Sound in presentaions ( wasRe: 75 days and still perking...)

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 27 May 2002 09:19 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2002 08:47:26 -0400
>
> Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> > Maybe... But it woud seem to me to only allow you to play a presentation
> > file, not create one.
> > Either way, I don't have it installed...
>
> I thought it sounded like a viewing thing. So you mean that OO won't
> allow adding an audio file, or that it does not survive the export
> to PP?

It's the adding of an audio file to OO that I'm having difficulty with. My son 
worked with OO for several hours and only managed to generate transition 
sounds, but that's not what he wanted. He was in a time crunch so we decided 
to just use PowerPoint (it was painfully simple with PowerPoint :-( ).
Since then,  I found out how to add an audio file as a background. The problem 
now is that you need to put a big 'ol ugly button on the presentation that, 
once clicked, will play the audio file. And then, once the music starts 
playing, I can't seem to stop it without exiting OO altogether.
In addition, once the button is placed on the presentation, there doesn't seem 
to be a way to edit it (move it, change it's appearance, delete it, assign a 
different WAV file...).
This is with OO build 641, so it may be different with 1.0.0.
I haven't tried exporting to PPT, yet.

Regards, 
Tim

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