I���ll be honest,�� when I had to do presentations I cheated and used Director.�� Granted that was long enough ago that it was still Macromedia Director ���

Andrew

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: Offray Vladimir Luna C��rdenas
Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2017 6:02 PM
To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org
Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Writing "powerpoint" like presentations in Pharo?

Hi Tim,

I did a presentation long time ago (for Squeak Fest 2007) using Etoys (in fact I knew little more that Etoys for teaching, modeling and programming in Smalltalk, and after that, my Smalltalk learning/practice froze until 2014!). Of course, is not what you're looking for, because is not Pharo based, but may be it can give you some ideas. You can download the image from [1] and run it using Squeak 4., from Squeakland, at [2]. Below you can see some screenshots of such presentation, including running a simulation inside it.

[1] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/offray-maestria-tesis/home
[2] http://www.squeakland.org/download/

For my early days, when I discovered Smalltalk back in 2006, to my return 3 years ago, it has been kind of strange to see Smalltalkers making presentations about dynamic mediums using static slides (and not much have changed in 10 years!). I would like to explore using mind mapping as a way of making presentations in Pharo (to support my usual way of presentation using Freeplane[3]).

[3] http://freeplane.org/

Cheers,

Offray

On 01/11/17 13:35, Tim Mackinnon wrote:

Hi - has anyone made anything where you can create a full screen presentation in Pharo with slides with some large text, bullet points and embedded pictures - but then it���s a facade that lets you evaluate items in the slide or jump to any code mentioned?
 
Sort of like what Alan Kay does in the eToys images?
 
I need to do a presentation next week and I always loved it when I was fooled into thinking I was looking at a static���ish powerpoint and then suddenly realised it was a live environment.
 
It doesn���t sound that hard to do something simple - but I���m not sure if I can pull it off in time for my presentation. But am curious if we have something.
 
(For bonus points, GT-Spotter stuff would work in it over top of the presentation to demonstrate simple things)
 
Tim