Please visit http://www.ifcss.org/software to download the demo version. CStar Demo Installation, File Menu and Clip Art redsquare Install Chinese Star 2.97: Chinese Star 2.97 comes with one floppy disk, and one CD-ROM. The floppy disk contents the setup program, and the CD-ROM has the rests. To install the Chinese Star 2.97, you need to close all applications, insert the floppy disk, and insert the CD-ROM. Open the floppy drive folder, click setup.exe, then follow step-by-step instructions from the screen. You have an option to choose English, simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese screen instrcutions for installation proccess. Then enter your product serial number. By default, Chinese Star 2.97 will be installed into c:\cstar. However, you can change the path by clicking the directory button. If you have installed older Cstar before, you will see a message below: Setup detected a previous version of Chinese Star at your system. If you keep the settings of the previous version you can continue to use you user-defined Chinese phrases and input methods installed previously. Would you like to keep the settings of the previous version? It is recommanded to pick Yes. You then have an option to do Chinese Star 2.97 full install, typical install, custom install or Network install. You will be asked do you want to start Chinese Star 2.97 with windows automatically. If you do not want to see Chinese Star 2.97 icon bar untill you want to use Cstar, choose No. You have an opportunity to review all your choices from the list box. If you need to made changes, do so, or keep going. The install will copy all the files, update your system, then tell you that the install is succesffuly done. You will see a cstar folder with all the shortcut icons, including uninstall. Also, you will see the icon array: chinese star 2.97 The 10th icon is the instant point-click English to Chinese Dictionary, if you have done the full install or have selected this component for install. When you double click on it, you will see a beautiful splash pannel, hear a nice voice saying "hello" to you (if you have sound-blaster or compatible sound system). You may either click OK to close it, or wait till it is gone.You will see 4 dictionary icon as: cstar2.97 dictionary From left to right / up to down, these 4 icons are dictionary setup tool, enable/disable sound, pause the dictionary function, and exit the dictionary system. To use dictionary, these 4 icons should be in the screen. When you point to an English or Chinese word, it will translate to you into Chinese or English words. Other icons look about the same as the previous Chinese Star 2.5 version. However, many things has changed behind the scene. You now have 42 different fonts, that is 42 different looks. redsquare Install Chinese Star 2.5: Re-start your PC, do not start any other application but Windows! Insert disk 1 into floppy drive, double click the floppy drive folder, then double click the Install application file; You will be prompted for series number. After you enter the series number, the install proceeds to show you the default location for cstar25, it is default to c:\cstar25 . You can change it to install to another location, then click OK; Next, you may take the default option to auto start Chinese Star 2.5 each time you start MS Windows, or you may choose not to, then click OK; Finally, you may choose to do the full install, selected file install, or network install, then click OK; Once all these steps are done, and all the disks are thru, the windows will re-start, if you choose to. When Chinese Star 2.5 is run, you will see the following icon array: chinese star icon array However, if you encounter any problem with any disk, you may click Cancel, to cancel the install. You may re-start the MS Windows, and do the install again. If the problem persists, then you need to contact us, by email, phone or fax. ______________________________________________________________________________ redsquare Chinese Star 2.5 Orientation (1): file menu Within this file menu icon, you can flip between GB and Big5 encodings. You may choose to turn your MS Windows manager from English display into the Chinese display. You may also use translator and dictionary . This is also the place where you may get help from Chinese Star help menu. input method By default, this input (method/setup) icon always points to English, which is reqular English input method in regular MS Windows. As you will see from within, there are may input methods. No matter which input method you are using, pay special attention to the Setup S, which is the last option in this Icon menu. In this option you may choose to have Chinese character as double, or single bite. You may want one space between Chinese characters, and so on. input method This clock icon's function is rather obvious! It is a clock. input method This clip art function allows you to write Chinese Characters, words in various artistic fashions, you may do 3-D, shadows, shades, and more, and then you may insert the files into your text documents for good appearances. input method For those who like to create their own Chinese Character fonts, this is a very useful tool. Chinese Star Orientation (1) --- File Menu, Setup and Clip Art Chinese Star Orientation (2) --- Easy Table Illustration Chinese Star Orientation (3) --- Encoding Converter Overview [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] Suntendy America, Inc. 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