Multidisplays

Using my laptop connected with a secondary mon on the XGA output, I have been able to get Powerpoint to open and play (repeatedly) on the secondary monitor.

The Powerpoint marker's Object Property settings are illustrated below. The important setting is the '1024' position for X, since both my laptop primary and the attached secondary monitors were set to 1024x768. It is critical that the primary and secondary monitors are set to the same resolution, else Powerpoint would seem to be cropped on the secondary monitor as we are shifting it to the right of the primary monitor by X pixels. So an equal res on both monitors makes the shift easy to determine without unwanted cropping.

I use Powerpoint Viewer '97 as this opens all PPT files in fullscreen mode, and ESC closes PPT and reveals the Wings presentation below.

Works with both Wings 2.30 and 3.x, and Loop and Async was enabled for the Digital Juice Jumpback motion graphic in the background.

Thomas

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Hi Thomas
Thanks for the ppt tips.( I thought Wings could only run .pps files for Power Point. Looking at your pics, it seems that you have two different screens for show display- one for ppt an one with your satellite pic.
Are you running two displays at the same time?
I run ppt on a two parallel data projector (secondary monitor) and my desktop monitor set to primary.
The problem is that Power Point seems to "take over" the secondary output.
When the file runs to it end , the display screen goes to black- I can't get the secondary monitor to display the picture track- yet the picture track displayed fine before the the Power Point object on the timeline.
(There must be tick box unchecked somewhere!)
Thanks Jonathan

Hi Jonathan,

The illustration I had was on single screen display with 2 monitors - primary for timeline and secondary for fullscreen presentation. The pic was taken when I was not in F5 Presentation mode such that the 'monitor screen preview' can be seen on the primary. In F5 mode that 'monitor screen preview' would not be there, and instead run in the background on the secondary mon with the PPT overlayed on top of it.

To get the picture track to display again when PPT ends, hit the ESC key. This closes PPT (the overlay), and your picture track will be revealed underneath.

Hope that solves it for you,
Thomas

Thanks- I do recall using "esc" key thing. But when you are in presentation mode and controlling your show with a remote mouse or pointer that simulates the "enter" button ( a click that says "go to next thing" ) this presents a problem.

Ah...remote control...didn't think of that. I have one in the office cupboard. Shall dig it out and try with it tomorrow.

Thomas

Jonathan,

Seems to work with my remote mouse, a Genius Wireless Pointer, though the actual buttons to push on the remote does not seem intuitive, but it works as it has an ESC button and a F5 button. The non-intuitive part is where the remote's wheel indicates Audio Vol up/down, but in F5 mode with Wings and Powerpoint it operates as a PLAY/NEXT_SLIDE and PAUSE/PREV_SLIDE button.

Suggest you try (another) remote before buying it.

Thomas