PPT events

[David Thielen]

Hi;

In PPT 2000 how do I get the equivilent of the events:

EApplication_Event.SlideSelectionChanged - I only need to know when I
change presentations, not slides.

EApplication_Event.PresentationBeforeSave - I need to change some
values I have stored in properties before the file is written to disk.

??? - thanks - dave


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[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

All supported events in PowerPoint 2000 are listed below. Since these two
events are firstly introduced in the PowerPoint 2002, so I am afraid that
in the 2000 version, we can hardly find a good workaround for this.

NewPresentation
PresentationOpen
PresentationClose
PresentationSave
PresentationPrint
PresentationNewSlide
SlideShowBegin
SlideShowEnd
SlideShowNextBuild
SlideShowNextSlide
OnSlideShowPageChange
OnSlideShowTerminate
OnSlideShowNextBuild
OnSlideShowPreviousBuild
WindowActivate
WindowBeforeDoubleClick
WindowBeforeRightClick
WindowDeactivate
WindowSelectionChange

However the followings are my suggestions, wish they can help more or less,

1.SlideSelectionChanged. Have you tried the WindowActivate event instead?
If we select another powerpoint presentation, the host window should
already be changed. Therefore the WindowActivate event should fire.

2.PresentationBeforeSave. As a workaround, we can listen to the
PresentationSave event, and in the event handle, we change the properties
and then call Save() method to save it to the disk for the second time. But
we also need to use some extra flags to determine whether to perform the
logical.

Does this help for your scenario?

Best regards,
Colbert Zhou (colbertz @online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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[David Thielen]

WindowActivate is great for the first case, better actually.

PresentationSave is a hack, but it will solve the problem.

thanks - dave

Hello Dave,

All supported events in PowerPoint 2000 are listed below. Since these two
events are firstly introduced in the PowerPoint 2002, so I am afraid that
in the 2000 version, we can hardly find a good workaround for this.

NewPresentation
PresentationOpen
PresentationClose
PresentationSave
PresentationPrint
PresentationNewSlide
SlideShowBegin
SlideShowEnd
SlideShowNextBuild
SlideShowNextSlide
OnSlideShowPageChange
OnSlideShowTerminate
OnSlideShowNextBuild
OnSlideShowPreviousBuild
WindowActivate
WindowBeforeDoubleClick
WindowBeforeRightClick
WindowDeactivate
WindowSelectionChange

However the followings are my suggestions, wish they can help more or less,

1.SlideSelectionChanged. Have you tried the WindowActivate event instead?
If we select another powerpoint presentation, the host window should
already be changed. Therefore the WindowActivate event should fire.

2.PresentationBeforeSave. As a workaround, we can listen to the
PresentationSave event, and in the event handle, we change the properties
and then call Save() method to save it to the disk for the second time. But
we also need to use some extra flags to determine whether to perform the
logical.

Does this help for your scenario?

Best regards,
Colbert Zhou (colbertz @online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
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