TOC and drawing side by side in a slide

Question

I want to put the figure and TOC side by side in one slide, where it will look like

TOC Figure

I tried to include them each in the minipage accordingly, and then placed them both in the drawing environment. But the result does not look very good, since the TOC is formatted as a paragraph, not an elemental view. So, does anyone have a better solution? Thanks in advance.

PS

I use the panel to create slides.

Answer 1

Have you tried the following:

\frame{
  \begin{columns}
    \column{.5\textwidth}
    \tableofcontents

    \column{.5\textwidth}
    \begin{figure}[h]
      \centering
      HERE-FIGURE
      \caption{Testfigure}
      \label{fig:a}
    \end{figure}

  \end{columns}
}

It worked fine for me.