Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 17:39 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: snip Now that the question has been asked i find it unbelievable that no-one has thought of it before! It might even have kept me awake during some presentations or made me aware that i didn't have time to write it all down (which i only tend to do to try to keep awake). If there could be different options such as a progress-bar (like when loading heavy web-pages or installing programs) or a launch count down in the last 5-10 seconds or something. bg: Thanks for getting it, Tom. The application, in this case, is a trivia tournament; but any time you're using a projected presentation in any kind of a testing, or question-presenting mode, that has timing, it would be of potential value. Like you, I am amazed that it seemingly hasn't come up before. I've had Synaptic download and install every little clock app I could find, and am going to evaluate them to see which if any might be adaptable to the task. I suspect the sticking point will be instructing the countdown timer to reset itself and restart. I somehow doubt that there are any that are designed to do that. I'm probably also going to find that (1) many of them won't have a countdown function, and (2) many won't provide a scalable digital display. We'll see. Meanwhile, like you, I sort of feel that any presentation app should natively include such a function. Brewster -- *** [Sen. Robert Byrd] has become a hero to the Old New Left, many of whom seem to have gone from the SDS to the AARP without experiencing a single adult thought. Zed Chafets, _New York Daily News_ October 2002 *** W. Brewster Gillettb...@fdi.usPortland, OR USA *** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *** -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query
Hi :) If you use Synaptic to search then maybe spend some time looking at the lib files. normally i skae past them without even a glance but sometimes they have useful things for pulling 2 apps together or adding unusual functionality into an app. It also might be worth trying to search the Extensions http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center Although i did try quite a few and didn't get any results so maybe don't bother this time but it often is useful. it might be better this time to find the OpenOffice Extensions and search them. With any luck it might work in LO too or the dev might respond quickly with an update or idea. Good luck! Regards from Tom :) From: Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, 4 May 2013, 17:55 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 17:39 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: snip Now that the question has been asked i find it unbelievable that no-one has thought of it before! It might even have kept me awake during some presentations or made me aware that i didn't have time to write it all down (which i only tend to do to try to keep awake). If there could be different options such as a progress-bar (like when loading heavy web-pages or installing programs) or a launch count down in the last 5-10 seconds or something. bg: Thanks for getting it, Tom. The application, in this case, is a trivia tournament; but any time you're using a projected presentation in any kind of a testing, or question-presenting mode, that has timing, it would be of potential value. Like you, I am amazed that it seemingly hasn't come up before. I've had Synaptic download and install every little clock app I could find, and am going to evaluate them to see which if any might be adaptable to the task. I suspect the sticking point will be instructing the countdown timer to reset itself and restart. I somehow doubt that there are any that are designed to do that. I'm probably also going to find that (1) many of them won't have a countdown function, and (2) many won't provide a scalable digital display. We'll see. Meanwhile, like you, I sort of feel that any presentation app should natively include such a function. Brewster -- *** [Sen. Robert Byrd] has become a hero to the Old New Left, many of whom seem to have gone from the SDS to the AARP without experiencing a single adult thought. Zed Chafets, _New York Daily News_ October 2002 *** W. Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us Portland, OR USA *** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *** -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query
In Impress, you can set each slide to appear at differing times [after setting overall time - right-hand cue - then go to individual slide to re-set that's timing]; or you can set one time for each [via right-hand cues]. Hoping this answers your question, On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote: Running LO 3.5.7.2 under Ubuntu 12.04 I've scoured the help, both internal and on-line. I've pored through the FAQs. It may be that no such ability is provided with Impress. But I'll ask in case someone here has done it: How can I insert a live countdown clock display in my slides, tied to the Advance slide Automatically after [ x seconds ] instruction? IOW I set the above parameter to, say, 60 seconds. When the slide rolls up, one corner of it has a prominent digital clock display reading 60 which proceeds to follow the timing downwards until it hits zero, at which time the next slide rolls up and the process restarts. If this feature is in Impress somewhere, I sure couldn't find it. TIA, Brewster -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote: Running LO 3.5.7.2 under Ubuntu 12.04 How can I insert a live countdown clock display in my slides, tied to the Advance slide Automatically after [ x seconds ] instruction? On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 12:40 -0500, anne-ology wrote: In Impress, you can set each slide to appear at differing times or you can set one time for each Hoping this answers your question, bg: Though I appreciate the response, no, it doesn't even address the question I raised, which was, How can I insert a live countdown clock display in my slides, tied to the Advance slide Automatically after [ x seconds ] instruction? IOW I already know how to set the appearance duration for slides - what I couldn't find was a way to incorporate a visible countdown display into the slide to track the timing for the audience. ...that feature may just not exist, though it sure does seem like it would be a useful one to have. Brewster -- *** A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? *** W. Brewster Gillettb...@fdi.usPortland, OR USA *** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote: Running LO 3.5.7.2 under Ubuntu 12.04 How can I insert a live countdown clock display in my slides, tied to the Advance slide Automatically after [ x seconds ] instruction? On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 12:40 -0500, anne-ology wrote: In Impress, you can set each slide to appear at differing times or you can set one time for each Hoping this answers your question, bg: Though I appreciate the response, no, it doesn't even address the question I raised, which was, How can I insert a live countdown clock display in my slides, tied to the Advance slide Automatically after [ x seconds ] instruction? IOW I already know how to set the appearance duration for slides - what I couldn't find was a way to incorporate a visible countdown display into the slide to track the timing for the audience. ...that feature may just not exist, though it sure does seem like it would be a useful one to have. Brewster On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 13:39 -0500, anne-ology wrote: There are numerous clock displays - surely one of these would suit your purpose; just plop the clock into the slide, set its size, and ;-) bg: I fear you have yet to grasp my intent; I have looked at several clocks, and saw none offering a countdown with a digital display - but that isn't the real question. The real question is how I might go about tying a countdown clock function into the slide display interval. So far I haven't uncovered any way of doing that without crunching code, which I am not nearly skilled enough to do. Actually it wouldn't have to communicate with Impress to accomplish that, but it would have to be capable of running a *repeating* cycle, once started. Let me attempt to rephrase what I'm looking for. I need a countdown timer (i.e. one that starts at a set interval, displays digital numbers following the seconds fown to zero, then resets itself to zero and restarts the countdown. It needs to synchronize with the interval set by Impress that applies to the on-screen duration of each slide. So for example: * Slide rolls up on the screen- Impress is set to display it for sixty seconds before rolling up the next slide * In a corner of the slide appears the countdown clock display - it begins at 60, then goes by seconds 59, 58, 57, and down to zero, at which point the next slide pops in to replace the previous slide, and that next slide *also* displays the countdown timer, beginning at 60 seconds, counting down again to zero. So far I have not located any clock applications which will automatically recycle in that fashion. If you know of any, please be so good as to supply a reference. Thanks, Brewster -- *** Embrace a progressively tolerant multicultural community of sustainable social-justice-centered harmonically sharing low-carbon diversity. *** W. Brewster Gillettb...@fdi.usPortland, OR USA *** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query
I'm glad you know what you're after - maybe someone else will understand your question. As for me, I don't even understand the question ;-) But I have noticed your name - makes me wonder if you know where your Brewster originated; possibly we're cuz ;-) Yes, my mind tends to wander ... ;-) it ignores that which it doesn't wish to know, sticking with that which makes sense or is mysterious or ... ... ... ;-) On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote: Running LO 3.5.7.2 under Ubuntu 12.04 How can I insert a live countdown clock display in my slides, tied to the Advance slide Automatically after [ x seconds ] instruction? On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 12:40 -0500, anne-ology wrote: In Impress, you can set each slide to appear at differing times or you can set one time for each Hoping this answers your question, bg: Though I appreciate the response, no, it doesn't even address the question I raised, which was, How can I insert a live countdown clock display in my slides, tied to the Advance slide Automatically after [ x seconds ] instruction? IOW I already know how to set the appearance duration for slides - what I couldn't find was a way to incorporate a visible countdown display into the slide to track the timing for the audience. ...that feature may just not exist, though it sure does seem like it would be a useful one to have. Brewster On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 13:39 -0500, anne-ology wrote: There are numerous clock displays - surely one of these would suit your purpose; just plop the clock into the slide, set its size, and ;-) bg: I fear you have yet to grasp my intent; I have looked at several clocks, and saw none offering a countdown with a digital display - but that isn't the real question. The real question is how I might go about tying a countdown clock function into the slide display interval. So far I haven't uncovered any way of doing that without crunching code, which I am not nearly skilled enough to do. Actually it wouldn't have to communicate with Impress to accomplish that, but it would have to be capable of running a *repeating* cycle, once started. Let me attempt to rephrase what I'm looking for. I need a countdown timer (i.e. one that starts at a set interval, displays digital numbers following the seconds fown to zero, then resets itself to zero and restarts the countdown. It needs to synchronize with the interval set by Impress that applies to the on-screen duration of each slide. So for example: * Slide rolls up on the screen- Impress is set to display it for sixty seconds before rolling up the next slide * In a corner of the slide appears the countdown clock display - it begins at 60, then goes by seconds 59, 58, 57, and down to zero, at which point the next slide pops in to replace the previous slide, and that next slide *also* displays the countdown timer, beginning at 60 seconds, counting down again to zero. So far I have not located any clock applications which will automatically recycle in that fashion. If you know of any, please be so good as to supply a reference. Thanks, Brewster -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query
To Brewster Gillett: I can't help with your search for knowledge, but feel impelled to comment on the stunning inability of the gang to comprehend your crystal clear, simple, and obvious description of that which you wish to accomplish. If your quest advances to the status of enhancement request, a useful extension would be the ability to set each countdown clock separately, so that different slides could be on display for differing time periods. You specified a digital counter; I would like the option for an analog clock. Since we're not likely to get any of this until we learn how to do our own coding, we may as well ask for the moon. MK -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query
Hi :) It is possible to install both LO and OOo on Ubuntu but it's not trivial. Some people seem to say it's fairly easy but not trivial. I have no idea but it might be possible to search for instructions Regards from Tom :) From: Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 31 May, 2011 11:46:10 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Impress query I've had long-standing issues with the smoothness of transitions between slides in OOo's Impress, and especially with the custom animation facility often not producing correct effects. Can anyone say if the lo version Impress has any [known] improvements in this regard please? (As they don't seem to coexist happily on ubuntu, it's not quite trivial just to try lo. :-( ) Thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
