Presenter console

[ejvindh]

I realize that "new features" are not your prime concern right now. I thought, however, I would mention it still though. Then perhaps some day in the future you (or others) can get back to it :-)

Sometimes when presenting it is nice to have some notes that are not shown to the students. Would it be possible to create an extra window containing both the "current view" and "notes-for-the-presenter"? Ideally also a representation of the "next view".

Something along the lines of Regebro's "impress-console" (I don't know if it can be transferred to sozi-presentations): https://github.com/regebro/impress-console

Or, more minimalistically: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#speaker-notes

[kai-wegner]

Hi ejvindh,

see my comment here #210 - we are currently trying to sync our work and maybe get something done in the next release or in my "unstable" fork. Sozi absolutely needs the features you mentioned imho.

[ejvindh]

Hi kai-wegner,
Yes, I've read the #210 with great interest. It would be great if the console could be one of the enhancements in the making!

[robertrosman]

Hi folks!

I've been hacking on a remote control for sozi myself, and it's shaping up. I'm not sure how to use kai-wegner's fork, so sorry if I'm duplicating some work here. I've implemented buttons to move between slides, the frame list, a timer and the keyboard shortcuts. I plan to add previews of previous, current and next frame, as well as comments for the current frame.

Everything is integrated into the *.sozi.html file, just as the player itself, so you don't need any extra software to use it. In it's current state it adds ~5kb to the file, so nothing to worry about :)

Click here to see a demonstration of it. Open the remote control by clicking the icon in the frame list. I'd also like to map [c] to open it. So far I've only hacked on the html file itself, so I haven't yet implemented this is the sozi code, but that's the next step.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions, complaints, etc. Also, if this work is doomed to be rejected due to kai-wegner's work, please let me know!

[ejvindh]

I find this very promising 👍 . Esp. if you add the sketched prev/curr/next and the comments :)

One challenge, though, is that sometimes the information on presenter consoles tend to become too small, because we want all too much information. So if it was possible to make the consoleview configurable by the presenter, that would be ideal (to make it possible for him/her to decide what to use, and what to close down).

But certainly, one thing at a time ;)

[robertrosman]

Thanks! I see what you mean, good point. I think it would be nice to have some preset layouts to switch between in the presenter. I also think one has to be very selective what to display depending on the window size, so making the remote control fullscreen gives other possibilities.

[zenny]

@roggan87: Very interesting implementation. Where is your code repo or binaries? Thanks for pointing me.

[robertrosman]

Thanks @zenny! Hopefully it'll make it into the official Sozi repo. I've made a pull request #325. Meanwhile you can find it at https://github.com/roggan87/Sozi, but I have no plans to maintain a separate fork.

[zenny]

Does your master commit can build into desktop application as well as
executables with the features you updated?

Like with the senshu/Sozi, I am getting errors while trying 'npm install'.

Any inputs?

On 10/30/15, roggan87 notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks @zenny! Hopefully it'll make it into the official Sozi repo. I've
made a pull request #325. Meanwhile you can find it at
https://github.com/roggan87/Sozi, but I have no plans to maintain a separate
fork.

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[kai-wegner]

@roggan87
My implementation is a add-on for Sozi (that's why it's called catchi) and is a presenter console with some additional functionality like templating and presentation management.
Currently it contains

• file management
• management of speaker notes (in a different presentation window)
• full presentation time
• slide presentation time
• previous and next slide preview

Just upload your sozi presentation, add some speaker notes, replace templates (place {{template}} in your sozi presentation) with values and play the presentation - have fun! 👍
One could use it as a company wide, server-side Sozi presentation application or framework.

Currently I'm facing a heavy workload but will work on that project in 2016 for sure.

Your work should not be rejected, instead it can be useful for catchi.
My framework adds everything it needs to the sozi.html file also. 😄

See a demo here (play/edit jackie.sozi.html):
http://o511.de:3000/

[robertrosman]

@zenny, it does build into executables and desktop application. I also had trouble compiling Sozi in the beginning, but this thread got me going in the right direction. Note that the changes are implemented in the dev branch, not the master. I uploaded some compiled binaries for you with the inofficial changes here.

@kai-wegner, thanks for clarifying! Interesting approach. I couldn't manage to open the presenter console though, not sure what I did wrong. I'd like to make my work compatible with catchi as much as I can.