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Sari

I recently discovered how to use Visual Basic objects to
create scrolling text boxes, check boxes, and option
buttons in PowerPoint. Our customers (educators) will
LOVE these features. However, I need to be able to do it
on Mac OS X as well as Windows.

I know there is a separate board for Mac users, but I
don't remember the address, and I have trouble accessing
it, maybe because I'm not using a Mac.

Anyway, I figured out how to create the objects on a
Form, but I couldn't figure out how to get the objects
into the regular slide show. They were in a separate
window. In Windows, on PowerPoint 2000, I can work with
the objects right on the regular slide, then run the show
to make sure they behave the way I want them to.

When I ran the Mac show, all I got was a blank slide.
Does anyone know how to use this feature on a Mac?
And/or can anyone give me the URL for the Mac Newsgroup?

Thank you!
 
Sari,
Mac does not support Activex technology, so I am not sure if it will support
those controls.

Regards
Shyam Pillai
 
No, Macs don't support the Active X controls, but they do support all the
other VBA stuff, so the specific things mentioned are not easy to do, but
many other things are possible.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
David,

You say these specific things are not easy to do.
They're not necessarily easy to do on a PC either, but it
can be done. Do you know how to do the three things that
I mentioned?

I (think I) know how to create the objects; I just need
to know how to get them from the User Form window onto
the regular slide. I don't have regular access to a Mac
running OS X, so I can't just experiment until I figure
it out (which is what I did on the PC).

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Sari
 
I think that on the Mac you would have to fake these things (and I'm not
even sure scrolling text boxes are possible to fake, but just about
anything is possible with VBA). For example, you could draw boxes that
when clicked hide or show a check mark inside of them (that's actually
pretty easy) and the VBA code could track what has been checked. The
same idea could work for radio buttons: draw circles that when clicked
show a filled circle inside that circle and hide filled circles inside
the other circles.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
Sari,
Mac does not support Activex technology, so I am not sure if it will support
those controls.
Click to expand...

I just had a quick look and there's no hint of the toolbox. I'm pretty sure
on-slide active-x controls aren't supported on Mac.
 
I (think I) know how to create the objects; I just need
to know how to get them from the User Form window onto
the regular slide.
Click to expand...

No can do. But possibly a VB form set to the same size as the desired control
which you've placed on it?
 
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