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