(Getting Started) PROGRAM WINDOW PANEL-SECTIONS

By default the program shows several areas.

Thumbnails Panel: This is the panel at the TOP of the screen that shows you a list of thumbnails of all the images in the current folder. You can click on a thumbnail to view the image. There's a "View" menu option to change the size and shape of the thumbnails displayed.

Button Bar Panel: This is the panel that shows below the thumbnails panel. When you RIGHT-CLICK on the button bar, it contains a list of all the useful functions that a user would want to use. You can select Large or Small icons and you can show or hide their captions. You can also configure the Buttons that appear on the button bar.

NOTE: When you load Photo Jockey from a CD-ROM, then it's assumed that you are going to view a slide show of photos. For this reason, the button bar will have a DIFFERENT set of buttons displayed that can NOT be configured.

Files List Panel: This is the panel on the RIGHT side of the main Photo Jockey window. It shows you a list of files that are in the current folder. You can click on a file in the list to view it. This panel has two parts. The TOP part is the Folders List which allows you to browse to other folders. The BOTTOM part contains the Files List of files in the current folder.

NOTE: This panel also contains:

"Quick Tools" checkbox: This displays a floating tool bar panel with most of the cool functions.

Red/Green button: Temporarily disable auto pop-ups of various kinds

Slide Show button: Start/stop a full screen slide show.

Funnel Filter button: Allows you to control what file types (extensions) are displayed in the files list.
NOTE: For a complete description of the folder options, click here.
NOTE: There is a tiny green pyramid button above the filenames list that controls the SORT ORDER of the list.
NOTE: There are Backward and Forward buttons that work much the same as your web browser buttons work. They take you through the previously shown files in the exact order they were viewed. You can go backwards or forwards.

Comment Panel: This is the panel at the bottom that shows you any text comments that may have been entered for an image. If no comments have been entered for an image and your comment panel is in auto-display mode, then you will not see the comment panel.

Slide Show Controls (VCR Buttons): This panel is shown or hidden by your mouse movement. It intelligently decides when to view the panel. So, if you move your mouse into one of the 4 corners of the Image Display Area, you will see the slide show control panel (VCR Buttons). It's pretty neat and makes it so that you don't have stuff on the screen that you don't want.
TIP: If you have mixed files of pictures and movies, then the "forward" and "backward" buttons will take you forward or backward to the next picture. It will skip over non-picture files.
HINT: There is a minimize/maximize button on the window that toggles between Normal, Medium, and Small mode. This is so that you can control the size of the VCR Buttons.
NOTE: You can turn OFF/ON the auto showing of the  "Slide Show Controls (VCR Buttons)" by using the "View" main menu option and selecting the "Confgure Tool-Tips, Novice Hints, File Properties & VCR Buttons". Click here to learn how to turn it off.

Image Display Area: This area is where the images appear. Unlike the other panels, you can NOT HIDE this area.

You can HIDE or VIEW any or all of these panels. SO, if you were to HIDE all of them, then any images you view would basically be viewed in full screen mode.

HINT: You can GRAB the splitter bar to make the files list panel wider or narrower. You can also use the splitter bar to control the size of the folder-list and files-list. These splitter bars are a medium green in color. Just drag them and you will see what they do!

TIP: If you click on an image that is HUGE and is taking too long to load and you want to move on to another photo, you can cancel the loading of the current photo and load another just by clicking on another photo.



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