Digital Workshop

Hi Folks

Im using DocView to display a powerpoint file. Works fine on Office 2007 and XP but on Win7 with Office2007 the powerpoint open in its application and docview is blank. Is there a solution to this problem. Have done a search and found old posts but would like the docview to work.

Cheers
Paul

I could be wrong but my understanding is that DocView uses the IE7 rendering engine. Displaying a document such as a PowerPoint would therefore require that the file's MIME settings are such that they allow the file to be displayed within a browser window. This used to happen by default, but I believe, that due to security issues - it now doesn't.

Mack

Cheers Mack
I could get the end user to make a slide ie. add text and images to a frame, change font and size, change background colours etc. Is it possible for the end user to make multiple slides and have them run as a slide show in a frame/window in a publication.
Paul

Hi Paul,

I think you seem to need some way for the user to add their own content to an existing publication. IE the can change the PP bit themselves and display in inside the page?

In which case, what you suggest might be possible - but probably hard. Can I suggest, they stick with PP, but export the slides as images and you just add a slide show to your publication. Would that work?

Mack

Cheers again Mack
Im going to stay away from PPoint and docview etc and incorporate a basic powerpoint like editor into the pub for the end user to design their own basic slideshow. Started it and looks promising.
Paul

Hi Mack
Have designed a basic like slide editor where the end user can add text and images and works fine. I have incorporated an image slide show where the end user selects the folder of images to use. I would like the end user to control the slide timings but I cant find any script control to do this. Any thoughts.
Cheers
Paul

To keep you going (in case Mackavi's away today)... you could use a while LOOP. I would use two variables. One that is set to true/false when a play/stop button ( ) is pressed. The other variable is whatever one you use for User selection of speed... let's say it is named myspeed and ranges from 1 slow to 100 fast.

In the Loop, calculate the delay interval between slides.
var userdelay = 100 - myspeed ;

Use the command: GotoSlide( num )

And after that, increment: num++
add a delay: wait(userdelay)

You may need to include slide num as part of your WHILE condition.

Not away, coding for a client

A loop will work, but Opus has a built in ticker function:

Add ticker
Set variable to count
Set variable limit check > execute function when reached and reset variable.

Mack