Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Judy Perry]

When I did my presentation a few years ago at either SITE or AACE, I did 
it in either Keynote or the OpenOffice PPT version because, well, this was 
a bunch of educators and that's pretty much all they're taught.


I actually had one or two people ask me why I didn't do it in Rev ;-) 
Needless to say, I nearly fell over.


Judy

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Richard Gaskin wrote:

Same here.  When I presented at SCaLE last month, the MacTech conference in 
November, an archaeology symposium the year before, and every Rev conference 
I've attended, I always made my slide shows in Rev.


I find most presentation tools too cumbersome to work with, but with Rev I 
not only get them exactly how I want them but I can also automate some of 
their construction from my outlines in ways that would be way too complicated 
to attempt in PowerPoint of OpenOffice.


At SCaLE someone asked me what I made my presentation in, and I told him I 
was able to make the presentation and the authoring system to build it all 
within three hours using a tool called LiveCode. :)


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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Judy Perry]

This is the way I have always done it back when I taught an intro class 
(which was more than 5 years ago methinks).


Having said that, however, I'm still chewing on my pickle.

Judy

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, stephen barncard wrote:


Kevin Miller, the ceo, was spotted at a Revcon a couple of years ago using
his own home-made presentation stack.

Perfect for Livecode presentations about Livecode, as the engine is always
there to demonstrate within.


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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Nonsanity]

Google Says: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Richmond wrote:

> On 03/18/2011 10:11 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
>
>> I moderate occasional 'Pecha Kucha'-style
>>
>
> Umm; what are 'Pecha Kucha' sesions ?
>
> sincerely, Richmond.
>
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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Richmond]

On 03/18/2011 10:11 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

I moderate occasional 'Pecha Kucha'-style


Umm; what are 'Pecha Kucha' sesions ?

sincerely, Richmond.
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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Ben Rubinstein]

I moderate occasional 'Pecha Kucha'-style sessions at our company, where a 
number of people present using a strict format of 20 slides, 20 seconds/slide. 
 Theoretically you can set this up using PowerPoint or Keynote, but in 
practise amalgamating everyone's deck is a pain, and they always send them 
only just before the start.  So I use a similar set up to Chris, with a 
controller stack on my laptop, and a display stack on the second 
display/project.  It's set up to simply work from folders of images, and takes 
care of timing, centering people's odd-sized images, etc.


As I naturally hacked it up half-an-hour before the first session, the first 
presenters suffered a few glitches and some in the second session... but 
it works pretty well now, and they've mostly forgiven me.


Ben

On 18/03/2011 19:19, Nonsanity wrote:

I've not done a business-style presentation from LiveCode before, but I've
been running the jumbotron display at a convention that holds a
tongue-in-cheek game show each year. I connect the AV gear to my laptop as a
second monitor, and use two stacks to run the show. One is the visible one
that lives on the second screen, and the other stays on my laptop and lets
me control the scores and game elements in real time.

It's worked great for many years now. I even completely re-wrote it in a
single evening for last year's show. Just to remind everyone how fast it is
to develop in LiveCode... :)

  ~ Chris Innanen
  ~ Nonsanity


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Keith Clarke<
keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk>  wrote:


OK, thanks. I suspected the approach would be DIY (do it yourself) - I
don't need to waste any time looking for pre-cooked answers and can just
dive in ;-)
Bjoernke - thanks for the arrow key navigation tip.


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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:


On 3/18/11 2:06 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

Kevin Miller, the ceo, was spotted at a Revcon a couple of years ago using
his own home-made presentation stack.


Yup. And in fact, almost all the conference presentations have been
home-made stacks, and for more recent conferences RR has been sending
out template stacks so everyone's presentations will be more consistent.


Same here.  When I presented at SCaLE last month, the MacTech conference 
in November, an archaeology symposium the year before, and every Rev 
conference I've attended, I always made my slide shows in Rev.


I find most presentation tools too cumbersome to work with, but with Rev 
I not only get them exactly how I want them but I can also automate some 
of their construction from my outlines in ways that would be way too 
complicated to attempt in PowerPoint of OpenOffice.


At SCaLE someone asked me what I made my presentation in, and I told him 
I was able to make the presentation and the authoring system to build it 
all within three hours using a tool called LiveCode. :)


--
 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World
 LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
 Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com
 LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Nonsanity]

I've not done a business-style presentation from LiveCode before, but I've
been running the jumbotron display at a convention that holds a
tongue-in-cheek game show each year. I connect the AV gear to my laptop as a
second monitor, and use two stacks to run the show. One is the visible one
that lives on the second screen, and the other stays on my laptop and lets
me control the scores and game elements in real time.

It's worked great for many years now. I even completely re-wrote it in a
single evening for last year's show. Just to remind everyone how fast it is
to develop in LiveCode... :)

 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Keith Clarke <
keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote:

> OK, thanks. I suspected the approach would be DIY (do it yourself) - I
> don't need to waste any time looking for pre-cooked answers and can just
> dive in ;-)
> Bjoernke - thanks for the arrow key navigation tip.
>
>
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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/18/11 2:06 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

Kevin Miller, the ceo, was spotted at a Revcon a couple of years ago using
his own home-made presentation stack.


Yup. And in fact, almost all the conference presentations have been 
home-made stacks, and for more recent conferences RR has been sending 
out template stacks so everyone's presentations will be more consistent.


It's still just basically "go next" or arrow keys though. And I suspect 
if any presenter showed up with a Powerpoint presentation at a RevLive 
conference, they'd be ridiculed. :)


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HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Richmond]

Every time my wife goes off on one of her Linguistics conferences
I cobble together her a presentation in Livecode; the best way seems to be
to "steal" the navigator from Metacard.

Richmond.
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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[stephen barncard]

Kevin Miller, the ceo, was spotted at a Revcon a couple of years ago using
his own home-made presentation stack.

Perfect for Livecode presentations about Livecode, as the engine is always
there to demonstrate within.

On 18 March 2011 05:38, Keith Clarke wrote:

> Hi folks,
> Given LiveCode's multimedia power, I want to move from presenting purely
> conceptual ideas in PowerPoint/Keynote to using LiveCode as - a container
> for concepts together with real moving parts from my evolving application as
> development progresses.
>
> I'm thinking more along the lines of some of the RunRev Live 09 session
> than a full-blown, full self-running 'kiosk' experience.
>
> Are there any tutorials, example stacks or resources to help get started in
> the right way - or is this an area where everyone tends to create their own
> personal tool-belt from scratch?
> Best,
> Keith..
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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Keith Clarke]

OK, thanks. I suspected the approach would be DIY (do it yourself) - I don't 
need to waste any time looking for pre-cooked answers and can just dive in ;-)
Bjoernke - thanks for the arrow key navigation tip.

On 18 Mar 2011, at 16:21, Björnke von Gierke wrote:

> It's even easier then that:
> 
> set the navigationArrows to true
> 
> Note that the documentation says it's true by default. that is wrong for the 
> ide where they're disabled by default (but it is true in standalones).
> 
> On 18 Mar 2011, at 17:05, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> On 3/18/11 7:38 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:
>>> Hi folks, Given LiveCode's multimedia power, I want to move from
>>> presenting purely conceptual ideas in PowerPoint/Keynote to using
>>> LiveCode as - a container for concepts together with real moving
>>> parts from my evolving application as development progresses.
>>> 
>>> I'm thinking more along the lines of some of the RunRev Live 09
>>> session than a full-blown, full self-running 'kiosk' experience.
>>> 
>>> Are there any tutorials, example stacks or resources to help get
>>> started in the right way - or is this an area where everyone tends to
>>> create their own personal tool-belt from scratch?
>> 
>> 
>> It's so dead-simple that I don't think it needs a tutorial. You just create 
>> one card per "slide" and then add a "go next" button or a handler to catch a 
>> keystroke that goes to the next card. That's about it.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> 
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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Björnke von Gierke]

It's even easier then that:

set the navigationArrows to true

Note that the documentation says it's true by default. that is wrong for the 
ide where they're disabled by default (but it is true in standalones).

On 18 Mar 2011, at 17:05, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 3/18/11 7:38 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:
>> Hi folks, Given LiveCode's multimedia power, I want to move from
>> presenting purely conceptual ideas in PowerPoint/Keynote to using
>> LiveCode as - a container for concepts together with real moving
>> parts from my evolving application as development progresses.
>> 
>> I'm thinking more along the lines of some of the RunRev Live 09
>> session than a full-blown, full self-running 'kiosk' experience.
>> 
>> Are there any tutorials, example stacks or resources to help get
>> started in the right way - or is this an area where everyone tends to
>> create their own personal tool-belt from scratch?
> 
> 
> It's so dead-simple that I don't think it needs a tutorial. You just create 
> one card per "slide" and then add a "go next" button or a handler to catch a 
> keystroke that goes to the next card. That's about it.
> 
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/18/11 7:38 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:

Hi folks, Given LiveCode's multimedia power, I want to move from
presenting purely conceptual ideas in PowerPoint/Keynote to using
LiveCode as - a container for concepts together with real moving
parts from my evolving application as development progresses.

I'm thinking more along the lines of some of the RunRev Live 09
session than a full-blown, full self-running 'kiosk' experience.

Are there any tutorials, example stacks or resources to help get
started in the right way - or is this an area where everyone tends to
create their own personal tool-belt from scratch?



It's so dead-simple that I don't think it needs a tutorial. You just 
create one card per "slide" and then add a "go next" button or a handler 
to catch a keystroke that goes to the next card. That's about it.


--
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HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

[Keith Clarke]

Hi folks,
Given LiveCode's multimedia power, I want to move from presenting purely 
conceptual ideas in PowerPoint/Keynote to using LiveCode as - a container for 
concepts together with real moving parts from my evolving application as 
development progresses.

I'm thinking more along the lines of some of the RunRev Live 09 session than a 
full-blown, full self-running 'kiosk' experience. 

Are there any tutorials, example stacks or resources to help get started in the 
right way - or is this an area where everyone tends to create their own 
personal tool-belt from scratch?
Best,
Keith..   
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