Slideshow Studio 2000

Slideshow Studio is a simple, yet versatile and powerful tool for creating slideshows. It is ideal for presentationsas there are two ways of changing slides; by way of a timer which you can set the interval for and a button that will appear at the top-left of your slideshow which you click with the mouse and it makes the slides change. Slide shows can be compiled in two ways:

1. The Easy Way!

You can compile a list of slides inside Slideshow Studio by simply selecting the add file button from the toolbar and selecting each of the files, one-by-one and then saving the list to a file which will create an ASCII text file with the extension .ssp which if you open it up in a text editor, you can see the paths to the pictures neatly arranged in rows. With this file, you can reload a previously loaded playlist from the file which can be used again and again!

2. The Difficult way!

Open notepad and add in, line-by-line the paths and filenames of the files that you want in the playlist, now save this file with a .ssp extension and load it into Slideshow Studio, if you have done everything correctly then it will work as if you had used NUMBER 1!

How Ready and useable is SS2000 Now?

Slideshow studio 2000 is NEARLY ready! All that needs to be done now is the HTML help file, readme files etc. which will not take very long, there are some screenshots and you can download a self-extracting zip file at the bottom of the page, when you click on unzip in the .exe file, it will unzip the files to c:\windows\temp, let it do this even if you are running Windows NT as it then runs the setup application from that directory!

Linux Users:

I have had varying success with using wine to run this application but it needs to be set up properly and shown where the windows directory is and needs access to certain run-time files so it must be installed from within Windows first! So for you Linux purists out there: This is certainly a bit of a bummer!!! And before anyone asks me why I can't just port the code to Linux; I am using Borland C++ Builder 4 Pro which is a Visual Development Environment and a very powerful one at that, you paint controls onto forms and then add code to the events of them. Now this code that is created requires the Visual Component Library and I am not sure how to port this to linux, if anyone can tell me how to sort this and port it or if anyone is willing to try to port it to linux, I would be happy to send you the source code. Remember, a DOS port is impossible and Im not sure about a MAC port but a *nix/Linux port is certainly viable, and don't even think about an Amiga Port! :-)

Slideshow Studio in it's current state:

NO SCREENSHOTS AT PRESENT! SORRY!

Download:

ss2000setup.exe - executable zip file containing setup program (No Help etc.)
ss2000src.zip - Download the source code to SS2000 in a zip file
ss2000setupfull.exe - executable zip file containing everything U Need!
Help.chm.zip - HTML Help File For Slideshow Studio 2000 - Win 98 Only!