This whole set of posts seems somehow redundant when the whole
Power Point thing can be handled within Runtime Revolution itself.
Making a presentation that is 'Power-Point-like' in Runtime Revolution
is extremely easy; and once that's done nobody has to rely on an external
program and how
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Richmond,
Point well taken. My program allows the user to show slideshows,
create notes, etc, etc, etc. in a much simpler way than PowerPoint.
Frustration with PowerPoint was the main reason I started writing my
program in the first place, and I personally never use it. However,
there
John Miller wrote:
1. They have invested a great deal of time creating PowerPoint
files
and don't want to redo them.
From your follow-on post, this was understood.
2. We live in a powerPoint world. My users are often given a
PowerPoint file from their denomination or a guest
Greetings All,
I am trying to write a script that will allow the user to open and
show a powerpoint presentation and then give control back to
revolution when finished. I am currently using the launch command,
but don't like seeing all the PowerPoint startup items. The
presentation
Hi John,
if you rename the original presentation (or make a copy and then
change the name of that), so that the filename extension is pps
rather than ppt you get what is called a PowerPoint show - which
autostarts when you open it and doesn't display any of the usual
PowerPoint stuff (on
Hiya,
Insofar as I know, all PowerPoint installs have the PowerPoint Viewer
included (at least from Office XP/11 onwards). You can call this from
the command line or launch it with the path to the presentation. It's
much lighter than the full PowerPoint and quits out quickly, with no
Luis wrote:
Not too sure on the Licencing when it comes to wanting to distribute it with
your app
to which I would answer not at all sure about Microsoft :)
and, on a more practical note point to http://www.openoffice.org/
which is FREE, functions perfectly respectably with Power Point
into sight unseen. They cannot then change them at the last minute of
course.
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Thanks for the hints everybody.
Luis, I don't have any experience with using command lines. Could
you describe the process? Is this something that you call from
within RR?
Also, can any of you comment on the question of handing control back
to RR after the presentation is shown?
Hiya,
You should be able to 'launch' it just the same.
And yes, you can call a command line from within RR, although in this
instance I reckon 'launch' ought to do it for you.
Cheers,
Luis.
On 16 Apr 2009, at 13:25, John Miller wrote:
Thanks for the hints everybody.
Luis, I don't have
With Google docs, most people can now throw away their MS Office, and not
even bother with Open Office, which works well, I guess, but just looks so
PC. Open Office on the Mac is pretty ugly and it requires X11, an
intermediate interface which often confuses neophytes like my father-in-law.
For
With Google docs, most people can now throw away their MS Office, and not
even bother with Open Office, which works well, I guess, but just looks so
PC. Open Office on the Mac is pretty ugly and it requires X11, an
intermediate interface which often confuses neophytes like my father-in-law.
For
Stephen Barncard wrote:
Open Office on the Mac is pretty ugly and it requires X11
Not anymore, it doesn't: http://www.openoffice.org/
anyway, on a Mac I always use NeoOffice: http://www.neooffice.org/
which resembles more closely other Macintosh applications.
sincere;y, Richmond Mathewson.
Hey Guys,
I've enjoyed reading all your comments about Open Office, Neo Office,
and Google Docs. It may be that I can use this info later. However,
for the moment, I wonder if I can rein this discussion in and focus
on the problem at hand.
My software is a church projection software
Hi John,
I just built a stack to try what you are doing.
I also downloaded and installed MS Powerpoint Viewer.
I put a field on the stack with the name Filename.
In a button, I used the following script to open the powerpoint file
using the viewer.
on mouseUp
if fld Filename is
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John, You can launch Powerpoint with a Sample presentation that has
just one slide (maybe with the Church's Picture or other) then on that
slide put a hyperlink that Says End (or some such) that will take
them back to Revolution from within Powerpoint. It's not perfect but
at least they
Hi John,
You can actually do this without ever leaving Rev.
In PowerPoint (what version are you running by the way?), there is an option
to Save As - Other Formats. Select Web Page (HTM, HTML) - this is in
PowerPoint 2007 but the ability to translate PPT to HTML had been around for
awhile..
Is this stack doing more than launching the document? Does it control
the advancing of the slides and/or get feedback from Powerpoint?
The example you used is for Windows. Does it also work on the Mac?
Bill Vlahos
On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Mark Stuart wrote:
Hi John,
I just built a
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