Click and Drag during presentation?

[markg5]

I want to have a diagram on a slide with the labels around in - in the wrong
order. Students then click on a label and drag it to the correct place. In
any order. Is this possible?

BTW ... PPT2004, but will be running it either under PPT2000 or the windows
pptviewer software.

Thanks

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

While the presentation is running it can not be done. But if the
presentation is in editing mode then you could do it.

An interesting idea, though. The powerpoint development team might see
your post and come up with a way to do it in a future version of powerpoint.

-Jim

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

While the presentation is running it can not be done. But if the
presentation is in editing mode then you could do it.

An interesting idea, though. The powerpoint development team might see
your post and come up with a way to do it in a future version of powerpoint.

Actually, it probably can be done. Not in the viewer, but in PPT. Shyam and I
helped a guy at PPTLive do almost exactly this.

You don't even want to *think* about how insanely complex it is to do, though.

Think of a grid of vertical and horizontal rectangles, each assigned a
mouseover action setting. The mouseover runs a macro that figures out which
vertical and horizontal rectangle the mouse just passed and thereby "locates"
the mouse cursor.

I don't recall exactly how we got it to pick up and put down shapes, once the
"where" part was solved, the rest was simpler.

Not something you'd do for a little casual fun.


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[markg5]

We thought of that!

You don't even want to *think* about how insanely complex it is to do, though.

Think of a grid of vertical and horizontal rectangles, each assigned a
mouseover action setting. The mouseover runs a macro that figures out which
vertical and horizontal rectangle the mouse just passed and thereby "locates"

the mouse cursor.
GULP!


Not something you'd do for a little casual fun.

Or even "at all" - our network manager is paranoid about macros; they ar all
disabled. Thanks anyway.

Now, I think this is possible in html..

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

If you can't use macros, you're missing out on a lot of really cool
educational stuff. Look at my Web site:

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

There is a pointer to a dragging function in the More Tricks section
(trick #8), and trick #5 is not as sophisticated, but it allows some
movement of objects as well. However, this (and everything else at my
site) requires macros.

I don't think that you can do what you want with simple HTML; you'll
probably need JavaScript to get it to work.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

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[markg5]

If you can't use macros, you're missing out on a lot of really cool
educational stuff. Look at my Web site:

Will do! Then I'll talk to the bosses! However, I wouldn't hold my breath. At
the moment it takes three PCs on average to print a file over our network!

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

Visiting and bookmarking!

I don't think that you can do what you want with simple HTML; you'll
probably need JavaScript to get it to work.

'S right. I have a "tutorial" from a magazine. OK... copy the files and alter
the gfx tags!

Thanks.