SlideShow bug

Thanks for the bug report. I've confirmed this bug was introduced in v2.8.

We'll have a fix in an upcoming release.

--Kevin

I believe I've hit a different bug related to this one. If I use SetTextOverlayIsVisible, the slides do not auto advance. Here is how I create the slideshow

slideshow = CreateObject("roSlideShow")
slideshow.SetMessagePort(port)
slideshow.SetPeriod(6)
slideshow.SetTextOverlayIsVisible(true)

With the above, the next slide will not display after 6 seconds, but will if I remove the SetTextoverlayIsVisible call. I also tried setting SetTextOverlayHoldTime, but that doesn't seem to work (the overlay stays forever) and has no effect on the SetPeriod.

I'm running version 3.0

(edit - hmm, seems like I just recreated the same problem. I should have read the original post more closely 🙂

Is this still scheduled to be fixed at some point? I see it was reported back in 2.8 and still exists in 3.0. I'd like to use the overlay in slide shows, but it isn't usable as it stands now.

Thanks,
-Gregg

I see the exact same bug. Seems it has been the case for quite a while based on the history of this thread. Is there an ETA on when it will be fixed?

It basically makes text overlays unuseable.

A workaround is to not call SetTextOverlayIsVisible(true) and just set the time with SetTextOverlayHoldTime(). I just tried it on 3.1 and I believe it works on 4.1 as well.

-JT

Great find, and thank you!

"renojim" wrote:
A workaround is to not call SetTextOverlayIsVisible(true) and just set the time with SetTextOverlayHoldTime(). I just tried it on 3.1 and I believe it works on 4.1 as well.

Any word on this? I'm still reproducing this bug on 4.9, and calling SetTextOverlayHoldTime() isn't overlaying any text for me.