MMF as PPT

[jackdaniels]

Hi board,

Just wondering whether there is a way to use MMF to present something, like a powerpoint presentation. For example when the enter key is pressed, I need a line of text to appear, and then when the enter key is pressed again I need the initial line of text to disappear, and the next line to appear and so forth.

Any help would be great.

[Pixelthief]

You could design each 'level' frame to appear like the corresponding frame in powerpoint. Then in each frame's event editor, put a condition like "Upon Pressing Enter: Next Frame". For having things like lines of text appearing and disappearing, you can alter this by having instead a counter inside the level. Each time you press Enter, you add 1 to the counter. Then, put in events like this:

*Upon Pressing Enter
=Set Counter + 1

*While Counter = 0
Text 1 = visible
Text 2 = invisible
Text 3 = invisible

*While Counter = 1
Text 1 = invisible
Text 2 = visible
Text 3 = invisible

*While Counter = 2
Text 1 = invisible
Text 2 = invisible
Text 3 = visible

*While Counter = 3
Next Frame

[jackdaniels]

Ah thanks alot, I knew there had to be a simple solution like that.

[pinacoladaxb]

Or alternatively, you could store all of your information in a string object, with each new point in a new paragraph. Then in the events editor:

*Paragraph(String)=npara(String)
*Upon pressing Enter
-Next Frame
*Upon pressing Enter
-Sting: Next paragraph

[jackdaniels]

Ooo that method sounds too complicated for a meathead like me, lol....An additional question, is there a way to perhaps reverse a command (in case the user missed the last point?).

[Dynasoft]

You'd just have to put in the opposite of what you did.

So if you had:
User presses "enter"
-Next frame

You would also add:
User presses "backspace"
-Previous frame

[jackdaniels]

I was aiming to keep all the presentation on one frame...?

[Dynasoft]

Then reverse whatever you ARE doing.

For the "add 1 to counter" example above, you'd just subtract from the counter instead.
For the "next paragraph" example, you'd use "previous paragraph".

If you hide one thing and show another when you go forward, show that thing and hide the other when you go backwards.

[jackdaniels]

Cool I understand now, thanks for your help!