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Deko500 User’s Guide
To create and open a database:
1. Open Lightning Browse.
2. In the File menu, click Advanced, then Create New Database.
3. Enter your Deko’s System Name. If you don’t know what it is,
open the Control Panel (Start, Settings, Control Panel) and double-
click Network.
4. Enter a Name for the database.
5. Enter a Database Path, unique to the new database, that contains
the full path name of the directory where the new database will
reside.
6. Lightning automatically enters other field values for you. Just click
Create.
7. From the File menu, choose Open, navigate to the new
database (.pff) file, then click Open.
To set up a default database:
1. In the Lightning Browser Tree, navigate to the database, then right-
click the database name.
2. In the drop-down menu, click Set Default Database.
OPENING LIGHTNING IMAGESTo open a Lightning image from Deko:
1. In Deko, activate a graphic (Program) window.
2. From the File menu, choose Open From Lightning.
3. In the Open From Lightning dialog box, double-click the anywhere
on the image data line.
Note You can re-sort images alphanumerically by StillNum, Date,
Title, Category, User, or Memo, by clicking the appropriate
sort button.