Automation Question - Current Effect

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John Deardorff

I have written a program for our church that takes a list of PP
presentations and step them through as if it were one. i.e when the button
next is pressed and the current presentation is on the last slide, it starts
the next presentation in the list.

The SlideShowNextClick is really valuable because it gives the next effect
that will occur on the next click. If the effect is null then the current
slide is complete and the next click will go to the next slide.
Unfortunately, Microsoft dropped the ball here and does not raise any event
if the user backs up the slide (via a right click or
SlideShowView.Previous).

Is there a way to tell if an effect has been executed or not?

The TimeLine contains a count but not the CurrentPosition. The Next and
Previous actions are called through my program so I can count the number
forward and back, but this can be tricked simply by right clicking to back
it up.

The real problem is if the first slide has two animations, backing up from
the second slide will take three clicks to get to the beginning of the
presentation. Once the presentation is at the beginning PP ignores
SlideShowView.Previous. Programmatically I cannot tell if Previous undid an
effect or if it was ignored.

If this is unclear I can try to explain it in more detail.

Thanks.
John
 
Thanks for the link. There is a lot a good information on that site.

However we need the ability to change to order of the listed ppt's at will.
We have been using my program for over a year and it is has served us
faithfully (pun intended). It has a search dialog that I can bring in the
lyrics to a song and show it on the screen in seconds. But it cannot handle
a presentation in which there are text fly in's on either the first or last
slide. We have always guaranteed this to be true, but I am trying to
overcome this last limitation.

I have taken this up with Microsoft to see if it is just a bug with the
object model. Thanks
 
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