The Generic Slide Projector enables you to produce a display of up to 10 slides which are mini-notes that you can prepare in advance to show to others in a room. You can show these slides publicly or review them on your own. You must be a builder to create a projector.
To create your own Generic Slide Projector, type @create #1650 named <projector name>. Provide your projector with a name. For example, if you wanted your projector to be called MyProjector, you would type @create #1650 named MyProjector. The MOO then provies the name of the object, its object number, and parent.
Typing @examine <name or number of projector> (for example, @examine MyProject) will give you a list of usable commands.
The Slide Projector comes with its own built-in tutorial on creating slides, saved as slides 1-6. Begin this tutorial by typing show 1 on <projector name>; for example show 1 on MyProjector. You are now reading the first slide in the tutorial. Continue to go through this tutorial by typing show <number of next slide> on <projector name>. For example, to move to slide two, you would type show 2 on MyProjector. Once you understand the procedures explained here, you can begin creating your own slides.
If at anytime you wish to view the slides privately, you can substitute review for show. For example if you didn't want anyone else in the room to see slide two, you would type review 2 on MyProjector.
Each slide projector comes preprogrammed with this Introduction to Creating Slides. To create your own slides, you must first erase these pre-existing ones. You can accomplish this by typing @set <projector name>.s<number of slide> to { }. For example, to clear slide one you would type:
This will give you a blank slide.@set MyProjector.s1 to { }
To fill in the slides, use the @notedit <projector name>.s <number of slide> command. You can create up to 10 slides which display up to 22 lines each. Typing look while you are in the Note Editor will provide you with a list of commands for using the @Notedit command.
If you want your first slide to say "Welcome to Diversity University. We hope you enjoy your visit." you would type:
@notedit MyProjector.s1
Within the Editor, you would type:
say Welcome to Diversity University.
say
say
say We hope you enjoy your visit.
save
quit
You could check your slide by typing show 1 on MyProjector. You would see:
*************************************
Welcome to Diversity University
We hope you enjoy your visit.
*************************************
The blank lines were created by adding "say" lines without any text, and the asterisks at the beginning and ending are automatically part of the slide. For a more extensive discussion of editing commands, see Leslie's Guide to @Notedit.
Slide three in the Introduction to Creating Slides suggests building an external file and copying it to MOO. This will only work for specific client programs that have the ability to paste within the MOO. In general, you add lines to slides by saying them one at a time within the editor. However, the editor allows an "enter" mode that you launch by typing enter and hitting return. Everything you type (or paste) at that point will be added to the text of your slide. To get out of "enter" mode, type a period at the beginning of a line and hit return. Typing save saves the text to the slide, and typing quit gets you out of the editor. If your MUD client doesn't allow pasting, you can just create slides a line at a time.