Shapes.AddPicture(...) - different behavior in Powerpoint 03 vs. 2

[Wolf7]

Hi,

i'm experiencing the following issue:

I created an add-in for MS Powerpoint 2003 which adds pictures from a
webserver to a slide.

The code looks like that and works fine:

Code Snippet

//Insert Picture on current slide

PowerPoint.Shape imageShape = null;

PowerPoint.Shapes shapes = slide.Shapes;



imageShape = shapes.AddPicture("http://www.something.com/something.png",

Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoFalse,

Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoTrue,

100, 100, 300, 200);

Now I'm trying to build the same add-in for MS Powerpoint 2007 (same code
snippet), but it doesn't work.
It seems to be possible to add a picture from the local file system, but not
from a webserver.

Does anyone know why?
Is there a workaround?

Kind regards,
Wolfgang

 

[Wolf7]

I vaguely recall something about this being a deliberate change to PPT, a
security "feature" I think. Annoying.

Thanks for that. Do you know a source where I could find details about those
"changes"?

Kind regards,
Wolfgang

 

[Yair Nevet]

Wolf,

Did you managed to overcome this problem? what did you do about it eventually?

I've got the same problem.

Thank you!

Yair



Wolf wrote:

Shapes.AddPicture(...) - different behavior in Powerpoint 03 vs. 2
25-Sep-08

Hi

i'm experiencing the following issue

I created an add-in for MS Powerpoint 2003 which adds pictures from a
webserver to a slide

The code looks like that and works fine

Code Snippe

//Insert Picture on current slid

PowerPoint.Shape imageShape = null

PowerPoint.Shapes shapes = slide.Shapes


imageShape = shapes.AddPicture("http://www.something.com/something.png"

Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoFalse

Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoTrue

100, 100, 300, 200)

Now I'm trying to build the same add-in for MS Powerpoint 2007 (same code
snippet), but it doesn't work
It seems to be possible to add a picture from the local file system, but not
from a webserver

Does anyone know why
Is there a workaround

Kind regards
Wolfgang

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Shapes.AddPicture(...) - different behavior in Powerpoint 03 vs. 2
Hi

i'm experiencing the following issue

I created an add-in for MS Powerpoint 2003 which adds pictures from a
webserver to a slide

The code looks like that and works fine

Code Snippe

//Insert Picture on current slid

PowerPoint.Shape imageShape = null

PowerPoint.Shapes shapes = slide.Shapes


imageShape = shapes.AddPicture("http://www.something.com/something.png"

Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoFalse

Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoTrue

100, 100, 300, 200)

Now I'm trying to build the same add-in for MS Powerpoint 2007 (same code
snippet), but it doesn't work
It seems to be possible to add a picture from the local file system, but not
from a webserver

Does anyone know why
Is there a workaround

Kind regards
Wolfgang

Re: Shapes.AddPicture(...) - different behavior in Powerpoint 03 v

Thanks for that. Do you know a source where I could find details about thos
"changes"

Kind regards
Wolfgang

I vaguely recall something about this being a deliberate change to PPT, a
I vaguely recall something about this being a deliberate change to PPT, a
security "feature" I think. Annoying

You may need to add code to pull the image down to a file on the local drive
then insert it from there.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MV
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.co
PPTools: www.pptools.co
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Re: Shapes.AddPicture(...) - different behavior in Powerpoint 03 v

I'm not able to find anything about it right now, unfortunately

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MV
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.co
PPTools: www.pptools.co
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[Chirag]

As Steve said, a workaround would be to download the file separately to a
local file and insert the image from the local file. You can use Inet
control to download the file. Look at
http://officeone.mvps.org/vba/http_download_file.html for an example.

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