On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Mike Scott <m...@scottsonline.org.uk> wrote:
> I've been asking on 'users' about running a live video stream from within
> Impress. The problem seems to have reduced to running a given macro when a
> particular slide is shown.
>
> The problem is, there seem to be no available hooks for doing this. I have
> found some code to run a given macro for /every/ slide change, but can't see
> how to fix it up (my knowledge of the OOo API is worse than sketchy!). If
> anyone knows a way, I'd be grateful; if there is no way - should there be?
> -- it looks like a potentially useful hook to have available.
Why not adding a Botton control, you can call a macro on the "push"
action. You can also use shell and launch programs from it.
> Meanwhile, I did find in the help file mention of specifying a macro to run
> when a given image is loaded, which promised a workaround of sorts for me.
> But the help file is highly misleading, I'm afraid - it tells me to "Choose
> Insert/Format - Picture - Macro tab" which is nowhere to be found in Impress
> -- although it /is/ there in Writer (but not Draw or Calc)!!! It's yet
> another unhelpful and irritating inconsistency between modules.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help. I feel like I'm battering my head against a
> wall at present :-{
>
>
> Oh, OOo 3.2 on ubuntu, btw.
>
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> Mike Scott
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