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A N D N O W , T H E B U T T O N S :
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If you're reading this, I hope you have tried playing with EdPlayer a bit.
You know that there are a lot of buttons on the main panel that appears
when you run the program. Here they are, left-to-right, slowly working
downward from the top. (There are no keyboard equivalents for any of
these buttons in this release. You'll have to use your mouse. Sorry).
POWER: This exits EdPlayer rather immediately. No "Are you Sure?" prompts
or anything, because they sometimes annoy me. Of course, all the
proper shutdown routines are run, such as unloading the current
song, etc. Note that the close gadget in the "iconified" WB window
has this same function (see ICONIFY below).
(ARexx/telled users: see KILL, SELF in ARexx section)
"T": Tempo control. NoiseTracker modules can have different tempos
depending on whether you are in PAL or NTSC mode. This button
toggles between the two tempos, with the current status appearing in
the LED display. Note that this option is memorized "per song" in
program mode (see PRG below). Note that modules composed with
ProTracker should always be played in PAL mode. ProTracker
always sounds like it is in PAL, even on NTSC machines.
(ARexx/telled users: see PALM, NORM, NTSC in ARexx section)
HELP: This is the "Online Help Function." I call it "online" because you
can get help while you are using EdPlayer. (Of couse, this being an
Amiga, you can multitask and get help from the DOCs while you are
using EdPlayer too. Oh, never mind.) Anyway, you click here to
turn help on, then click on the buttons you want help with, and then
click here again to turn help back off.
"|<": EJECTs current song, moves to previous program selection, and
displays title of that selection. You can use this to flip through
a program, select where you want to start, and press PLAY to start.
(see PRG below).
(ARexx/telled users: see PREV in ARexx section)
">|": Same as "|<" above, but moves to NEXT prg selection rather than the
previous one.
NOTE: In random mode, this button jumps to a random song, not the
next one.
(ARexx/telled users: see NEXT in ARexx section)
?: The button with the little question mark on it is the random play
button. It toggles a similar-looking LED. When the LED is lit,
the current program plays in random order. Also, the NEXT command
and the ">|" button (just above) jump to random songs rather than
the next song when this is on. The status of the random LED is
saved when a program is saved.
(ARexx/telled users: see RAND, SAVA, SAVC in ARexx section)
PRG: OK, now it's time to explain programs. A "program" is a list of
module filenames that EdPlayer can memorize, along with two options
per name (PAL / NTSC and FADE / NO FADE). When such a list exists,
EdPlayer will attempt at the end of each song to load and play the
next song in the program, using the options for that song. The two
buttons listed above this one scroll through the program.
Now about the PRG button itself:
Be careful with this button!! It's main use is for ERASING the
current program! This is because CREATING programs is more easily
done with the OPEN button described below. If EdPlayer has a program
in memory, the "PRG" LED will light up on the display.
*2.0*>It is now possible to save programs! Yay! But not from the panel.
(aww...) Look in the ARexx Commands section for SAVA and SAVC.
(ARexx/telled users: see JUKE, ERAS, SAVA, and SAVC in ARexx section)
EJECT "^": Unloads current song, freeing lots of CHIP memory. Does NOT
erase current program.
(ARexx/telled users: see EJEC in ARexx section)
Fade Slide: A tiny slider to the right of the EdPlayer logo controls
the rate at which songs fade out. Because it is small and
its effects are large, numbers appear in the info bar at
the bottom when you use this slider. A fade rate of 1 is
slow fade, 4 is normal fade, and higher numbers are faster
fades. Note that if the FADE LED (yellow triangle) is not
lit, this slide is ignored, and the song does not fade at all.
Be sure to look at the description of the Fade BUTTON (below).
(ARexx/telled users: see AUTO in ARexx section)
OPEN: For this one, you need the kd_freq.library version 3.0 or higher in
your LIBS: directory! This library might have come with the
EdPlayer archive, because its copyright notice is as follows:
>>If you want to use 'kd_freq.library' in any freely distributable program,
>>you may include the 'kd_freq.library' file as long as you also include the
>>'FR_User.DOC' file and mention 'Copyright 1990 Khalid Aldoseri'.
Oh yes, the author of this library, Khalid Aldoseri, can be reached
at the following address:
Khalid Aldoseri
P.O. Box 505
Manama, Bahrain.
Fax: (973) 694777
Compuserve 75166,2531
And I almost forgot to mention that this library is Copyright 1990
Khalid Aldoseri. Now that you have the kd_freq.library, you can use
the EdPlayer OPEN button to bring up it's file requester. With this
requestor, you should select the filename of a module you want to
hear. If there is no program, the song will load and begin to play.
However, if there IS a program (even an empty one created with PRG),
the song's name will be added to the program. NOTE THAT A MUCH
EASIER way to make programs is with the file requester's "Extended
Select" feature. To use this, hold down the SHIFT key and click
several module filenames. As you click them, they light up.
(If you press shift-rightarrow, ALL the files in a dir will light up).
***> THEN, you MUST hit the "SELECT" gadget at the top right.
When you press "OK", ALL of the filenames will be added, in
alphabetical order, to the END of the current program. If no
program exists when you use this feature, one will automatically be
created. To start any program, press PLAY.
NEW for EdP v1.1: EdPlayer can now use the req.library if it can't
find the kd_freq.library. You have to be a little more careful
with req, however: it lets you specify drive names ("DF0:") instead
of volume names ("MyMods1:") so if you have 30 disks and you
program them all as DF0:something, you're going to be CONFUSED!!
*2.0*> Various notes for v2.0 and up:
I cannot control many features of the file requesters. All of the
file requesters are written by OTHER PEOPLE, and are only called
on by EdPlayer as libraries. Please report bugs in a file requester
to the author of that file requester, not me!!
*2.1*> asl.library now supported. This is the standard file requestor
for Workbench 2.0 and up.
(ARexx/telled users: see LOAD, PLAY, JUKE, FREQ in ARexx section)
"<<": Rewind button. This button skips back to the start of the previous
position ("Pos") in the song. If you hit it a few times, it sounds
like you are "rewinding" to an earlier part of the song.
">>": FastForward button. This button skips ahead to the start of the
next position ("Pos") in the song. You can hit it a few times
to skip over any boring parts of a song.
PLAY "|>": This button has many functions. If no song is loaded, it will
try to get a module name from the program and load & play it.
If a song IS loaded, but not playing, it will ignore the
program and play the current song. If a song is ALREADY
playing, this b