still trying to speed up autostart...

[Guurt]

As I am still trying to speed up autostart with an autorunning CD I figured
that the starting slide should ontain as little as possible so, now it only
contains a text (Sound on? than push the Button!) and a button that starts
the hyperlinked presentation. It takes 10 to 15 seconds less to start! (so
that is pretty o.k.) but when the button is pushed 2 times (inpatient as we
are...) the presentation starts twice!? and the sounds are running closely
twice and it is crazy to hear!!
And some people definitely will hit the button 2 or more times while the cd
is firing up the presentation, so how could I make the button be clickable
only once?
(running from harddisk it works fine, but from CD the button is clickable
several times before the presentation starts and thus, starts with multiple
sessions and sounds...)

anyone?

Thanx!
Guurt

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Guurt -
How do you do it? You cheat Since you already have a button to push to
start the other presentation, give that button an exit animation to make it
disappear when it is clicked. (I'm basing this on a memory that you are
using 2002 or later, correct me if I am wrong.)

Exact steps:
1) Give your button an exit animation (I like slow fade).
2) Right click the button's exit animation and select timing.
3) Set the timing to be triggered by click of itself.

Now, when they click the button to jump, it will slowly fade out - filling
the time until the new presentation appears. And, since the button was
removed with a trigger animation, it won't come back if you return to the
slide.

--
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[Guurt]

Dear Kathy,
As far as I know I do not cheat, I just try to make my presentations 'idiot
proof'.
I have tried several 'exit' animations (or just disappear (immediately) on
click) but on 3 different machines (PIV2400/3000, 1 GHz, WinXP and a
PIII500, 500 MB, Win98) the starting up of the actual presentation (about 30
MB) still takes so much time that I can easily (not trying as fast as
possible but merely imaging how an impatient viewer can react) hit the
button for 5 times and thus make the presentation start 5 times (with the
very funny results...).

Did you try out the solution yourself?

???

Thanx
Guurt

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Sorry for the delay in replying, I was out of town...
Yes, I tried it out - In fact I use it all the time. The triggered animation
should cause the button to disappear as soon as it is clicked. Can you take
a screen shot of your animation task pane for the slide with the button that
starts the presentation and send it to me off the newsgroup? (OR even better
send me the slide that has the button on it as it's own presentation.)
Either of these will help me help you figure out why the button isn't
disappearing the way it should be. Unknot my address to reach me....

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived