Sophie looked very promising... Unfortunately it was not open source and died before porting it to Java (following the Illuminati conspiracy of porting Smalltalk break througts to "inferior" technology, as happens once and again :-P).
Offray On 09/11/17 02:40, Norbert Hartl wrote: > Everytime I read such discussions I wonder what happened to the Sophie > code. There be might be some gems in it to achieve what you want > > Norbert > > Am 09.11.2017 um 03:49 schrieb Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas > <offray.l...@mutabit.com <mailto:offray.l...@mutabit.com>>: > >> I remember using CompendiumNG some time ago, but not for >> presentations. Hopefully, we will have something better, with >> metamedium capabilities, including embedding other media and make it >> programmable in Pharo, without going to the "disastrous" slide metaphor. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Offray >> >> >> On 08/11/17 20:31, Andrew Glynn wrote: >>> >>> I agree with you – on the rare occasions I do still do presentations >>> I tend to use CompendiumNG, which is similar to a mind map but can >>> contain any content, including multimedia content. It was an Open >>> University project but was used sufficiently elsewhere that when the >>> Open University decided they were done with it the project was >>> forked and continued by others. >>> >>> >>> >>> It’s written in Java, currently I believe there’s no binary although >>> it’s easy to build. If you just wanted the installer jar to try it >>> out though let me know. >>> >>> >>> >>> Honestly though I’d probably still use Director if it weren’t for >>> Adobe’s pricing. >>> >>> >>> >>> Andrew Glynn >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >>> Windows 10 >>> >>> >>> >>> *From: *Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <mailto:offray.l...@mutabit.com> >>> *Sent: *Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:45 AM >>> *To: *pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> >>> *Subject: *Re: [Pharo-users] Writing "powerpoint" like presentations >>> in Pharo? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 07/11/17 19:39, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: >>> >>> > Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2 wrote >>> >>> >> The idea of slides seems >>> >>> >> pretty anachronistic/boring for making presentations. >>> >>> > Amen, brother! Alan Kay would be proud :) >>> >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> Maybe. I refer the whole aesthetics of slides (even the ones with >>> >>> animations or simulations). You go in slide at the time, bullet point by >>> >>> bullet point, loosing context and perspective. My usual approach is mind >>> >>> maps. In [1] you can see the exported SVG version of the one I use in a >>> >>> Grafoscopio workshop. Source code is in [2]. >>> >>> >>> >>> [1] >>> >>> http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/Docs/En/Talks/Overview/grafoscopio-mapa.svg >>> >>> [2] >>> >>> http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/Docs/En/Talks/Overview/grafoscopio-mapa.mm >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >>> >>> Offray >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>
