MM-BOX2 V2.1a Release Notes -- Evaluation Copy -- -- Limited to 5 pages -- *************************************** 1. New Features since version 2.0 * 2. Video Overlay Boards support * 3. Notes for Windows 3.0 users * 4. Video for Windows Runtime * 5. Notes on the MMB to TBK converter * 6. MM-BOX Introduction Demo * *************************************** 1. New Features since version 2.0 ================================= a. Support for Digital Video in DVI and Video for Windows format with full support for window sizing and positioning. See the "Digital Video" actions in the User's Guide. b. Saving a "locked" file If you want to distribute an MM-BOX presentation to other users of MM-BOX, and you don't want these users to modify your presentation, you can select the 'locked' check box in the Save As... dialog. c. Clicking the right mouse button, will clear the selection. This will enable you to change the default font, paragraph and color settings with the Font, Paragraph and Color Tray palettes respectively. d. Pressing the F11 function key, will place the MM-BOX window at the center of the screen. e. Pressing the Ctrl+F2 will display a list of the "visited" pages and will let you choose a page to go to from a list box. f. Positioning the animation: In the Animation dialog box, a new button is available labelled 'Set Position'. Use this button if you want to place the animation in any of the four corners of the MM-BOX window, or in any other location. When not choosing the position, the animation will play centered on the screen. You can choose the pre-selected positions Top-Left, Top-Right, Bottom-Left or Bottom-Right, or you can specify the X and Y coordinated where you want the animation to play. This X and Y values has to be specified in pixels. X=0 and Y=0 is the top-left corner of the MM-BOX window. g. Scale You can now scale any element by selecting the "Scale" command from the Edit Menu. h. Rotate You can now rotate Polygon and Line elements by selecting the "Rotate" command from the Edit Menu. i. New icon bars For your convenience, two icon bars have been added. You can display these icon bars by selecting them from the Palettes Menu Elements Icon Bar: Displays a ToolBox with the different MM-BOX elements. Can be used instead of Double-Click Quick Menu Icon Bar: Displays a ToolBox with the different Palettes j. Charts Charts can be added to MM-BOX productions. Select the command Chart from the Palettes Menu. Refer to the CHART Palette in the User's Guide. k. Check Page Pages now can be checked for consistency and automatic removal of non-existing elements from elements and page action lists. The Check Page command is available in the Page menu. l. Time-Out actions A new Page action is now available to trigger events on Time-out. Refer to the User's Guide "Page Actions" and "TIMER Actions" for more information. 2. Video Overlay Boards support ================================ a. MM-Video or any PCVIDEO based video overly board - The directory for MM-Video should be in the PATH statement of your AUTOEXEC.BAT. - Make sure that the PCVIDEO.INI is located in the \WINDOWS directory b. VideoLogic DVA-4000 (MIC 3.2 or latter, MIC II will be supported in next release) - Make sure that MICDLL.DLL is the the Windows Directory - You must initialize the DVA-4000 PRIOR of loading Windows. Use the following batch file: c: cd \micfiles mic-load c:\micfiles\m40dyn.cnf mic-mark mic-bm /64 echo init 4000 /NP > mic echo !eoff > mic win /s %1 %2 %3 %4 echo !eoff > mic echo genlock off > mic mic-rel mic-unl - If Windows refuses to load due to lack of memory you can remove the "mic-bm /64" line in the batch file. You will then not be able to load "VideoPictures", but you still can use any of the live video actions 3. Notes for Windows 3.0 users ============================== MM-BOX 2.1 needs Windows 3.1 or latter and will NOT work with Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions. 4. Video for Windows Runtime ============================ The Video for Windows runtime is included in the CD-ROM directory named \VFW. In that directory there are also one or more examples of Video for Windows clips: WLIFE1.AVI, a 10 second B&W clip form the movie "It's a wonderful life". This movie in in the public domain. Downloaded from Compuserve. (Uploaded by UID 75530,3711) FUNPLA.AVI, a full colour clip of a sequence from the space shuttle mission from the Microsoft Sample disk. Downloaded from Compuserve. (Uploaded by UID 70671,2234) The inclusion of ther Video for Windows runtime does not license you to re-distruibute the runtime files. To create your own AVI files and to distribute the runtime with you application you will need to purchase a copy of Video for Windows. Video for Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. 5. Notes on the MMB to TBK converter ==================================== To convert MM-BOX files to Toolbook (MMB => TBK) is advisable to have the MMB file in the same directory were the MM-BOX executables are located and that you have enough local memory to perform the task. Make sure that no other application is running while converting files. 6. MM-BOX Introduction Demo ============================ You can choose to install the MM-BOX Introduction demo from the Setup procedure. Make sure that you choose the default directory ( \MM-BOX2 ). The demo will NOT run if installed in any other directory. The demo occupies 12 Mbytes of disk space. - EOF