PowerPoint

[Bam]

Hello I was wounder if their was a way to add a Custom Animation to a picture in PowerPoint using COM.

If you can, where can I go to learn how?

I came acrost this http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50254&st=0&p=702821&hl=powerpoint&fromsearch=1&#entry702821

and it has been very help full so far but im not sure how he found the COM (I think thats what .Shapes.AddPicture thing is refered too)

As you can tell I have never worked with COM befor, read alittle bit in the AutoIt Help any help/info would be appreciated.

Edit:

I did find this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140998(office.10).aspx

.ApplyTemplate FileName:="c:\program files\microsoft office\" _

& "templates\presentation designs\fireball.pot"

But I have not been able to get it to work.

Edit:

Found this also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb265695.aspx

With ActivePresentation.Slides(2).Shapes(1).AnimationSettings

.EntryEffect = ppEffectFlyFromLeft

.TextLevelEffect = ppAnimateByAllLevels

End With

I tried doing

$objectSlide1 = _PPT_SlideCreate($objPres, 1, $PPLAYOURBLANK)

$objectSlide1.Shapes.AddPicture("C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Pictures\Sample Pictures\Blue hill.jpg, 0, 1, 0, 50, 720, 439)

$objectSlide1.Shapes.AnimationSettings.EntryEffect("ppEffectFlyFromLeft")

But it gets an error at .EntryEffect

Edited November 19, 2009 by Bam

[Bam]

Bump.

Am I on the right track? Do I just need to learn some visual basic to learn how to convert it to AutoIt?

[Bam]

Bump.

I never had to bump a thread befor and now this is the 2nd time

[GEOSoft]

without looking into the power point com object I would suspect that

$objectSlide1.Shapes.AnimationSettings.EntryEffect("ppEffectFlyFromLeft")

should probably be

$objectSlide1.Shapes.AnimationSettings.EntryEffect = ("ppEffectFlyFromLeft")

Like I said, that's without looking at the actual com object though.

[PsaltyDS]

without looking into the power point com object I would suspect that

$objectSlide1.Shapes.AnimationSettings.EntryEffect("ppEffectFlyFromLeft")

should probably be

$objectSlide1.Shapes.AnimationSettings.EntryEffect = ("ppEffectFlyFromLeft")

Like I said, that's without looking at the actual com object though.

Close, it's a PowerPoint constant value and should be:

Global Const $ppEffectFlyFromLeft = 3329

$objectSlide1.Shapes.AnimationSettings.EntryEffect = $ppEffectFlyFromLeft

[Bam]

Thanks for the help

Takes only 2 minutes with this and about 3 hours the other way