(Getting Started) POP-UP NOVICE HELP HINTS

These are hints that pop-up and stay on the screen until you close them out. They display helpful information about the action you are doing. You can close these hints by clicking on the "X" in the upper right corner of the hint window. There is also a "?" button. Clicking this button brings up this help topic you are reading.

HINT: Some of the novice hints may display a round green action button and or a checkbox. You can use the action button to perform the action described in the hint. This is a shortcut for the user. So, instead of the user using the menus to get to a particular function of interest, you can click the action button to do the function with one click.

There are 3 types of pop up help hints:

Hints that display ONCE per session
These novice hints will only appear once while you are running the program. When you run the program again you will see the hint again only once. There are only a few of these types of hints.
Informative Level: LOW
Border Color: GREEN

Hints that display until you checkmark it (you don't want it displayed again)
These novice hints will appear as many times as needed while you are running the program. The only way to get them to turn off, is to check the checkbox inside the novice tip window. When you re-run the program, these tips will appear again. Most of the help hints are of this type.
Informative Level: MEDIUM
Border Color: BLUE

Hints that display ALWAYS
These hints will always appear when needed. There are only a few help hints of this type. There is no way to turn them off.
Informative Level: HIGH
Border Color: RED

Although these hint tips are very valuable to the casual user of Photo Jockey, they can become sort of annoying after awhile. So the advanced user might want to turn off the optional help hints.

TURNING ON/OFF POP-UP NOVICE HINTS:
You can remove the pop-up help hints if you are an advanced user and don't want to be bothered by them. Just go to the "View" main menu, and select the "Configure Pop-Ups like (Tool-Tips, Novice Hints, File Properties & VCR Buttons)" menu item. This brings up the Tips & Hints configuration window. You can turn ON and OFF the various pop-ups. Click here to learn more about the "Tips & Hints Configuration" window.

NOTE: The third type of help hint (Hints that display ALWAYS) are NOT affected by turning the pop-up hints on or off. This is because these are more of an important informative type of hint that is needed for the user to see.

TIP: You can MOVE these novice hints by dragging them with your mouse.



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