[geeks] Desktops

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:01:13PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > > What's wrong with Netscape?  <center><img src=foo><br>caption</center>
> > >
> > > Add "previous" and "next" links at the bottom--what more could you want?
> >  
> > Eek.  If I wanted that, I'd just use WimpyPoint.  I want something a bit
> > more sophisticated that can do forward, back, jump to number, and provide
> > previews of both the current and next slide on seperate monitors.
> > 
> > And it needs to preload the images for fast, seemless transitions.  One
> > must have a sense of pride in the polish of their presentations.
> 
> You could still do that in Netscape with JavaShit.  There are no
> primitives for opening windows on other displays, so you'd have to use
> something Xinerama or position the two auxilliary windows manually.

Just what I need.  A surefire way to crash the presentation software.
 
> However, what you're asking for really shouldn't require all -that- much
> programming.  You're just talking about maintaining three frames and four
> image buffers.

Exactly.  And a gui for rearranging the slides would also be nice.  But
that too should be simple.

But anyway, it probably wouldn't take me more than a few hours to write
a program that would take the slides as a text file listing the file names
for paths, keep 5 or more slides preloaded, go forware on left click,
back on right click, and jump to a typed in number.  To add multihead
support would take even less time.
 
> > I have seem mathematica's symbolic integration solutions be spectacularly
> > wrong.  It all depends on what you are doing though.
> 
> I don't think I'm doing anything complicated enough for it to get things
> totally wrong.  I am not a mathematician.  I don't even play one on
> usenet.

To the extent that I could be construed a mathematitian is totally an interest
in applying it, and the problems aren't really all that hard.  I never need
to symbolically integrate in my limited experience.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd

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