screenshow with hotfolder

[Michael Scheck]

Hi everyone!
I am looking for a piece of software that shows images (pixel-files)
from within a folder as a full-screen and looping screen-show. Now
that isn´t really a problem, most image viewers do this. The trick is
that after showing all images it should update the list of files in
the folder, and by that making a sort of "hotfolder".

Until now I didn´t find any software that does this trick, maybe
somebody on thís newsgroup has a hint what to look at.

Or, since this is the PPT-newsgroup, maybe there is a way of using
Powerpoint and scripting in some way. Does anybody have an idea to
this?

Michael Scheck.

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

Hi Michael,

I'm fairly certain that this could be scripted in PPT, but it'd be a
moderately tricky project, not something you'd want to tackle your first
time into the VBA waters, so to speak.

I haven't heard of any existing macros/scripts to do this either.

Would it be possible to use one of the image viewers within a loop instead?
That is, have a bat file or some other process start it up, show all of the
files within a folder, then quit, then repeat?

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Steve Rindsberg PPT MVP
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[Austin Myers]

If you are running Windows XP there is a niffty tool in Tweak UI to do this.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team