Reply is CC'd to non-subscribed OP Darrell Feebeck wrote:
As a teacher, I like to create interactive presentations and tutorials for my students. Usually, I use Flash because MS PowerPoint doesn't have the functionality for rudimentary decision making. Unfortuantely, for most instructors that I work with, Flash has too high of a learning curve, and it also usually takes some time to develop. If Open Office Impress could implement some rudimentary form of branch decision making and perhaps variable assigning, this would be the ultimate teaching tool. If you remember the Amiga computer, they had a program called AmigaVision, that had all the tools for this type of thing. It was icon driven, easy to use and had just this sort of features. I wish someone would make a program similar to this, or at least add some of its features. I'm not trying to change what Impress is or turn it into a programming language, but if some of these features could be added, I think there would be happy teachers the world over and Impress would crush MS PowerPoint even more than it already does. Just a thought.
Since I'm not familiar with the program you mentioned, I can only guess at what precisely you have in mind, but it is possible to assign a macro, run an external program, and navigate by clicking a picture or icon. The macro language is very powerful and should allow you to do pretty much anything you can dream up. The downside is that the macro language is not for the faint-hearted and it won't be a click-click/drag 'n drop affair.
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