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Cycling lock screen images with Lock My PC |
Sometimes when the computer screen is locked, it is required to cycle through
lock screen images instead of having a single static image displayed. This can
be helpful in public areas where you wish to keep unauthorized persons out of
your computers, but display them different information, advertisements etc.
You may organize image cycling as follows:
1. Create an animated GIF image that consist of different frames with the information
you wish to display.
2. Create Lock My PC Image Sequence File.
An animated GIF image is helpful when you want to cycle through a few images. The main drawback of this approach is that once you created animated GIF, you will have to recreate it as soon as you want to change frame sequence, frame displaying time, add or remove frames.
Lock My PC Image Sequence File allows you to make your own image cycle easy
and quickly.
Image Sequence File is a text file in standard Windows INI file format. It can
be created with any text editor, e.g. Notepad.
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Creating your Image Sequence File |
The best way to create Lock My PC Image Sequence File is to edit Sample.isf
file and save it as your new file. You may find Sample.isf in LockScreens subfolder
of Lock My PC application folder.
Attention: your image sequence file must
have ISF extension.
Section [General] defines your general options for image sequence.
Option FrameDelay defines how long (in seconds) an image will be displayed
on the screen before it will be changed by the next image in the sequence. E.g.
if you specify FrameDelay=3, each image in the sequence will be displayed for
3 seconds.
Option Stretch defines whether Lock My PC will resize images to fit the
screen or not. If you want to display images as is, please specify Stretch=0,
in other case, please set this option to 1. Please note, that some small or
disproportionate images may look ugly when you set this option to 1.
In section [Files] you should specify the list of files to display on
the screen.
You may specify up to 1000 files in the list. If you want to use an image file
from another folder, please specify full path to it (you should use commas if
the path contains spaces).
Please note that the order of displaying depends on option number rather then
the order in the list.
E.g. if your [Files] section looks like
File0=screen1.jpg
File3=screen2.jpg
File2=screen3.jpg
File4=screen4.jpg
The images will be shown as screen1->screen3->screen2->screen4->screen1->...
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