Wireless Control of PowerPoint from Zaurus?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday August 13, 2002 @08:55PM from the slide-shows-and-wireless-powerpointers dept.

dancedance asks: "I am a high school student who is very involved in the AV at my local church. We use PowerPoint on a weekly basis in our service, and also in our high school program. I would like to be able to control PowerPoint- similar to the way that Slide Show Commander works- from my Zaurus PDA using a WiFi connection. I am working on an open source Java application to do this, but I am struggling on how to get the full text/ view of the slides out of PowerPoint. Any Suggestions on this, or any aspect of my project would be useful."

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ActiveX by Hubble · 2002-08-13 21:10 · Score: 2, Insightful

The easiest way to solve this problem is probably by using ActiveX and COM technology.

This will allow you to display and control a Powerpoint window (control) within your own application. Then you only need to map incomming commands from the Zaurus to Powerpoint.

I'd recommend reading MSDN for futher information.