#laptop & interactive
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Two quick questions regarding Animator Studio:
1. can Animator Studio be used to develop an interactive presentation? One
where particular icons can be pointed to and cliked by the viewer to initiate
different animations?
2. can the Animator Studio bundle be configured to run a presentation (with
sound) on a laptop, using only the pc speaker?
Thanks in advance,
T. Chris Martin (PRC)
>> 1. can Animator Studio be used to develop an interactive presentation? One
where particular icons can be pointed to and cliked by the viewer to initiate
different animations? <<
absolutely. as a totally simple example, you can even use the Windows Media
player (several sessions open at a time) to do this. the Scriptor can be
keyboard controlled for playback of animated slides as well.
>> 2. can the Animator Studio bundle be configured to run a presentation (with
sound) on a laptop, using only the pc speaker? <<
depends on the windows drivers you have. the default driver SPEAKER.DRV can be
configured with clever INI settings… i use my laptop in this way sometimes,
but use a soundcard whenever possible as PC speaker quality is dreadful.
-dave
Thanks for the reply.
I gave up on the laptop speaker after only 50% success. The 16 bit sounds are
just so pleasent on a real system that I dropped this issue.
Insofar as the interactive presentation…we are trying, believe it or not,
FoxPro. Radio buttons can be configured to initiate an executable and we are
attaching scripted Animation Player code. I will look at the media player,
however.
Thanks again,
Chris
>> I gave up on the laptop speaker after only 50% success. The 16 bit sounds
are just so pleasent on a real system that I dropped this issue. <<
agreed. PC Speaker is a last resort. <g>
>> Insofar as the interactive presentation…we are trying, believe it or not,
FoxPro. Radio buttons can be configured to initiate an executable and we are
attaching scripted Animation Player code. I will look at the media player,
however. <<
kewl! i get what you're doing to. neat approach!
-dave
Thanks.
One big problem, however, and if you have any ideas I won't see them in time
(off Thurs. am for the presentation) -> Using the Animator Scriptor, we can't
get the script to quit looping after initated. I want it to run the script
once and then exit out of the Player. Too bad, to. We made a neat 256 color
*.bmp with a nice full screen title, bullet titles (or button titles), cool
*.bmp files for the icons on the buttons, and each button initates a separate
script file.
Oh well…thanks again for you help.
Chris