presentations from a tiddlywiki?

[Bob Paige]

I wonder if such a thing as I am envisioning already exists, or if
anyone can point me to how it could be done.

I'm thinking of two parts:
1. full-screen presentation from a TW (i.e. powerpoint for TW)
2. driving a secondary screen

I have seen CSS examples that provide the first, so I expect this is
not too hard. The challenge (I think) would be to provide some
mechanism to easily switch from 'edit mode' (normal TW mode) to
'presentation mode' (single-tiddler displayed full-screen).

The possibility of the second is unclear to me. My use case is this: I
have two monitors. On one monitor I want the full-screen presentation
displayed. On the other, I want a list of the slides (i.e. tiddlers or
portions of tiddlers) to be displayed. This second screen is the
'control' screen.

Does such a beastie already exist? Any pointers on how to make it possible?

Thanks.

--
Bobman

[FND]

> full-screen presentation from a TW (i.e. powerpoint for TW)

Saq and myself had looked into that a while ago (codename was
TiddlySlides) - the main problem was coming up with a decent style sheet
(full screen height is a bit tricky to implement).

However, I don't have a URL handy for this right now (will ask Saq later).
Though, with TW's latest core changes, we would probably take a
different route now - simply creating a separate theme (PageTemplate,
ViewTemplate, StyleSheet) with some added functionality.

> driving a secondary screen

Neither CSS nor JavaScript give you access to such basic system-level
settings as screen configuration (for good reason).
However, a workaround with an additional pop-up window for the slides
index might make this possible (both windows would have to be manually
positioned, of course).

-- F.

[Xavier Vergés]

Bob,

Check Paulo Soares's SlideShowPlugin
http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~psoares/addons.html#SlideShowExample

I use it from webrunner/prism, or Firefox in full screen mode (F11).

Clicking on the "1/7" in the lower right of the presentation will give
you access to the list of slides.

The slides are defined in a single tiddler, but there is no problem
using the <<tiddler>> macro within it.

-Xv

[Bob Paige]

I like it! It is close what what I want, but not quite. I'll play
around with it later, and perhaps glean a few ideas from the code.

One additional requirement I had in mind (but had not stated earlier)
was to use other tiddlers as the source of each slide or collection of
slides. For example, a given TW would have many tiddlers that are
stock slides (or multiple slides per tiddler) and other tiddlers that
are the 'schedules'. In a schedule you specify the ordering of the
other tiddlers.

As you say, the <tiddler> macro should work, and that may be all I
need, but I'll have to play with it some more.

Thanks again!

--
Bobman

[Bob Paige]

I'm fine with manually positioning the windows. Any thoughts on using
secondary windows?

Ideally, the secondary window is the slide content. This way I could
potentially modify the content of other slides while displaying one
slide.

I'm probably really reaching here, but it would be extra cool if I
could display multiple secondary windows that all show the same
content, but with different stylesheets. The thought is this: I may
have one projector displaying the slides with background images for
the audience, with another projector displaying the text in a more
readable (i.e. less cluttered) style for the presentor to read.
Assumes a different person is actually switching slides.

--
Bobman