Run external application

[Walter]

Hello, you PTE-users all,

Nowhere in read-files oder tutorials I can find datailed Information to the funktion “Run external application” in Customize Slide.

Obviously the user can only choose the “Advanced option” “Run external application” only to a selected Slide, not to an empty Slide.

As PTE still has problems with sound, fitting exactly to the time for groups of slides, I had the idea to try to build a slide show from more than one PTE- *.exe’s, having three or four *.exe’s, each having a own background-sound which can be made to fit into the slide time. (That ist the solution DOS-programmers formerly used with batch-files)

As a PTE- *.exe file is a “application” and as *.exe’s are called applications, I tried to call up a PTE2.exe from the last Slide of PTE1.exe and PTE3.exe from the last Slide of PTE2 and so on.

This does not work properly, only one or two Slides of the called up File are sometimes shown

Can anyone of you give me hints how to use “Run external application”?

Thank you!

Walter

[boxig]

Maybe what you need is a utility called "AutoPlayer - Play/create chain-linked Shows" made by nobeefstu which you can find here.

[alrobin]

Hi, Walter,

Everything works fine with PTE calling in another slideshow using "Customize Slide" if you have your music set up to cooperate, too. In other words, it must end with the last slide, too.

However, the best way to start a new slideshow after another is to use "Run Application after last slide" in Project Options / Advanced. Be sure to set "Close show after last slide" in "Show Settings", too, unless you want the last slide of the first show to remain on-screen throughout so you can go back to it when the next show is finished playing.

[Igor]

In v4.40 it will possible to play sound comment for the several slides.

Also there is an one internal option which allows for "Run Application after last slide" option be always workable, even if user terminates a slide-show by Esc button. Open your project .pte file, find and set 0 for the next string:

opt_runapponexitiflastslide=0

[alrobin]

Igor,

That's very good news - just in time for the next update of the "PTE-101" tutorial!

Thanks too for the information on "Run application ...". I can probably use that in the "PTE-Adjustor" model. Unless, of course, you include it in v 4.40.