Hi Ian! I began another thread on the mailing list with the subject "MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future" http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=discuss&msgNo=47747 http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=discuss&by=thread&from=786478
You can check out MSN Producer and some examples at, http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/producer/prodinfo/overview.mspx#EAAA http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/producer/prodinfo/demos.mspx Do you think one application could address what you are describing and what I am suggesting? SC On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:06:49 +0000, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was in a school earlier this week where a Physics teacher had created > some really impressive animated presentations in Powerpoint. > Unfortunately these depend on the ability to specify arbitrary paths to > animate bitmap graphics along. Earlier versions of PPT don't support > this. But the feature allows non-programmers to produce CAL software for > whole class teaching > > The ideal capability would be to trigger sound or other events at points > on any arbitratily defined path. eg Animate the charges moving around an > electric circuit and brighten the lamp as the charges travel faster. > This teacher would gladly move his development effort to OOo *if* it > supported the same features as the latest version of Powerpoint. > > I'm assuming 2.0 can't do this type of thing because I have looked and > couldn't find anything. I don't know what the plans are for later > versions. As Education Lead I can say that this is potentially killer > application because if we refined this a bit to be better than PPt, its > the sort of thing people would install OOo to run just for this feature > and since most schools are on older versions of PPT that don't support > it there is a window of opportunity. > -- > Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
