| Active Screen Saver Personal FAQ This page contains answers to common questions handled by our support
staff, along with some tips and tricks that we have found useful and presented here as
questions.
Note: In these answers we will follow a few shorthand conventions for
describing user-interface procedures. Key combinations will be presented like this: Ctrl+Alt+Delete,
which means that you should press and hold down the Control key, the Alt key, and the
Delete key at the same time. Menu selections will be presented like this: File->Open,
which means that you should open the File menu, and then make the Open selection.
- How do I transition from one web page to another?
- How can I display a web page as a screen saver that requires
authentication?
- How do I display an AVI file as a screen saver?
- How do I register Active Screen Saver Personal?
- How do I display a PowerPoint presentation as a screen saver?
- How can I add Print capabilities to my web page?
The HTML standard provides a means by which to transition from one HTML page to another
in the form of a META tag. The REFRESH meta tag allows you to transition from one web page
to another after a specified number of seconds. After the specified number of seconds has
elapsed, the HTML file specified in the URL property will occupy the same space as the
previous HTML page. This works just as well when using FRAMES allowing you to have more
than one page transition at one time. By daisy-chaining several HTML pages together, and
pointing the last HTML page back to the first, you can easily create a slide show effect.
No programming required.
Syntax:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="(SECONDS); URL=(NEW FILE
LOCATION)">
Example:
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="5;
URL=http://domainname/dir/newfile.htm">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
OR
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="10; URL=newfile.htm">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
You can easily supply user name and password credentials to a web site by prefixing the
URL with your user name and password. For example, if I where accessing a web site called
"http://www.mydomain.com/", and my user name was "john", and my
password was "pass", then the complete URL would be formatted as follows.:
http://john:pass@www.mydomain.com/
Creating a screen saver from an AVI file is actually easier than is sounds. Simply
create an HTML file in the same directory as the AVI file. The HTML file will provide a
means by which to tell Active Screen Saver Personal how to display the AVI file, such as
how many times to loop. To display an AVI file that is centered both vertically and
horizontally, and that loops indefinitely, use the following HTML:
Example:
<html>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" bgcolor="#000000">
<table border="0" width="100%" height="100%"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%" valign="middle"
align="center" height="100%"><img dynsrc="myavi.avi"
start="fileopen" loop="infinite"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Note: Replace myavi.avi with the file name of the AVI file you are
using.
Registering Active Screen Saver Personal is simple. Start by registering
Active Screen Saver Personal on-line. When you receive your conformation email, follow
the steps below to install the registration information on your computer.:
Example Email:
Subject: Active Screen Saver Personal
Registration Code
Body:
Thank you for registering.
Your registration code is:
Licensed To: Joe User
Company Name: My Company
Serial Number: 0123456789012
We hope you like the software.
Note: The email you receive may vary slightly.
Use the following steps to install the registration information on your
machine.:
1. Start by opening the Display applet in the Windows Control Panel.
2. Select the Screen Saver tab, make sure Active
Screen Saver Personal is the selected screen saver, and click the Settings button.
3. From the Settings dialog, select About from the Help menu.
4. On the About dialog, click the Register button.
5. Enter the registration information you received via email and click Register.
6. When you receive a Registration Successful message, Active Screen Saver Personal has
been successfully registered.
A PowerPoint presentation can be displayed as a screen saver regardless of whether you have PowerPoint installed. If you do not have PowerPoint installed, you
will need to download the free PowerPoint viewer from the Microsoft web site at the following address:
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/Ppview97.htm
Once you have PowerPoint or the PowerPoint viewer installed, simply list the location of the PowerPoint file as the starting address for the screen saver on the Properties form. For Example:
“C:\My PowerPoint Presentations\My PowerPoint.ppt”
Note: You will need to save the "Continuous Loop" setting
with the .ppt file in order for the presentation to play continuously.
For information on distributing a PowerPoint presentation as a
standalone screen saver see the Active Screen Saver DevKit
-- FAQ.
Adding Print capabilities to you web
page is a very simple process view this example to find out more...
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