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Is it possible to terminate a diaporama automatically with a dia which is not the last one ?

My problem :

To create a diaporama with 2 possibilities (one in french and the other in english), I created 2 series of dias (1 for each langage) and a first dia with buttons with a link to a particular dia.

I gave a duration of 3600 sec (1 hour) for the last dia of my first serie so that the second serie doesn't automatically starts.

Is it right so or is there a more elegant solution to this problem ?

Regards

Patrick

Strasbourg, France

Sorry for my poor english !

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Bonjour, Patrick,

Welcome again to the Forum! (your English is fine, by the way - much better than my French!

The method of "terminating" that you described is the same as what I use when I want to pause the show waiting for some action by the viewer. You could even add a couple of buttons - one to really end the show ("exit"), and one to take the viewer back to the beginning, and then there would be even less of a chance of a timeout.

Of course buttons will only work on a non-synchronized show. (until Igor provides us with some other possibilities via a navigation bar for synched shows :) )

The "more sophisticated" way to do this would be to create three shows: a single-slide introduction show, a French version, and a separate English version. The last two could be selected via buttons on the introduction show. Then this would also work with synchronized shows.

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The method of "terminating" that you described is the same as what I use when I want to pause the show waiting for some action by the viewer. You could even add a couple of buttons - one to really end the show ("exit"), and one to take the viewer back to the beginning, and then there would be even less of a chance of a timeout.

Hi Alrobin

I posted a diaporama ("112") at Michel's site (fanaphot.com) with a choice for the language.

The french solution end's with a dia having a long duration and ... uniformly black ;-((

As ending automatically the show is not possible, your proposal with buttons on this dia is much more elegant than mine.

Of course , with more than one diaporama .... no problem !

Thank you very much for your suggestions.

Patrick

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Patrick

the show locked me up i thought until i read this entry - had quite a time stpping thisgs -- esc would not work -- it took a bit for my xp taskmanager to id it. so if you could enable the esc to kill show would solve the "emergency" i had .

great show nonetheless

ken

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so if you could enable the esc to kill show would solve the "emergency" i had .

Hi Ken

Esc key work's without problem to stop the diaporama.

Anyway, as far as I know, it's not possible to disable the Esc key with PTE

Patrick

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Patrick

well it would not stop the show -- i was stuck with a black screen

project options -- main -- there is a box there re esc

am in process of downloading some big files -- will retry later -- do not want to crash at this point

ken

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