Reading notes in PPT

prhammer · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

Just purchased Salling Clicker and loaded on my Palm TX. It works great! I'm using it via Wi-Fi (though I may also try bluetooth later). I envision using it for a PowerPoint remote during presentations.

Is there a way to scroll the notes in powerpoint on the Palm? I'm using a Palm TX and PPT 2003 and many of my slides have more notes than disply on the palm.

Also, can the font size for the notes be adjusted?

salling · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

At this time, you can not view more of the slide notes. Scrolling in that particular view isn't a great idea as up/down are used for switching slides.

What I can do, is make one button pop up a scrollable text view that shows the whole (well, up to some limit) note.

What do you think?

As for the notes. What size would you like?

Best.
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Jonas

prhammer · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

[quote="salling"]At this time, you can not view more of the slide notes. Scrolling in that particular view isn't a great idea as up/down are used for switching slides.

What I can do, is make one button pop up a scrollable text view that shows the whole (well, up to some limit) note.

What do you think?

As for the notes. What size would you like?

Best.
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Jonas[/quote]

You certainly do keep your promise of "ridiculously fast" response time. A scrollable text view would be AWESOME for my purposes. As far as the font size, I was looking at that as an alternative way of getting more text into the window - the current font is fine, the scrollable text would be a better alternative.

salling · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject:

Great. I've filed this for a suggested improvement. Cannot promise what version it'll be though, but we're talking 3.0.1 or 3.0.2, I think.

Best.
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Jonas

prhammer · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

I'll definitely look forward to new releases. Is there a way to sign up for notification of new releases?

salling · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject:

You can subscribe to this RSS feed:

http://www.salling.com/news/rss.php

Not sure what browser you're on, but I think FireFox, as well as google's "Bar" lets you subscribe to feeds.

Best.
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Jonas

paperman · Newbie Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

I've just downloaded trial - I'd suggest you change the up down to scroll notes and just have the left and right 5-way buttons for next and previous slides.

--pat

prhammer · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

I just downloaded and installed version 3.0.01.309

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any change in the way notes are handled. Is there a trick to scrolling the notes? I'm using a Palm TX.

salling · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject:

Not yet. There'll be something in the next build.

Best.
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Jonas

prhammer · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

[quote="salling"]Not yet. There'll be something in the next build.

Best.
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Jonas[/quote]

So then, just for my curiosity, in the list of features for version 309:

[quote]What's new in Salling Clicker 3.0.1 (v309)?
- Improvements to BSPlayer controller;
- Improved PowerPoint file browser; Now remembers the last browsed directory, and should work better on non-English systems.
- Fixed issue with BSPlayer Open Movie and removable drives;
- Added ability in PPT to view the full notes;
[/quote]

what does "added ability in PPT to view the full notes" mean?

salling · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject:

Ah yes. This requires pressing a key on your device that is probably not available on the TX you have.

The next build will have a menu option for it.

- jonas

prhammer · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

[quote="salling"]Ah yes. This requires pressing a key on your device that is probably not available on the TX you have.

The next build will have a menu option for it.

- jonas[/quote]

Thanks for the clarification. I would agree with Paperman, that integrating the note scrolling into the 5-way button would be very handy. Left-Right for advancing the slides and up-down for scrolling notes. What would be the chance of seeing this option?

salling · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:04 pm Post subject:

The chances are nil for 3.0.1 as it'd require rather substantial re-plumbing of code on all mobile platforms.

Cheers.
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Jonas