It shouldn't be too hard. Create a stack with each "slide" on a different card, hide the title bar, hide the menu bar/dock, and set the stack so that it is centered with a size matching that of the screen. Scale the contents accordingly...
Put those controls in a rawKeyDown handler in the stack script, and bingo?
On Sep 29, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:I picked up a Kensington Wireless Presentation Remote today in hopes of using it when presenting at Rev seminars like <http://techietours.com>.
But while Kensington normally makes pretty good stuff, the manual only says "Works with most presentation software like PowerPoint and Keynote", and it doesn't say what events it's sending. Since I make my own presentations in Rev I need to know what events it uses so I can write handlers for them.
Here's the weird part:
I made a fresh stack and put in rawKeyDown, rawKeyUp, appleEvent, arrowKey, functionKey, keyDown and keyUp handlers -- none of them get triggered when I try using the wireless device.
Don't know why (probably just user error here), but today I tried rawKeyDown again and it works. Kinda fun. So it's really easy to write apps that support standard wireless presentation devices -
Here's how the buttons match up to their keyboard equivalents on the Kensington model:
laser pointer /
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rawKeyDown 65365 - [<] [>] - rawKeyDown 65366 Key: Page Down Key: Page Up Action: Previous Slide [.] Action: Next Slide
\ rawKeyDown 98 Key: "b" Action: Blank Screen
Kensington says these are the "standard" controls that drive
presentation apps, including Keynote and PowerPoint. It's nice to see
reasonable conventions universally applied. Given all the hardware out there that supports these it may be useful to adopt them in your own software if you're making a presentation tool.
With so many Rev conferences this year I keep daydreaming that someone will start an open source presentation tool and runtime library in Transcript. Any chance we could toss one together in time to make all of our presentations for Malta? :)
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