Tips - Getting Started

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All tips are related to our product NoticeBoard, for help on AddinMedia, please visit http://www.addinmedia.com

NoticeBoard runs under all versions of Windows after XP, you may need to install WPF version 3.5 prior to installing NoticeBoard, otherwise it will prompt you to get it during installation.

Upon installation, there is a single copy of NoticeBoard.exe available for both creation of your notices and for playing it's scheduled task. Though it's a single copy which perform 2 different task, we shall call them

NoticeBoard Player and NoticeBoard Editor

To use the editor, click the name on your program menu or desktop icon. While to play the scheduled notices, click on the created file, example "yournotices.ntb".

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The primary features of ChioCS NoticeBoard is it's abilities to:

1. Scheduled a display task any time of the day throughout the year.
2. Display text, images, documents, graphics, sounds, videos and web pages.
3. Create and play your animations without using Flash.
4. Play any combination of videos, animations, texts, graphics, images onto the same area of the screen.
5. Use any one of the many pre-configure splashes to dash information to your screen for a small amount of time at regular interval.
6. Provides many pre-configure classic signage features, like scroll window for easy implementation.
7. Supports any amount of screens that your PC can support.

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Here are the basic Schedule items or task.

Cluster

Cluster is a loosely define top level time-line item where you put all your individual task or group of task in it. You can define any number of clusters and must have at least one cluster defined. There is however no specific relation between clusters, other then the ability to help you with load balancing if you are running in a multi processors PC. They also serve as a container to better manage all your scheduled items.

Group

If you have a few windows scheduled to display at a specific location of the screen and another few windows scheduled to take it's place after that and continue to re-run continuously. Then it is better to place them into 2 different grouping and just manage the scheduling of these 2 groups. However there is no restriction that it should display into a specific screen location. It should be view as a grouping for a collection of time-line items.

Window

A basic container to hold groups of text, images and graphic. You can choose a pre-defined window or create your own time-line animation to display in this window.

Video

A window for displaying your movie clip or groups of movies.

Browser

A window for displaying web pages. It can be any kind of web contents, video, flash animations, documents as long as it is configured and supported by your browser.

Splash

Splash are pre-defined window with built-in effects. Like window it too can carry text, images and graphic and also supports animation. Though it is design to play for a small amount of time, but there is no restriction for displaying it all day long.

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Screen

You may have one or multiple screens and they may vary in sizes. before you start, use the project config to set the numbers and screen dimension in order to test out your project correctly. However, full screen testing requires the designated PC's screen of similar size and numbers to what you are working with.