Hi Christiaan, That makes a lot of sense. Oh well. It was just a thought.
Thanks, Rob On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On Oct 12, 2009, at 20:24, Rob Rye wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I absolutely love Skim. I use it for all sorts of things. I have >> created a bunch of educational presentations for my youngest children >> (preschool and kindergarten), which I have bookmarked as a group. I >> show them some of these presentations in a sort of random order by >> quickly flipping from one page to another several pages away and so >> forth. I would love to be able to do this "automatically," so that I >> don't have to remember which pages I have and have not yet shown but >> can allow the Mac to remember this for me. So, I have a strange >> request: >> >> Is there anyone out there who has an Applescript that advances Skim >> presentations to a random page, keeps track of which pages it has >> shown, and goes through all the pages one time each? >> >> Alternatively, is there anyone who has such a script that works on >> another presentation program that I might be able to tweak to drive >> Skim in this way? I guess I am basically looking for something like >> the Shuffle feature on the iPod. >> >> I realize that presentations are normally expected to advance in a >> predictable fashion, so no one may ever have had reason to create >> such >> a script, but I want to teach them the elements of these >> presentations >> without relying on memorizing the order of them. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rob >> > > I don't think that would be possible. In order to interact with such a > script, the script would need some UI. However, in presentation mode > this UI would be hidden behind the presentation window, and therefore > would not accessible. > > Christiaan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
