Copyright: © 1995 Scientific CD Movies
Citation: Demo Version of AVILXP Player, © 1995 Scientific CD Movies


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AviLxp Help

About AviLxp

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Context Sensitive Help

You can get Context Sensitive Help on any Item while you are in the application by simply pressing the Right mouse button over the Item. This will work even when an item is insensitive (grayed out).

Why AviLxp

Here is why

How to

•	Open an AVI file

•	Play a File

•	Set the Playback Mode

•	Select a portion of an AVI file for Playback

•	Set the Speed of the Playback

•	Setting the Type of Playback

The Main Window

•	The Front Panel

•	Menu Bar Commands

•	Track Bar

•	Button Toolbar Commands

Glossary

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Information
AviLxp Information

 AviLxp version 1.0.  © 1995 by Scientific CD Movies, all rights reserved.

 AviLxp is a AVI Movie Player with several specialized features, such as:

•	Zooming and Cropping

•	Playing Forward or Backward

•	Looping and Rocking Playing Modes

•	Variable Speed Selection

•	Playing without Skipping Frames

The AviLxp player is a C++ application developed specifically for Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms.

AviLxp is based on a totally Modeless interface.  As you enter values in the dialog boxes you do not have to close them before your changes take places. For example, you can change the playing speed value and replay the selection at the new speed without closing the Speed Settings dialog box.

Scientific CD Movies can produce movies of your 3 Dimensional data and output a custom CD Rom with the AVI Movies of your data.

We also do custom software development of multimedia and scientific applications.

See our Web pages at: http://www.scdm.com

For more information contact:

Bill Kamp (kamp@scdm.com)

or

Nicola Papp (nicola@scdm.com)

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Here is Why

We looked at AVI players on the market, and found that all of them had no other functionality besides playing, and stopping.That functionality may be enough for entertainment movies, although even there it would be nice to play a selection over and over; zoom in it; slow it down; and crank it up; etc.; etc.

All of these and many more new features are in AviLxp. These features are very useful and necessary for animations of 3D data.

In future releases we will support palette change, indexing , digitizing, choice of sound track, and more.

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Front Panel
The Front Panel

 The front panel is composed of a Menu Bar, a Track Bar and a Button Toolbar.

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Menu Bar Commands
The Menu Bar Commands

Menu Bar Commands

From The Menu Bar you can access the following pulldown menus:

•	File

•	Edit

•	Options

•	Window

•	Help

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Button Toolbar
The Button Toolbar

Button Commands

 	Play Forward

 	Stop

 	Play Reverse

 	Forward

 	Rewind

 	Select Start Frame

 	Select End Frame

 	Toggle Zoom/Autofit Mode

 	Goto This Frame

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File Pulldown Menu
 The File Pulldown Menu

The File pulldown  menu allows you to open a movie file, register an evaluation copy, and exit the application.

•	Enter Registration Keys...

•	Open...

•	Exit

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File/Enter Registration Keys Command
The File/Enter Registration Keys Command

This command displays a dialog box in which you may enter the registration keys.

•	Name 	The registration name

•	ID 	The registration ID

As soon as you send us your licensing information, we will send you a Name and an ID to input in this dialog box in order to register your copy of AviLxp

After you have registered your copy of AviLxp, this command will not be available the next time you use the application.

Registered copies do not have any Delays while opening files and playing movies.

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Registration Name
The Registration Name

Here you enter the Registration Name. We send you the Registration Name after we receive your order. Make sure that you type the name exactly as its shown on your registration info. Include any white spaces.

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Registration ID
The Registration ID

Here you enter your 10 characters Registration ID. We send you the Registration ID after we receive your order.  Make sure that you type the ID exactly as its shown on your registration info.

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File/Open Command
The File/Open Command

If you are running under Windows 95, this command will display the Windows 95 file selection box, with the preview option.  If you single click on a file name, you will see a movie preview in the right part of the dialog box.

If you are running under Windows NT, this command will display the Windows NT file selection box, without a preview option

You may only open files of type AVI. If the file extension of your movie is not AVI or your file is not in AVI format, you may not play the file with this application.

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File/Exit Command
The File/Exit Command

This command terminates the application.

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Edit Pulldown Menu
The Edit Pulldown Menu

The Edit pulldown  menu allows you to copy a movie frame to the clippoard.

•	Copy

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Edit/Copy Command
The Edit/Copy Command

This command copies to the clipboard the portion of current movie frame displayed in the projection window.

The picture is copied to the clipboard in standard Windows Bitmap format.  You can then paste it in any application which supports image pasting.

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Options Pulldown Menu
The Options Pulldown Menu

The Options Pulldown Menu allows to customize playback mode, speed, frame step increment and annotation units.

•	Play Mode...

•	Speed...

•	Step...

•	Units...

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Play Mode Dialog Box
The Play Mode Dialog Box

There are four options of playback mode:

These modes have the following effects:

•	Stop will stop the playback of the movie after playing it once.

•	Stop and Rewind will stop the movie, and set the frame number to the beginning of the selection. Then the next play command will start the movie from the selection beginning.

•	Loop will play the movie, rewind the movie, and play the movie again.

•	Rock will play the movie forward until the end, and then play the movie from the end to the start (in reverse), and then repeat the process.

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Stop Option
The  Stop Option

The Stop option will cause the playback to stop when the end of the selection is reached.

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Stop and Rewind Option
The Stop and Rewind Option

The Stop and Rewind option will cause the playback to stop and rewind to the beginning of the selection when the end of the movie is reached.

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Playmode Menu Loop Option
The Playmode Menu Loop Option

The Loop option will cause the playback to continue from the beginning of the selectionwhen the end of the selection is reached.  This process is repeated until  stopped by the user.

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Playmode Menu Rock Option
The Playmode Menu Rock Option

The Rock option will cause the playback to play in reverse when the end of the selection is reached.  This process is repeated until stopped by the user.

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Speed  Dialog Box
The Speed  Dialog Box

This dialog box allows you to specify the options associated with the speed of playback.

You may specify the following option:

•	Skip Frames if Behind When checked, the movies will play at the set speed and will skip frames as needed to maintain  the speed.  Otherwise, the program will play all the frames as fast as possible, but not faster than the specified speed.

You may chose to play the movie at its

•	Default speed, or give a

•	Specific speed for the playback, in frames per second.

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Skip Frames if Behind check button
 The Skip Frames if Behind check button

When checked, the movies will play at the set  and will skip frames as needed to maintain  that speed.  Otherwise, the program will play all the frames as fast as possible, but not faster than the specified speed.

Depending on the type of hardware you have and on the size of the movie frames, it may not be possible for the program to play all the frames in the movie at the selected speed.  In which case you must  decide weather you want to keep the speed and skip frames, or play all the frames and loose speed.

NO SOUND ????.

If this button is not checked the program will not be able to play the sound track on the movie.

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 Default Playback Speed

The Set the Speed to Default option of the menu is used to set the playback speed  to the rate specified in the AVI file.  This is the rate used when the movie is created and is the only rate that will reproduce the proper sound track. The default rate is shown in the adjacent text field.  You cannot edit this text field.

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 Specific Playback Speed

The Set the Speed to Specific option of the menu is used to set the playback speed  to the rate specified in the adjacent text field.  You can enter the speed as a floating point value (fractional).

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 Increase the Speed of Playback

You can click on this up arrow  to increase the playback speed shown in the adjacent text field by 1 frame per second.

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 Decrease the Speed of Playback

You can click on this down-arrow  to decrease the playback speed shown in the adjacent text field by 1 frame per second.

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Step Dialog Box
 The Step Dialog Box

AviLxp allows you to specify the number of frames skipped between displayed frames during playback of the movie.

•	Frame Increment

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Frame Increment
 The Frame Increment

The Frame Increment value is the number of frames skipped during playback  when the Skip Frames if Behind option is not selected. For example, if the value is 3, then the frames played will be:

1,4,7,10,13,...

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 Increase the Number of Frames Skipped During Playback

You can click on this up arrow  to increase the Frame Increment shown in the adjacent text field by 1 frame

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 Decrease the Number of Frames Skipped During Playback

You can click on this down arrow  to decrease the Frame Increment  shown in the adjacent text field by 1 frame

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Units Dialog Box
The Units Dialog Box

AviLxp allows the user a choice of the the units used when annotating the frames, and when specifying a location in the movie. For example, the used and displayed values of the selection parameters are determined by the choices made in this menu:

The three choices of units available are:

•	Frames 	Frames units.

•	Times 	Movie timing units.

•	Data 	Movie internal data units.

When you select the Data units, you must specify the First Frame Data Value and the Frame Data Increment.

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Frame Option
The Frame Option

The Frames option sets the type of units to frames.  The first frame in the movie is number 1.  The frame increment is 1.

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Time Option
The Time Option

The Times option sets the type of units to Times, the elapsed time from the start of the movie, as if the movie was played at the Default Speed..

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Data Option
The Data Option

The Data option of the menu sets the type of units to Data.  This options is useful for animation of frames for which the playback speed is meaningless. For example an animation of several shots of a night sky full of star, taken at 1 minute interval, could be annotated with the actual time at which each shot was taken.

When you use this option you must specify the First Frame Data Value and the Frame Data Increment.

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  First Frame Data Value

The First Frame  Data Value field is used to specify the Data Value of the First  Frame of the movie.

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 Frame Increment Data Unit

The Frame Data Increment option of this menu is used to specify the Data Value of the increment between frames of the movie.

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Window Pulldown Menu
 The Window Pulldown Menu

The Window Pulldown Menu allows you to configure attributes of the windows.

•	 Always on Top

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Always on Top Check Item
The  Always on Top Check Item

The movie window may be obscured by other windows. The Window menu gives the user control of such obstructions. If the Always On Top menu item is checked, the Front Panel and the Projection Window will always be on top: No other window will obscure the Projection Window.

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Help Pulldown Menu
The Help Pulldown Menu

The AviLxp application provides help in several modes.

You can get Context Sensitive Help on any Item while you are in the application by simply pressing the Right mouse button over the Item. This will work even when an item is insensitive (grayed out).

If you wish to access Help in the standard Windows fashion, choose contents. This will provide a Hyper Text Table of Contents of the AviLxp Help file.

•	Contents

•	How To Register (Only available to unregistered users)

•	About..

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Contents Command
 TheContents Command

This command allows you to access the Hyper Text Table of Contents of the AviLxp Help file.

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How To Register Command
The How To Register Command

The price for a single copy license is US $ 25.00

You can register your evaluation copy of AviLxp in one of the following ways:

•	Register by Email 	Our Preferred and Fastest way

•	Register by Fax 	Our Second Preferred and Second Fastest way

•	Register by regular Mail 	This is OK too

We will send you immediately the registration keys.  Once you enter your registration keys, the program will start behave nicely!

•	No more messages about unregistered or evaluation copy!

•	You will not need to download a new version of AviLxp, unless you have a very old copy!!

Remember Remember Remember Remember Remember Remember Remember

•	Once you register: NO MORE DELAYS OR UNREGISTERED MESSAGES

•	Once you register: YOU WILL RECEIVE FREE UPDATES FOR ALL OF 1996

•	Once you register: YOU WILL BE A VERY NICE PERSON

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Registering by Email

Cut (i.e. copy to the clippoard with Edit/Copy) the following order form, then paste it in your Email message (or Body) and fill in the blanks. Send  your Email message to avi@scdm.com

--------------------- Cut Here -------------------------

Please Send Key for ___ Cop(y)(ies) of AviLxp at $25 each = ______________

Minnesota residents add applicable sale tax (6.5 %)       + ______________

                                                  Total    ______________

The Name you Are Registering : ___________________________________________

You will receive a separate key for each copy you order.

Please bill my Credit Card (circle one):

   Visa    Master Card     American Express

Card Number: _____________________________________________________________

Expires:     ____/____/____

Name as on the Card: _____________________________________________________

            Name: ________________________________________________________

         Company: ________________________________________________________

         Address: ________________________________________________________

City, State, Zip: ________________________________________________________

         Country: ________________________________________________________

       Day Phone: ________________________________________________________

             Fax: ________________________________________________________

           Email: ________________________________________________________


Registering by Fax

TO:     Scientific CD Movies

FAX NO: (612) 683-9311

FROM:   ______________________________________________________

DATE:   ____/____/____

Please Send Key for ___ Cop(y)(ies) of AviLxp at $25 each = ______________

Minnesota residents add applicable sale tax (6.5 %)       + ______________

                                                  Total    ______________

The Name you Are Registering : ___________________________________________

You will receive a separate key for each copy you order.

Please bill my Credit Card (circle one):

   Visa    Master Card     American Express

Card Number: _____________________________________________________________

Expires:     ____/____/____

Name as on the Card: _____________________________________________________

Please send Registration Keys by (circle one) :

   Fax      Email   Mail

            Name: ________________________________________________________

         Company: ________________________________________________________

         Address: ________________________________________________________

City, State, Zip: ________________________________________________________

         Country: ________________________________________________________

       Day Phone: ________________________________________________________

             Fax: ________________________________________________________

           Email: ________________________________________________________


Registering by regular Mail

Mail to:

Scientific CD Movies

12904 Hamplet Avenue

Apple Valley, MN 55124

USA

Attn: Bill Kamp

Please Send Key for ___ Cop(y)(ies) of AviLxp at $25 each = ______________

Minnesota residents add applicable sale tax (6.5 %)       + ______________

                                                  Total    ______________

The Name you Are Registering : ___________________________________________

You will receive a separate key for each copy you order.

Enclosed is my Check for US $ _____

Or

Please bill my Credit Card (circle one):

   Visa    Master Card     American Express

Card Number: _____________________________________________________________

Expires:     ____/____/____

Name as on the Card: _____________________________________________________

Please send Registration Keys by (circle one) :

   Fax      Email    Mail

            Name: ________________________________________________________

         Company: ________________________________________________________

         Address: ________________________________________________________

City, State, Zip: ________________________________________________________

         Country: ________________________________________________________

       Day Phone: ________________________________________________________

             Fax: ________________________________________________________

           Email: ________________________________________________________


About Dialog Box
The About Dialog Box

This dialog box shows you information about the AviLxp application.

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Trackbar
Description of Trackbar

The Trackbar is used both to show the Frame Location and to move to a Frame Location.

The location of the Track Arrow [image] in the Trackbar shows the relative location of the current frame.

The user may use the left mouse button to drag the Track Arrow to a new location thus changing the current frame.

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Play in the Forward Direction Button
The Play in the Forward Direction Button

 This is the Play Forward Button.  When pressed, the movie will start playing in the forward direction.

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Play in the Reverse Direction Button
The Play in the Reverse Direction Button

 This is the Play Reverse Button.  When pressed, the movie will start playing in the backward direction.

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Stop the Playback Button
The Stop the Playback Button

 This is the Stop Playback button. When pressed, the movie will stop playing at the currently shown frame.

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Rewind the Movie Button
The Rewind the Movie Button

 This the Rewind Button.   When pressed the movie will jump to the first frame or to the beginning of the selection.

If your Selection is a subset of the movie, and the Current Frame is within that selection , the Rewind button will move the Current Frame to the start of the selection. Pressing the button a second time will move the Current Frame to the first frame of the movie. .

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Fast Forward a Movie Button
The Fast Forward a Movie Button

 This the Fast Forward Button.   When pressed the movie will jump to the last frame or to the end of the selection.

If your Selection is a subset of the movie, and the Current Frame is within that  selection, the Fast Forward button will move the Current Frame to the end of the  selection. Pressing the button a second time will move the Current Frame to the last frame of the movie.

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Start a Selection Button
The Start a Selection Button

 AviLxp allows the user to select a subset of the movie for purposes of copying and playback. This button is used to set a specific frame as the start of your  selection. You may enter the numerical value of the button to the right of the button.

 How do I end a Selection?

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 Increase Selection Starting Point

You can click on this up arrow to increase the Selection Start by 1 frame.

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 Decrease the Selection Starting Point

You can click on this down arrow to decrease the Selection Start by 1 frame.

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End a Selection Button
The End a Selection Button

 AviLxp allows the user to select a subset of the movie for purposes of copying and playback. This button is used to set a specific frame as the end of your  selection. You may enter the numerical value of the button to the right of the button.

 How do I start a Selection?

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 Increase Selection Starting Point

You can click on this up arrow to increase the Selection End by 1 frame.

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 Decrease the Selection Ending Point

You can click on this down arrow to decrease the Selection End by 1 frame.

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Current Frame
The Current Frame

The Current Frame number is shown in the [image] window. This is the frame visible on the screen. The units used are the position in the movie. Also, the Playback Track Bar will show you the approximate location of the Current Frame in the movie.

For other options, See the Button Commands section.


Go To a Specific Frame Button
The Go To a Specific Frame Button

 This button, when pressed, will put the movie at the frame number listed to the right of the button.

For other options, See the Button Commands section.


Move Forward using Go To

You can click on this up arrow to increase the Current Frame by 1 frame.

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Move Backward using Go To

You can click on this down arrow to decrease the Current Frame by 1 frame.

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Autofit or Zoom Control Button
The Autofit or Zoom Control Button

 You have two modes of controlling the vertical and horizontal scale used to display a movie frame.

•	Button in the Up position, Autofit Mode

In this mode, the whole movie frame is fit in the window.  If the frame size in pixels is larger than the Projection window, the resulting image will be under sampled. Some of the data pixels are not displayed, creating a 'poor looking' image.

If the frame size is smaller than the Projection window, the image will be over sampled, creating the effect of a Zoom.

When you resize the window, the program always switch automatically to Autofit mode.

•	Button in the Down position, Fixed Scale Mode

In this mode you control the scaling of the data. You can enter a magnification value (or Zoom factor) as a percentile in the text field adjacent to the button. A value of 100 means that one frame sample is mapped to one window pixel. If the frame is bigger than the window, you can use the scroll bars to pan over the image.  In this case the data is cropped.

You can increase the Zoom factor to magnify the image. Then you can use the scroll bars to center the window over the area of interest.

You can improve playback speed by using a small Projection window and by cropping the data, while maintaining a zoom factor of 100 .  This, of course, wjill only show part of the frame.

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Increase the Picture Size via Zoom

You can click on this up arrow to increase the Zoom factor by 10.

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Decrease the Picture Size via Zoom

You can click on this down arrow to decrease the Zoom factor by 10.

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Select a portion for playback
How to Select a portion for playback

Select either the Open Selection or the

Close Selection icons:

These actions will set the first and last frame to be used in the selection.

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Set the Type of Playback
How to Set the Type of Playback

Select the the Options/Play Mode menu option. This will bring up a menu  that will allow you to set the various options for playback.

NOTE: You have several options for entering speed, selection start and stop frames, and the zoom factor. In each case, the user can enter an arbitrary value, elect the AVI file default, or choose from a menu of choices.

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Set the Speed of the Playback
How to Set the Speed of the Playback

Select the the Options/Speed menu option.

NOTE: You have several options for entering speed, selection start and stop frames, and the zoom factor. In each case, the user can enter an arbitrary value, elect the AVI file default, or choose from a menu of choices.

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 Glossary

•	AVI

•	Button Commands

•	Crop

•	Data Units

•	Frame Number

•	Location

•	Position

•	Popup

•	Selection

•	Shareware

•	Time Units

•	Title Bar

•	Toolbar

•	Topic

•	Track Arrow

•	Trackbar

•	Zoom


shareware (def.)
A software distribution method.  Software is distributed for trial use, and if users find it useful, they are expected to pay a registration fee ('try before you buy').


toolbar (def.)
The line of graphical push buttons that are located directly below AviLxp's Scroll and Menu bar. The Toolbar is used to control the movie.


Title Bar (def.)
The area at the top of the AviLxp program window that contains the program name, file name, system menu button and window size controls.


topic (def.)
A block of text in a help file that will be displayed as a single display page.


Position (def.)
The Position in the movie. The Unitsare those described in the Units Menu, i.e. Frame, Time, or Data.


Step Settings (def.)
This is the step settings pop up.


popup (def.)
A small window that appears when you select a topic with a dotted underline.  The window will remain until you click the left mouse button again.


AVI Format (def.)
AVI stands for Audio Visual Interface. It is a standard endorsed by Microsoft for the purpose of providing Audio Visual movies on a PC.


Modeless Dialog Boxes (def.)
A Modeless (or non Modal) dialog is a dialog which does not require you to respond to it before you can proceed with other tasks.  There is no good programming reasons to have Modal dialogs, except for unrecoverable errors and a poor programming environment.


Modal Dialog Boxes (def.)
A Modal dialog is a dialog which requires you to respond to it before you can proceed with other tasks.  There is no good programming reasons to have Modal dialogs, except for unrecoverable errors and a poor programming environment.


Items for Context Sensitive Help (def.)
You can position the cursor on the following Items and press the Right mouse button to get specific help:

•	Any labels on the menu bar and on the related pulldown menus.

•	Any labels in a dialog box.

•	Any labels next to radio or check buttons

•	Any Icon buttons

•	The Track bar and Scroll bars


Projection or Movie Window (def.)
This is the window where the movies are shown.


Button Commands (def.)
The button commands are included below the Track Bar, at the bottom of the control window.


Track Bar (def.)
The Track Bar is the middle section of the control window that looks like a scroll bar. The purpose of the bar is to indicate the location of the Current Frame of the movie.


Selection (def.)
The Selection is the subset of the movie that is used for Playing or Copying.


Playback (def.)
Playback is the process of playing the movie, providing the screen animation.


Frame Number (def.)
The Frame Number is the location within the movie of a specific frame. Frame 1 is the first frame of the movie. Frame 2 is the second Frame of the movie, etc.


Frame Times (def.)
The Frame Time is the location within the movie of a specific frame, using for reference the time scale provided by AVI.


Frame Data (def.)
The Frame Data is the location within the movie of a specific frame. The units used are provided by the user at run time.


Crop (def.)
Crop is the term used to describe the conventions we use to fit a picture in a window. Only the portion of a cropped picture that fits in a window will be seen.


Track Arrow (def.)
The Track Arrow is the arrow shaped bar in the middle Trackbarwindow used to move to a specific frame.


Track Bar (def.)
The Trackbar is the horizontal bar in the middle of the Control Window which is used to move to a specific frame.


Location (def.)
The Location of a movie is the currently shown Frame in the Units chosen from the Options/Units menu.


Staus Box (def.)
The Status Box is the small arrow shaped, movable pointing mechanism used in the Trackbar.


Zoom (def.)
Zoom is the term used to change the size of picture viewed.


AviLxp
Help for AviLxp

Occasionally a Win95 user will be using Win95 without the full  Multimedia system. This happens when you see a window similar to:

Since our movies use a large number of the  features of the Win95 Multimedia, you will need to complete the  Multimedia installation.

First you need to get your Win95 CD or installation floppies.

While holding down the shift key, insert your Win95 CDRom, or your Win95 setup floppy.  (Holding down the shift key inhibits the CD's autostart.)

From the Start Button, select Settings, and Control Panel. In the control panel, you will see

.

Click on this icon.

Next, click on the Windows Setup tab. Scroll down to the Multimedia section:

If the Multimedia check button is not selected, check it.

Next, double click on the Multimedia line. You will then see this:

Make sure the Video Compression selection check box is un-checked. (You may have to clear it.)  Then press the OK button.  This will complete the removal of the partially installed compression routines.

Next, set the check mark on the Video Compression section. Then press the OK button of the Multimedia window, and the OK button of the Program Properties Window. You have now completed adding the Multimedia compression routines. You should be able to play your movies.

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