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Screen shot to show image transition control
There are 80 transition effects for loading (code Joko Mulyono) the image. You may choose any. You can change to any in between demonstrations. The principal types include sliding in various directions, laser effects of different types, stretching in various directions, slicing in vertical and horizontal directions, zooming in and out from various directions, transparent and translucent, and others. The above shows weaving in or slicing of the famous character Beans for the cartoons theme chosen by authors for demo and part of default list. Any of the 34 sound files such as flip.wav, gunshot.wav etc. could be chosen from another list to get the sound effect while loading the image with a transition effect.
Second list and transition effect
By clicking the RTF toolbar image (cut and shown at top of list), the second list can be increased in size and the transition effect to load can be chosen. The image can also by loaded with any transition effect full screen in a separate window as shown above. The above shows Alice from Alice in Wonderland, a dream sequence as fairy tale by Louis Caroll.