11/30/2011 5:54:53 PM

This looks to be a very useful improvement... thanks for the effort.

12/1/2011 6:26:39 AM

Looking forward to trying this out.

Looks like it might end up cramping the database and program panels,however.

Looks like we'll have to get serious about the 24" monitor in portrait mode.

12/1/2011 4:38:14 PM

Posted By Joel Osborn on 01 Dec 2011 06:26 AM
Looking forward to trying this out.

Looks like it might end up cramping the database and program panels,however.

Looks like we'll have to get serious about the 24" monitor in portrait mode.

If we could ever get the wish for modular control panel granted (Floating panels in the control window), portrait mode wouldn't be necessary.

12/2/2011 12:22:20 AM

With using the arrange horizontally option for the database and program preview panels, it might work well in landscape mode.

12/3/2011 8:17:56 PM

The way I want my control panel set up, all three sections need to be about the same heigth. If I could move the Preview panel to the same row as either the Plug-ins panel or the Songs/Program panels, I could shrink the "Current" panel to increase the other two. 



Of course, it looks like with this feature, you would want the "Current" panel to be the same size as, or larger than, the Songs/Program panels. This means I would want the option of putting the Plug-ins panel on the same row as Songs/Programs, and then make it work vertically instead of horizontally. 



Until the Control Screen can be made modular, it looks like Portrait would be the only option. I don't see how you could effectively run in Landscape Mode. 



Just thought of this possibility... Make the Plug-ins panel an Auto-Hide, so of like the Windows desktop Taskbar. ???



Here is a look of what I could probably live with if I couldn't have modular panels.

12/5/2011 6:37:36 AM

We're not currently using any of the plug ins, so that's not an issue for us.

12/5/2011 7:14:49 AM

One thing to keep in mind is that with the new features you really don't need the preview panel at all.  You get far more detail out of the current control panel with previews than you do in the preview panel.  This may not help with the spacing you are discussing since the preview and current control panels are on the same row but it will give you more room to spread the current control horizontally. 

12/5/2011 7:38:22 AM

How well does this work with powerpoints? Do you get separate screen images for each step in an animated slide show?

12/5/2011 10:44:14 AM

This feature does work well with PowerPoint slideshows but there are only full slide previews in PowerPoint when using the new preview features.  This is the same as before as far as previewing individual steps goes as there is no ability to capture or "see" the individual slide steps for PowerPoint. 

This exposes another advantage of using the Slideshow Builder instead of PowerPoint - all steps are visible for Slideshow Builder slides in all the new (and existing) preview features.

12/5/2011 11:53:22 AM

Don't get me started on the advantages of SlideShow Builder over Powerpoint... 

If you could develop a full PPT import with animations and transitions, I'd never run Powerpoint on my projection machine again.

But, of course, then you'd always be playing catch up with Microsoft to keep that feature current. IBM tried playing that game with Microsoft (OS/2 vs. Windows) and lost.

And, of course, we'd have to discuss the things you can do in Powerpoint that you can't do in SlideShow Builder.

But that would be a completely different thread.