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General options

The General tab in the Play The Web Configuration dialog box is used to define global parameters used in screensaver and navigation modes.

Home page

The first part of this tab in used to define Play The Web home page. The home page is displayed in three cases:

• The first page displayed in screensaver mode is the home page.
• If you click on the Navigation button and "Go to home page when entering navigation mode" is enabled in Configuration dialog box.
• When you click on the Home button in the navigation tool bar, Play The Web displays the home page.

• First, you can type the full address of the page you want to set as your home page. That address must be written as any web page address. For instance:

  http://www.play-the-web.com

• Second, you can set the page currently displayed in Play The Web as your home page. In order to do this, you have to click on the "Current page" button when the right page is displayed.
• Third, you can set the Play The Web default home page as your home page. The address of this page is:

  http://www.play-the-web.com

The next check box can only be used in the registered version of Play The Web. It is labeled "Use home page as splash window". When this box is checked, the current home page is shown when the software is launched, replacing the embedded ad screen. Click here to Register Play The Web.

Finally, the "Use home page as back window" option can also be used in the registered version. With this box checked, the home page is browsed in the main windows when a file is displayed through a separate process. This option is useful if you want to use a single HTML transition page between PowerPoint presentations displayed through Microsoft PowerPoint. Then, you should use this HTML page as the home page and check this option.

Screen saver

The second part of the Configuration dialog box general tab is useful to define how pages must be displayed in screensaver mode. This frame contains five parameters that you can define:

• Screen save active
  Check this box to enable screensaver mode.
• Screen save delay
  Delay before Play The Web starts screen save mode. Screen save mode displays pages defined in the page list. This delay is defined in minutes.
• Begin with last page displayed
  Check that box in order to let Play The Web continue the previous presentation at launch time. In other words, Play The Web will display the last page that was displayed the last time the screensaver was run. The default value for this option is checked.
• Loop after last page
  This check box is used to tell Web Screen Saver to restart the cycle with the first page at the end of the presentation. The default value for this option is checked.
• Default display time
  The value in that text box tells Play The Web the display time for each page in an automated presentation. That value is given in seconds. The default value for the display time is ten seconds. This value is used for a page only if you did not define a different display duration for this page in page properties.

The next part of the Configuration dialog box general tab allows you to define what Play The Web must do on mouse actions or when the keyboard is used in screensaver mode. The options are "What to do if the mouse moves?" and "What to do on keyboard event?". Four values are available:

• Nothing
  This is the default value. This is the only way to use the screensaver tool bar. In every other mode, that tool bar is always hidden.
• Enter navigation mode
  In this mode, the screensaver tool bar is always hidden because it is useless. When the mouse moves or the keyboard is used, the program switches to navigation mode and displays the navigation tool bar. If you select this option with "Go to home page when entering navigation mode", mouse movements bring the home page to screen.
• Quit Play The Web
  In this mode, the screensaver tool bar is also hidden because the program behavior is very similar to a classical screensaver. The program closes when a mouse movement is detected.
• End Windows session
  In this mode, the screensaver tool bar is also hidden. Play The Web is closed when the mouse moves and the Windows session is ended.

For the "What to do on a mouse click?" option, two values are available:

• Nothing
  Mouse clicks have no action in screensaver mode.
• Enter navigation mode
  When a mouse click occurs, the program switches to navigation mode and displays the navigation tool bar.

Web pages auto scroll

The default behaviour when a web page is displayed is that there is no auto scroll on this page. However, it is possible to enable an anto scroll feature so the user will be able to see the full content of the web page.

The "Auto scroll mode" listbox is included for that purpose. Three options are available:

• No auto scroll
  This is the default value. The auto scroll feature is not enabled.
• Auto scroll when page download is started
  In this mode, the auto scroll feature is enabled as soon as the web page is displayed, even if all included resources like pictures are not fully loaded.
• Auto scroll when page download is completed
  In this mode, the auto scroll feature starts only when the page is fully loaded, including all resources shown on this page.

The following options found in the General tab allow configuration of the auto scroll feature when it is enabled.

The "Delay before auto scroll starts" entry box can be used to set a value in seconds before the auto scroll actually begin on a page when the triggering event (page started or completed) occurs.

The "Auto scroll speed" entry boxes defines speed in pixels for both vertical and horizontal scroll.

Finally, the "Complete auto scroll before navigation to the next page" check box can be used to make sure that the page was fully scrolled and displayed before the navigation to the next page or file could occur.