Hi Tom
This was in an old user posting
If you insert a sound object using Insert Movie and Sound it will play
immediately when you show the slide in a slide show.
One way to make the sound start when you want is to make an exact
duplicate of the slide and embed the sound on the second slide. You just
advance to the second slide to start the sound.
The second way is to insert an object that is not a sound and use it as a
button to start the sound. For example: Insert Picture From File
You could choose a picture that looks like a speaker icon.
With the picture selected, right click it and choose Interaction...
Beside Action at mouse click, choose Play Sound
Click the Browse button and select a sound file to play.
Click OK
In your slide show, click the picture icon to start playing the sound.
Perhaps it might be a work around?
regards
Martin
On Mon, 2 May 2011 22:32:43 +0100 (BST)
Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi :)
Enabling experimental features didn't help with the sound links. Is
it likely to be the format? Mp3 is not optimal for LO? Is it likely to
be because the sound files are not stored in LO's sound gallery?
I am sorry to bring this back to the documentation team but the users
list seems to have no idea. The documentation team has already been far
more helpful!
Regards from
Tom :)
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To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Sun, 1 May, 2011 9:17:58
Subject: Impress with sound? The background
Hi Tom,
Just to clarify for you in discussion with Jean
The system is:
XP Pro + Service Pack 3
running on an i5 CPU
LibreOffice 3.3.0
OOO330m19 (Build:6)
tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4
My Impress presentation has a total of 107 individual slides (pages)
Each page has graphic icons which when clicked activate a short audio
clip.
The entire purpose of the system is to test the concept of using icons
and sound for illiterate people to take a specific test.
Once the presentation is working and all icons and audio files checked
and working I then hand it over to a VB.net programmer who will turn my
work into hard code for use on multiple workstations.
Using a powerpoint style facility allows me to test all issues without
wasting programming time.
The exact problem is as follows:
Each page has between 4 and 7 icons linked to MP3 format files.
I simply use the interaction function play sound to make the icons
hot
I use the interaction function to browse for the file concerned and then
say OK. That's sets the link.
I have had all 107 pages and the 409 links working without apparent
problem.
One night I closed the Impress file saved as odp and when I came to
start LibO Impress the following day and use it not a singler link
worked! Text and pictures were fine just the link was broken.
When I opened the interaction of each icon you could see the path to
the file was still there and correct.
Plse note when this happens ALL links go not just a few. What ever
happens is instant. No warning, no error just all links switched off.
The icons remain hot i.e if you run the mouse onto them the cursor
changes from arrow to pointing finger indicating a hidden link,
however the audio link is no longer active.
The only way to recover the link is to open the interaction -play
sound and re-browse the link.. it does not work if you try copy and
paste. It seems to need the re-browse + OK to reset the link. Once done
it works fine.
The trouble is there's no warning it's going to happen. Sometimes you
can close the file and re-open and all links are ok.
By the way the loss will happen when you close and open impress I
usually leave XP running and only close the application.
It's catch 22 as you never know if when you save the file it's happened
again so the idea of creating back-ups is flawed...
Whether the links are lost during closing or opening the file I do not
know.
According to a linux wizz at the work the presentation works ok on Linux
Ubuntu. By that I mean he can't lose the links (so far).
The second issue is that if you save the presentation as .ppt and try
and open in MS Office then the text and pictures convert without
problem but the sound links simply do not exist. Its not a case of they
are there but not working the path is simply not converted so all
icons do not highlight when you run the mouse cursor on them... i.e
they are not hot.
Right now I can't do any further prototype development of my system as
the frequent loss of links prevents it...
Hope this helps to better explain the background to this.
sincerely
timi
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