beSpotlight - Functions

Bold , Italic , Regular , Roman

Purpose Inputs

Set the font style to Bold Italic Roman or Regular none

Tips

Not all the style are available for the font family you may use.

Example

^{GotoTop :s
Bold
RenderText :s 'Beyond ' :std.size
Roman
RenderText :s 'by Joshua Redman' :std.size
NewLine :s :std.size+10

for.each "member [
['Joshua Redman' 'saxophones']
['Aaron Goldberg' 'piano']
['Reuben Rogers' 'bass']
['Gregory Hutchinson' 'drums']
] {

RenderText :s ((lindex :member 1) + ' ') :std.size
Italic
RenderText :s (lindex :member 2) :std.size
Roman
NewLine :s :std.size

}}

GotoTop

Purpose Inputs

Place the next rendering of text at the top of a slide

`s`	Skippy used
`c`	X Position (default if input not given)
`l`	Y Position (default if input not given)

Tips

Example

^{GotoTop :s RenderText :s 'This line is on top of the slide' :std.size}

NewLine

Purpose Inputs

Go to the next line

`s`	Skippy used
`si`	Space between the two line

Tips

Use it after a RenderText.
The second input should usualy be the font size used (or more if you want to add some more vertical spacing between lines)

Example

^{GotoTop :s RenderText :s 'a first line' :std.size NewLine :s :std.size RenderText :s 'a second line' :std.size}

RenderBigTitle

Purpose Inputs

Render a text as a big title in the middle of the slide.

`s`	Skippy used
`str`	Text to display
`color`	Color to use for the text (Default value if not specified : Blue)

Tips

Use it in the first slide.
The text can contain severals lines (separate them by a \n).

Example

^{RenderBigTitle :s 'This is my\nown\npresentation'}

RenderCode

Purpose Inputs

Render a list of strings as a source code (numbers the lines)

`s`	Skippy used
`lst`	List of string to display as code
`si`	Font size to use
`color`	Color to use for the text (Default color used if not given)

Tips

Example

^{GotoTop :s RenderCode :s [ 'to foo' ' output sqrt(:a + :b)' 'end' ] :std.size}

RenderFrame

Purpose Inputs

Render a frame around the slide.

Use various global variables to display in the frame:

pres.title for the title of the presentation
pres.event for the title event
pres.author for the author of the presentation

`s`	Skippy used
`num`	Index of this slide
`max`	Total number of slides in the presentation

Tips

Use it at the beginning of each slide if you wish to render the frame.
For the number of slide in the presentation, use (llength :slides).

Example

^{RenderFrame :s 1 5}

RenderImage

Purpose Inputs

Render an image at a given position

`s`	Skippy used
`img`	Image to display
`x`	top position
`y`	left position

Tips

Example

^{make "img Image 'an/image/there.png' RenderImage :s :img 45 34}

RenderItemize

Purpose Inputs

Render an item from an itemized list using a special bullet in front of the item.

Bullet can be either : "circle or "triangle

`s`	Skippy used
`type`	Type of the item
`str`	Text to display
`si`	Font size to use
`color`	Color to use for the text (Default color used if not given)

Tips

Example

^{RenderItemize :s "circle 'Going to the beach' :std.size RenderItemize :s "triangle 'Going for a run' :std.size RenderItemize :s "circle 'Cleaning the house' :std.size}

RenderItemize.link

Purpose Inputs

Render an item from an itemized list using a special bullet in front of the item.

Bullet can be either : "circle or "triangle. Every times you will click on the item, it will run the function which name has been given.

`s`	Skippy used
`type`	Type of the item
`str`	Text to display
`si`	Font size to use
`func`	Name of the function to run
`color`	Color to use for the text (Default color used if not given)

Tips

Example

^{; the function input b is the number of the button pressed
to OHNO :b
Question "idea ['I must :(' 'Hell No!'] 'Are you sure you want to clean now ?'
end

RenderItemize :s "circle 'Going to the beach' :std.size
RenderItemize.link :s "circle 'Cleaning the house' :std.size "OHNO :Blue
RenderItemize :s "circle 'Going for a run' :std.size}

RenderList

Purpose Inputs

Render a list of strings

`s`	Skippy used
`lst`	List of string to display
`si`	Font size to use
`color`	Color to use for the text (Default color used if not given)

Tips

Example

^{GotoTop :s
RenderTitle :s 'BLUE by THIRD EYE BLIND'
; too much space waster after RenderTitle
; so we jump back a bit
NewLine :s (-21)
RenderList :s [
'Anything'
'Wounded'
'10 Days Late'
'Never Let You Go'
'Deep Inside Of You'
'1000 July'
'An Ode to Maybe'
'The Red Summer Sun'
'Camoufage'
'Farther'
'Slow Motion'
'Darkness'
'Darwin'
] :std.size}

RenderNumbered

Purpose Inputs

Render an item from a numbered list

`s`	Skippy used
`num`	Index of the item
`str`	Text to display
`si`	Font size to use
`color`	Color to use for the text (Default color used if not given)

Tips

Example

^{RenderNumbered :s 1 'Apple' :std.size
; add some extra space between the line
Space :s 5
RenderNumbered :s 2 'Peach' :std.size
; add some extra space between the line
Space :s 5
RenderNumbered :s 3 'Lemon' :std.size}

RenderTable

Purpose Inputs

Render a table

`s`	Skippy used
`cols`	Number of columns
`l`	Table contents (list of lists)
`si`	Font size to use
`space`	Spacing between columns
`color`	Color to use for the text (Default color used if not given)

Tips

The table can contain as many lines and columns as needed, but you must specify the total number of columns.
Table items are all left justified

Example

^{GotoTop :s RenderTable :s 4 [ ['' "Math "Biology "History] ['Paul' 13.45 12.54 15.67] ['Jim' 18.0 19.5 17.5] ['Mike' 10.3 12.1 11.78] ] :std.size 2}

RenderText

Purpose Inputs

Render a simple text at the current position.

`s`	Skippy used
`str`	Text to display
`si`	Font size to use
`color`	Color to use for the text (Default color used if not given)

Tips

Always call NewLine to go to the next line, else the next text will be displayed where the previous end.
The text can contain severals lines (separate them by a \n).

Example

^{RenderText :s 'Weather is a complex problem that\nrequiert a lot of cycles.' :std.size
; go to the next line (use the font size used for RenderText)
NewLine :s :std.size
RenderText :s 'We going to see how we can divide\nby a factor of 3 this time' :std.size
RenderText :s ' easily !' :std.size}

RenderTitle

Purpose Inputs

Render a text as a title.

`s`	Skippy used
`str`	Text to display
`color`	Color to use for the text (Default color used if not given)

Tips

Use it to display slide title in your presentation

Example

^{; Make sure the text will be displayed on top of the page GotoTop :s RenderTitle :s 'The problem to solve'}

Tab and UnTab

Purpose Inputs

Tabulate or untabulate the next rendering

`s`	Skippy used
`si`	Tabulation size

Tips

Tabulations can be nested

Example

^{GotoTop :s
RenderText :s 'World\'s best food :' :std.size
NewLine :s :std.size+5
Tab :s 20
RenderNumbered :s 1 'Chinese' :std.size
RenderNumbered :s 2 'Corsican' :std.size
RenderNumbered :s 3 'French' :std.size
UnTab :s 20
Space :s 7
RenderText :s 'But that\'s only my humble opinion ...' :std.size}

Space

Purpose Inputs

Put a certain vertical space before the next rendering

`s`	Skippy used
`si`	Space to put

Tips

Result is the same than with the NewLine function

Example

^{GotoTop :s RenderText :s 'a first line' :std.size Space :s 30 RenderText :s 'a second line' :std.size}