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How can I advance Mathematica slides remotely ... ?

In PowerPoint I can advance slides with a USB gizmo that emulates the arrow keys. Is there anything analogous in Mathematica?

So far, only the < and > at the top of the screen seem to do this.

I'm lecturing March 2, 4, and 6. :-)

Thank you, -- Mark

POSTED BY: Mark Tuttle
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For some reason, my very old "presenter" gizmo works on the right and left arrows and not the page up and page down arrows. Further, a quick look at some of the presenters on Amazon indicate problems with Macs - my preferred platform. So, I'm tabling this discussion for the moment, and will take it up the next time I'm presenting - maybe late this Spring.

If anyone has a solution to this for Macs please let me know.

Thank you, -- Mark

POSTED BY: Mark Tuttle

Page Up and Page Down are wired up to flip between slides (this is how the majority of presenter devices actually work). It might be easier to work with them instead of having to apply an EventHandler to every slideshow notebook you create. If you are running Windows, you can also use the back and forward buttons on your mouse.

POSTED BY: Ian Hojnicki

Thank you! Your code is very helpful. Now to the questions:

  1. I can't find this documented anywhere. Specifically, the token "ScrollPageNext" does not appear in the "Wolfram Documentation".

  2. If I put in your code, by itself, then, as advertised, the right arrow key advances my slides in a Mathematica slide show, and not just in my notebook. Nice!

  3. To try to get the left arrow key to be associated with backing up one slide I guessed at the second command below. It works great but it disables the right arrow key ... ! :-)

I would love to use these and other features if they are explained anywhere.

Before I bother Support, I thought I'd ask you again.

Thank you!

-- Mark

SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], NotebookEventActions -> {"RightArrowKeyDown" :> FrontEndExecute[ FrontEndToken[EvaluationNotebook[], "ScrollPageNext"]]}]

SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], NotebookEventActions -> {"LeftArrowKeyDown" :> FrontEndExecute[ FrontEndToken[EvaluationNotebook[], "ScrollPagePrevious"]]}]

POSTED BY: Mark Tuttle
POSTED BY: Kyle Keane
POSTED BY: Kyle Keane

I use an old HP presenter for my talks. I don't have it in front of me, so I don't know what the model number is.

POSTED BY: Ian Hojnicki
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