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LEDStudio Manual Index
Chapter I Introduction............................................1 1.1 Features..............................................................1 1.2 Operating Environment................................ 1
Chapter II Install and Uninstall........................ 2 2. 1 Installation....................................................... 2 2. 2 Uninstallation.................................................. 3
Chapter III Instruction in details.....................4 3. 1 Consists of Program..................................... 4 3. 2 Interface Window Introduction................ 5 3. 3 Features introduction...................................6 3. 4 programming flow...................................... 15
Chapter IV Character display...........................24 4. 1 play in a document window.................. 24 4. 2 Play in a single line text window.........27
4. 3 Play in the Static Text window................29 4. 4 Play text files in a File Window...............31 4. 5 Add texts onto a picture file.................... 34 4. 6 Insert notes during playing......................34
Chapter V Picture display.....................................35
5. 1 Create a new picture window..................35
5. 2 Setup picture window.................................35
5. 3 Open playing files........................................ 36
5. 4 Setup picture properties........................... 38
5. 5Insert background picture,appearing music and texts.
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Chapter VI Cartoons display...............................40
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6. 1 Create a new cartoon window................ 40
6. 2 Setup Cartoons window.............................40
6. 3 Open playing files........................................41
6. 4 Setup Cartoons file properties................43
Chapter VII table display.................................. 44
7. 1 Create a new table window......................44
7. 2 Setup Table Window................................... 44
7. 3 Insert and edit tables.................................45
Chapter VIII Homepage Display...................50
8. 1 Create a new Homepage Window.........50
8. 2 Setup homepage window......................... 50
8. 3 Open playing files........................................ 51
Chapter IX Database Display.......................... 53
9. 1 Create a new Database Window............53
9. 2 Setup database window............................ 53
9. 3 Add Access Database................................. 54
9. 4 Add ODBC driver database...................... 58
Chapter X…Date and Time……………………60
10. 1 Create Date/Time window..................... 60
10. 2 Setup date/time window........................ 60
10. 3 Setup date and time................................ 61
Chapter XI…External Program……………..64
11. 1 Create a new window.............................. 64
11. 2 Setup external program window.........64
11. 3 Open external program...........................65
Chapter XII…Timer Display………………….68
12. 1 Create a new window.............................. 68
12. 2 Setup the timer window......................... 68
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12. 3 Time Setting................................................69
Chapter XIII…VCD/DVD display……………… 71
13. 1 Direct playing..............................................71
13. 2 Play in program..........................................71
Chapter XIV…Video Line-in Display………73
14. 1 Create a new window.............................. 73
14. 2 Setup Video Window................................73
Chapter XV…PowerPoint Display………… 75
15. 1 Play................................................................. 75
15. 2 Stop playing................................................ 75
Chapter XVI…Notify display………………….76
16. 1 Open “Notify Manager” Window.......... 76
16. 2 Setup Notify Manager Window.............76
16. 3 Play/Stop Notify Display.........................76
Chapter XVII…Score Manager………………77
17. 1 Open Score Manager Window.............. 77
17. 2 Setup Score Manager Window............. 77
17. 3 Play/Stop Score......................................... 78
Chapter XIIX…Playing Schedule…………..79
18. 1 open the schedule table......................... 79
18. 2 Add Scheduled Command......................79
18. 3 Edit Scheduled Command......................81
18. 4 Delete Scheduled Command.................81
18.5 Start up Scheduled Command………… 82
18.6 Exit……………………………………………………..82
Chapter XIX…Network Control……………..83
19. 1 Setup remote control server.................83
19. 2 Remote Screen Manager........................ 87
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Chapter XX…Background Playing………… 92
20. 1 Activate Background playing................ 92
20.2 Cancel Background playing………………93
Chapter XXI…Multi-display Combination,
synchronism and Independence……………96
21. 1 Enter Multi-display Combination, Sychronism
and Independence Setup...................................96
21. 2 Setup Multi-display Synchronism........97
21. 3 Setup Multi-display Combination........ 98
21. 4 Setup Multi-display Independence..100
Chapter XXII Software setup……………..102
22.1 Open Software Setup………………………102
22.2. Play Window……………………………………102
22. 3 Auto Setup.................................................104
22. 4 Networking................................................104
22. 5 Other Setup...............................................105
Chapter XXIII…User Setup…………………………106
23.1 Open user setup……………………………….106
23.2 Add User……………………………………………107
23.3 Delete User……………………………………….107
23.4 Change Password……………………………..107
23.5 User Authentication………………………….107
Chapter XXIV
Frequently asked questions…………...108
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Chapter I Introduction
1. 1 Features
“LED Studio”, programmed and produced for LED by the Program
Team of “LED Studio”, is powerful, practical and easy to learn
software for making or playing programs, supporting a range of
formats, such as txt documents, doc documents, pictures (BMP／JPG
／GIF／PCX…) and cartoons (MPG／MPEG／MPV／MPA／AVI／VCD／
SWF／RM／RA／RMJ／ASF…)
1.2 Operating Environment
Operating system
Chinese/English Windows98/me/2000/NT/XP
Hardware Configuration
Pentium 300MHz or above
ROM: 64M
Graphics Card: Standard VGA 256mode or above
Related Software
Microsoft Media player compulsory
OFFICE2000—in case of *. doc files
RealPlayer—in case of RealPlayer files
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Chapter II Install and Uninstall
2. 1 Installation
“LED Studio” can be easily installed, as shown below:
Put the “LED Studio” installation CD into the CD-ROM, The Installation
Menu will automatically pop up. (if not, then select this CD-ROM,
double click it with your mouse)Then select “Install LED Studio” to
start the Installation Guide, as Shown in Figure 2-1. After that, simply
follow the instruction on the screen. Note: This software is protected
by a serial number. Please enter the correct serial number in order to
process the installation. Please ask the products provider for the
correct serial number.
After “LED Studio” software has been successfully installed, there will be a “LED Software” program group in the 【Start】/【Program】,then move to the “LED Software” under this program group, click to start.
Also, there will be a “LED Studio” short-cup on your desktop: as shown
to the right: . Also, you can start the program by double click
on the icon.
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Figure 2-1
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2. 2 Uninstall
“LED Studio” software provide an auto-uninstall function, for your
convenience to delete all “LED Studio” files, program groups and
short-cuts, users can either select “Delete LED Studio” under the “LED
Software” group, or go to the 【control panel】, select 【add/delete
program】 to undergo quick uninstall. (Uninstall window as shown in
Figure 2-2), now select “Automatic” can delete all files, program
groups and short-cuts.
Figure 2-2
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Chapter III Instruction in details
3. 1 Consists of Program
Program (Program document) consists of one or more than one
program pages. There are two kinds of program page: normal
program page and overall program page. Normal program pages are
the main components of a program, so there may be many, they will
be played in order, one after another; there should be only one overall
program page, played throughout the playing process. It is mainly
used for fixed contents’ broadcast, such as clock, company logo, etc.
Program page consists of one or more windows, which is used to show
the contents that users want to play, like documents, pictures,
cartoons, multimedia segments etc. There are twelve kinds of
program windows: file window, text window, single line text window,
static text window, table window, timer window, data base window,
DVD/VCD window, external software window, date/time window,
video line-in window, and geometrical graph window.
File window: can play various files like words, pictures, cartoons, tables, etc.
Text window: Used for quick inputs of short writings, such as notifies, etc.
Single line text window: to play single line text window, such as notices, adverts etc. writings.
Static text window: to play static texts, like company names, titles, etc.
Table Window: to edit and play table figures.
Timer window: for timing, supporting clockwise and
anti-clockwise.
Database Window: To play ACCESS Database and ODBC Driver Database
DVD/VCD window: to play DVD/VCD
External program window: To insert external program into the
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play window, mainly used for small programs made by users.
Date/Time window: to display date and time
Video line-in window: to play signals from TV cards, Video
Collecting Cards, etc.
Geometric graph window: to display geometric graphs like straight lines, circles.
3. 2 Interface Window Introduction
“LED Studio” software consists of two windows: play window and
control window. (As shown in Figure 3-1)
Figure 3-1
3. 2. 1 Play Window
Play Window (Namely the contents displayed on the LED screen) is to
display the contents that users want to play, like files, pictures,
cartoons, multi-media fragments. Here, the contents are the same as
those on the LED screen, and also they are coherent. This software
support several play windows (At most 99) working simultaneously,
which means that one computer may control 99 LED screen at a time.
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In each play window, operations can be done separately, such as
opening files, playing or editing files, and so on. And these operations
don’t affect each other.
3. 2. 2 Control window
Control window is used for controlling the position, size and contents
of the playing area, control window can be expanded to edit window.
It contains Menu, Toolbar and Edit control: a control window with
Editing is shown below:
Figure 3-2
Menu bar: Including file, control, tool, setting, test (only for producer) and help, in total 6 sub-menus.
Toolbar: It is the fast operation of the menu functions.
Edit: consists of two parts, left hand side are program options,
displaying info of the program and sub-windows; right hand side are
control options, controlling the playing actions, time, etc. of the
program.
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3. 3 Features introduction
3. 3. 1 Menu
Include file, control, tool, setting, test (only for LED screen producer)
and help, in total 6 sub-menus.
Figure 3-3
File Menu: as shown in Figure 3-3, include New, Open, Save, Save as, Open Demo File, Open recently used files and Exit.
New: for setting up a new LED Studio file.
Open: for opening a previously done LED Studio file.
Save: for saving current LED Studio file.
Save as: for saving current LED Studio file as a new LED Studio file.
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Open Demo File: for opening demo LED Studio file, to process function demonstration.
Open recently used file: for opening recently used LED Studio files.
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Exit: to exit LED Studio.
Control Menu: As shown in Figure 3-4, it includes play, play last,
play next, pause, stop, notify, score manager, play PowerPoint file,
stop PowerPoint file, play VCD/DVD, backup program and manager for
LED Screen Sever.
Figure 3-4
Play: to play current LED Studio file.
Play last: to play the last program while playing.
Play next: to play the next program while playing.
Pause: to pause currently playing LED Studio file.
Stop: to stop currently playing LED Studio File.
Notify: to insert temporary playing notice.
Scare manager: for displaying the scores.
Play Power point file: for playing PowerPoint files.
Stop PowerPoint file: to stop the currently playing PowerPoint
File.
Play VCD/DVD: for playing VCD/DVD files. Backup program: to backup current program.
Manager for LED Screen Sever: to manage remote screen, please refer to chapter 17: network control, for details.
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Tool Menu: as shown in Figure 3-5, it includes Word, Excel, Paint,
Notepad, Calculator, etc. Single click on them can open programs
which coming with windows or pre-installed, to shortcut edit the
program.
Figure 3-5
Option Menu: As shown in Figure 3-6, it includes: Screen
combination/synchronism, Screen Brightness/Contrast/Color, Screen
Area, Virtual/Real LED screen, Play Foreground/background,
Lock/Unlock LED Screen Properties, Turn on/off LED Screen Power,
Schedule Table, Schedule Hide Setup, Language, Show/Hide Play
window, Software Setup, User Setup, etc.
Figure 3-6
Screen combination/synchronism:Multi-display combination
means every screen in the multi-display plays a part of a same
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program; Multi-display synchronism means multi-display play same
program synchronously; Multi-display independence means every
display in the multi-display plays different programs.
Screen Brightness/ Contrast/ Color: used for adjusting the
Brightness, Contrast, and Brightness on the LED Screen. After clicking
on it, a dialog box will appear, as shown below, it can adjust every
screen independently; Use your mouse to drag the adjusting button
for brightness, contrast, and color, you can change the settings. Then
choose “Save” to save the changes or choose Restore to reset. Also
you can tick in the box in front of “Enable Adjust Bright Auto” to let it
automatically adjust the brightness according to the environment. If
the screen is virtual screen, please select “Virtual display”(As shown in
figure 3-7)
Figure 3-7
Screen Area: To setup the Led display area to the monitor, as
shown in figure 3-8, setup the screen displays start from (20,20) to
(148,148) on the screen monitor; it can setup multi-screen
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independently; After selecting “Always display screen”, there will
appear a red frame, and it is used to display the screen area of content.
Figure 3-8
Play Foreground/background: used for background playing.
When selected, contents will not be shown on the monitor, but only on
the LED screen.
Lock/Unlock LED Screen Properties: Lock the current
contents on the monitor to the LED screen, and do not refresh. vice
versa.
Turn on/off LED Screen Power: for remote control to turn on or off the power of LED screen.
Schedule Table: to setup some schedule for the LED screen,
such as turn on/off timing. Please refer to Chapter 16 for details.
Schedule Hide Setup: Enable/disable schedule hide, a window
as shown in Figure 3-9 will appear after selecting it.
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Language: setup the operating langue of the software, options
like auto, English, French, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, Russian will be available.
Hardware maintenance: When reinstalling the computer, the
user need the led display connection diagram, which is offered by
display maker. Click “Hard maintenance”, and input the password: 168,
will appear a dialog box, as shown in figure 3-10; click “Load”, and
load the file offered by display maker; and then click “Test”, if your
screen display normally, you can “save to screen.” The “Advance” is
used to load receiving card program, if you are not professional for
Led display, please not to operate it.
Figure 3-10
Show/Hide Play window: Used to show or hide the playing window.
Software Setup: To setup software options. (Details refer to
software setting chapter)
User Setup: Setup the purview of users. (Details refer to User
Setup Chapter)
Test: As shown in Figure 3-11, it contains gray test, grid test,
dot test, color bar test, check position, check color.
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Figure 3-11
Grey test: Can operate gray test on the LED screen.
Grid test: Can test whether the Figure on the screen is correct or
not.
Dot test: Can test the high frequency character of the screen.
Color bar test: Can test the color hierarchy of the screen.
Check position: Can show the position coordinates on the
screen.
Check color: Can check color value on the screen.
Help: As shown in Figure 3-12, it contains Help, Knowledge,
Check IP Address, and About LED Studio.
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Help: supply online help.
Knowledge: as shown in Figure 3-13, open knowledge dialog box,
you can tick in the box in front of “display at start up” to enable or
disable this function.
Figure 3-13
Check IP Address: check your IP address.
About LED Studio: show the version number of the software and
copyright info.
3. 3. 2 Toolbar
Toolbar is the fast operation of menu, as shown in Figure 3-14, from
left to right the icons are: new, open, save, open/close display window,
allow/forbid edit, play, play from current program, pause, stop, play
background, lock/unlock screen, turn on/off screen power, and
change look (change interface skin button), functions in details please
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refer to menu.
Figure 3-14
3. 3. 3 Edit control
Edit control is the hard core of this software, illustration in details
please refers to the next section: programming flow.
3. 4 programming flow
3. 4. 1 First step: setup the size of the playing window
The size of the window has to be setup correctly, otherwise when the
program is done, only part of the Figure can be displayed on the
screen or the Figure is not large enough.
How to setup: Menu--〉Control--〉Software setup--〉Play window, can
lead you to the software setup window. There, you can choose lock to
LED screen (we strongly recommend you to do so, because the size
and position of the playing window will be exactly the same as the LED
screen); or you can choose Screen combination/synchronism,
Floating.
Select Floating, Setup the display number as 1, and click “Update
display number ”, as shown in figure 3-15. Setup the start (X,Y) as
(0,0), and setup the width and height according to your Screen, for
example, your screen is 128*92, setup (W, H) as (128,92).
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Figure 3-15
3. 4. 2 Step 2: Open a New Program page
Program page is a basic element of a program. In Figure 3-16, it is a
program page toolbar, to open a new program page, just simply click
on “new program page” button . (Note: if you cannot find the
program page toolbar, please click on the button “allow edit” on
the toolbar above). There could be infinity program page in the file, to
delete a program page, you can use the delete button . If you want
to change the playing order of each page, use the moving button ,
. Normal program page will be played in order, while overall
program page will be played continuously, without any time limits.
(Such as time display)
Figure 3-16
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3. 4. 3 Step 3: Setup program page option.
After a program page has been created or selected, you can setup the
program page option, as shown in the Figure below. There are options
like: name, playing time, background color, background picture,
background picture effect, and background music.
3. 4. 4 Step 4: Create program windows
Program page is only a frame, which could contain as many program
windows as possible. Each program window can play different words,
pictures, tables, cartoons, and videos, etc. In total, there are twelve
kinds of program windows available. Click on the “create new
program” button, a program selecting menu as shown in Figure 3-17
will pop-up. Now, we are going to introduce these 12 different kinds of
windows.
Figure 3-17
File window: It is the most important window, because all
supported files will be played here. You can add as many files here as
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you want. There are more 10 kinds of supported files, including:
Document files (TXT), HTM/HEML/MHT files, EXCEL files, WORD files
(DOC/RTF), all kinds of picture files (BMP/JPG/GIF/PCX/WMF/ICO), all
kinds of media files (AVI/MPG/MPEG/WMV/ASF), VCD files (DAT),
Flash files (SWF), RealPlayer files (RM).
Text windows, Single Line text windows, Static Document
windows: These three windows are not compulsory. Words can be
shown in the File window, such windows are only for providing simple
words like title of a company, greeting captions, notes, etc. a quicker
method to input.
Table Window: Used to edit the play list data.
Timer window: Used for timing
Database window: Used to play ACCESS database and ODVC
driver data base.
DVD/VCD window: Used to play DVD/VCD.
External Program Window: Used to insert external program
into the play window.
Date /Time Window: Used to display date and time.
Video line-in Window：This window is used to display external
video signals like TV, VCD/DVD, tape recorder, etc. This window
requires video input cards like all variety of TV cards, Video capture
cards.
Geometric graphs window: this is used to display geometric
graphs.
3. 4. 5 Step 5: Setup Program Window options
All program windows has the same options as shown in Figure 3-18,
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Name, Frame, Position, Width, Lock, Timing. For program windows
with different options, illustrations are list below.
Figure 3-18
File Window: as shown in Figure 3-19, the window has been
divided into two parts. The upper one is the file play-list, while the
lower one is the file options. Above the play-list, there is a file toolbar,
which can be used to add, delete or move files. The file options in the
lower part various by different file formats, we will explain below.
Figure 3-19
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“Document files” options are shown in Figure 3-20, choose of
background color, background pictures, background action, and more
than 40 special techniques are available. Also there are 4 effects you
can choose: line, speed, stay, and font. (Note, if there are not many
words, document window could be chosen; if the preface is
complicated, WORD document could be used to make-up)
Figure 3-20
“Picture file” supports all variety of picture formats
(BMP/JPG/GIF/PCX /WMF…), options refer to Figure 3-21. You
can choose background color, background pictures, background action,
and more than 40 special techniques. Also there are 4 effects you may
use: line, speed, stay, and font. Plus, more than 50 different types and
speed of clearing you can select.
Figure 3-21
“Media and cartoons files” include all kinds of media files
(AVI/MPEG/ASF/WMV), FLASH cartoons files (SWF), REALPLAYER
files (RM), etc. Options are shown in Figure 3-22. Again, choose of
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background color, background pictures, background action, and more
than 40 special techniques are available. Also there are 4 effects you
can choose: line, speed, stay, and font.
Figure 3-22
“WORD files” options are shown in Figure 3-23, you can choose
options like special techniques, effects, speed, etc. (Note: WORD2000
or OFFICE2000 is required in case of . doc files. Some computer and
“Rising Anti-virus” Software are not compatible, if you cannot find the
pre-installed WORD, please uninstall Anti-virus” Software and try
again)
Figure 3-23
Text Window: Single click on the “add text” button on the
toolbar, as shown in Figure 3-24, can let you setup the background,
Font, Action, Speed, Staying time, etc. You can also key in words or do
type editing. (Note: If there are too many words, please use WORD
files or TXT files to play in the window.)
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Figure 3-24
Video Line-in window: As shown in Figure 3-25, all options are
related to the Video Input Equipments. Please refer to your user’s
manual of the Video Input Equipments.
Figure 3-25
Date/time window: As shown in Figure 3-26, you can setup
background color, background mode, background picture, static text,
display style, display effect, font, etc.
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Figure 3-26
3. 4. 6 Step 6: Finish Programming
After the above 5 steps, a program has been done. If you want more
than one program page, please repeat from step 2 to step 5. Please do
not forget to save your program page after you finished. Click on the
saving button or select menu--〉save.
3. 4. 7 Step 7: Play the program
To play the current program files, click on the button to start; to
pause; to stop, or select from control menu. If you want to play a
different program file, please click on the open button , to open a
program and play it.
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Chapter IV Character display
To play a document program, there are six methods: in a document
window; in a single line text window; in a static document window;
open the document in a picture and document window; Add words to
the picture files and play in a picture and document window; or insert
notice while a program is playing.
4. 1 play in a document window
This window is not compulsory. Words can be displayed in a picture
and document window, this window is only a quick way to key in
simple words like company name, greeting caption, or notes.
4. 1. 1 Create a new window
Click on the “new window” button , as shown in Figure 4-1. Then
select “Text window” in the menu to create a new text window, as
shown in Figure 4-2.
Figure 4-1
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4. 1. 2 Setup Text window
As shown in Figure 4-2, the upper part is for setting up program
properties.
Name: program name
Frame: you can setup the width and color of the frame
Starting point X: x-coordinate of the starting point
Starting point Y: y-coordinate of the starting point
Width: setup the width of this program
Height: setup the height of this program
Lock: lock this program, and prevent it from moving
Background: setup the background color of this program
Figure 4-2
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4. 1. 3 Insert and edit text
As shown in Figure 4-3, the lower part is for editing texts. After
clicking on the “add text” button , a “Text Edit” dialog box will
appear as shown in the Figure 4-3 below. In the edit box at the bottom,
you can key in or paste text. Also you can do type-editing, you can
setup options like: Background, Font, Action, Speed, Staying time,
etc.
Figure 4-3
Close the “Text Edit” dialog box after finishing editing. Now the Text
will appear in the list, as shown in Figure 4-4.
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Figure 4-4
If you want to make any changes to your texts, just simply select
them and then click on the button . An edit box as shown in Figure
4-3 will appear and let you edit the texts. To delete the texts, you can
use the button . To change the playing order, use buttons
and . Or you can preview the selected texts by clicking on the
button .
4. 2 Play in a single line text window
This window is only for single line sliding captions, such as greeting
captions, notes, etc. These texts support transparent display, which
can be added on any windows, including video files playing in video
windows or in pictures and texts windows, as shown in below figure
4-5
Figure 4-5
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4. 2. 1 Create a new Single Line Text window
Click on the “new window” button , and then select “Single Line Text
window” in the menu to create a new single line text window, as
shown in Figure 4-6.
Figure 4-6
4. 2. 2 Setup Single Line Text window
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As shown in Figure 4-6, the upper part is for setting up program
properties. There are two ways to input texts, one is open from
external documents, and another is directly input to the edit box.
Open from external documents: Select “External file”, in Figure
4-6, then click on button to open files, as shown in Figure 4-7.
Edited text files can be dynamically displayed when the program is
playing. In Figure 10-3, you can setup Action, Background, and Font.
Input in the edit box Select the “Text”, as shown in figure 4-6
and then type in texts that you want in the box below, as shown in
Figure 4-7, you can also setup the Action, Background and Font.
Figure 4-7
4. 3 Play in the Static Text window
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This setup window is for playing static texts.
4. 3. 1 Create a new Static Text Window
Click on the “new window” button , and then select “Static Text
window” in the menu (as shown in Figure 4-8) to create a new static
text window, as shown in Figure 4-9.
Figure 4-8
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Figure 4-9
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4. 3. 2 Setup the static text window
As shown in Figure 4-9, the upper part is for program properties’
setting. Type in the texts you want in the edit box, and choose their
properties below, like: transparency, Align, Background, and Font,
etc.
4. 4 Play text files in a File Window
4. 4. 1 Create a new File window
Click on the “New Window” button , select “File Window” in the
menu (as shown in Figure 4-10) to create a new “File Window”, as
shown in Figure 4-11.
Figure 4-10
4. 4. 2 Setup File Window
As shown in Figure 4-11, the upper part is for setting up program
properties.
Name: program name
Frame: you can setup the width and color of the frame
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Starting point X: x-coordinate of the starting point
Starting point Y: y-coordinate of the starting point
Width: setup the width of this program
Height: setup the height of this program
Figure 4-11
4. 4. 3 Open files
Click on the “add file” button , (in the lower part of Figure 4-12),
an open file dialog box will appear. All supported format has been
shown in the list at the bottom of the dialog box. Select WORD File,
choose the file you want to open in the box above, then click on “open”
to open it.
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Figure 4-12
The opened file has been added to the list, now the options of this file
will be listed below. (As shown in Figure 4-13) Options can let you
setup the background (includes color, pictures, drawing method), Font,
Plenty Actions, four available effects, Line, Speed, Staying time, Font,
etc. (Note: If there are only a few words, file window may be used. If
the type-editing is complicated, WORD file may worth to be
considered. )
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Figure 4-13
4. 5 Add texts onto a picture file
The text display method in this section is the same as that in Chapter
5, picture display, appearing and clearing texts. Details please refer to
Chapter 5
4. 6 Insert notes during playing
Instruction in details please refer to Chapter 16
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Chapter V Picture display
5. 1 Create a new picture window
Click on the “New window” button , and select “File Window” in the
menu (as shown in Figure 5-1), to create a new file window, as shown
in 5-2.
Figure 5-1
5. 2 Setup picture window
As shown in Figure 5-2, the upper part is for setting up program
properties.
Name: program name
Frame: you can setup the width and color of the frame
Starting point X: x-coordinate of the starting point
Starting point Y: y-coordinate of the starting point
Width: setup the width of this program
Height: setup the height of this program
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Lock: lock this program window to prevent it from moving.
Figure 5-2
5.3 Open playing files
Click on the “add file” button to open the file dialog box (as shown in
Figure 5-3), select the picture format from the list. Then select the file
that you want to open in the box above. (Once you select a picture,
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you can preview it in the right-hand-side frame.) Click on “open” to
open the selected file, now the bottom-right corner of the main
window will change, as shown in Figure 5-4.
Figure 5-3
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Figure 5-4
5. 4 Setup picture properties
The opened file has been added to the list. Now, options of this file will
be listed below. (Figure 5-4), you can select background color,
background picture, background picture drawing method, plenty
actions, four effects, speed, staying time, clearing effects, clearing
speed.
5.5Insert background picture, appearing music and texts.
Insert background picture
Click on the button in Figure 5-4, select and open the picture you
want to insert in the “open file” dialog box. Also you may directly key
in the address of the background picture in the edit frame.
Insert clearing music
Click on the button in Figure 5-4, and select the music file that you
want in the “open file” dialog box, then click “open”.
Insert appearing texts
Click on the “TEXT” button in Figure 5-4, the “Picture/Text” dialog box
will appear (Figure 5-5)
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Figure 5-5
Click on “Add” button in Figure 5-5 to open “text edit” dialog box, insert the file
that you want and setup their properties and effects, and then close the dialog
box.
The Text file that you edited has been added to the file list, if you want
to insert more than one appearing text, you can repeat the two steps
above. To edit it, select from the file list and then click on the “edit”
button to edit it. To delete it, use the delete button, you may also use
move up, move down buttons to select files.
Click on Exit to finish the insert of appearing texts.
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Chapter VI Cartoons display
6. 1 Create a new cartoon window
Click on the “New window” button , select “File Window” in Figure
6-1 to create a new file window, as shown in Figure 6-2.
Figure 6-1
6. 2 Setup Cartoons window
As shown in Figure 6-2, the upper part is for setting up program
properties.
Name: program name
Frame: you can setup the width and color of the frame
Starting point X: x-coordinate of the starting point
Starting point Y: y-coordinate of the starting point
Width: setup the width of this program
Height: setup the height of this program
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Lock: lock this program window to prevent it from moving.
Figure 6-2
6. 3 Open playing files.
Click on the “add file” button in the lower part (Figure 6-2) to open
file dialog box. (as shown in Figure 6-3)
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This studio can play all cartoons files and all media files
(AVI/MPEG/ASF/WMV), FLASH files (SWF), REALPLAYER files (RM),
etc. Select any file of the above formats, and then click on “open” to
open it. Now the bottom-right of the main window will change to looks
like Figure 6-4.
Figure 6-3
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Figure 6-4
6. 4 Setup Cartoons file properties
The opened file has been added to the list, now there will be
options of this file appear below. (Figure 6-4), you can select
background color, background picture, background picture drawing
method, and three effects are optional.
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Chapter VII table display
There are two ways to display a table, one is set up a table window to
insert table display, and the other is pre-done the table in WORD or
EXCEL, Then use the second method we introduced in chapter 4 to
play the file, we are not going to repeat this.
7. 1 Create a new table window
Click on “New window” button , select “Table Window” in the menu
(Figure7-1) to create a new table window. (as shown in 7-2)
Figure 7-1
7. 2 Setup Table Window
As shown in Figure 7-2, the upper part is for setting up program
properties.
Name: program name
Frame: you can setup the width and color of the frame
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Starting point X: x-coordinate of the starting point
Starting point Y: y-coordinate of the starting point
Width: setup the width of this program
Height: setup the height of this program
Lock: lock this program window to prevent it from moving.
Figure 7-2
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7. 3 Insert and edit tables
Click on “Add Table” button in lower part of Figure 7-2 to open the
“edit table” dialog box. (as shown in Figure 7-3)
Figure 7-3 Toolbar
“table properties” button : setup table properties
“Insert table” button : insert rows or columns.
“Delete table” button : delete rows or columns.
“Split/Combine” button : split or combine rows or
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Those to the right are commonly used for type-editing, they can
change the Font, Size, Color, Background color, mode, align method.
Setup table properties
Click on “Table properties” button , to open “table property” dialog
box, as shown in Figure 7-4. You may change the settings like: name,
with/without title, lock title, title’s Font, size, mode, color, and table’s
background color, grid line color, table drawing effect, speed, staying
time, and lock the row and column number.
Figure 7-4
Insert table
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Click on “insert table” button , to open the “add table” dialog box,
as shown in Figure 7-5, select input type, quantity, and input mode (to
current position or to end), click “ok” to finish.
Figure 7-5
Delete table
Click on “delete table” button , to open “delete table” dialog box, as
shown in Figure 7-6. Select delete row or column, and then click on
“ok” to finish.
Figure 7-6
Slit/Combine
Select the cells that you want to combine, click on “Slit/Combine”
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button to combine them, as shown in Figure 7-7.
Figure 7-7
Select the cell that you want to slit, click on “Slit/Combine”
button to split, as shown in Figure 7-8.
Figure 7-8
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Chapter VIII Homepage Display
8. 1 Create a new Homepage Window.
Click on “New window” button , and select “File Window” in Figure
8-1 to create a new file window, as shown in 8-2.
Figure 8-1
8. 2 Setup homepage window
As shown in Figure 8-2, the upper part is for setting up program
properties.
Name: program name
Frame: you can setup the width and color of the frame
Starting point X: x-coordinate of the starting point
Starting point Y: y-coordinate of the starting point
Width: setup the width of this program
Height: setup the height of this program
Lock: lock this program window to prevent it from moving.
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Figure 8-2
8. 3 Open playing files
Click on the “add homepage” button at the bottom in Figure 8-2 to
open “Web Page URL” dialog box. (Figure 8-3)
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Figure 8-3
Type in the web page address and click ok, now the main bottom right
of the window will change to looks like Figure 8-4.
Figure 8-4
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The opened file has been added to the list, now the options of this file
will be listed below. (As shown in Figure 8-4). You can change the
background color, background picture, background picture drawing
method, and three available effects. Also you may change the action,
speed, and staying time.
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Chapter IX Database Display
9. 1 Create a new Database Window
Click on “New window” button , and select “database window” in
Figure 9-1 to create a new database window, as shown in 9-2.
Figure 9-1
9. 2 Setup database window
As shown in Figure 9-2, the upper part is for setting up program
properties.
Name: program name
Frame: you can setup the width and color of the frame
Starting point X: x-coordinate of the starting point
Starting point Y: y-coordinate of the starting point
Width: setup the width of this program
Height: setup the height of this program
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Lock: lock this program window to prevent it from moving.
Figure 9-2
9. 3 Add Access Database
9. 3. 1 Add Access database
Click on the “add database” button on the toolbar, and the “Select
Database” dialog box will appear (Figure 9-3). Select Access database
in the dialog box, then click “Ok” button, then select and open the
database you want in the “open” dialog box. (Figure 9-4)
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Figure 9-3
Figure 9-4
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Figure 9-5
Control window with database added is shown in Figure 9-5. The list
above is the list of databases. You may use “delete database”
button to delete it. The list below is the list of datasheets.
9. 3. 2 Add Access Datasheets
Click on the “add datasheet” button on the toolbar, a “Database
Properties” dialog box (Figure 9-6) will appear. The dialog box has
been divided into two parts. The upper one is for table properties
setting, the lower one is for column properties setting.
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Figure 9-6
Setup table properties
Name: name of the datasheet
Inquire: select inquired datasheet (If you are familiar with the
database well, you can define the inquired sentences.)
Action: come-out effect, speed, staying of the table
Row: Height of the rows in the table
Grid: select the color of the grid lines.
Background: select the background color.
Font: select the color of the table name.
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Title: select Font, size, bold, italic or underline for the title of the
table if it do exist.
Setup column properties
All Columns has been listed to the left of Figure 9-6 you can select
and make changes to them.
Name: Column name
Width: Column width
Align: Texts Align method
Background: select the background color of this column
Texts: color of the texts
Font: select texts’ Font
Size: texts’ size
Button: Whether use bold, italic or underline
Click on “Preview”, you may preview the newly added table, click on
“ok” to finish adding Access Database.
9. 3. 3 Edit Access Datasheets
Select datasheets that you want to edit from the database. Click on
the “edit datasheet” button , appearing a “Database properties”
dialog box (Figure 9-6), you may edit the sheet itself or columns in it.
9. 3. 4 Delete Access Datasheets
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Select the Datasheets that you want to delete from the database, then
click on the “delete” button .
9. 4 Add O
