Stitched with Love Frequently Asked Questions
General
- I can't see my Help files. What can I do?
- How can I read my Help files? The text overlaps.
- Why do quilts and text look bad on-screen?
- I can't play the Stitched with Love videos. What should I do?
- How can I put the Stitched with Love projects into EQ4 or EQ5?
- How do I use Stitched with Love with EQ6?
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I can't see my Help files. What can I do?
The Help in both Stitched with Love and Create Your Family Quilt uses an online Help Viewer. This viewer uses the underlying component of Microsoft Internet Explorer to display help content. To display the help on the MagicBook CD, you must have Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE4.0) or later. If you do not have IE4.0 or later, you can either update the Windows system common controls, or print the Help files.
To update the common controls:
- Go to www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
- Update your internet explorer to at least 4.0 or higher
To print the Help files:
- Put the MagicBook CD in the drive. Open My Computer.
- Double-click the Help.txt file.
- Print the file when it opens.
How can I read my Help files? The text overlaps.
The MagicBook Help uses an online Help Viewer. This viewer uses the underlying component of Microsoft Internet Explorer to display help content. To display the MagicBook help you must have Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE4.0) or later. If you do not have IE4.0 or later, you can either update the Windows system common controls, or print the Help files.
To update the common controls:
- Go to www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
- Update your internet explorer to at least 4.0 or higher
To print the Help files:
- Put the SWL CD in the drive. Open My Computer.
- Double-click the Help.txt file.
- Print the file when it opens.
Why do quilts and text look bad on-screen?
The MagicBook requires the computer have the latest version of the Windows System common controls. Internet Explorer 4.0 or later updates these common controls. If you need to update these controls yourself, you can do it by doing the following:
To update the common controls:
- Go to www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
- Update your internet explorer to at least 4.0 or higher
I can't play the Stitched with Love videos. What should I do?
Stitched with Love uses the Windows Media Player to display the videos. This is the default player. Be sure the CD is in the CD-ROM drive of your computer when you start a video.
You will need a current version of the Windows Media Player to run the videos directly from Stitched with Love software. If you have an older version of Windows you may be required to start the Media Player separately to view the videos.
The video files are AVI format. You can play them using other video players if you do not have the Windows Media Player. To hear sound when you play the videos, you must have a sound card properly installed in your computer.
If you have any trouble viewing the videos, we strongly recommend that you download the latest version of the Windows Media Player, and then try running the videos again. If you do not have the player, visit www.microsoft.com to get a free download of the most recent player.
How can I put the Stitched with Love projects into EQ4 or EQ5?
You can find the Stitched with Love project files, copy them, and paste them into the EQ projects folder.
- Double-click My Computer.
- Double-click C:\ drive (or the drive on which SWL is installed).
- Double-click the Program Files folder.
- Double-click the Electric Quilt Company folder.
- Double-click the Magic folder.
- Double-click the projects folder. It opens, displaying projects.
Some of the projects contain only fabrics, blocks, or motifs. The projects you want (with the quilts) are the last nine projects in the list:
- Chap 2a.pj4
- Chap 2b.pj4
- Chap 2c.pj4
- Chap 2d.pj4
- Chap 4a.pj4
- Chap 4b.pj4
- Chap 4c.pj4
- Chap 1.pj4
- Chap 3.pj4
- Highlight these projects. (Or highlight some, then repeat these directions to highlight the others.)
- Click on EDIT, choose Copy.
- Use the Back arrow to get back to C:\ drive.
- EQ4 Users: Double-click the EQ4 folder. Double-click the PRJ folder.
EQ5 Users: Double-click the My Documents folder. Double-click the PJ5 folder. - Click on EDIT, choose Paste. You'll now have copies of the SWL projects in EQ.
How do I use Stitched with Love with EQ6?
You can find the Stitched with Love project files, copy them, and paste them into the EQ6 projects folder.
- Click START > My Computer.
- Double-click C drive > Program Files > Electric Quilt Company > Magic > projects folders. It opens, displaying projects.
- Some of the projects contain only fabrics, blocks, or motifs. The projects you want (with the quilts) are the last nine projects in the list:
- Chap 2a.pj4
- Chap 2b.pj4
- Chap 2c.pj4
- Chap 2d.pj4
- Chap 4a.pj4
- Chap 4b.pj4
- Chap 4c.pj4
- Chap 1.pj4
- Chap 3.pj4
- Highlight these projects. (Or highlight some, then repeat these directions to highlight the others.)
- Up at the top, click EDIT > Copy.
- Click START > My Documents.
- Double-click My EQ6 > PJ6 folders.
- Up at the top, click EDIT > Paste. You'll now have copies of the SWL projects in EQ6.
Note: These SWL projects are EQ4 projects. You need to open each one in EQ6 in order to use it:
- Please see page 107 and follow along in the EQ6 User Manual.
- Click the Open button.
- Click the folder in the bottom-left corner marked "Click here to open a project not listed above."
- "Look in" My Documents > My EQ6 > PJ6 folders.
- In the Files of type box, drop the list down and click Previous EQ Versions. You will then see all your EQ4 projects listed.
- Select a project and click Open.
- Note that your EQ4 project will be "Untitled," so you'll need to rename it when you save it in EQ6.
Once the project is open, you can save it in EQ6 so it will appear in your Existing Projects list in EQ6:
- Please see page 109 and follow along in the EQ6 User Manual.
- Click the Save button.
- "Save in" My Documents and double-click the My EQ6 > PJ6 folders.
- Type a name for the project in the File name: box.
- Click Save.