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

[Nigel Gilbert]

Thanks for the answer -  I thought that must be the case.

My suggestion for your question about how Shared Presentation could be
implemented is to use AppleScript, which is designed for this purpose.  See
for example:

http://www.apple.com/applescript/powerpoint/

I know of other applications (e.g. SailingClicker, a way of controlling
PowerPoint from a Bluetooth cell phone) which do the same kind of job, so it
should be possible, and perhaps even quite easy!

Thanks again - and if you do make progress with this, please let me know.

Nigel Gilbert


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Professor Nigel Gilbert, FBCS, FREng, AcSS, Professor of Sociology,
University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483 689173




> From: "Thomas D. Uram" <turam at mcs.anl.gov>
> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:01:24 -0500
> To: Nigel Gilbert <n.gilbert at surrey.ac.uk>
> Cc: <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>, "Jenkins N Mr (Psychology)"
> <N.Jenkins at surrey.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] AG2 on MacOS X: Presentation tools
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________________________________________
>> Professor Nigel Gilbert, ScD, FREng, AcSS, Professor of Sociology,
>> University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483 689173
>> 
>> 
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