Hi Andre,

Looks good - any plans for a Solaris x86 version?

Thanks

Keith

Posted by Keith on May 21, 2008 at 03:41 PM CEST #

COOL and very useful. Now after the extension is installed, HOW do I activate it and set it?

Posted by Ben Pashkoff on May 21, 2008 at 04:11 PM CEST #

@Keith: The Solaris versions (x86 and Sparc) do exist. We just had technical problems with uploading them. I am afraid we have to wait till next week, when the colleague normally doing the uploading is back from vacation.

@Ben: Once the extension is installed it starts automatically WHEN there are at least two displays. On a Mac you have to make sure that not both displays show the same screen: go to System Preferences->Display->Arrangement and uncheck Mirror Displays.

When there is only one display then the Presenter Screen is not displayed (otherwise it might obscure the actual presentation.)

Posted by Andre on May 21, 2008 at 05:06 PM CEST #

Ben, you simply need to use "Multiple monitors" in the "Slide show settings...."

Looks really nice!

Posted by Alexis MP on May 21, 2008 at 05:08 PM CEST #

Cool, have you also screenshots how it looks on Windows XP? With this grey in grey theme, it looks as dull as in the time before OOo supported native widgets.

Regards Jörg

Posted by 62.143.197.93 on May 21, 2008 at 07:13 PM CEST #

Will it be merged in to OOo 3.0?

Posted by Isriya on May 21, 2008 at 07:19 PM CEST #

I'm really pleased you've released this - but would have loved it two weeks ago! I presented on our adoption of StarOffice to a group of Dutch government organisations in Utrecht, and it would have been very useful to dispense with paper notes and read them on screen instead. I will download and begin testing it now!

Posted by Gavin Beckett on May 22, 2008 at 12:11 AM CEST #

Hi Andre,

coincidental I had to give a talk at the Uni Bremen yesterday (see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SZ/TOI_Events), I downloaded and installed the Mac OS X version yesterday morning, and want to say that this really really is a great tool for presenters, it worked flawlessly.

Very well done!

Kay

Posted by Kay Ramme on May 22, 2008 at 09:33 AM CEST #

OK, re-installed v3.0.0dev, opened a preso, connected to a projector, and NOTHING. and BTW my 3.0.0 crashes when I try to open more than one file....

Posted by Ben Pashkoff on May 22, 2008 at 02:10 PM CEST #

I've been waiting so long for this... I tested it yesterday on Windows and It's great. I'll give it a hard test when I give an ODF lecture next week.

I found one bug, though. In the second view (the one with the notes display), when I have in the current slide an animation that moves an object from the right border of the slide, it shows as moving from the space between the notes display and the slide preview to the latter in the view.

Posted by Cristian Rojas on May 23, 2008 at 10:34 PM CEST #

I like the Presenter Console.

Though I experienced that it seems to crash when disconnecting the second monitor during presentation (Windows Vista).

Posted by Andi on May 31, 2008 at 10:25 AM CEST #

Hello, I definitely love this extension since I make lots of presentations. However, it doesn't work for me at all. My window is XP. I downloaded the extension, installed properly, lunched or made new slides, then went to Slide Show (laptop+ex-monitor or laptop+projector). I got exactly two identical screens when switching using Alt-Tab. What is the possible problem? I appreciate very much if anyone can give a hand since I need to give a very important presentation soon. Thanks in advance.

Posted by Tim H. on June 01, 2008 at 03:54 AM CEST #

@Ben: I am sorry that it does not work for you, yet. Can you provide more information (OS, details about what happens/does not happen)? Please submit an issue for the crash, see below for how to do that.

@Christian: This clipping error is one of the known issues. One of the harder ones. I am working on that.

@Andi: Can you provide more information (does it work at all for you) and submit an issue? That would be very helpful.

@Tim: This sounds like a problem that I know from the Mac version: the two displays are configured to show the same content. To the presenter console it looks like there is only one display. But that does not explain why you can switch between two identical (fullscreen?) windows. Strange. Again, could you submit an issue for this?

Submitting an issue:
You can submit issues for your problems with the issue tracker at
http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/submission_gateway.html
You have to login and proceed to the Impress application page to do that.
I am very interested in fixing these problems but I need your help to do that: please supply whatever information you think is relevant.

Alternatively you can post a more detailed description on dev@graphics.openoffice.org.

Thank you for your help

Posted by Andre Fischer on June 02, 2008 at 10:27 AM CEST #

Thanks. I figured out the problem. One has to go to Windows Control Panel and change configurations in Display properties. It works fabulous. I love it so much. Thanks for the nice extension. It should be incorporated into the OpenOffice automatically.

Posted by Tim H. on June 03, 2008 at 08:41 PM CEST #

Hi, I've not been able to test this yet, because my free time for testing doesn't coincide with being near a projector. This made me think that a shortcut key to toggle into presenter screen view, even without a projector connected, would be very useful. I would use it to practice my presentations - also often done without a projector attached. Is it possible that you could develop this ability?

Posted by Gavin Beckett on June 10, 2008 at 10:45 AM CEST #

Hi guys.

Has anybody managed to get it work on Linux?
I just configured my ATI card in dual-head mode (that works). After opening oo.o 3.0beta, I choose Monitor 2 in Slide Show Settings...->Multiple monitors->Presentation monitor and press F5. For a moment (~0.5s) I can see blackout on Monitor 2 and after that oo.o crashes with the following message:
X-Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode: 155
Minor opcode: 24
Resource ID: 0x26027b3
Serial No: 120408 (120408)
These errors are reported asynchronously,
set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging
-----------------------

setting that variable doesn't give me any more info.
Any idea?

Posted by Kruno Tomorad on June 14, 2008 at 01:20 PM CEST #

Weird. I took another presentation and it works. It crashes regulary but at least I can see presenter screen, though on the other display I can only see the background of the presentation, actual contents is missing.

Posted by Kruno Tomorad on June 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM CEST #