emulating the keyboard - Application control

[Thomas McGrath III]

John,

I did a CD distribution that had over 75 slide presentations with over 
400 megs of slides. It was cross platform. The slides came from a dozen 
different people with different styles. I built a Rev 'Player' to 
display them all. But the trick as you saw on the list previously is to 
either turn them into movie files (quicktime for interactive movies 
with transitions etc. or MS movie files for non interactive movies) or 
export them as .png files and use REV as a slide presentation front 
end.

If you do Quicktime then use Keynote - it works great- but not all 
windows users have quicktime. If you do avi or another then you lose 
the interactive part but can still display them. If you do the .png 
then you can control effects in REV (but keep in mind not using 
Quicktime in REV either).

This is the way I ended up doing it. I exported all the PPT slide into 
.png and referenced them in a REV window. I have one window with one 
card that in a button gets a folder of slide .pngs and shows them one 
at a time upon the mouse click. I had a Home, Previous and Next button 
and everything works fine. A very generic script can handle it that 
way. I got mine from mixing a couple of scripts from people on the list 
and would be glad to share them with you if you go this route. Let me 
know.

There is also another way. For windows (only) you can use REV as a 
front end and 'launch' the MSPowerpoint player that is still available 
on windows. I could not find it any more for the mac. This is how 
people do it in Director. You may be able to find an old version of the 
MS PPT player somewhere.

HTH
Tom

On Apr 14, 2004, at 6:34 PM, John Rule wrote:

> Thanks for the response Ken.
>
> After much Internet searching, I am coming to the conclusion that this 
> is
> not possible from Windows or Linux (not even from shell).
>
> :-(
>
> I did, however, find some useful things in XP that I didn't know 
> existed:
>
> SerialKeys and SoftKeyboard
>
> :-)
>
> Some kind of payoff at least!
>
> John Rule
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:15:13 -0700
>> From: Ken Norris <pixelbird at interisland.net>
>> Subject: Re: emulating the keyboard - Application control
>> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>> Message-ID: <BCA216F1.60A9%pixelbird at interisland.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:41:19 -0700
>>> From: "John Rule" <johnrule at rcsprogramming.com>
>>> Subject: emulating the keyboard - Application control
>>>
>>> Is there a native way to emulate the keyboard in another application?
> For
>>> example, 'launching' another app, and then somehow sending commands 
>>> to
> that
>>> application? Specifically, I had a customer ask me if they can 
>>> control
> their
>>> Powerpoint presentation from Rev. I looked through the shell command
> set,
>>> and I do not see a way to do it from there...
>> -----------
>> Well, if it's a Mac OS, and the application in question is scriptable 
>> via
>> AppleScript, i.e., it has an AS dictionary, then you can send it any 
>> of
> it's
>> available commands through AS, manipulate data from it in RR, etc.
>>
>> But if it's Windows, or a 'nix flavor, I'm afraid I have no clue.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Ken N.
>>
>
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