bobpearson

Hi, I have now had some success!!. With a blank slide selected I went to O&A and added a frame object and then within it an image object - the slide I wanted to show. I made this the main object and changed the action on mouse button to run slide sequence. The mode button does not disappear but when I run a hand now appears over the image. Strangely its necessary to press the LEFT mouse button while the hand is available to call the slide sequence - which then runs. Getting there! Thanks Bob

I take it that the fact that my mode button does not disappear and the cursor does not change to a hand clearly indicates that the slide is not being treated as an object. How do I make it the active object. AS I say the name of the slide appears in the object list. If I add a frame I get the slide and frame shown as objects. With the frame selected -shown as blue - I can add the link but no hand appears and mode button dosn't disappear and of course the .exe file is not called. How do I ensure the slide is treated as an object. I have searched the help file but nothing jumps out. Bob

Unanswered question: I don't see a hand symbol! The link object is the slide. It is shown as the main object. If I add a frame round it to create a second object and try linking to the .exe file from the frame object it still does not work. With the frame object selected I still do not see a hand symbol. Bob

Hi again, I have looked very closely at your screen grab in email 21. The differences are you are calling an application and not closing. Your Common tab did not have the mode button. I have tried exactly what you demonstrate, the application being the .exe file. My program does not make the call. There must be some global setting that I do not know about. Please remember in my original slide talk 2 of the 3 calls to .exe files worked, it was only the middle call that always failed. Now having started a new minimal project I can't get any call to work. I have tried left click - nothing happens. The left and right arrows work to move the previous /next slide and right click moves to next slide. Bob

AAB3ULtp2U1S-jZ608HuVZoCa.html Hi again, above is the link to dropbox. Hopefully you can see the screen grabs. You refer to an example '21' I don't know where this example is located. We clearly have a misunderstanding of what I am trying to do, and indeed did successfully in an earlier version of PtoE some years ago. I have now created a slide SHOW with 3 slides changing the project option to specify control from the keyboard, ie each slide remains on the screen indefinitely until there is a key press. For each slide I am leaving the slide control to the default setting. Now with the middle slide selected I go into "Objects and Animation" and select the Common Tab. At the top of the tab is shown the name of the slide. Immediately below this is "action on mouse click" by default set to None. Clicking on the None button produces a dropdown menu from which I select "Run slide show with return". This opens a browse box in explorer to select a file. All the files are in the same folder and I choose the .exe file I wish to run. The link is automatically copied into the tabs browse window showing it is linked to the correct executable file. However, when I run the project when I get to the middle slide and right click to move on no call is made to the .exe file. I hope this is clearer. Many thanks Bob

The object is a previously created .exe file of a slide sequence syncronised to music. Selecting <object & animation> for a slide in the slide show where I want the sequence to appear brings up the 3 tabs properties/Common/Animation. Selecting Common gives the name of the slie in the slide show. Below this is action on mouse click. I set this to "Run slideshow with return". This brings up a browse window where I select the .exe file of the slide sequence I wish to run. I leave transparent to selection unticked and leave mode set to "Fit to slide". What else do I need to do? On the question of Dropbox I have uploaded my screen grabs to Dropbox. Unfortunately my dropbox and email are on a Mac and I have been unable to find a way of getting the link to my images in Dropbox into the forum mail which is on my windows machine. Bob

Hi I have created a slide show with just 3 images. A right click on the mouse or the right arrow is required to move from the first image to the next. I have linked to a .exe sequence in to O&A common tab for each slide. The .exe files are in the same folder as the slide show .exe. Now NONE of the sequences are called. I must have a fundamental misunderstanding how this is meant to work! I have put screen grabs in dropbox but have failed to paste a link into this forum unfortunately. Bob

Hi again, Reading some of the previous replies it looks like it is thought that I am running from a screen menu. I am not running from a static menu. The aim is that as i move through the slide talk going to each next slide with the right mouse button and at 3 points in the talk the mouse button starts a continuous slide show with music. So for each position in the slide talk that I want the slide show to start I have gone into O&A mode for the slide and in in the common tab set on right mouse to run slide show with return. The slide shows are all in the same folder as the slide talk and I am giving the full path name for each slide show. As I have indicated, positions 1 and 3 never fail to call the slideshow - the slideshow can be set to any one of the three, but the middle position never calls a slideshow. As I have said earlier this all has to be tried from the .exe of the talk, preview mode never makes a call. Looking forward to a simple explanation. Thanks Bob

Hi, I still have a problem. I have created a slide talk, it has 3 positions posn1, posn2 and postn 3 where I want to call 1 of 3 slide shows, slidsh1,slidsh2 and slidsh 3. All 3 slideshows have been created by PtoE 8 and are in the same folder. They are all called identically (Run slideshow with return). All 3 slideshows can be called ok from posn1 and posn3. None of the slideshows respond to a call at posn2.. The call is identical, I have tried calling from a different slide but nothing works. I am at a total loss. Any suggestions? Bob

Hi - its working. Selecting the common tab in Object and Animation, setting Action on Mouse click to Run slideshow with return and then pointing to the slideshow.exe did work - but NOT in preview. Once the whole slide talk is a .exe it works fine. Thanks very much for your help. Bob

Thanks for you help. I have created .exe files of the 3 slide sequences. In the slide talk I have gone to the slide prior to where I want the slide sequence to start and O&A slected the Common tab selected run slideshow with return and supplied the link to the .exe file. Unfortunately nothing happens, when I press the right arrow on the keyboard it misses out the slide sequence and jumps to the next slide. What am I missing? Thanks Bob

I am returning to PtoE (8.0) after a number of years away. I know there was a way of doing the following but it was clumsy and I can't remember it! Perhaps there is now a simple way. I wish to give a slide talk with the next slide controlled by the right arrow key on the keyboard. I want to include within the talk 3 slide av's synchronised to music with the av triggered by the right arrow key, and when the av completes returned to the next slide in the slide talk. What is the current best proctice to achieve this? May thanks