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- BOUNCER III INFORMATION
- Copyright (C) 1997 Accidental Software
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-
- Bouncer is a screen saver for windows. The standard windows desktop
- Screen Saver interface is used to control this program as a screen
- saver. The program may be also be started from the icon that setup
- places in the Bouncer program group.
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- INSTALLATION
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-
- The shareware version of this program is supplied without VBRUN300.DLL.
- This file is required to install and run this program. VBRUN300.DLL is
- widely available and can be found on most windows systems. If you don't
- have VBRUN300.DLL in your windows\system directory, you can download
- this file from our page on the internet. Our URL is.....
-
- http://www.primenet.com/~acccident
-
- Download the file VBRUN300.EXE. Double click on the file and select
- unzip. The file VBRUN300.DLL will be placed in your windows\system
- directory.
-
- If your program has been provided as a self extracting executable
- (as bncsXX.exe)........
-
- 1. Double click the file "bncXX.exe".
-
- 2. Select the Unzip command button from the dialog that shows.
-
- 3. The files needed for this program will be unzipped to a temporary
- directory and the setup.exe program will automatically run. After
- Bouncer III has been installed, the temporary directory will be
- deleted.
-
- If your program has been provided as a Zip (bncXX.zip)......
-
- 1. Use PKUNZIP to "unzip" the file to its own directory (folder for
- windows 95).
-
- 2. Run Setup.exe provided in the zip archive to install the program.
-
- If your program has been supplied on disk.
-
- 1. Place your Bouncer disk in the floppy drive.
-
- 2. Run the setup.exe provided on the floppy disk.
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- USING YOUR OWN PICTURES AND MUSIC
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-
- You can use your own pictures or music in this program......
-
- 1. start Bouncer setup by double clicking on the bouncer icon or by
- choosing Bouncer as your windows screen saver, then select the settings
- command button.
-
- 2. Select the [Pictures - Music] command button.
-
- 3. Select an option button located at the bottom of the page (Pictures,
- Midi Music, or Wave Music). The Picture option button is selected
- initially.
-
- 4. Use the drive and directories list boxes to find the type of files you
- should expect to see based on your option selection. Pictures can be in
- one of the following formats, BMP - DIB - PCX - TGA - TIFF (5.0). Midi
- Music will be in MID format, and Wave Music will be in WAV format.
-
- 5. Add your selections from the left bottom list box by selecting (click
- one item or click and hold as you move the mouse pointer over the desired
- files. Click the [Add .....] button to place the selected items
- to the list on the right (the right list is the list of items Bouncer will
- use when it runs).
-
- 6. Insure the [x] Enable Music check box is checked for Midi or Wave music,
- or the music files in the list on the right will not play when Bouncer runs.
-
- 7. For Midi or Wave music. If Midi or Wave is selected with the [x] Enable
- Music check box enabled, the title bar of the Pictures / Music form will
- read "Bouncer Pictures - Midi music" or "Bouncer Pictures - Wave music".
- If the "- Midi music" or "- Wave music" statement is not indicated in the
- title bar, music is not enabled.
-
- 7. Select the Help menu item for more information.
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- PICTURE INFORMATION
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-
- The maximum picture display size can vary depending on the Max Zoom size
- you have set in the Options section of Bouncer III. Additionally, if you
- have added text to a picture, the final display size may be smaller than
- the same picture would be without text since the picture will never expand
- (zoom) to cover the text. If the Center Picture option is selected, the
- final display size of the picture may be larger than if the picture is
- randomly placed on the screen. Since the picture display size will never
- reach the full screen size, smaller pictures may provide the best display
- clarity with Bouncer III. Very large pictures will be scaled down to
- the final zoom size and may take longer to display as the picture zooms in
- and out. Although Bouncer III can use most any size picture satisfactorily,
- particularly on Pentium based or better processors, the following guidelines
- may be useful in tuning your pictures for use with this program. We
- recommend setting your screen mode to 16 bit color (high color) or better.
- This is required if you intend to use the Screen Background capabilities of
- the program.
-
- 1. Consider reducing very large pictures in pixel width and height to a
- smaller size. Larger pictures may suffer in quality when displayed since
- pixels will be discarded to get the image to fit the final zoom size of the
- picture.
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- DISPLAYING PICTURES IN A SPECIFIC ORDER
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- When Bouncer runs, the pictures you have added to the Bouncer Pictures list
- (the list on the Right) will display in alphabetical order (providing the
- randomize Picture Order feature is not selected from the options menu).
-
- If you want your pictures to display in a specific order, the pictures you
- are using will need to be renamed so that their alphabetical order is the
- same as the picture sequence you want to show. Note: You can rename the
- pictures in the Bouncer directory after the pictures have been copied to
- the bouncer directory.
-
- When pictures are added to the Bouncer Pictures list, a copy of the picture
- from the original directory is made and placed in the Bouncer directory.
- When pictures are removed from the Bouncer Picture list, they are deleted
- only from the bouncer directory, the original of the picture is still in
- the directory from which it was copied.
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- ADDING TEXT TO YOUR PICTURES
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-
- Each picture can have a text file that will show when the picture displays.
-
- 1. Select a picture from the list of Bouncer Pictures by clicking it
- one time.
-
- 2. Click the [Text for Picture <<] command button.
-
- 3. Type the text for that picture in the text box that pops up.
-
- 4. Select a font size for the text.
-
- 5. Click the [Save] command button.
-
- 6. Due to the many combinations of line length and font sizes, no specific
- formatting of the text you type is implemented. Push [Enter] to break the
- text into lines. Up to 500 characters can be saved as text for each picture.
-
- 7. When a picture is removed from the list of Bouncer Pictures, the text
- file for that picture is also removed.
-
- 8. Select the Help menu choice for additional information.
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- PATTERN SETS - MAKING BACKGROUNDS
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-
- Your screen display must be set to 16 bit color or better before this
- feature can be accessed. If your screen mode is set to 256 colors,
- palette shifting will occur and the background colors will not
- display correctly. We recommend setting your screen display to 16 bit
- color. If you have a 15"" or bigger monitor, we also recommend a display
- size to 800 x 600.
-
- Changing screen display color depth in Windows 95.
-
- a. Right click the Desk Top away from any icon.
- b. From the pop up menu, select Properties.
- c. Select the settings Tab.
- d. Select the down arrow in the Color Palette box.
- e. Select High Color (16 bit) from the choices that present.
- f. Select the OK button at the bottom of the Display Properties panel.
-
- Changing screen display color depth in Windows 3.x.
-
- a. Select Main.
- b. Select Windows Setup.
- c. Select the Options menu choice.
- d. Select the down arrow at the end of the Display box.
- e. Select High Color (16 bit) from the choices that present.
- f. Select the OK button at the bottom of the Change System Settings panel.
-
- Bouncer III is supplied with 12 patterns in the A_ pattern set. These
- patterns can be used to make backgrounds that will show behind your
- pictures. If more than 1 background is made, the backgrounds can cycle
- from one to the next after the set number of pictures has shown. This
- is called background cycling. To make backgrounds for Bouncer you must
- select the [Screen Backgrounds] button located in the [Options] utility.
-
- After more than 1 background has been made, select the Cycle Backgrounds
- menu choice from the Screen Backgrounds panel. Set the number of pictures
- to show before the background changes (cycles). This number can be set from
- 0 (no picture cycling) to 10 (the background changes after 10 picture have
- shown). It is also possible to set the background cycle in the Options
- utility, select the small command button that has a C in it [C].
-
- Additional pattern sets are available form Accidental Software. Pattern
- Sets are identified by a 2 digit prefix. The pattern set supplied with
- Bouncer is A_. Additional pattern sets are identified as AA through AZ
- and BA through BZ. Currently 20 sets are available (AA through AT),
- each set has 12 patterns. Select Pattern Sets or the Pattern Sets menu
- choice from the pattern sets panel for additional information.
-
- 1. Pattern set prices are currently $10 per set of 12 or $25 for 3 sets.
-
- 2. Pattern sets are normally sent to your Email address as an Email
- attachment. If you prefer to have a disk, an additional $3 for shipping
- and handling is required. We strive to Email attach pattern sets with
- 48 hours of receipt of an order.
-
- 3. Most pattern sets are approximately 1 mega byte in size, and come
- complete with a setup.exe utility that will automatically add the pattern
- set to your Bouncer III program.
-
- We can accept Visa or MasterCard:
-
- Call 1-800-771-6746 or 1-619-247-2804
- E-mail: accident@primenet.com
- FAX: 1-619-247-6819
-
- NOTE: Our area code will change from 619 to 720 after 22 March 1997.
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- OPTIONS - PASSWORD - MESSAGES
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- Most items in these features are self explanatory. Select the Help menu
- provide in each feature for clarification of individual items.
-
- Windows 95 Password limitations:
-
- Windows 95 allows the user to select a program choice from
- a list of active programs if the combination keys (ctrl + Alt +
- Del) are pressed. This would allow someone to close Bouncer,
- effectively negating the security provided by password protection.
- If you must have security with windows 95, you can force the
- computer to reboot if the (ctrl + Alt + Del) key combination is
- selected. Insure you have a secure password for entering windows
- 95 when the computer reboots and your computer should be reasonably
- secure. To force the computer to reboot with the above key
- combination you must add the following line to the [386Enh]
- section of your windows SYSTEM.INI file. NOTE: the SYSTEM.INI
- file can be found in your windows directory.
-
- localreboot=FALSE
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- KEYBOARD AND MOUSE CONTROLS
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- When the program is running as a screen saver or from the Run Bouncer
- command button, the following keyboard and mouse controls are
- implemented.
-
- 1. Push a keyboard key that is not "reserved" to end the screen saver
- or click a mouse button. Moving the mouse will not end the screen saver.
-
- Reserved Keys:
-
- 1. "M" - Messages. This key will toggle the selected message (1-7) on
- or off. If a message is showing, any other message (1-7) can replace it
- by pressing the corresponding number key.
-
- 2. "V" - Volume. This key will allow you to change the volume setting
- of a midi or wave file. This key only works if music is playing while
- the screen saver is running (indicated by a Music Note icon at the top
- left corner of the screen) and by music coming from your computer
- speakers. This feature can also be activated by moving the mouse pointer
- to the Music Icon and clicking while the pointer is on the icon.
-
- 3. "Space" - Music toggle. This key will toggle music on an off if is
- selected and playing when the screen saver runs.
-
- 4. "N" - Note icon. This key will toggle the note icon that appears in
- the top left corner of your screen when midi or wave music is selected.
- When the N key is toggled, the note icon will appear and disappear.
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- PICTURES SUPPLIED
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-
- Most pictures supplied with this program are clips taken from pictures
- provided by Ben Van Der Belt of Holland. One picture "Family1.bmp" is
- a scanned image from a family photo album.
-
- Ben Van Der Belt's address....
- Herderlaan B
- 3851 BD Ermelo
- The Netherlands
-
- Email: ben.vd.belt@tip.nl
- FAX: 31 341 56474
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- REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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-
- How much? -- $10.00
-
- The unregistered version of BOUNCER may be freely distributed as long
- as the program and original archive is unaltered. You may not
- distribute this program with any picture, midi, or background pattern
- file that is not in the original archive. If any picture, midi, or
- background pattern file is altered, changed, or substituted, you may NOT
- distribute the altered program. No wave file is supplied with the
- original program, and no wave file may be added to any distributed
- version of this program.
-
- The REGISTERED version of this program will allow you to show up to
- 999 pictures. All 7 messages will be available, the registration
- reminder will be eliminated, and you can install pattern sets needed
- for making backgrounds. These background sets are available from
- Accidental Software. See Pattern Sets below for more information.
-
- How to register.
-
- BOUNCER is converted to the registered edition with a Key Code
- (received from Accidental Software). Entered your key code into the
- program to convert it to the registered edition. You can purchase
- a Key Code from Accidental Software for $10.00. You must provide us
- with your Registration ID number. Your Registration ID number can
- be found by selecting the Registration menu choice from Bouncer III
- You can print a registration form as an option from the Registration
- menu that appears.
-
- NO DISK WILL BE SENT, YOU WILL RECEIVE A KEY CODE THAT CONVERTS YOUR
- PROGRAM TO THE REGISTERED EDITION.
-
- We can accept Visa or MasterCard:
-
- Call 1-800-771-6746 or 1-619-247-2804
- E-mail: accident@primenet.com
- FAX: 1-619-247-6819
-
- NOTE: Our area code will change from 619 to 720 after 22 March 1997.
-
- If you prefer, you can send us the registration form via the US mail.
- Enclose your payment, and we will send your key code to you.
-
- Send to......
- Accidental Software
- 13245 Skiomah Rd.
- Apple Valley, Ca. 92308
-
- Contact Accidental Software for site licensing information.
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- UNINSTALL
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-
- If you decide not to use this screen saver, you can remove all the files
- for this program from your hard disk.
-
- Remove the following......
-
- 1. Bouncer.scr - location - Windows directory
- 2. Bouncer.exe - location - Windows directory
- 3. Bouncer.ini - location - Windows directory
- 4. Bouncer directory and subdirectories - location - Default is
- "C:\BOUNCER", if you selected a different drive and or directory
- when the program was installed, use that path.
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- TROUBLE SHOOTING
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-
- If during the process of making a screen background, the screen turns
- white with only a small image of the background pattern at the top
- left of the screen, the background has NOT been properly made.
-
- If the above occurs, delete the background just made and reattempt the
- process of making the background again.
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- TECH SUPPORT
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-
- Accidental Software:Voice 619-247-2804
- Fax 619-247-6819
- Email accident@primenet.com
-
- NOTE: Our area code will change from 619 to 720 after 22 March 1997.
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- DISCLAIMER
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-
- This product is distributed "as is". All warranties,
- either expressed or implied, as to the software quality,
- performance, or fitness for any particular reason are
- disclaimed. You will bear the entire risk of relating
- to the quality and performance of this product, and will,
- in no event hold ACCIDENTAL SOFTWARE liable for any
- direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damage
- resulting from the use of this software.
-
-