PTE 4.20 "Go To Any Slide"

[Bill Artman]

I was reading the paragraph below in Igor's Admin message announcing all of the new features he is working on for 4.20. Does the "go to any slide" mean that you can type in a slide number or somehow specfy a slide number and PTE will go to and display that slide?

"+ Improved synchronized mode of presentation. Now you can fully control presentation in this mode; go to any slide; use Navigation bar; Pause feature. To activate this mode set checked "Permit the control ("Project options | Main tab)."

I am a professional photographer using PTE for my wedding customers and this "go to any slide" feature would be fantastic. Igor thanks for all of you hard work through the years on PTE. I'm also looking forward to the DVD capability

[nobeefstu]

Bill

Im not totally sure what Igor had in mind ... but I suspect the Go to Any Slide enables the use within defined Object functions.

I dont believe the function is going to be implemented during runtime from input by the user. Unless you made a table of contents page or similar display ... the user would be randomly jumping about your presentation unknowingly. This would promote or create great frustration to the user by them getting inevitably lost ... and most likely do more harm than good for your purpose.

Igor has mentioned a new improved navigation bar with additional functions ... Im sure we will soon see once v4.20 is 100% complete of its features.

[alrobin]

... but I suspect the Go to Any Slide enables the use within defined Object functions.

Stu,

That's correct, all the Object functions are now available in sync mode as well.

Bill, just add an object button to your slide and program it so that it will go to a particular slide. You can add text to it to notify the user of it's intended action.