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Troubleshooting
HIDE the character immediately prior to displaying the new window and then SHOW the
character again immediately afterward. For example:
Show Paul at center
say Here's a cool spread sheet!
Hide
ShowExcel file=cool.xls ...etc...
Show Paul at center
...
Miscellaneous
Whenever I open the Help files in Vox Proxy, I get either a Dialer or
"Work Offline" dialog box.
Vox Proxy Help is in HTML and uses Microsoft Internet Explorer for its display. If you have a
web url address set as your "home" page in Internet Explorer and you are not connected to
the Internet, then Internet Explorer will prompt to connect. You can avoid the connection
dialog box by setting the home page to "Blank" in Internet Explorer Tools/Internet
Options/General/Home page.
PowerPoint Behavior
We strongly suggest that you disable the "fast save" option in PowerPoint. Our PowerPoint
experts say that this feature causes many corrupted files and other unexplainable behavior. It
is on the Tools/Options/Save dialog in PowerPoint.
If you have not already done so, be sure to turn on the "Show all scripts" menu item in
PowerPoint. Instructions are in the Character Behavior troubleshooting item.
During a slide show, either a slide changes too soon or the wrong
slide animation appears.
Your script contains more "Click" commands than there are animations on the slide.
Remember that the Custom Animation must be set to appear "on mouse click" and not
automatically by time. Use the "Diagnose" button on the Script Writer to check your script
animation commands for consistency with your slide animations.
When I go to a specific slide during a slide show, a character appears
in the upper-left corner of the screen rather than where it is
supposed to.
Each slide script must stand alone if is to be restartable. At the beginning of each slide script,
be sure to put a "Show" command to place each character on the screen. Otherwise, the slide
show will work correctly if run continuously, but may not if you skip to a specific slide.
One or more characters that "Hide" at the end of a slide reappear as
the next slide begins.
This is usually caused by hiding several characters at the same time at the end of a slide. The
"NextSlide" command waits for the LAST character to finish hiding before changing slides, but
if an earlier character has a slower Hide animation, it may not be completed when the slide
changes, so he may reappear. The solution is to rearrange the order in which the characters
hide, making the slowest one hide last.
If the character reappears in the middle of a script, then you have inadvertently used a "hide"
animation rather than a Hide command. Vox Proxy always interprets "Hide" as a command
unless it appears on the same line as another animation. To avoid this problem, always use
"Hide" on a separate line by itself.
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