command 'slides.toggle' not found

[ayunas]

After installing the extension in VScode, when toggling presentation mode,

error appears :

command slides.toggle not found

tried adding this to settings.json with no luck.

[nicoespeon]

Hey @ayunas 👋

That's strange. I just tested on a different computer/VS Code and saw it worked. I will help you understand what's going on.

I have a few questions to dig in:

1. Which OS are you using? Windows? MacOS? Linux?
2. Which version of VS Code are you running on?

3. If you try to launch the slides from the Command Palette, does it work?

   

[ayunas]

There were some other extensions in VScode that I removed. After doing that, your slides extension worked.

Still confused about the settings though. Unable to change the font to something else.

Also, I really like the plugin you made, but one thing that prevents me from using it in my teaching is the fact that I cannot put slides with animations in VScode. Most of my slides have onClick animations and elements that fade in using powerpoint. But when I export the slides as .jpegs from ppt to VScode, it loses the animations.

Any ideas on how to maintain the ppt animations in VScode?

Keep up the good work :)

[nicoespeon]

Maybe there was a conflict with other extensions shortcuts, indeed. It's not clear what was causing this error message 🤔

I'm closing the issue since it seems to be resolved. But I'll continue answering your questions below.

About settings

Still confused about the settings though. Unable to change the font to something else.

There is a default style that should work most of the time, but you should be able to override the settings to your needs.

To do so, you can update your default .vscode/settings.json when you're not in slides mode:

{
  "slides.vscodeSettings": {
    // settings you want to override
  }
}

Say you want to change the font for Helvetica, you would add the following configuration:

{
  "slides.vscodeSettings": {
    "editor.fontFamily": "Helvetica"
  }
}

You can find what are the default settings here: https://github.com/nicoespeon/vscode-slides/blob/master/src/settings.ts

These settings are VS Code ones. The difference is that you'd put these inside slides.vscodeSettings.

When you turn the slides mode on, the extension will update VS Code settings in the following order:

1. Using the defaults you can see here: https://github.com/nicoespeon/vscode-slides/blob/master/src/settings.ts
2. Using the values you've set in slides.vscodeSettings

When you turn the slides mode off, the extension will restore your initial settings. That way you can enter and exit a presentation mode.

Is it clearer?

About animations

As far as I know, there's no "animation" to transition between 2 tabs in VS Code. If you export .jpg from PPT, then they won't have the animations indeed. Ideally, you'd need to export a video format like .gif or .mp4.

I'm not super familiar with recent versions of PPT and never tried that, so I don't know what's possible. Maybe this can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86TP57vKHe4

Note that even if you manage to get a video out of the slides, it won't react on click. I suspect you need to time your animations in PPT so they are translated into a gif. VS Code will then "play" the gif when it's displayed. So the content will "fade in" automatically, but after a specific time instead of the click.

Another way might be to export each step of an animation as a different image. By going to the next tab, you'll make things appear. There won't be smooth transitions, but if your goal is to progressively display content, that could do it.