The CDViewer has fourconfigurable parameters that can be set in the autorun.inf file. These are all optional. If the values are not set in the autorun.inf file , the program will use the system default values. However, you are free to reset the values before writing the disc if required. The configurable options are detailed below.

delay=3. This delay value is the number of seconds to wait between displaying each image. The default is three seconds but any number can be used if you want the slideshow to run faster or slower.

The value for the delay between images is just the value to be used when the slideshow starts. You can increase or decrease the delay value whilst the slideshow is running. See the controls pages for details of how to use the controls.

showfolders=false. If the value of showfolders is set to true, and there is more than one folder of images on the CD, a window will appear with a list of all the image folders that are available for display. The tick boxes will allow you to select those folders that you want to include in this run of the slideshow.

If there is only one folder of images, or if the value of showfolders is set to false, this window will not appear and all folders of images will be displayed in turn.

You can add folders to the disk that you never want included in the slideshow by starting the folder name with and underscore. For example folder _IgnoreMe would never appear in the showfolders window, even if it contained images.

showtext=true. There are four possible settings for this parameter to control how you display the name of the image file and/or a description of the image near the bottom of each picture. This enables you to annotate the images for your viewers. All the possible parameter values for displaying text in the slideshow are shown below. (They must all be in lowercase).

• true - Displays the file name and the description
• false - Displays no text
• name - Displays just the file name
• desc - Displays just the file description

If the value of showtext is set to true or name and there is not an ImageList.txt file in the appropriate directory, or if the text file exists but does not contain the correct information, then just the filename of the image will be displayed.

If the value of showtext is set to desc and there is not an ImageList.txt file in the appropriate directory, or if the text file exists but does not contain the correct information, then no information will be displayed.

maximize=false. If the image size is less than your screen size, the image will normally be expanded to fill the screen as much as possible (whilst maintaining the correct aspect ratio of height to width). This can be prevented, if required to, show the images at their actual size. The default setting is to maximize the image.

If the image is actually larger than the screen display, it will always be reduced in size to display the whole image.