[AG-TECH] AG2 on MacOS X: Presentation tools

[Thomas D. Uram]

I can speak for Shared Presentation, at least:  It does not currently 
work on
OSX.  An RPC mechanism is used to communicate with powerpoint on
Windows (COM) and on Linux (pyuno, afair).  A similar setup has not
been worked out on the Mac; if someone on the list is knowledgeable
about such a mechanism, patches to the core code would be welcome.

Tom


On 8/7/06 4:59 AM, Nigel Gilbert wrote:
> I have loaded Desktop AG2.4 on my Mac G5, under MacOSX 10.4.7, and RAT and
> VIC work as expected.  I now want to make a presentation (in Powerpoint)
> available.  I am told that once I am in a suitable venue, I should be able
> to right click on 'Application Sessions' and find a menu item 'Add Shared
> presentation' - and is there such an item in the menu when using a full node
> set up.  But when I do this on my Mac, I see only "Add Shared Question
> Tool".  Is the Shared Presentation feature not implemented on the MacOS X
> AG2 version, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> I then tried to launch ScreenStreamer from
>
> http://www.memetic-vre.net/software/ScreenStreamer/ScreenStreamer.php
>
> but got only the Java Web Start error alert:
>  
> An error occurred while launching/running the application.
>  
> Category: Launch File Error
>  
> No application resources are specified for this platform. Please, contact
> the vendor of the application to make sure that this is a supported
> platform.
>
> Should this work on MacOS X?  What 'application resources' are required and
> where do I obtain them?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Nigel
>
>
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