Comments on: PowerPoint in XNA

By: 12 Months, 12 Samples » 12 months, not quite 12 samples

12 Months, 12 Samples » 12 months, not quite 12 samples — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:22:17 +0000

[...] talked to me about using XNA for background effects during some presentations. This is how the Powerpoint in XNA sample came to life. At first I had to export the ppt slides into image files, but then I did it [...]

By: Catalin Zima

Catalin Zima — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:45:23 +0000

you can use Texture2D.LoadFromFile() on windows.

By: Herman

Herman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:28:28 +0000

I was just wondering is it possible to do the same with just a directory with graphic images? Im trying to do an slide show with XNA but I havent found how to load images at random from disk. Also I want to get rid of the images in memory after a while.

Needless to say Im pretty unexperienced in xna although I know my way around c++ and flash.

By: www.tredent.com

www.tredent.com — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:24:14 +0000

I’ ve had occasion to try out taksi, it worked well for GDI capture, but for Direct3D capture on the engine I used it failed in CTaksiDX9:: GetFrame during GetRenderTargetData. I’ ve found a solution by disabling the avi feature (I didn’ t need it) and using screen capture through the texture api with a direct surface to file save- I used D3DXSaveSurfaceToFile. GetRenderTargetData failed with INVALIDCALL- I didn’ t investigate further, but your comments and the msdn documentation suggest it could happen due…

By: carlos

carlos — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:53:55 +0000

i will try

By: Catalin Zima

Catalin Zima — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:48:32 +0000

You can do it via RenderToTexture, no swap chain necessary

By: carlos

carlos — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:40:36 +0000

yesterday I was thinking in something like this to use
in a presentation of a videogame

i’ll be cool do the presentation and playing the videogame like “picture in picture” with some swap chain

By: Catalin Zima

Catalin Zima — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:56:38 +0000

That’d be a nice thing to see ..

Xbox + this sample + SceneIt! Controller = Win

By: Chris Charabaruk

Chris Charabaruk — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:27:37 +0000

I wonder how many GDC presentations are going to be run from Xboxes in 2009, thanks to this.

By: MrLeebo

MrLeebo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:51:37 +0000

Wow, that is extremely creative!