Erwin Craps - IT Helps
Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be
Thu Dec 2 03:07:37 CST 2004
I created a powerpoint presentation that gets his information from an Access database. every time a specific slide is shown (every 30 seconds). This serves for a movie theatre to show the actual movies, time and theatre number it will be played in, on large TFT panels that are in the income hall of the movietheatre. I managed to solve the autoexec thing I posted before, but I still have an other issue. This is what I have today. A shortcut on the desktop that runs the presentation. An powerpoint add-in makes sure code is executed that is in the presentation to initialize the database connection and run the presentation (two monitor mode). While the presentations runs I have two icons on my taskbar, one for the show and one for powerpoint. The problem is that the computer needs to be used sometimes during the show, but when the powerpoint gets activate by clicking on the taskbar icon or using ALT+TAB the show freezes. Then you need to maximize powerpoint where a toolbar has apaered with a "Continue presentation" button. I need to click this button to continue. This causes the show to stop and his is not always noticed. So I was looking for some VBA parameter that it would ignore clicks etc but it does not seam to exist... My other option is to save the ppt as a pps, this solves my click problem (and I only have one icon on the taskbar), It can only be stopped by pressing ESC, which is ecellent for me. BUT, I cant use the PPS because my add-in does not get executed and therefor will not run the code inside the add-in nor in the presentation, this is when opening the presentation with the shortcut. If I first open powerpoint and than the pps file, it does get executed. So probably the add-in does not get loaded when using a shortcut. So I'm stuck... Why is this so damme hard in Powerpoint!!! I really want to use powerpoint as the VBA base and not run the powerpoint from within access vba. So, one of the posible solutions would be a way to run the add-in or even a specific macro from the command line shortcut... But I'm open for other suggestions. The VBA documentation in Powerpoint is really lousy also on the MSDN werbsite the help is identical to the help inside Powerpoint... thx Erwin Craps Zaakvoerder www.ithelps.be/jonathan This E-mail is confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and E-mail confirmation to the sender. IT Helps - I.T. Help Center *** Box Office Belgium & Luxembourg www.ithelps.be <http://www.ithelps.be/> * www.boxoffice.be <http://www.boxoffice.be/> * www.stadleuven.be <http://www.stadleuven.be/> IT Helps bvba* ** Mercatorpad 3 ** 3000 Leuven IT Helps * Phone: +32 16 296 404 * Fax: +32 16 296 405 E-mail: Info at ithelps.be Box Office ** Fax: +32 16 296 406 ** Box Office E-mail: Staff at boxoffice.be <mailto:figures at boxoffice.be>