Barcode Linker       : 1.0

Copyright  2003 by Vyacheslav Ryabov, Yuri Alyaev, Nikolai Stadnik and Arialit Lab. All rights reserved.
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Contents
1. Copyrights
2. Demo version limitations
3. System requirements
4. Assignment
5. Installation
6. Structure of directories

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Copyrights

Warning: This computer program is protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.

Copyright  2003 by Vyacheslav Ryabov, Yuri Alyaev, Nikolai Stadnik and Arialit Lab. All rights reserved.

The Authors of the program: Ryabov Vyacheslav Yurievich, Alyaev Yuri Alexandrovich, Stadnik Nikolai Maximovich (RU).

The Legal owner: State Regional Educational Institution of Higher Vocational Training <Perm Regional Institute of Pedagogical Information Technologies> (RU).

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Demo version limitations
- try to 5/01/2004
- Accessible managing codes and links: 1 - 15, 501,  502, 600, 601, 999, 1000.
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System requirements

- Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
- VB Runtime Ver. 6.0 

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Assignment

Barcode Linker is a program shell intended for multimedia support of printed editions (existing, and again issued) with the help of bar code technology. The connection between multimedia and the text, unlike the traditional printed references to materials on a compact disk, is carried out in addition through an insert of bar codes. This way of creating the references is much easier and more effective than traditional. In the absence of the bar code scanner, number of the reference is entered from the keyboard. For example: "1" "Enter" (Numbers of the references are printed together with a bar code). It is much easier, than to search for the necessary file on a compact disk. The bar code for the reference can be very compact, since it contains only 2 - 3 symbols and its accommodation in the text does not require a lot of place.

Another application of Barcode Linker is making presentations and preparation of educational material by lecturers. The management of the computer or "media" by a projector through the scanner at change of slides, does not require the lecturer constantly be beside the computer. The slides can be operated interactively; inserting the references to their numbers directly into the text of the lecture.

As a whole, Barcode Linker allows to create support of existing, and again issued printed editions by computer multimedia applications and is used in various directions of educational, research and advertising activity. 

The program allows to lose a video and audio files, to look through files images in a format JPG (in the given version, but it is possible to use other formats), and also textual files, PowerPoint presentations and Internet references. The management of program work is carried out through the barcode scanner or keyboard.

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Installation

Install  VB Runtime if need it (If your install BClinker with CD - start VBRun60sp5.exe). 
For install Demo, start setuplinker.exe and follow instructions. Demo setup creates empty directories, which are intended for filling contents in commerce version Barcode Linker.
Commerce version Barcode Linker has in addition file Autorun.exe and it is started from CDs.
VBRun60sp5.exe. 

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Structure of directories CDs.

BCLinker play files on CD according to their name and an arrangement in directories.
CD     -   any CDs - d:, e:, etc.

CD:\Autorun.inf
CD:\Autorun.exe
CD:\BCLinker.exe
CD:\VBRun60sp5.exe
CD:\AVI - Video files (1.avi, 2.avi, 3.avi... Number of a file corresponds to number of links).
CD:\PIC - Images (1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. similarly previous).
CD:\PRESET - Presentations (viewer need, for example ppview32.exe (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads), also need Preset.ini 	     file(Demo version install Preset.ini for example).
CD:\TXT - Textual files(1.txt, 2.txt, etc.)
CD:\WAV - Sound files, music (1.wav, 2.wav, etc.)
CD:\WEB - Web links (1.txt, 2.txt, etc. For example 10.txt in Demo.)

Names of the files which are taking place in folders Avi, Pic, Txt, Wav and Web should correspond to numbers of links. For example: 1.txt, 12.avi, 5.jpg etc. 

In this version Barcode Linker video files necessarily should have expansion *.AVI, images - *.JPG.



