Getting Started

Getting started is hopefully not a problem - if it works the first time. Otherwise it may be quite complicatad to get it to work :)
I hope that it will now be even easier and work directly with the new installation program that I use (Visual Basic Application Installer).

I myself have had real troubles to install VP on other machines than my own. I've acctually found that the easiest way is to install Visual Basic 5, and everything you need will be installed... Ha... I just love Windowz!

Requirement

You will need some software from Microsoft:

• MDAC
• DAO

Make sure you have downloaded these files. I don't know if they are included in the Setup package.

Download

Go to the download area to find the latest release.

Dual Screen

The idéa of the program is quite simple. First you draw a black box, same size as the screen, and displays it just to the right of the primary screen. This can be done if you have configured Windows so that you have a so called "Extended desktop", and the second screen is - just to the right of the primary screen!

So, for the program to work, you need to conf Window's desktop settings, and to do this you need two graphics cards or a so called DualHead card.

The second screen needs to have a resolution of either 800x600 or 1024x768 depending on the resolution of your projector. (The program does not handle any other resolutions.)

So just do this by rigth-clicking on the desktop, go to settings. Press "Advanced":

Choose (in some way - depending on your drivers software) Dual Screen / Extended desktop / something like that. This will result in, after rebooting, the property page will look like this:

Important: The screen no. 2 MUST be just to the right of no 1, else the program will NOT work properly. If you have lower resolution on the second screen, this must be aligned to the top of the primary screen!

This should be it! If it ain't working, there must be a problem that's not working properly! ;)

Setup

When first starting you will be prompted for the path to the database you will use; you must select a valid path to a database, and must therefor already have a file. You may download one from here.
The default path for the database is "db/VideoPress.mdb".

It is then a good idea to go to the prefereces and do some tweaking. In the menu choose File ->Preferences.

The "Display"-tab:

• Select the resolution of the second display (projector or whatever you use)
• Choose the default font and size (showing on the second display)

The "DataBase"-tab:

• Browse to the database.
  NOTE: A database must already exist. An example database can be downloaded from the download area.

The "Internet"-tab:

• If you want to check for updates every time you start the program, check the checkbox. You need access to the Internet for this feature to work. NOTE: You will not download newer version. You will only get a message that says that there's a new version available.

The "General"-tab:

• It is possible to let the program automaticly save the playlist on exit. The playlist is then saved in the root directory as "Playlist.xml". It is therefor not a very good idea to manually save a playlist with that name in that directory.
  Check the box to enable this feature.

Click "OK" to save and exit. If you've changed the path to the database you will have to restart the app.