Studies in Microscopical Science Vol. I - BookView Help

The BookView facility allows you quite a degree of control over the display of pages.

The utility requires the use of a frames compliant browser and also that the Java JIT compiler is made available.
The utility is best used in 600x800 (or greater) viewing mode.

In the frame at the top of this window you will see a panel that contains a number of buttons and fields.
Their functions are described below. Simply select which object you require information on, from the list below.

When you have finished and wish to return to the BookView mode simply click the 'Resume' button in the frame above.

Exit

The Exit button will remove the frames layout of the screen and revert to the BookView introductory page from which you may return to the Contents Menu.

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Skip to...

The Skip To... button moves immediately to the page defined in the Skip to... field. Please note that the page number itself represents a serial page, which includes plates and slide pages, and not the actual page number. If you type a page number into the Skip to... field then the next timer delay loop will cause that page to be presented. Alternatively you can click to Skip to... button which will ignore the timer loop and make the jump. Also please note that the first plate is recognised as Page 0.

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Skip

The Skip button moves immediately to the next page and initialises the delay timer. Using this button you may skip serially through the book until you find a page you want.

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Delay

This field is used to vary the delay between pages. Simply enter a value in the range 7 thru 60 (which represents the number of seconds). If you enter a value outside this range the field is reset to 7 seconds and a warning will be displayed.

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Reset

This button will reset the delay timer to 15 seconds (the default) and also return to the first page in the book.

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Pause

This button suspends the delay timer to enable you to view the currently displayed page at your leisure. To restart the delay timer you should press the Resume button (see below).

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Resume

This button will restart the display cycle after you have clicked the Pause button, reviewed this help page or entered the View Tags mode.

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Tag

The Tag button allows you to tag up to 20 pages which are then available to view from a selection menu (see View Tags). If you attempt to tag more than 20 pages you will be presented with a warning:-
The last page you attempted to tag will not be recorded. If you want to remove previous tags then you should click the Clear Tags button which will remove all tags.
You will be prompted for a description of the tagged page by a dialogue that appears as depicted below:-
Into this descriptive field you may enter whatever text you like.
Tags remain in the system only for this browser session unless you choose to save them using the Save Tags button (see below).

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Clear Tags

The Clear Tags button will clear all the tags currently attached to pages. See also Tag button, View Tags button, and the Save Tags button.

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View Tags

The View Tags button lists all those pages that have been tagged by this session (and also those tagged and saved from a previous session [see Save Tags]).
On clicking the presentation changes to allow you to select from those tagged pages present. The list presented contains the descriptions entered at the time the pages were tagged.
The image below gives an indication of the format you should expect.
Simply click the 'View' button once you have clicked on your selection from the list and the tagged page will be presented.

If no pages have been tagged you will see:-

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Save Tags

This button will save your current tagged page list. It will be maintained on your system for a period of 1 year unless you choose to Clear Tags.
Please note that the Tags are on your system not on the CD-ROM, so if you go to another platform you will not take your tagged pages with you.

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Mode

The Mode field informs you which mode you are currently in. The possible modes are

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