[Solved] A live clock in Impress?

[drjoshua]

We have Impress up and running on a LCD at our reception disk. On the screen we have the meetings of the day with starting time and meeting rooms. I´m missing having a running digital clock down eather corner of the screen. Anyone having any solution for this? One possible solution may be to have a Quicktime-video running but are there any out there?

[RoryOF]

A method of including live data in an Impress presentation is given at
http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-wo ... 007/10/31/

It may give you some pointers.

Using Master Elements it is possible to include the date/time in the footer; these can be fixed (creation date) or variable (file opening date). It might be useful if one of these could be linked to a dynamic or the system clock.

Edit: A possible workaround: sometimes TV or LCD displays have the ability to put a clock on-screen, superimposed on the current display. If your LCD had this, there is your answer.

Edit: Edit 2: Another link showing a method of incorporating live data is at http://blog.polleverywhere.com/openoffi ... n-poll-too

[aqualung]

Perhaps I misunderstand the question, but there are free programs available that work in Windows XP as the Clock gadget works in Windows 7.

Here is one: ClocX. Many others can be found by googling.

The clock can run superimposed on Impress, even when Impress is in fullscreen mode, either as an opaque overlay or semi-transparent.

[drjoshua]

Now we are talking! Problem solved!