Hector Socas Navarro wrote: > Oops, sorry, I just read that attachments are not allowed in the list. > Here's my message again without the attachment (a screenshot can be > found in the same directory as the code): > > Hi folks, > > I've written a little program in C to use in combination with > Impress that will help presenters keep track of time. Here's an > excerpt from the README (I'm also attaching a screenshot with this > message): > I wrote this software to solve a little problem I've always had when > making presentations with either OpenOffice Impress or MS PowerPoint, > namely how to keep track of time. Sure, these programs have an option > to automatically advance slides based on some previous rehersal timing > but I find that completely useless. What I wanted to have is a way to > time the whole presentation with a simple visual aid to tell me > whether I'm on track, behind or ahead of schedule. This is exactly > what PresentationClock does. > > Basically there are two modes of operation. In the record mode, > PresentationClock will track the timing of your rehersal. Then during > the actual presentation it will display a little clock showing if > you're behind or ahead of schedule and by how much. I find this > feature extremely useful in my work. > > The source code and an executable can be found in: > http://download.hao.ucar.edu/pub/navarro/PresentationClock/ Very nice.
Also, there exist OOo snippets to produce guide-posts and various visual indicators about the progress of a presentation which is adjustable on the click of a mouse in case a presentation got changed (added/removed slides): -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [api-dev] Announcing OpenOffice-Impress-Snippets in ooRexx ... Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:30:42 +0200 From: rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Announcing OpenOffice-Impress-Snippets in Rexx ... Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:27:34 +0200 From: rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [RexxLA] Announcing ooImpress-Snippets in Rexx ... Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:23:21 +0200 From: Rony G. Flatscher, VP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi there, since this week the"Open Office Snippets" for the module "impress" (presentation module of OpenOffice.org) are available via the official OOo Snippet page at <http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Impress/ooRexx.xml>. As the Rexx syntax is like pseudo-code the snippets (little nutshell programs that stress a particular aspect of programming the module) can be easily understood. The interfacing is carried out using OOo's Java interfaces (using BSF4Rexx), therefore these code examples would also be usable directly for Java as well. The snippets possess links to the official OOo IDL documentation, which allows to research the "API environment" of the snippet. All of these snippets were created in the course of a seminar paper at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Austria, Europe) and the paper is therefore available (in English) in form of a PDF file: <http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/diplomarbeiten/BakkStuff/2007/200706_Gundacker/OOoImpress_GundackerDominik.pdf>. All of the snippets are available as a single zip-archive from that site as well: <http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/diplomarbeiten/BakkStuff/2007/200706_Gundacker/OOoImpress_macros_GundackerDominik.zip>. HTH, ---rony P.S.: Further links: * ooRexx (Open Object Rexx, FOSS): <http://www.ooRexx.org> * BSF4Rexx (Java interface for Rexx, includes additional support for OpenOffice.org a.k.a. "OOo"): <http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/rexx/bsf4rexx/current/> or a newer beta at: <http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/rexx/bsf4rexx/old/2007/dist.20070707/> --------------------------------------- end of message ---------------------------------- The PDF-files give screenshots of the various guidepost and indicator types. HTH, ---rony
