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 Table of Contest
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1.
Setting up
P3app After installing P3App on
your PocketPc, you can start the application through shortcut in
Programs.
Depending on the version you have, there will be different start
screens. There
are two versions of P3app ·
Trial version – 30 day fully
functional trial version
of P3app. One constraint imposed on the trial version is that it can
control
only one presentation at any given time (i.e. this version does not
support
simultaneous control of multiple presentations). ·
Full version – Required
serial key to Activate
program. With this version you can control up to 3 presentations
servers and 3
offline presentation viewers simultaneous. In order to receive valid
serial
key, you must send us your Activation key, and we will send you back
your unique
serial key. When you enter your serial
key, click Save, and restart the application.
Main window of
application is shown on Figure 1.2. 2.
Connecting
to Presentation Servers Connection to a server is described by a connection profile. By default the profile “TestProfile” exists, you can edit this profile to establish a connection. To edit profiles you can press “Edit” button from the main form or through the options dialog’s “Profile Editor” page.
There are a few parameters
that you must enter ·
Connection – This is name of
Connection profile. ·
User Name – Every
presentation server has list of user
names. To connect to your presentation server, you must add user name
in
presentation server, and then enter the same user name in your
Connection
profile. ·
Server IP Address – IP
address of your presentation
server. If you don’t know the address, you can see it from Presentation
Server,
Network Options – Choose Network: Figure 2.2. ·
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 Figure 1.2  Figure 2.1 Profile Editor |
 Figure 2.2 Viewing
IP Adresses After entering all 4 parameters press button “Save” and the Connection Profile will be added. After that you can return to main screen through pressing “Ok” from menu or from window. In order to connect to presentation server, first be sure that presentation server is started, and that you have connection with PDA through Bluetooth, Wireless or USB connection. If you have problems with connecting your PDA with your presentation server through Bluetooth or Wireless, you must read our special guide for establishing the Bluetooth connection. If there are no problems with the connectivity, IP address or other reasons, you will be able to connect by selecting the corresponding Connection profile, and pressing Connect. When you are connected you will see a list of presentations on Presentation server (if there are any converted presentations on your presentation server) |
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1.
Starting
multiple presentation
servers simultaneously 1) Click “Options” menu. 2) Select Presentation. On figure 3.1 you can see Presentation options There are a few options: · Path to presentation – This is default presentation download path. When you download a presentation its files are stored there. · Start presentation Simultaneously – if this option is checked then if P3app is connected to multiple Presentation Servers and “Start Presentation” button is pressed then all presentations will be started, and the user can use PocketPC’s buttons to switch the view between the started presentations. · Include viewers in simultaneous start – When simultaneous start is executed the Offline presentation viewers can be included or not in the started presentations. If the Offline presentation viewers are included then the presentation highlighted by each Offline presentation viewer will be started too, and the presentation will be added to the list of presentations used for switching the screen (thus while hosting a presentation the presenter can view another presentation’ screens for references). · Online tab count – How many presentation servers you can connect simultaneously. Maximum is 3. · Viewer tab count – How many offline views can start simultaneously. Maximum is 3. After changing the Online tab count/Viewer tab count values the application has to be restarted in order for the change to be applied. For example if you want to control 3 presentations simultaneously and be able to view 2 offline presentations, you must set Online tab count – 3 and Viewer tab count – 2. After restarting P3app, on your main screen you will see this screen: To Connect to different presentation servers you must follow these steps: 1) Select “Online X” tab, 2) Choose proper Connection profile 3) Press “Connect” button *Note X – is number of tabs – Min is 1, Max is 3 You must follow this procedure for every presentation server When you are connected to all presentation servers, and have downloaded presentations which you need to show, you can press “Start Presentation” button. That will start presentation on the Presentation servers. |
 Figure 3.2 Three online tab and two viewer tab |
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4.
Offline view
of presentation You can select presentations from the list, and press “Start Presentation” button. When you are in “offline view mode” you can draw on your presentations, but these drawings will not be sent to a presentation server.
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 Figure 4.1 Viewer Tab |
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| 5. Drawing and navigating through presentation You can navigate through presentation with “left” and “right” keys on PocketPc. You can change these keys (look chapter 6 - “Assigning Keys”) You can draw on your presentation during online or offline presenting. To draw you switch to drawing mode. Default key for switching presentation is “Enter”. You can start context menu with pressing and holding stylus. From context menu you can choose between different options: 1) Switch Presentations – You can choose between the presentations listed under the submenu. 2) Change type of drawing – You change type of drawings 3) Change Pen / Color - You can change drawings options Figure 5.2 4) Delete drawings on slide – Delete all drawings on current slides. This will delete drawings on presentation server if you are in online mode 5) Delete all drawings – Delete all drawings on all slides. This will delete drawings on presentation server if you are in online mode 6) Stop Presentations – Stop presentations You can choose a predefined color or you can use custom color. Also you can choose width of pen When you are in drawing mode, you can’t start context menu. You must back switch to Presentation mode to be able to start context menu. |
 Figure 5.1 Context Menu  Figure 5.2 Change Pen/Color |
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6.
Assigning
Keys On right side of screen are buttons, and on the left side are Functions. For example if you want to stop the presentation when you press Up key, you must find “Stop Presentation” function from list beside the text “Up”, when you finish with changes to the options and key assignment press Ok menu List of all functions: · StopPresenttion – Stop presentation · Next – Next slide · Prev – Previous slide · Draw – Switch drawing on/off · Color – Change color and width of pen · DrawingType · Delete – Delete all drawings on slide · DeleteAll – Delete all drawings on all slides · SwitchPresentation – Switch to next started presentation · GoToSlide – Go to slide · None – Nothing happens, used to allow certain keys to be ignored by the application. |
 Figure 6.1 Keys |
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