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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 3 08:51:15 -0700 2005 ------- I thought I would share a few ideas for a control panel user interface on the presenter’s side of a dual screen setup. I believe the main editing program window in itself would work well as a control panel during a slide show, but operating in a different mode. You already have thumb views of the slides on the right side which could be used as cues for the next and previous slides. The current slide could be shown in the middle where slides are usually edited. You would also probably want to make available a separate notes or outline area as well while a slide show is running. All of these areas and possibly others could be customizable to be closed, opened, resized, or repositioned. These areas would all be kept synchronized relative to the current slide being shown. You could also have a special slide show toolbar appear with controls for starting, ending, next, previous, blacking-out the screen, and jumping to a slide number, etc. As for editing slides during a slide show, I would recommend having a special “Edit” button on the slide show toolbar that you would have to click-on in order to suspend the show leaving the current slide up so that you can edit. This would transfer the keyboard input from going to slide show commands like “N” for next and “B” for black-out to going towards editing text on a slide. You could also have a “Resume” button on the toolbar that flashes or blinks while you are in the editing mode so that you know to click on the “Resume” button when you are finished and ready to refresh the current slide and continue the slide show. (Also making the black-out button flash when in use would be a good idea, too.) I don’t suggest having real-time editing like in PowerPoint 2000 since it think it is distracting to the audience. When making changes to a slide that is currently being shown to the audience, they see each character pop-up on the projector screen as you type in your changes in the editing screen. I would much rather just suspend the slide show, make the changes on the editing screen, and then have the finished modifications be shown all at once when the slide is refreshed once the slide show is resumed. This would be much cleaner and less distracting (plus probably easier to program that way). Also, when you are running the slide show most of the menu bar and toolbars could be dimmed and inactive (except maybe the file menu to save changes made after editing or to exit the program). On another note, it would be nice to be able to use the mouse to click on links, and start video and sound clips, etc. in a slide from the presenter’s monitor and not just the slide show monitor. This would be less distracting to the audience by not having to see the mouse cursor at all. Instead of moving the mouse cursor to the slide show monitor to click on a link on the current slide, you could just click on the same link that is on the presenter’s monitor from the main area showing the current slide. It would be important to make the presenter have to click on the “Edit” button on the slide show toolbar to edit anything while a slide show is running. This is so that if you click on a link in the current slide on the presenter’s monitor it will know you want to open the link while the slide show is running and not edit it. During a running slide show all of the other areas would also control the slide show unless you switch to edit mode and suspend the slide show. If you click on a slide in the cue area it will jump to that slide in the slide show. Also, you could click on an area in your notes or outline to go to the slide that those notes refer to. If you would want to edit those notes during a slide show you would have to click on the “Edit” button and then “Resume” when you are finished. These are just some ideas I had for a control panel user interface for the presenter while a slide show is running in a dual-monitor setup. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
