[AG-TECH] Shared Presentation?

[Ivan R. Judson]

A set of slides from the last retreat is at
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~judson/voyager2.ppt

You can use that as a test :)

--ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Thomas D. Uram
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:30 PM
> To: Randy Groves
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Shared Presentation?
> 
> 
> Randy:
> 
> To use SharedPresentation:
> - Add SharedPresentation to the venue
> - Join the SharedPresentation instance you just added (or one that 
> existed previously)
> - Click the "Take control as master" checkbox
> - Enter the URL to a set of slides in the Slides field, and 
> press enter
> 
> That should start the slide show locally. 
> 
> If you join a session that has slides already specified, the 
> slide show 
> should begin at the current slide for the app session.
> 
> Let me know if this doesn't work for you.
> 
> Tom
> 
> And, you're right, you still can't change the name of application 
> instances in the venue.
> 
> Randy Groves wrote:
> 
> > (Still curious if anyone's gotten this to work ...)
> >
> > Anybody gotten the new Shared Presentation to work?
> >
> > There isn't any way that I can see to point to a presentation before
> > starting up the Shared Presentation application.  And once it fires 
> > up, I get a blank Powerpoint window and a dialog box asking for 
> > 'Slides' and the slide number.  So far, I haven't figured out the 
> > magic incantation that I'm supposed to enter to make the connection 
> > between what looks to be the control dialog and the 
> Powerpoint window.
> >
> > Anybody got any hints?
> >
> > (And it's still not possible to change the title from 'Shared
> > Presentation' to anything else).
> >
> > -randy
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