Hey guys. I need to take a PowerPoint slideshow (exported as images of course) and load it into my LS422. Let's say it's 10 images. From there, I want to be able to call up a given slideshow (eventually, I will have multiple slideshows on this particular unit) via a UDP message. I would need to assign two additional UDP messages, one for slide forward, one for slide backwards.
I've searched on this and I can't seem to come up with anything that seems to fit my use-case. Any help?
brightauthor had a widget called an image list. You can add all your images to the image list. You an check a box in the imagelist so it automatically advances after x seconds. So it works like a playllist. In the imagelist widget, you can set an event to advance to the next imagelist item and to go back. It's a predefined option. THe only problem is that it doesn't take udp directly but that's easy to work around.
You can listen for a udp command in another zone, back or next, and then send a zone message when it's received. The image list can go forward a back using zone messages as a trigger.
https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/content/udp-zonemessage-imagelist.zip
I've included a sample project, and images.
This worked great.
Is there any way that after the last slide it can return to the original state? Right now I have an image as my "idle" screen. On the UDP input I specified, it starts the image list and I can go next or back on the slides. I also added a "stop" event that takes it back to the idle image. BrightAuthor won't allow me to apply "media end" to the image list.
Also, I'm not sure what to make of this, if I use my STOP UDP event (which simply exits the image list and goes back to idle.jpg), if I then restart the slideshow, it starts where it left off instead of at 1.jpg. Is there any way around this?
If you open the image list widget, there's a check box to start from the beginning when you enter the widget. There's a feature request to add a new event that's an end of list event but it's not added yet.
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