The Application option displays only a single application of your choice. When selected, a list of active applications will be displayed at the bottom of the New Live View window. Select the application you wish to display and click OK. Live View will open a display window that will show only the application selected.
All Live View sessions will feature an orange bar across the top bearing the display name of the initiator, as well as, the Live View and window control tools. The Live View control tools enable you to share, pause and resume transmission of the Live View image. The window control tools enable you to minimize, restore, maximize and close the display window.
Microsoft Office PowerPoint is a commonly used software tool that is often brought into a Live View session. In presentation mode the PowerPoint slides will display in full screen mode - thus covering up the VIA3 Meeting Manager Window. To avoid this, in the 2003 version of PowerPoint users can change the slide show set up:
In Microsoft PowerPoint select Slid Show>Set Up Show. The Set Up Show window will open
In the Show type area (upper left) select the "Browsed by and individual (window)" radio button.
Click the "Show scrollbar" check box.
Click OK. Now the slide presentation window will open to the size of the window the presenter opens and it can be resized as needed.
The Application option is best when you want to quickly and securely show an application or document without granting the intended audience access to modify the data. If you wish to grant another participant control of the application, then the Sharing option can be used. It can also be used to display documents created in software applications that are not widely distributed. For example, CAD drawings, Visio Flow Charts or other unique documents are often brought into Live View Application sessions for this reason.
Obscured application views occur when the Initiator of the application Live View session inadvertently covers part or all of the application being viewed with some other window. This issue only occurs in the application display option because that option is intended to offer the Initiator more desktop privacy, showing only the one application. When the application is obscured, the screens of other users will display a black image filled with a repeating "Presenter's window is obscured" message in place of the obscuring window.
As a viewer of a Live View Application session, you may notice that there are two mouse cursors; yours and the Initiator's. The mouse cursor of the Initiator of the Live View session will be visible whenever it is within the application window's boundaries, and can be used by the Initiator like a laser pointer to call attention to specific areas of the Live View image.
Warning: Because the Application option offers more privacy, your
viewers will not be able to see any windows that appear on top of the application
you are presenting. Any part of the one application that is covered by another
window will appear as a black box to them, even though to you it looks normal.