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02.10.2008 19:16:08
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Can I use the virtual mouse to move around a red circle rather than having the screen dimmed and moving around a bright spot?

Last edited: 02.10.2008 19:16:46 

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06.10.2008 17:52:17
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Thanks for asking.

What you are looking for is currently not supported. It'd be really 
trivial to implement, but I don't currently see the use in it as 
instead of highlighting, it'd mean to cover the region that a 
presenter wants to highlight.

I'm still open to the idea, though. How would you put such a feature 
to use?

Best regards, 
Felix Schwarz 

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06.10.2008 19:47:53
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basically, I just want to draw eyes to a particular part of the slide. currently, when the slide dims, I don't like how the entire slide has to be dimmed since it makes other important information hard to read.

if I had the time, I'd probably try designing a plug-in for keynote which would track the current slide and offer a virtual mouse that supported arbitrary (HTML image map arbitrary) regions that would display normally when the virtual mouse was within them and dimmed otherwise.

that way, you could get the TV effect where they highlight a sentence, or two, in a court document; so the highlighting would be based on the position of the virtual mouse instead of a frame within an animation within a slide show.

of course, the ultimate product would allow chrome to be shown too so when the virtual mouse was within a certain bounding box, arrows (custom chrome) would point to special content.

anyway, that's what was going through my head.

I bought a laser pointer since my presentation is next week so I'll be holding the apple remote and the laser pointer.

 
Last edited: 06.10.2008 19:55:32 

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03.11.2008 00:58:28
Re: virtual mouse
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I would also like to use my remote as a "red" laser pointer during presentations. Please let me know when this feature is available. I thought it was possible when I purchased remote buddy. 
Thanks 
User

03.11.2008 11:36:15
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Thanks for your feedback.

This functionality is on the todo list.

Best regards, 
Felix Schwarz 

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24.01.2009 02:54:55
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Any idea when this red pointer, which is on the to-do-list, might be done?