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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>Slide Show - GQview User Manual</TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 (Linux)"> <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20040805;23590500"> <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20050107;1560800"> </HEAD> <BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR"> <CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0 STYLE="page-break-before: always"> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <THEAD> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P><A HREF="8_image_presentation.html">Previous</A></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Slide Show – Image Presentation</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="8_2_fullscreen.html">Next</A></P> </TD> </TR> </THEAD> </TABLE> </CENTER> <HR> <H1>8.1 Slide Show</H1> <P>The image pane can be set to automatically change the displayed image after a period of time, in GQview this is referred to as a slide show.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>Starting a slide show</U></P> <P>A slide show can be started in a number of ways:</P> <UL> <LI><P>From the menu bar - open the <B>View</B> menu and select <B>Toggle slide show</B> to toggle the slide show on or off .</P> <LI><P STYLE="font-weight: medium">From the keyboard - press the <B>S</B> key to toggle the slide show on or off.</P> <LI><P STYLE="font-weight: medium">From a context menu - right click an image pane, and select <B>Start slide show</B>, or <B>Stop slide show</B>; the text will change depending on the state of the current slide show.</P> </UL> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>Stopping a slide show</U></P> <P>An active slide show can be stopped by using the same functions available to start one, as they work like a toggle switch. If slide show repeat is not enabled in the <A HREF="10_1_general.html">options dialog</A>, the slide show will stop when the last image in the sequence is displayed.</P> <P>Any action that changes the image pane to a new image will stop the active slide show, with the exception of the methods discussed in <A HREF="#navigation">Slide show sequence navigation</A>.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>Slide show status</U></P> <P>The main window <A HREF="2_7_status_bar.html">status bar</A> can be used to determine when a slide show is active, <B>Slide show</B> will be displayed next to the file count field. An individual <A HREF="3_1_image_window.html">Image Window</A> can also display a slide show, however the status will not be immediately visible. To determine the slide show status in an image window, open a context menu by right clicking or using the menu key, the slide show menu item will reflect the slide show status; if <B>Start slide show</B> is displayed, no slide show is active, conversely if <B>Stop slide show</B> is displayed a slide show is active.</P> <P>When a Slide show is paused, the main window status bar will display <B>Paused</B> instead of <B>Slide show</B>. Likewise, the image context menu will display <B>Pause slide show</B> or <B>Continue slide show</B>, depending on the current state.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>Pausing a slide show</U></P> <P>An active slide show can be paused in two ways:</P> <UL> <LI><P>From the keyboard - press the <B>P</B> key while a slide show is active.</P> <LI><P>From a context menu - right click the image pane displaying the slide show, and select <B>Pause slide show</B>, or <B>Continue slide show</B> depending on the current slide show state.</P> </UL> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P STYLE="font-weight: medium"><U>Selecting the images to include in a slide show</U></P> <P STYLE="font-weight: medium">When a single image is selected, all images in the current folder are included in the slide show. The sequence will begin with the current image; however if random slide shows are enabled, the sequence will begin with a random image from the list.</P> <P STYLE="font-weight: medium">To only include some images in a slide show, use multiple selection to select the images to include before starting the slide show.</P> <P STYLE="font-weight: medium">An image collection can be used as the list of images, to do this drag an image from a collection window onto the image pane. Starting a slide show will then include the images from that collection.</P> <P>So far, the methods described are for slide shows in a main window, in an <A HREF="3_1_image_window.html">Image Window</A>, the slide show will use all images referenced by that window.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P STYLE="font-weight: medium"><U>Recursive slide show</U></P> <P STYLE="font-weight: medium">In the main window, a recursive slide show can be started from a folder's context menu; the folder's right click menu will include two slide show options:</P> <UL> <LI><P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Slide show: This will start a slide show that includes all images in the selected folder.</P> <LI><P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Slide show recursive: The slide show will include all images in the selected folder, and all images in the folders that are contained within the selected folder.</P> </UL> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><A NAME="navigation"></A><U>Slide show sequence navigation</U></P> <P STYLE="font-weight: medium">When a slide show is active, functions that normally change the image forward and backward can be used to step through those contained in the slide show.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P STYLE="font-weight: medium"><U>Configuring a slide show</U></P> <P>The options that control the behavior of slide shows are located on the <A HREF="10_1_general.html">General tab</A> of the options dialog.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in; font-weight: medium"><B>Display time</B>: The delay between each image in the slide show can be adjusted with the <SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><B>Delay before image change</B> option.</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none"> <B>Repeat</B>: This will cause the slide show to loop indefinitely, it will continue with the first image after displaying the last image in the slide show list.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><B>Random</B>: This will display images randomly selected from the slide show list. Each image from the slide show list will be displayed once.</SPAN> When Repeat is also enabled, the random sequence is changed after each complete cycle of the images.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <HR> <CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <THEAD> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P><A HREF="8_image_presentation.html">Previous</A></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="index.html">Contents</A></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="8_2_fullscreen.html">Next</A></P> </TD> </TR> </THEAD> <TBODY> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P><BR> </P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=CENTER><BR> </P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=RIGHT>GQview User Manual</P> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </CENTER> <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR> </P> </BODY> </HTML>