Well, it seems to me that a slide presentation need not look like and behave just like Powerpoint, right? That just occurred to me while I was reading the messages here. Perhaps all that is needed is an existing component with the ability to move from one display to the next, one slide as it were. It might be a great deal of work though to make the component look nice, like one might see with Powerpoint applications. What do you think? Bruce
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:19 AM > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Couple questions > > > > Bruce, there are a mass of powerpoint to flash converters out there - > > google > > is your friend. > > > > The one I've worked with produced fairly large files and the output is an > > AS1/AS2 swf. > > > > If I were writing a slide player, I'd probably use Flex, though for a > > slide > > player it could probably just as well be all in actionscript so Flash or > > Flex is neither here nor there. > > One thing I should add - when I was researching powerpoint to flash > converters a few months back - none of them produced AS3 swfs, so > controlling the playback from Flex (or Flash AS3) is a little problematic - > you'd need an intemediary AS2 swf to talk between the runtime systems. Some > of the converters include players for playing back the converted files. > Eventually I wrote a player using AS2. > > Good luck. > > Paul > > > Paul > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "brucewhealton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> > > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:01 AM > > Subject: [flexcoders] Couple questions > > > > > >> Hello all, > >> I had a few questions, where I could use some suggestions or > >> opinions and ideas. One is regarding Powerpoint-like presentations > >> online. If you were going to do something like this, would you use > >> Flash or Flex - maybe these are not even the best choices? Are there > >> extensions for Flash or Flex to convert a powerpoint file to something > >> that would play in the Flash Player? Actually, I'm not sure if there > >> even are any extensions for Flex like there are for other Adobe > >> products, but I bet there are. > >> Next, I noticed that there is a nice AIR application for reading > >> Flexcoder messages. I'm only aware of one, the only additional thing > >> I'd want is the ability to post to the group from the AIR application. > >> Can anyone suggest some good sources for a variety of AIR applications? > >> Lastly, are there any script collections of free or commercial > >> Flex MXML/Actionscript applications that one could check out, such as > >> what there are at http://hotscripts.com and other similar places. > >> thanks, > >> Bruce > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------ > >> > >> -- > >> Flexcoders Mailing List > >> FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > >> Alternative FAQ location: > >> https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > >> Search Archives: > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > >> Links > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Alternative FAQ location: > > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > > Search Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > > Links > > > > > > > > >
