Wireless Control of PowerPoint from Zaurus?

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."

Comments

Better options than PowerPoint

[riggwelter]

I head up the Word Projecttion team at Soul Survivor, and we use Presenter from Discovery Systems in Australia to display the song words. (I'm assuming this is for song display in worship). It's a much better tool than PowerPoint for this job for a few reasons:

• It's cheaper ;-)
  
• It's designed with this purpose in mind - you have 'random' access within songs, and quick access to other songs should your Worship Leader deviate from his/her songlist.
  
• It allows different displays for control, front of house and foldback
  
  • 
    As for the remote control on your Zaurus, go for VNC, you can get it from Zaurus Zone and, of course, it's free.

Re:ActiveX

[RzUpAnmsCwrds]

Simple. A PowerPoint COM interface runs on the PowerPoint server and communicates with the Zaurus with HTTP or your choice of other fine open protocols.

I could hack up one in VB in ten minutes.