Use your Xbox 360 Controller in Powerpoint
Saturday, December 29 2007
Now here is a different use of the Xbox 360 Controller (With the help of the XNA Framework), Bruno has put together a simple office plug in for power point that will allow the user to use the Xbox 360 controller to control his presentations.
About a week ago I wrote a Power Point add-in which uses my XBox360GamePad Component to enable users to control a slide show with the Xbox controller. Well, it’s kind of geek and maybe useless add-in, but it was a compelling objective who drove me to try MS Office development for the first time. It’s a shame that I don’t have a wireless controller…
I would like to see how it goes with the Big Button Controllers that come with the SceneIt game.
Here is the link to Download the Addin, Note that you must have the Game Studio 2.0 system installed to run this little addin.
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Using XNA Framework jsut to wrap XInput is a horrible overkill... 10 lines of code can interop to native XInput and remove a whole dependency.
Sadly the SceneIt controllers do not work with XNA - well the big button part of them doesn't since it needs the IR dongle and XInput doesn't understand.