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Swipe command?

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 1:01 am
by frozenwaffles
Hi, so using airscan I would like a presenter to be able to 'swipe' on the screen to the right for slide advance and swipe to the left to go back in a slide deck...
now I would like widget designer to send a command to PowerPoint or Keynote...is this possible?
the presentation would be shown through the DVI input card on my Server LT.

Re: Swipe command?

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 3:14 am
by azman
Hi Jeremy,

Have a look at PB Spark (download available under system tools),
It allows you to send keystroke commands to a computer via manager, check out the help file.
I generally create dedicated sequence in manager with commands (with cue points) then a button in widget with SeqGotoCue,SeqID,CueID script & push the command that way, it's pretty solid.
Powerpoint/Keynote machine has to be on network & running PB spark.

How to translate the airscan data to trigger the keystrokes (or cues) will be the challenge.

Hope that helps

Cheers

Aaron

Re: Swipe command?

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 3:22 am
by frozenwaffles
Hello, thanks for the tips Aaron. yeah I've worked out that Spark is the magic to get the presentation laptop to respond...will let you know how I go with my findings :)

Re: Swipe command? (Spark for Mac?)

PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:32 am
by frozenwaffles
So does anyone know how to get this command to a keynote machine?
Coolux - can you make Spark for Mac please??? :)

Re: Swipe command?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 2:38 pm
by Patrick Verhey
Hi,

to make spark working on a mac is on the list for a long time already, but unfortunately it brings up a lot of issue and we could not solve those until today.

Regarding to this article http://www.theguardian.com/technology/b ... skeynoteon there is web based keynote clone which should run on Windows.

The other idea, not very nice, but working: setup a Windows computer with spark and vnc which is connected to a Mac running Keynote. You basically only need to force a mouse click on the VNC to go to the next slide.

Hope that helps

Patrick