Contents:

• Installation and upgrade
• About Azaan Module
• Setting up a default location
• Adding new and editing existing location
• Playing Real Audio files on the Internet

Installation and Setup:

Once you have downloaded Islamic Diary, double click the Setupex.exe file to install the program. By default, it will install it in C:\Islamic directory. If you are upgrading from a previous version, you only need three files:

These files should be replaced by the older version in the C:\Islamic directory.
Important: Before replacing the new file, make sure to close the Azaan program by clicking the X on the upper right hand corner.

Azaan module:

In version 4.0, the azaan module is completely rewritten and modified from previous versions.

In this version, the Azaan icon appears in the Icon Tray on your desktop. You can either double click this icon or right mouse click and select "Configure" to open the configuration window. This way the Azaan program does not take room on windows task bar. You can see the next scheduled task by moving the mouse over this icon. If this message just reads "Islamic diary", you have to configure the program and set a default location.

Setting up default location:

Before azaan and other task could execute successfully, you need to set a default location.

Click the "Configure" button to open the Location Editor. Select the location where you live and click the "Set As Default" location. If you do not see the city where you live, click the "Add Location" button to add a new location. All you need is the longitude, latitude and time zone for your city. This information can be obtained easily from an atlas. Daylight savings is automatically updated if the "Auto update Daylight Sav." option is checked. It is recommended that you leave that on. Once this information is set, Islamic Diary will recite Azaan at its appropriate time.

Adding and Editing Tasks:

Click the "Action" button to either edit or add a new task. You can also double click and existing task to edit.

The screen on the left is used to edit an existing task or add a new one. Following bullets numbers correspond to each field in the window.

1. Name of the event. You can choose a name of your choice. This is a mandatory field.
2. This should be checked in order for the task to execute. If, for any reason, you need to temporarily disable a task, check this off.
3. This field is used to specify the time at which this task will execute. You have a choice of either selecting a pre-existing time or select custom from the list to choose a specific time.
4. This is the path of either a wave file, or a Real audio file to execute. The file must exists on your hard drive. You can even specify a pointer to a file that is on the internet.
5. This field allows you to specify what a range of days this task will run. Again, you can either choose a pre-defined frequency or define your own by choosing custom. If you choose custom, you have to specify the "From" and "To" date by clicking the button on the right.

Playing files on Internet:

Real Audio file format is much better than the Wave format since it takes much less room on the hard disk. However, you need the Real Audio player, a free program, to play these files. In order to play files on the internet, it is recommended that you have a permanent connection to the net. For example a cable modem or an ISDN line.

Here are the steps to play a file on the Internet:

• Create an empty file using any editor like Notepad or Write.
• Write the Internet address of the file. For example http://www.imranweb.com/audio/HarWaqtT.rm. This is the location of a Naa't on my web site.
• Save this text file with a .RAM extenstion.
• Specify this file in the File Path field in the schedule screen.

How to play files continously:

You can make Real Audio files play one after the other by creating a script file. You can place this file on the Windows desktop so that you can access it easily.

Step:

• Create a blank file in either Notepad or WordPad
• Write the URL of the Real Audio files one on each line. For example:
  http://www.imranweb.com/audio/rahman.rm
  http://www.imranweb.com/audio/yaseen.rm
• Save this new file with a .RAM extension.
• Double click the new file to play them.

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