dontusequicktime

Thomas J McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Sat Dec 6 10:15:33 EST 2003


Trevor,

I see where I have more to learn. I don't have much experience with XML 
and am just starting research it.

So I am trying to undue what Keynote did even though that is the best 
way to go. HHMM seems like swimming against the current.

Thanks again,

Tom

On Dec 6, 2003, at 9:58 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Dec 6, 2003, at 7:46 AM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> That brings up another question: If I use the .png files and write 
>> generic code to handle the loading of images from a folder then I 
>> might be able to gain a bit more control over individual slides i.e. 
>> if a slide has 'links' on it I can stop there and allow the user to 
>> click on a clear button. I know we can mark a card but is there a 
>> simple way to mark an image???
>
> Hmmm, the way I usually do this is to use QuickTime sprites to add the 
> interactivity to the image  and load it into a player but that 
> obviously won't work here :)  This is nice since the interactivity 
> becomes part of the movie you create from the still image.
>
> One way is to create some XML markup that represented your 
> presentation.  You could then load that into Revolution which would 
> dynamically create the presentation based on the XML.  Then you are 
> just creating a shell to parse the XML and present everything.  Within 
> the XML you could have coordinates which define an interactive region. 
>  It might take a little longer to design at first but it would be very 
> useful moving forward.  You could even create a Revolution app that 
> let you create the XML file and define the interactive regions.
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Multimedia
> trevor at mangomultimedia.com
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