slideshow: fast navigation

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sailer
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slideshow: fast navigation

Post by sailer »

My slideshows have a large number of slides. Everytime when I start my slideshow for reviewing some parts of the slideshow, I can not start from another slide than the first one. So when my interesting part is far away from the beginning of the slideshow, it will take a long time. My problem could be solved in two ways:

1. When I open a slideshow, I select a file from the file list in the slideshow menu. If a slide is selected the slideshow starts from this position and NOT from the first one.

2. The keys [Page Up/Down] have the same funciton like [Up/Down] for a slideshow. I suggest to give the keys [Page Up/Down] a different function, like in the browser or viewer, so that a certain number of slides are skipped for each key stroge (10% of the slideshow, or a certain number of slides 10..100).
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Post by Dreamer »

1. Perhaps a special context menu option to with such a list, or field to type the image number might solve this problem.

2. These keys have already a special function - previous/next image in folder while other keys (arrows, wheel) switch to random image. Perhaps another keys/shortcuts (Ctrl+Arrows, Ctrl+Page Up/Down).
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Post by sailer »

Thanks Dreamer for your reply!

My experience with page-up/down and and the arrows keys shows only differnce functions of the keys, if you enable "random" in the slideshow menu. Without enabling "random" the keys page-up and page-down have the same function like the keys arrow-left/up arrow-righ/up.

So the keys are open for allocation with different function ?

I never use the random function for slideshow, because I want to use my slideshow for presentations, where random slide sequences will "kill" the attention of your audiance.
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Post by helmut »

Dreamer wrote:... another keys/shortcuts (Ctrl+Arrows, Ctrl+Page Up/Down).
Ctrl+<Some key> is a good idea. "Ctrl" often stands for "stronger" or "more", so this Ctrl+Page Up/Down would be a faster paging. Would fit perfectly.
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Post by Dreamer »

sailer wrote:Thanks Dreamer for your reply!

My experience with page-up/down and and the arrows keys shows only differnce functions of the keys, if you enable "random" in the slideshow menu. Without enabling "random" the keys page-up and page-down have the same function like the keys arrow-left/up arrow-righ/up.

So the keys are open for allocation with different function ?

I never use the random function for slideshow, because I want to use my slideshow for presentations, where random slide sequences will "kill" the attention of your audiance.
No, they are not open, you don't use random function, but other users use it and there are no other keys to switch to prev./next image in random mode.
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Post by rra »

Sailer wrote:
1. When I open a slideshow, I select a file from the file list in the slideshow menu. If a slide is selected the slideshow starts from this position and NOT from the first one.
This is exactly what I was thinking of,
I support this suggestion !!


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