Slide Plugin

A slide style plugin for use on single slides. Works nicely together with the TWiki:Plugins.SlideNavPlugin.

Syntax Rules

• All slides start with a %SLIDESTART% and end with a %SLIDEEND%
• Slide styles are controlled through HTML tables stored in their own topic.
• To utilized a particular style, supply the topic name as an argument to the %SLIDESTART% command like this:
  %SLIDESTART{ template="SlideTemplate" }%
• Slides should be layed out just like normal topics. If you want a bulleted slide then use normal bulleting.
• Comments come at the end of the slide and follow a ---++ Comments second level header. Everything after the comments header is treated as a comment.
• To show or hide comments the SLIDEPLUGIN_HIDECOMMENTS will need to be modified. Its default value is False.

Examples

Plugin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %SLIDEPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Slide presentations

• Display Comments
  • Set SLIDEPLUGIN_HIDECOMMENTS = False

Benchmarking Information

 ./pluginbenchmark SlidePlugin Sandbox.BecomingParanoid
TWiki Plugin benchmark utility, version 11 Nov 2004. (Time::HiRes is installed and used)
Measuring, please be patient...
Topic:                          Without:  With:     Percent:
------------------------------  --------  --------  --------
TWiki.SlidePlugin                  0.041     0.041      101%
Sandbox.BecomingParanoid           0.041     0.041       99%

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip SlidePlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/SlidePlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  data/TWiki/SlidePlugin.txt,v	Plugin topic repository
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/SlidePlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module

• Test if the installation was successful:
  • enter samples here

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main.GeorgeNevilleNeil - 16 Jan 2006