"Mick Hazelgrove" <mha### [at] mindaswinternetcouk> wrote in message
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> We use Powerpoint at the school I teach at, for pupils to display their
> work. It is an excellent choice for a slide show.
>

    Although I have been using Word and Excel for years, I have never messed
with either Access or PowerPoint. Does anyone know of a 'basics' tutorial on
the WEB somewhere?

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I wrote my own program for the same situation for cross-fading the images,
it's basic.  There is a DLL I can give you for alpha-blending images if you
want it.

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Lance.
The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
Peter Warren <int### [at] halcyoncom> wrote in message
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> I'm in the process of planning an 'art' show of my work.
> I plan to have a screen with my images
> repeating. I need something a little more
> sophisticated that an ACDSee slide show.
> I know a tiny bit of 'C' and own MS Visual C++.
>
> I admit to being clueless about what to do.
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Peter Warren
> war### [at] hotmailcom

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I wrote an active x program to do this.  Included all sorts of wipes and
fades, plus some other effects.  It is timed with a real player on a web
page.  It was for a school project.

Peter Warren wrote:
> 
> I'm in the process of planning an 'art' show of my work.
> I plan to have a screen with my images
> repeating. I need something a little more
> sophisticated that an ACDSee slide show.
> I know a tiny bit of 'C' and own MS Visual C++.
> 
> I admit to being clueless about what to do.
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> Peter Warren
> war### [at] hotmailcom

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote in message <389da02f@news.povray.org>...
>Maybe a PowerPoint presentation?  Would have the benefit that free viewers
>are available for at least a few platforms.

This is a great suggestion that I had not even considered.
My gut feeling is that some problems would arise.

Although I doubt that this will be my ultimate answer,
I greatly appreciate your suggestion.

Peter Warren
war### [at] hotmailcom

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Nick Portelli wrote in message <389E4A17.17CEFB01@pilot.msu.edu>...
>I wrote an active x program to do this.  Included all sorts of wipes and
>fades, plus some other effects.  It is timed with a real player on a web
>page.  It was for a school project.

Very impressive.
(I would love to see it.)
However, not a solution for me.
Sounds like something that would give me a headache
so bad that they would be complaining about it in China.

Thanks for answering.

Peter Warren
war### [at] hotmailcom

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Lance Birch <-> wrote in message <389e24f2@news.povray.org>...
>I wrote my own program for the same situation for cross-fading the images,
>it's basic.  There is a DLL I can give you for alpha-blending images if you
>want it.

Hi Lance,
I doubt I have the skill to do anything much with your DLL.
(I only wish I did).
If you would care to,  send it to the email@below.
Maybe it will give me some ideas.

Thanks so much for your suggestion.

Peter

Peter Warren
war### [at] hotmailcom

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Peter Warren wrote:

> I'm in the process of planning an 'art' show of my work.
> I plan to have a screen with my images
> repeating. I need something a little more
> sophisticated that an ACDSee slide show.
> I know a tiny bit of 'C' and own MS Visual C++.

I have used Powerpoint for this very purpose a few times. There are some
benefits in using it, one being that you can make a portable
presentation that does not require Powerpoint on the host computer. You
can mix text, stills and animations. It's really not complicated to
learn.
My only complaint is that it can result in pretty big files due to the
lack of internal compression, though this seems to have been fixed on
the recent versions.
For the web, there's an applet called Animator that does the job too.
G.

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On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 18:40:26 -0500, "Bill DeWitt"
<the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

>
>"Mick Hazelgrove" <mha### [at] mindaswinternetcouk> wrote in message
>news:389df23a@news.povray.org...
>> We use Powerpoint at the school I teach at, for pupils to display their
>> work. It is an excellent choice for a slide show.
>>
>
>    Although I have been using Word and Excel for years, I have never messed
>with either Access or PowerPoint. Does anyone know of a 'basics' tutorial on
>the WEB somewhere?

My term project in Computing III had to be a PowerPoint presentation
(now *that* is what I call degradation, we dropped from C to Microsoft
Office. Drats!). It took me about an hour to come up with a decent
presentation on the topic of (hold your breath) POV-Ray. I see no
reason why it should take anyone else any longer than that. It's all
point-and-click stuff.


Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
ICQ: 15002700

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Gilles Tran wrote in message <389ED4DB.4A10F64A@inapg.inra.fr>...
>There are some
>benefits in using it, one being that you can make a portable
>presentation that does not require Powerpoint on the host computer.
I didn't know this.
>My only complaint is that it can result in pretty big files due to the
>lack of internal compression, though this seems to have been fixed on
>the recent versions.
This shouldn't be too much of a problem as the gallery would
provide a computer. File size is a problem in general, I think.

>For the web, there's an applet called Animator that does the job too.
>G.


Thanks for taking the time to respond Gilles,

Peter Warren
war### [at] hotmailcom

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I have used PowerPoint to make presentations about rocks and minerals over the
summer.  It's good for displaying words, still pictures and animations.
Brendan Ryan

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <389d81a9@news.povray.org> , "Peter Warren" <int### [at] halcyoncom>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of planning an 'art' show of my work.
> > I plan to have a screen with my images
> > repeating.
>
> Maybe a PowerPoint presentation?  Would have the benefit that free viewers
> are available for at least a few platforms.
>
>        Thorsten
>
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