let me again ask for the windowed mode in fullscreen variant with an aspect ratio as input (helpful for users with Win XP and ATI graphics cards). Best regards Xaver Munich

Hello Lin, provided that this means that I were offended or aggrieved (whatever may be the right expression), let me say that I am rather amused than anything of the other stuff (while a little bit of politics is in the game, I admit). Maybe that my humor is different from your's. Best regards Xaver Munich

Green with envy, we - the old fashioned Europeans - look up to the modern America and its wonderful monitors (made somewhere in the Far East) Best regards Xaver Munich Germany Europe, near to France

Hello, there are other products which save the last (say) 10 back-up files in a system folder, and make them accessible via the file menu. I think that this would also be a good solution. On the other hand: The auto-save function as in Beta 9 has the advantage of being simple; I myself could easily live with it. Best regards Xaver Munich

Hello Jos, What's the brand of your graphics card? Best regards Xaver Munich

Barry, Sorry for using this mathematical expression (you may look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-to-one_correspondence if you like). Here it means that in the new version of PTE a slide can only exist if it has a transition point on the new timeline. If you kill the point, you kill the corresponding slide. Best regards Xaver munich

Hello Colin, I fear that you had opened the project file that is now lost and that you then changed and saved it. In this case the save commend does not ask for name and location, whereas in case of new projects it does so (PTE version 5.1). So the behavior of PTE seems to me quite standard. Kind regards Xaver Munich

Hello Colin, Sorry for your disaster. My experience is that PTE stores created exe-files to the folder where it did this action the time before; the same holds for saving project files (locations for .exe and .pte must not coincide). I myself do not trust commands like “save” and “create” (in all Windows applications), I always us “save as” and “create as” in combination with new names referring to shows and versions (“Show4711” will be stored in a way looking like “Show4711-v1.pte”, “Show4711-v2.pte”, etc.) Best regards Xaver Munich

Peter, sorry for my reaction from above, being rather technical than sympathetic! Lin, sorry for reinventing the wheel! Best regards Xaver Munich

Hello, let me again refer to a previous suggestion, see here. Best regards Xaver Munich

Hello Peter, what does inheritance mean? It means (geometrically) that the child “lives” in a coordinate system relative to the position and size of its direct parent object, and its own animation parameters refer to this (inherited) coordinate system. You cannot separate translations (pans), rotations, and scaling of coordinates (zooms). An object inherits either all or nothing. Opacity is not a geometrical parameter; in my opinion, it should remain as it is! Best regards Xaver Munich

Barry, It has been pointed out here that now there is a one-to-one correspondence between the members of the slide list and the corresponding points on the timeline. Best regards Xaver Munich

Geoff, Just a question: How does the knowledge on COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) help you to get better results from PTE? Best regards Xaver Munich

Hello Ken, I agree to put this stuff somewhere else, but the Tutorial-Section does not seem to be a good place. Here, Brian's argument is right. Best regards Xaver Munich

Hello Lin, I am not very pleased about this news, and I actually do not like the activities of the German government to develop a “Bundestrojaner – governmental Trojan horse” for on-line surveillance. There are many other topics on security and privacy which are worthwhile to be discussed – the question may be, if this forum is the right place to do it. Let me again propose an off-topic section within the WnSoft forums. Best regards Xaver Munich

Hello Andrew, I repeated the test, now with engine 8700, and again no virus was detected. I use a business versions of the Trend Micro product, so we cannot really compare the results. Best regards Xaver Munich