PPT: Shape.Name throws method not implemented exception

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I have a case where a Shape has a TextFrame which has a TextRange
which has Text - and it's all correct. But a call to Shape.Name on the
shape object throws an exception.

What's going on?

thanks - dave


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[Cindy M.]

Hi David,

I have a case where a Shape has a TextFrame which has a TextRange
which has Text - and it's all correct. But a call to Shape.Name on the
shape object throws an exception.

What's going on?

It would help some if you could show us the code you have working, up to
a point. In this case, especially, it's not clear which object you're
starting from. Nor do you go into any detail about what type of Shape is
involved or what Exception you're getting...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave

A simple test on my side cannot reproduce the problem. As Cindy suggested,
would you please tell me the exception message you got from Shape.Name? How
are you using Shape.Name? Are you retrieving the Name value or setting the
property? If you are setting, a possible reason for the error is that, the
same name already exists in the current slide. Duplicated names are not
allowed as the MVP illustrates:
http://www.pptools.com/starterset/FAQ00036.htm

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[David Thielen]

Hi;

It happens when I have a process that walks all shapes in the
presentation and in those shapes reads the text in each. If it finds a
problem in the text (for our tagging), it calls an event handler
passing the shape.

So the shape is not selected and may not be on the selected slide. But
it does have a TextRange that was accessed just before this occured.
And I am able to get the slide from the shape.Parent.

But the Name property throws an exception.

??? - thanks - dave

Hello Dave

A simple test on my side cannot reproduce the problem. As Cindy suggested,
would you please tell me the exception message you got from Shape.Name? How
are you using Shape.Name? Are you retrieving the Name value or setting the
property? If you are setting, a possible reason for the error is that, the
same name already exists in the current slide. Duplicated names are not
allowed as the MVP illustrates:
http://www.pptools.com/starterset/FAQ00036.htm

Regards,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Richard]

What's the exception message?

Hi;

It happens when I have a process that walks all shapes in the
presentation and in those shapes reads the text in each. If it finds a
problem in the text (for our tagging), it calls an event handler
passing the shape.

So the shape is not selected and may not be on the selected slide. But
it does have a TextRange that was accessed just before this occured.
And I am able to get the slide from the shape.Parent.

But the Name property throws an exception.

??? - thanks - dave






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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

I'm still not able to reproduce the problem with the given information.
Would you please tell me the exception message when you access the Name
property? I will search for the relevant report in our internal support DB
using the exception message as the keyword. If you have a small and
reproducible project and can send it to me, it's much more helpful.

Thanks
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