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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 ico