[Comphelp] 2007 Seamanship

[Lance Jensen]

Paul -

Perhaps you have found the answer to your problems with the Seamanship material.  If so great!  If not, you got me interested in investigating the problem and learning how one goes about inserting flash animations (.swf files) into PowerPoint presentations.

I took the advice of someone who suggested pasting the message you receive into the Google search engine.  This works very well, returning a number of people complaining about the same or a similar problem.

The best referral I found was a number of tutorials at the following url:

http://www.flashgeek.com/tutorials/index.htm

There are a number of tutorials with step-by-step methods for checking that the Shockwave Flash Object is installed on your computer and methods for inserting .swf files into PowerPoint presentations. The latter was very helpful to me (I teach AP and some of SBC). Both the ABC CD and the ABC CAI CD contain many, many flash animations which can be copied to a hard drive and then inserted into PP presentations.

I learned a ton and it works very well.

So, thanks for getting me started investigating!  I don't have a copy of the Seamanship CD yet, so I can't try to duplicate what is happening to you.

Lance


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul R. Soucy 
  To: LJJensen at comcast.net 
  Cc: Member's helping Members' w/Computer Issues 
  Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:20 PM
  Subject: [Comphelp] 2007 Seamanship


  Recently our squadron received the new 2007 Seamanship Course and quickly started a new class.  Whenever we try to run automation from a PP slide such as slide 12, Chapter 3, or any other slide, we get the following error message:

  ''Some controls on this presentation can't be activated.  They might not be registered on this computer."

  Now comes the fun part.  I've run this PP presentation from three different computers.  Program runs as advertised on my personal Desktop and Laptop, however when using the squadron's (new) laptop automation will not work.   The squadron's laptop also has Boat Smart loaded and automation works fairly well, not 100%, but enough to get by.

  I've compared Power Point program settings between my desktop and the squadron's laptop and both appear to be the same.  However, I'm no computer expert so I might be missing something.

  I've also loaded the latest flash.exe (ver 9) in the squadron's laptop ''C'' drive, plus in the same directory/folder where Seamanship was loaded.  Nothing worked.  All three computers are running Windows XP operating system

  I would be most grateful if someone can assist us fixing this problem or lead me in the right direction to speak to an expert.

  Thanks in advance.

  Paul Soucy, AP
  SEO, Long Bay


------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  _______________________________________________
  Need to subscribe, unsubscribe or change your email address?  See www.usps.org/mailman/listinfo/comphelp for details.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.usps.org/pipermail/comphelp/attachments/20070422/08e27320/attachment.html