programmatically start animation

[cyrille]

Hi all,

After a search trip over Internet,
I think that it is not possible to start a specific shape animation with VBA.
The only way is to use '.View.Next' command, so animations have to be sequencially played.

We cannot simulate a mouse click on a shape from VBA to start a specific shape's animation ?

thanks for you light ;o)
cyrille

 

[PPTMagician]

Hi,

What exactly are you trying to do? PPT 2002 and higher offers several
methods for stating and controlling animations. Let us know.

Glenna

 

[cyrille]

Hi,

What exactly are you trying to do? PPT 2002 and higher offers several
methods for stating and controlling animations. Let us know.

with pleasure ;o)


For example, I've got 2 shapes 'Rectangle', each of them has a animation.

I would like to choice from VBA if I start animation of first rectangle or second.

if( foo = 1 )then
play animation for rectangle 1
else
play animation for rectangle 2
end if

Am I clearer ?

thanks for your help,
cyrille

 

[cyrille]

with pleasure ;o)


For example, I've got 2 shapes 'Rectangle', each of them has a animation.

I would like to choice from VBA if I start animation of first rectangle
or second.

if( foo = 1 )then
play animation for rectangle 1
else
play animation for rectangle 2
end if

Am I clearer ?

Hoops, forgot to say that I'm using PPT 2003

and precision on my pseudo code example :

if( foo = 1 )then
play animation for rectangle 1, like clicking on it
else
play animation for rectangle 2, like clicking on it
end if

 

[PPTMagician]

Hi,

You can use triggers to do that without using VB. See Kathy Jacobs tutorial
at:
http://www.powerpointanswers.com/article1056.html

Glenna

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Glenna,

I'm not clear how you would do anything conditionally without the VBA.
Certainly, a click on one box can trigger one animation, and a click on
another box can trigger another animation, but how would a click on a single
box be able to do either one animation or another based on some condition?
I'm pretty sure she really needs VBA to do what she wants to do, but I
couldn't find the right VBA command to do it. Shyam?????? Steve??????

I really don't mean to be contrary, Glenna. I feel like I'm becoming the
VBA police. I love your creative solutions, and I'm really all for avoiding
VBA if it is not necessary, but I think it is necessary in this case. I hope
you will forgive me.

--David

David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[cyrille]

Hi,

You can use triggers to do that without using VB. See Kathy Jacobs tutorial
at:
http://www.powerpointanswers.com/article1056.html

Glenna

be I have to use VBA, I know how it is very easy with 'Action' on mouse click.

I had a look on msdn and in google's groups, but nothing about triggering/starting animation from VBA ...
I've only found explication on how to create animation,
but noting about starting them out of a sequence triggered by a click or internal ppt stuff.

could you or someone else dig this subject ?

Thanks a lot,
cyrille

 

[PPTMagician]

Ah Ha! She says as the light bulb goes off. You're correct, using triggers
the conditional statement would have to be:

If Box 1 - this animation
If Box 2 - that animation

No Else statement would be possible without VB.

Got any good VB ideas that start an animation? Maybe the If/Else could be
made to jump to identical slides that run the specified animation
automatically? Thereby giving the perception that the choice started the
animation...

BTW: I'm not adverse to VB. I'm learning it and loving it right now...
I just like trying to figure out how PPT native tools can do things before
trying the VB solution.

<G>

 

[cyrille]

Ah Ha! She says as the light bulb goes off. You're correct, using triggers
the conditional statement would have to be:

If Box 1 - this animation
If Box 2 - that animation

No Else statement would be possible without VB.

but I don't want to use any mouse or keyboard !!!
only driving PPT via VBA ... So, I need to start, at least, one animation ...

cyrille

 

[Shyam Pillai]

The only way I've succeeded in triggering an animation out of sequence in
PPT 2002 or later is by assigning triggered animation and then using API
calls to mimic a mouse-click on the triggering shape during the slideshow
via VBA.


--
Regards
Shyam Pillai

Toolbox: http://www.mvps.org/skp/toolbox/

 

[cyrille]

The only way I've succeeded in triggering an animation out of sequence in
PPT 2002 or later is by assigning triggered animation and then using API
calls to mimic a mouse-click on the triggering shape during the slideshow
via VBA.

Thanks a lot,
it's that I think to after searching long time.

So, I'll do that ...

Has someone got the method already tested ???

cyrille