| Next will be a brief description of the basic use of Wx-View followed by a more detailed description of most of the commands of the application. | |
Brief description of how to use Wx-View: |
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Running a Slide Show: |
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| Select a few image files through the File Menu, Select Files command. Set the interval for the change of the slide by entering the amount of seconds in the Set interval command Dialog Box of the Slide Show Menu. You can confirm you selection of files by clicking on the Show Files command of the Slide Show Menu. Begin the Slide Show by selecting the Run command in the Slide Show Menu. | |
Using the Zoom feature: |
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| Keep one single image on the screen. Select what type of zoom type you wish to use in the Options Menu, Zoom Settings command and click on either the Interpolation or Stretching Radio Button. Zoom in on the image by left clicking on the image. This Zoom will centre itself on the point, which was clicked. You can select a specific area to zoom into by holding down the left click and dragging on the image. | |
Rotating an Image: |
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rotate the image, select the Rotate Image
command in the View Menu.
This will bring up a Dialog Box where you can specify the exact angle
at which to rotate. For example, if you wish to rotate the image 30
degrees clockwise, enter 30 in the Dialog Box. To rotate the image
30 degrees anti-clockwise, enter -30 in the Dialog Box. To get a horizontal mirror image of your current image, select the Horizontal Flip command in the View Menu. To get a vertical mirror image of your current image, select the Vertical Flip command in the View Menu. To reload your original image, select the Original Image command in the View Menu. |
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Setting preferences: |
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change your language preferences by selecting another language in
the Language Dialog Box of the Language command
of the Options Menu. You must
restart the program for the changes to take effect. You can specify a particular Directory that you wish to have your Database of images saved to by selecting the Directory command of the Options Menu. |
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Exitting: |
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| To quit the application, click on the "x" in the upper right hand corner of your Main Frame window or select the Exit command from the File Menu. | |
Menu Options Summary: |
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| The contents are separated by Menu Commands and then again by Sub-Menu Commands. |
FILE: |
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| Specify category : | ||
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| Print: | Send the currently selected image to the printer. | |
| Select Files: | ||
| By Filename: | Opens a Dialog Box where images can be searched for by their names and/or extensions. The * wild card can be used to select files and return more than one image file. For example, entering *.gif will return all the .gif image files. The user can then choose among the search results to open the specific images. | |
| By Category: | Opens a Dialog Box where images can be searched for by the category where they are contained in the Directory Tree. The user can then choose among the search results to open specific images. | |
| Exit: | Quits the application. | |
SLIDE SHOW |
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| Set Interval: | Dialog box to set the interval (in seconds) of the Slide Show image change. | |
| Show Files: | Dialog box that confirms the current selection of image files. | |
| Run: | Begins the Slide Show of the current selection of image files. | |
| Rotate Image: | Rotates
the current image according to the degrees entered by the user. E.g.: Entering 30 and pressing OK will rotate the image 30 degrees clockwise. Entering -30 and pressing OK will rotate the image 30 degrees anti-clockwise. |
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| Horizontal Flip: | Creates a horizontal mirror image of the current image. | |
| Vertical Flip: | Creates a vertical mirror image of the current image. | |
| Zoom In: | Enlarges current image according to Zoom type (in the Zoom Settings of the Options Menu) and by the enlargement factor (also in the Zoom Settings of the Options Menu). Specific areas of the image can be selected for zooming by left clicking on the mouse and dragging over the desired area. The whole image can be enlarged simply by left clicking on the image. | |
| Zoom Out: | Reduces current image according to Zoom type (in the Zoom Settings of the Options Menu) and by the enlargement factor (also in the Zoom Settings of the Options Menu). | |
| Increase Contrast: | Increases the difference between the lowest and highest saturation of the RGB according to the original settings. | |
| Decrease Contrast: | Decreases the difference between the lowest and highest saturation of the RGB according to the original settings. | |
| Increase Brightness: | Increases the all RGB values according to their original settings. | |
| Decrease Contrast: | Decreases the all RGB values according to their original settings. | |
| Original Image: | Reloads the original image to the dialog box. | |
OPTIONS |
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| Language: | Permits the user to select a preferred language to work in. The default language is English. This program is currently configured for English, French and Spanish. If the language selection is changed, the changes will only take effect after the program has been restarted. | |
| View Toolbar: | Toggle command, which displays or hides the toolbar according to the user's selection. This preference will be written to a configuration file of the user's preferences. | |
| Zoom Settings: | Opens a Dialog Box where the user can set the zoom factor (in the text box) as well as the zoom type preference. Zooming by interpolation generally gives a clearer zoomed version of the original image. Calculations are effected to determine what pixels should go between 2 original pixels. Zooming by stretching is a slightly quicker zoom type but produces an image which is more grainy as the pixels inserted between the original pixels will have the same RGB value as the pixels immediately to the left. | |
| Directory: | Permits user to select a Directory to store the settings and the database of the images in their library. | |
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