PowerPoint presentations can be played when VB application looses focus , right?

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Aniky

We have a project recently ,need to play PowerPoint presentations from
within a VB6 application framework.We need basic functionality like start,
stop, pause, goto slide X through procedure calls.The solution is to use vb
to automation powerpoint. A problem is it must run even if the PowerPoint
loses focus. This is the primary reason we need the software developed
because native PowerPoint stops playing slide show when application looses
focus.Can (and how) to playing slide show when application looses focus?
 
You might want to look at PowerShow add-in at
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow/html - PowerShow Session
Controller provides a central console from where you can navigate the slide
shows running on different monitors. It has buttons that enable you to go to
first slide, previous slide, next slide, last slide, go to slide by its
title or by its index. It can show thumbnails of current slide and next
slide as well.

- Chirag

Shortcut Manager - Assign keyboard shortcuts to menu items and macros
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppsctmgr/ppsctmgr.html
 
Correct tnat URL to: http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
Regard
Shyam Pilla

----- Chirag wrote: ----

You might want to look at PowerShow add-in a
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow/html - PowerShow Sessio
Controller provides a central console from where you can navigate the slid
shows running on different monitors. It has buttons that enable you to go t
first slide, previous slide, next slide, last slide, go to slide by it
title or by its index. It can show thumbnails of current slide and nex
slide as well

- Chira

Shortcut Manager - Assign keyboard shortcuts to menu items and macro
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppsctmgr/ppsctmgr.htm
 
Thank you, Shyam.

- Chirag

Shyam Pillai said:
Correct tnat URL to: http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
Regards
Shyam Pillai

----- Chirag wrote: -----

You might want to look at PowerShow add-in at
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow/html - PowerShow Session
Controller provides a central console from where you can navigate the slide
shows running on different monitors. It has buttons that enable you to go to
first slide, previous slide, next slide, last slide, go to slide by its
title or by its index. It can show thumbnails of current slide and next
slide as well.

- Chirag

Shortcut Manager - Assign keyboard shortcuts to menu items and macros
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppsctmgr/ppsctmgr.html

to use
vb
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Updates".]

Hello,

As you discovered, PowerPoint does not have the built-in capability to
allow a full-screen slide show to continue to advance automatically when
the show is not the foreground application (does not have focus).

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that PowerPoint
should include an option which allows full-screen slide shows to continue
running when they lose focus (without requiring an add-in or additional
software), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please)
to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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