Is there any way to produce List of frames with beamer?

Question

There is a way to make TOC using \tableofcontents, but there are only sections and subsections.

How can I get list of all frames without using sectioning?

Answer 1

Here's a simple approach using the \@starttoc command through the newly defined \listofframes command; the new list will have extension .lbf. \addtobeamertemplate was used so that the frametitle command writes the desired information (frame number and title) to the .lbf file. The list is created issuing \listofframes:

\documentclass{beamer}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\listofframes{\@starttoc{lbf}}
\makeatother

\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{}{%
  \addcontentsline{lbf}{section}{\protect\makebox[2em][l]{%
    \protect\usebeamercolor[fg]{structure}\insertframenumber\hfill}%
  \insertframetitle\par}%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{List of Frames}
\listofframes
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Test Frame One}
test
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Test Frame Two}
test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Here's the resulting List of Frames:

To facilitate control over which frames to include in the new list, you can use a boolean switch; in the following example I used \ifframeinlbf initially set to true; if you want to suppress some titled frame(s) from the list of frames, use \frameinlbffalse right before those frame(s) and then use \frameinlbftrue right after the frame(s) to activate inclusion in the list:

\documentclass{beamer}

\newif\ifframeinlbf
\frameinlbftrue
\makeatletter
\newcommand\listofframes{\@starttoc{lbf}}
\makeatother

\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{}{%
  \ifframeinlbf
  \addcontentsline{lbf}{section}{\protect\makebox[2em][l]{%
    \protect\usebeamercolor[fg]{structure}\insertframenumber\hfill}%
  \insertframetitle\par}%
  \else\fi
}

\begin{document}

\frameinlbffalse
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{List of Frames}
\listofframes
\end{frame}

\frameinlbftrue
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Test Frame One}
test
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Test Frame Two}
test
\end{frame}

\end{document}