from .Au3 to powerpoint

[Paulie]

If i wanted to view a powerpoint presentation after running an .au3 compiled to .exe, how would i do it without like the powerpoint startup screen and stuff, just play the slide show, and that was it,

how would i do that?

ty

[SmOke_N]

If i wanted to view a powerpoint presentation after running an .au3 compiled to .exe, how would i do it without like the powerpoint startup screen and stuff, just play the slide show, and that was it,

how would i do that?

ty

I'm not sure if he ever posted anything on it, but you might do a search for LxP+PowerPoint. He was big into PowerPoint, and quite active on the forum, with a wealth of knowledge, before school/teaching took over his time.

Not really an answer, but maybe some help if he did.

Edit:

The second one, Jdeb gives an example of how to show:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...8&hl=PowerPoint

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...2&hl=PowerPoint

Edited June 3, 2006 by SmOke_N

[Paulie]

Thanks Smoke, Those links gave me an idea, however, me and my no0biness with command lines and special ways to run prgrams and whatever it is that JDeb was talking about was WAY beyond my understanding, :">

it was so beyond me, that I was unsure as to how to mod it to work with my ppt,

all my stab-in-the-dark guesses return errors, and i dunno how to do this

problem is, I need it to run the ppt directly in show form, (preferably) without the 3 min loading time of the ppt program itself.

I do not know where on the comp the user is going to have the files, but i know the .exe and the .ppt are in the same place, so i think i'll need to figure out how to use "@ScriptDir" in the running of the ppt

I need direction

ty

[nfwu]

Very Simple Question.

1st you have to save the ppt presentation as a pps file.

(File>Save As... From File Type select Powerpoint Slideshow)

Then you can just double-click the pps file you just created!

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[Paulie]

Very Simple Question.

1st you have to save the ppt presentation as a pps file.

(File>Save As... From File Type select Powerpoint Slideshow)

Then you can just double-click the pps file you just created!

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Thanks! Now i understand the difference between ppt and pps

Now i just need to figure out how to make it auto run when you click the button on the popup GUI or press the space bar Hotkey

Edited June 5, 2006 by Paulie

[Paulie]

*Bump*

Could someone please help me

I just need to know how to make a script (or modify smoke's examples) to fit my code with my ppt/pps presentation, and so the file will run as long as in the script dir

PLEASE help me

This project is due tommarow(sp)

ty

[nfwu]

Could you post both presentation and AutoIt scripts here and I'll see what I can do.

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[Paulie]

Could you post both presentation and AutoIt scripts here and I'll see what I can do.

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okay, heres autoit code

CODE

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

;---Hotkeys---

Hotkeyset("{ESC}", "Force_Quit")

Hotkeyset("{SPACE}", "Skip_intro")

;---Variables---

Global $button_[4], $label_[4], $Intro_label_[4], $left, $top_[4], $number, $i, $n,$intro_button_[1]

;---Intro Gui build---

WinMinimizeAll()

$intro = GuiCreate("", @DesktopWidth+5, @DesktopHeight, -1,-1, $WS_POPUP, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)

GUISetBkColor(0x00000)

GUISetState()

IntroWords(1, 100, 0, 250, 10, 250, 550, 200, "The Tragedy of...", 50, 500, "Signature", 0xff0000)

IntroWords(2, 225, 0, 175, 10, 175, 1000, 400, "Romeo and Juliet", 100, 500, "Signature", 0xFFFFFF)

IntroWords(3, 600, 1024, 425, -10, 425, 500, 50, "Created By: Paul Sandels", 20, 500, "Signature", 0xFFFFFF)

$Intro_button_[0] = GuiCtrlCreatebutton("Press ""Space"" to Begin", 500, 700, 200, 30)

GuiSetState()

;---Display/detect---

While 1

$message = GUIGetMsg()

If $message = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE then exitloop

If $message = $Intro_button_[0] then Skip_intro()

Wend

;---Fuctions---

Func IntroWords($round, $top, $left, $limit, $steps, $lessthan, $width, $height, $label, $size, $weight, $font, $color)

$Intro_label_[$round] = GUICtrlCreateLabel($label, $left, $top, $width, $height)

GUICtrlSetFont( -1, $size, $weight, 0, $font)

GuiCtrlSetcolor(-1, $color)

For $left = $left to $limit step $steps

Sleep(75)

Sleep(10)

GUICtrlSetPos($Intro_label_[$round], $left, $top, $width, $height)

Sleep(10)

Next

Sleep(500)

EndFunc

Func Force_Quit()

Exit 0

EndFunc

Func Skip_intro()

GUISetState(@SW_HIDE)

Run(@comSpec & " /c start @Scriptdir & "R&JPaulSandels.ppt"", "", @SW_HIDE)

Endfunc

Powerpoint (Whole thing in one slide) Edited June 5, 2006 by Paulie

[exodius]

This may be too late to help... but you could look into the PowerPoint Presentation Viewer.

It's considerably lighter-weight than the full program. And I just tested it and if you run it as

PPTVIEW.exe "YourPowerPointPres.ppt"

then it will open it up and launch you straight to it Edited June 5, 2006 by exodius