----- Original Message ----- From: "brucewhealton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:40 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Couple questions
> 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. Making a slide show type program is fairly easy. > 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? LOL depends what you mean by "nice". The strength of powerpoint is in laying out screen components on a page with good control over their appearance and the availability of canned transformations and effects to add interest. That coupled with an ability to use layout templates and control how a presentation plays back and can be printed out makes Powerpoint what it is. Replicating all that in Flex is a lot of work. Making something similar is certainly doable. Making a tool that does a targetted subset of that is very doable, but it won't be powerpoint. Most of the thread has concentrated on converting powerpoint slides to run in flash, which is a completely different proposition from making a powerpoint-like tool in flex. What exactly are your goals here? Paul > 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! 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