On 07/09/10 02:43, NoOp wrote: .....
I'm wondering about creating a presentation, actually for a church service. This will have slides for song words etc in the usual way. But part way through, it would be advantageous to have a live feed from a video camera within the church, and to have the video from this appear on-screen as part of the presentation.Obviously one could stop/pause impress, switch to a different app and show the live video, then switch back to impress for the rest of the service, but this looks a very clumsy approach and I was hoping (vainly perhaps?!) for something a little smoother. Hope that's clearer! But I most strongly suspect I'm out of luck :-{Got it. Interesting project/concept, I'll do some experimenting& see if I can figure out a way to do this. What OS& version of OOo?
Choice of ubuntu 10.04/OOo 3.2 or XP/3.x. I'm sure any solution would be highly OS-dependent.
But I've been hunting high and low, found nothing remotely resembling this idea. Not even on someone else's wish-list :-{
Generalizing a bit, I'd say what's needed within OOo is a way to embed windows maintained by other helper applications, although how a continuous update could then occur, I can't imagine (or even if it's possible in general). Even a facility within Impress to 'run external app, background myself and wait till it exits' would help...... hmmm, sounds like a shell, and thinking about it, maybe /that/ could be done with a macro: I'll have to look into that. It's all a bit theoretical at the moment, thank goodness.
Thanks for the reply, btw. -- Mike Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
