NAME
Win32::IE::SlideShow - show and manipulate your slides on IE
SYNOPSIS
use Win32::IE::SlideShow;
my $show = Win32::IE::SlideShow->new;
$show->set( @slides );
while ( $show->has_next ) {
$show->next;
sleep 1;
}DESCRIPTION
How do you present your slides? PowerPoint isn't so bad, but creating PowerPoint slides is a bit tedious. A bunch of HTML pages (which, of course, can be created by various perl scripts) with a JavaScript controller may be nice if you don't care writing JavaScript, but, as we're perl mongers, why not use perl to control slides, too? Generally speaking, Mech-ing is the best and portable but today I'm going to use Win32::OLE and Internet Explorer to get a bit more complete control.
METHODS
new
creates an object and invokes IE if necessary. You can pass several options to fine tune the appearance of IE:
- FullScreen, TheaterMode
-
Both can be used to hide other windows but TheaterMode shows some controller(s).
- Top, Left, Height, Width
-
adjust size/position of the IE window.
- TopMost
-
If set this to true, IE stays on top.
set
takes an array of complete HTML pages to show, or an array of formatted texts if you provide an on-the-fly converter with set_callback (see below).
set_callback
If you prefer, you can provide a code reference to convert a formatted text into an HTML page on the fly.
total
returns the number of slides, which may be used to iterate the slides, or to provide some progress indicator.
start
moves an internal pointer to the first slide, and shows it, though you usually don't need to use this.
next
shows the slide which the pointer currently points, and moves the pointer to the next slide and returns a current "page" number, which you may want to pass to a progress indicator, or use as a base to move to another page with "goto" method.
has_next
returns true while the object has slide(s) to show yet.
back
shows the previous slide.
page
returns the current page number (which starts from 1).
goto
moves the internal pointer to an appropriate slide and shows it.
quit
closes the IE window (if necessary).
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Kenichi Ishigaki, <ishigaki@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2008 by Kenichi Ishigaki.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.