SuperWC Help Contents

SuperWC (Wallpaper Changer) is a Drag-And-Drop utility that provides an extended level of Wallpaper management in your Windows™ environment.

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Introduction

What is SuperWC?

ASP Ombudsman Statement

Why Register?

Register

How To...

Use the Button Bar Commands

Add Wallpaper files to SuperWC

Change the Current Wallpaper

Set Options for SuperWC


What is SuperWC?

SuperWC is Drag-And-Drop utility that can be used to manage your Wallpaper files (BMP or RLE).  Unlike Window's Control Panel that only looks for them in the Windows Directory, with SuperWC your wallpaper files can exist in any physical location such as CD-ROMs or network drives.  Just drop wallpaper files onto the SuperWC window and they are automatically added to an active list that can be manually or automatically selected.

SuperWC also supports the following features:

A Button bar for quick access to the main features.

An Add to List dialog that remembers the last directory a wallpaper file was loaded from.

A Cycle feature that cycles wallpaper randomly or in sequential order.

An option to specify the wallpaper cycling frequency.

The option to hide the SuperWC icon whenever it is minimized.

An option to change the wallpaper when SuperWC is started.


ASP Ombudsman Statement

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Why Register?


Registration Form


Why Register?

The Super Stuff utilities are considered "shareware" and are provided at no charge to the user for evaluation.  The evaluation period is 10 days.  The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide an incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products.

If you find any of these utilities useful and continue to use them beyond the 10 day trial period, you are required to make a registration payment only for the utilities that you continue to use.

Registration for the Super Stuff utilities do provide some generous benefits:

1.	You will receive a registered copy of the latest version of each utility that is registered.  The registered version will also eliminate the registration reminder message.

2.	You are entitled to one hour free phone support for 90 days.  No collect or returned calls please.

3.	Gets you on our user mailing list so that you can be notified when updates or other products become available by the author.

And thats not all...

As an added BONUS!!!  Everyone who registers any of the Super Stuff utilities will also receive these additional Windows™-based applications created by the authors of the Super Stuff utilities:

STMINIED:	STM INI Editor is a multiple document interface (MDI) that allows you to edit your INI files.  The MDI feature means that you can view/edit more than one file at a time.  Jump to different sections of an INI file by just selecting the section from a drop down list on the toolbar.  STM INI Editor also supports the Windows drag and drop functionality for loading multiple files at one time.

STMALARM:	A message alarm program.  Set alarms to display messages.  Set the date and time for an alarm.  A Visual Basic application that only requires a small amount of memory when not active.

STMCAL:	A window calendar program.  This calendar allows you to move forward and backward through months or years.  Jump to any particular month or year.  It is even an active calendar while it is iconic (displays a visual layout of the month with the current day highlighted).  It also saves it's window position.

STMRES:	A small 1 line window utility that can either view free physical memory or free system resources.  Also has an Options dialog for setting an alarm if free resources drop below a certain amount.

STMHIDE:	Use this little application to start an application in a hidden state that can be listed with Super Task Man.  Just past the command line parameters to this application and it will be started as a hidden application.

HIDEPM:	This application hides Program Manager.  If you have converted to using Super Groups instead of Program Manager for launching applications, then this little utility can be put in your Startup group to get Program Manager out of the way.

Now if this offer is not an incentive enough to register our software, see our limited special offer in our Registration Form.  And if we still can't get your registration, drop us a line (you can remain anonymous) and let us know what we can do to make this offer more appealing.  We are proud of our software and we are willing to do whatever it takes (within reason of course) to earn your support.


Super Stuff Registration Form

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Use the Button Bar Commands

The button bar provides a quick access to all the actions available to SuperWC.  The button bar behaves much like the button bar in Windows Help, which means that you can select a button action by either clicking on it, holding the Alt key while pressing the button's underlined letter, or just pressing the button's underlined letter.  These actions are all also available from the Wallpaper menu.

The following is a description of the action that each button is capable of performing:

Add	Displays a dialog which can be used to browse for wallpaper files.  This dialog also remembers the last directory that a file was loaded from, so if it displayed again you don't have to reset the drive and directory information.

Cycle	Automatically cycles the desktop wallpaper by selecting a new wallpaper from the active list in either a random order or a sequential order.

Options	Displays a dialog that allows you to set preferences for cycling and other general preferences.

Position	Toggles the position for the selected item.  Tiled indicates the wallpaper will be tiled and Centered indicates that the wallpaper will be centered when activated.

Delete	Deletes the selected item from the active list.

None	Removes the currently viewed wallpaper from the desktop.  No wallpaper will be displayed.


Add Wallpaper files to SuperWC

There are two ways of adding wallpaper files to the active list.  You can either drag-and-drop files using a utility such File Manager or you can use the Add to List dialog that is accessed by clicking on the Add button.

Drag-And-Drop Method:

You can drag-and-drop either a list of files or one file at a time.  If only one file is dropped on the SuperWC window, that file will become the active wallpaper.  The default position for all wallpaper added to the list is centered, but the setting can be overridden.  In order to override the centered setting when dropping files onto SuperWC, hold the shift key just before dropping the files onto the SuperWC window.  This will give the files that are dropped the tiled setting.

Add to List Dialog Method:

Use the Add to List dialog to add wallpaper one file at a time.  This dialog also remembers the last directory that was browsed.  There is also a check box in the dialog that can be set to make the added file the active wallpaper when it is added to the active list.  Changing the default centered position to the tiled position can be performed by holding down the shift  key while clicking on the OK button.


Change the Current Wallpaper

There several ways to change the current wallpaper:

1.	Click on the Cycle button to automatically cycle the wallpaper.  If the current cycle setting is set for Sequential cycling, then the next wallpaper in the list will become the active wallpaper.  If No Cycling or Random cycling are the current settings when the cycle button is selected, the wallpaper will be selected randomly.

2.	Double-clicking with the left mouse button on an item in the list will automatically change the current wallpaper to the wallpaper that was double-clicked on.

3.	Double-clicking with the right mouse button on an item in the list is the same as a double-click with the left mouse button, but the SuperWC window is then hidden after the wallpaper has changed.

4.	Select a file using the Add to List dialog to add a new wallpaper file to the list.

5.	Drag-and-Drop 1 file onto the SuperWC window.  This will make the dropped file the active wallpaper.


Set Options for SuperWC

The Options dialog allows you to set general preferences for SuperWC:

Cycling:

One of the primary settings for SuperWC is the Cycle Wallpaper option.  Choose between No Cycling, Random cycling, or Sequential cycling.  If random or sequential cycling is selected, the frequency section specifies how often to perform the cycling.  Enter a value in the edit box that is greater than 1.  The drop down list box in the frequency section allows you to choose between hours and minutes.  With the two settings, you can vary the cycling period from 1 minute to 99 hours.

Hide SuperWC Icon:

To hide the SuperWC icon when the application is minimized, click on the check box labeled "Hide When Minimized".  This allows you to reclaim some icon real estate on the desktop while SuperWC is running.

Change on Startup:

To automatically change the wallpaper each time that SuperWC is started, click on the check box labeled "Change Wallpaper on Startup".

Confirm Deletes:

To have a confirmation message box displayed when deleting a wallpaper selection, click on the check box labeled "Confirm the Delete Operation".


No cycling

No cycling means that the wallpaper will not be automatically changed.


Random cycling

Random cycling means that when the cycle frequency period has expired, a wallpaper is selected from the active list randomly.


Sequential cycling

Sequential cycling means that when the cycle frequency period has expired, a wallpaper is selected from the active list by making the wallpaper under the currently selected wallpaper the active wallpaper.  When the end of the list is reached, the first item in the list is then selected.


Drag-and-drop

Drag-and-drop is performed by selecting files from a utility such as File Manager and then continuing to hold the left mouse down (dragging) until your cursor is over any part of the SuperWC window (icon if minimized) and then releasing the left mouse (dropping).


active list

The active list refers to the list that you build within SuperWC.  By adding files or dragging-and-dropping files onto SuperWC, a list is creating of all the files that have been added.