Control Popup

PPresenter
Manual
Viewport
control popup

slide control
tag control

 Portable Presenter is a package designed to give presentations. For serious presentations, timing is important: you want to plan your show such that all slides get the time they require.

The full popup is shown on the right. The popup has three parts:

  1. slide control
  2. tag control
  3. some buttons, which I will not describe here.
In the near future, the timing and slide-selection information can be saved and loaded, but this is not yet implemented.

 

Slide Control

The slide control window shows many details about the progress in time of the presentation. Slide control can be part of the popup or shown in the control viewport (depends on the control viewport's -includeControls option).
  • The left column is a list of checkboxes, showing
    • how much time the slide requires (the -reqtime option of slides;
    • whether the slide is selected or not.

  • The number on the bottom in the left column displays the total time required for the selected slide. The color shows how this relates to the total available time (the -totaltime option of show new().

  • The central column shows the names of the slides. This is a list of radiobuttons: on slide is on: currently on display. You can directly select one of the slides by pushing the button, even if the slide is not selected.

  • Below the central column is written how many of the slides are selected in the first column.

  • The right column shows for each slide
    • how much time is spent on each of the slides, and
    • in color, how this relates to the required time.

  • The number on the bottom in right column shows
    • the total time used, with
    • in color how this relates to the total time available for the show. Again, the -totaltime option of show new().
The colors are defined by the -progressColors option of the control viewport.

Tag Control

The tagcontrol can be part of the popup or shown in the control viewport (depends on the control viewport's -includeControls option).

When a slides is added, you can provide the -tag or -tags option. All the used tags are shown in the tag-control window.

With this window, you can select or unselect tagged groups of slides, for instance if you want to use a sub-set of the slide for a shorter presentation, or have a few different slides for a group of managers than for a group of technicians.

With the -tag option of show new() you can start with a certain selection. All slides have at least tag 'ALL'.

The parts of the window:

  • the tags found,
  • how often they were found,
  • how many of the slides with the tag are currently selected (see slide-control window, described above),
  • how many of the slides with the tag are currently disabled.
The Set and Clear columns are buttons: if you push them the related slides will be selected, resp. disabled. The result of this is immediately shown on all places.
 
Portable Presenter is written and maintained by Mark Overmeer. Copyright (C) 2000-2002, Free Software Foundation FSF.