Now available: Professional
Edition: See features listed below.
Standard Edition Enhancements
Quick Access Numbers: When using a single monitor system, you
can now call up any song by simply entering its
associated Quick Access Number.
Jump to any item in a program: When using a single monitor system, you
can now jump to any item within a program with just a few
key strokes.
Quick Access List: You can now build a list that contains the
items you are most likely to need at a moments notice.
This list is loaded each time SongShow Plus is run and is available from the main toolbar.
Improved Backup / Restore Facility: Backup all songsand files
including SongSelect user added songs, images, slide
shows, videos, programs and even display and user
settings. This improved facility makes it easier to move
songs from one machine to another.
More song layout options: You can now specify that title, author,
copyright, and reference be only displayed on the first
slide of a song. Automatic word wrapping is also now
provided.
Numeric keypad support for dual
monitor system: You can now use the keypad to control a
song even on a dual monitor system (previously available
only on single monitor systems).
Quick Message Facility: Now available for Windows NT.
Store up to ten predefined messages for quick retrieval
in a live setting.
Better Windows 98 Dual Monitor
Support: Place the control and display windows in
any monitor recognized by Windows 98.
Cascading Display Properties: Gives you more control over how a program
should look by letting you override only certain groups
of properties while leaving others at their default
settings. You can now also insert a display properties
object into a program that will affect all items that
follow it.
Improved keyboard support: There have been numerous enhancements to
keyboard support in the control window making it easier
to find songs and build programs without having to use a
mouse. Also, keyboard controls used to control the display
work in both single and dual monitor modes.
Enhanced mouse support: You now have much more control of a
program using a mouse in a single monitor system. With
the mouse you can step forward, step back, skip forward,
skip back, and start and stop a slide show or video.
Transparent colors for background
images: You can now specify a transparent color
for a background image letting you overlay an image over
the background color or gradient.
Program Printing: You can now include the text of songs and
slide titles with a printout of a program.
Professional Edition Features
Slide Show Facility: SongShow Plus Professional provides
rudimentary slide show capability useful for sermon notes
and announcements. You can incorporate a slide show right
into a program along with songs. Slides can contain formatted text, images, and OLE objects like charts,
graphs, spreadsheets, etc.
Third-party Slide Show Support: SongShow plus now supports third-party
software such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Corel
Presentations. This feature lets you include a slide show
built using one of these applications (or any other that
you might be using) in a SongShow Plus program.
Video Playback: You can playback video files with SongShow
Plus Professional. This is especially useful if you do
your own video editing using a computer based editing
system.
Image Items: SongShow Plus Professional lets you
display and include image files in a program. Support
provided for BMP, JPG, PCX, PNG, TIF, and WMF formats.
Images can also be imported from clipboard and TWAIN
compliant scanner hardware. Transparent color support
provided as well.
Quick Message Facility: This facility lets you superimpose a
message over an active application to alert a
congregation to nursery call numbers and other important
messages.
Important changes to make note of:
Display property settings: Due to changes in how display property
settings are stored, settings from version 2.0 are not
carried over to version 3.0. Also, font sizes are now designed to be consistent, even if the display size
changes.
Display window pop-up menu: To access the display widow pop-up menu,
you now must press both the [Left-Mouse Button] and
[Right-Mouse Button] simultaneously. This change was made
to accommodate the enhanced mouse support for the display
window.
Step back button: The step back button never really worked
correctly in version 2.0. This has been fixed.
Hotkeys for QuickMessage: The hotkeys for QuickMessage has been
changed to F9 (display) and F10 (display with blackout).
This was changed from F7 and F8 to make room for video
playback controls using the function keys.
Network support: Network support has changed. If you were
sharing files over a network, you will need to
reconfigure this (usually done at installation time now).
Now, in addition to sharing files, you can also share
display and other settings with other machines.
User Dictionary: The user dictionary from version 2.0 is
deleted (sorry). The new dictionary is stored along with
user data, not the application files.
SongShow Plus Database Limit: When using the SongShow Plus database in
versions 1 and 2, you were limited to 800 songs. This
numbers has been increased to 2000.
Resizable windows: The main window and sub-panels are now
completely resizable.
