Glossary of Some Important RPPT Concepts

• Control of a Presentation Session

  The session control consists of a presentation list, the current slide's contents, the remote laser pointer and the presenter's identity.

• Drag and Define

  This is a mouse operation that defines the PowerPoint slideshow area:

  1. Click the 'Drag and Define' button.

  2. Click and drag the mouse button from the upper left corner of the desired slideshow area on your display screen.

  3. Release the mouse at the lower right corner of that window area.

  4. Coordinates that defines the dragged area will be automatically filled into the RPPT slideshow configuration section.

  5. Repeat step 1-3 if you want to setup a different slideshow window frame.

  You may also use the entire screen for slideshow by clicking the 'Full Screen' button. In Windows multi-display configurations, "full screen" means the entire display area of the specific display card whose area contains the upper-left corner coordinates that you set in RPPT.

• Folder where the downloaded PowerPoint slides are stored

  This is the folder in which the RPPT client searches for a local PowerPoint presentation file. When a presentation list that contains local file names is sent to a RPPT client from the master, all local directory information is deleted; because the disk drive name and directory structure varies from computer to computer. Therefore the RPPT client needs to know where you actually stored those local/downloaded PowerPoint files.

• Presentation List

  A presentation list is composed of PowerPoint file names, which may be URLs that begin with 'http://' or local file paths.

• Remote Laser Pointer

  The remote laser pointer is a red dot that shows on RPPT client slideshow windows. When the 'remote laser pointer' option is enabled in both the RPPT master and the client, the mouse in the master/presenter's slideshow window controls the movement of the remote laser pointer.

• RPPT Distributed Presentation Session

  An RPPT distributed presentation session consists of a server, a master and several clients, which run on different computers connecting to the AccessGrid or other TCP/IP networks. The server creates the presentation session, and establishes communication between the master and the clients. The master organizes the presentations in a session by creating and distributing a presentation list. The master synchronizes the slideshow at client sites by sending out PowerPoint file name, slide number, mouse actions, etc.

• Setup Mode and Presentation Mode

  Both the RPPT master and client have two running mode. In the setup mode, all the configuration parameters can be changed, and an RPPT server can be connected or disconnected. The presentation list is also created at the Setup mode of a master. In the presentation mode, only the presentation list and the status of session connection are shown on screen. This prevents altering the setup of the presentation unintentionally.