Hi Squeakers,
I want to do a Powerpoint-like presentation in Squeak. That is to say, I want to do a multi-"page" presentation, where I have a few simple concepts (with large-font text + graphics) on each page. What is the best way to do this in Squeak? I thought it would be nice to use the Navigator's Prev/Next buttons to let me step through my presentation ("pages"). However, this would of course mean that each page is a project, which seems strange - unless there's some concept of a "parent" project that could serve as a way of letting me step thru children.
I know there is a 'Book' in the Supplies tab. However, unless I'm missing something, a Book doesn't let me draw graphics into its pages.
Anyway, I welcome your suggestions.
--Randy
Am 27.01.2005 um 11:17 schrieb Randy Heiland:
Hi Squeakers,
I want to do a Powerpoint-like presentation in Squeak. That is to say, I want to do a multi-"page" presentation, where I have a few simple concepts (with large-font text + graphics) on each page. What is the best way to do this in Squeak? I thought it would be nice to use the Navigator's Prev/Next buttons to let me step through my presentation ("pages"). However, this would of course mean that each page is a project, which seems strange - unless there's some concept of a "parent" project that could serve as a way of letting me step thru children.
There is a presentation facility a bit hidden in Squeak which allows precisely that, which is stepping through a series of projects for presentations. This is the ThreadNavigator, and you can find one in the "Navigation" category of the Object Catalog (get one from the Supplies flap).
For more information see http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2219
I know there is a 'Book' in the Supplies tab. However, unless I'm missing something, a Book doesn't let me draw graphics into its pages.
You just make a new drawing (brush icon) and drop it into the page. Or, bring up the halo on the embedded page (not the whole book) and click the gray halo handle showing a pen - but the former method is far more flexible if you ever need to put the graphic somewhere else, or want to remove ...
However, using projects as slides is the recommended way of doing presentations. You even can have different presentations using the same slides by creating multiple navigation threads.
- Bert -
Am 27.01.2005 um 11:17 schrieb Randy Heiland:
Hi Squeakers,
I want to do a Powerpoint-like presentation in Squeak.
I am doing the following: I make a new project for each slide. (The best is to make a template project, save that on disc and then load a new one for each slide).
Then there is a morph calles "ThreadNavigator". This can be used to put together a presentation and then navigate through it.
A bit hard to explain... we should make videos showing this kind of stuff.
As an example you can download the Squeak Image I use for doing demos at http://squeak-ev.de/21c3
Marcus
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