RE: FLASH: Using FSCommand to automate in standalone

[Michiel Verkoijen]

You can do whatever you want with Flash, but director might even be

easier. I have designed several CD's with director and named the

Powerpoint presentations .pps so they would autostart, even got the

powerpoint to run on any PC which did not even have any powerpoint stuff

installed. Let me know if you have any specific problems.


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Subject: FLASH: Using FSCommand to automate in standalone



Ok, here is a new one on me. One of my long-time clients just called me,

and 

he had an interesting question. He has several employees that do 

presentations using only powerpoint. Now, when his "presenters" load up 

powerpoint, they have to go through a series of simple keystrokes to get


powerpoint started, such as loading the ppt presentation, checking and 

changing the default screen, then hitting the F5 key to start the ppt 

presentation on the secondary monitor (in this case a projector). Now,

some 

of these guys arent exactrly computer savvy, so here is the question.

Using 

Flash, and the FSCommands for a standalone player, is it possible to

make a 

CD with the .inf autorun, and a .exe that performsx the keystrokes for

the 

presenter, and when it is finished performing the keystrokes have it

either 

"auto-quit" or have it stop and hide in the background? I know i could

build 

one that would automatically run the .ppt presentations, but i dont know

how 

to make it "press" F5 and switch to the next one (there are 3

presentations 

that will need to be loaded in a certain order)

If anyone knows how this could be accomplished, please let me know.


Regards,


       John Ward

www.DigitalRodder.com


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