I recently played around with the SharedPresentation tool, to be able to use it for our video conferences. During that I discovered a possible bug in the python script of SharedPresentation.py. To start you obviously use the COM-ID of PowerPoint (Application.PowerPoint). Unfortunately these IDs seem not to be the same between english and german versions of PowerPoint. In consequence this means that the PowerPoint instances started on my laptop where I have a english version of it in combination with an english version of windows and didn't start on all my other machines where a german version was installed. I think this might apply to other Powerpoint versions in other languages too. Interesting enough this also seems to apply to the SharedBrowser application. So I think some kind of language selection/configuration should be implemented for these SharedApplications.
At the moment a work around is to start PowerPoint manually before opening the SharedPresentation. Michael ------------------ Dipl.-Inf. Michael Braitmaier HLRS - Visualization / Video Conferencing University of Stuttgart Germany Website: http://www.hlrs.de/organization/vis/people/braitmaier/
