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mwaller
After a lot of research we have uncovered several documented instances
of PowerPoint slideshow responding to normal events by returning to
edit mode, synopsis of some of these reproduced below.
Apparently this was an issue with PowerPoint 97 and was supposed to be
fixed, but we are finding it happen with PowerPoint 2000 on particular
machines, running both Win98 and W2K. The affected machines all
exhibit this behaviour the first time a slideshow is viewed after a
reboot, when a floating window is removed.
Has anyone managed a workaround for this, or even established why it
happens?
Using spy++ on the Windows messages shows nothing out of the ordinary,
just cominations of focus and z-order changes.
The fact that this only happens the 1st time a slideshow loses
focus/changes z-order after a reboot suggests that it may have
something to do with ROT registration?
Any help gratefully received - the sooner the better as the client
wants us to 'fix it'!
example 1:
using an interactive button on a powerpoint 97 slide to start a movie.
In slideshow mode, after playing the movie, the normal powerpoint
(edit)
window is on the screen, with the fullscreen presentation view in
back.
example 2:
playing a slideshow on a laptop, and switching the laptop to external
monitor mode.
The PowerPoint editing window comes to the foreground and the
slideshow
"window" goes to the background behind the other PowerPoint window
example 3:
Displaying a dialog on a timer to send the user a message.
Sometimes the dialog appears normally and the user can remove it by
pressing the OK button. Sometimes, it appears on top of let's say a
PowerPoint
presentation yet it doesn't have the focus. When the user presses the
OK button it either disappears normally, but it sometimes ends his
presentation and
returns PowerPoint back to the Edit mode.
of PowerPoint slideshow responding to normal events by returning to
edit mode, synopsis of some of these reproduced below.
Apparently this was an issue with PowerPoint 97 and was supposed to be
fixed, but we are finding it happen with PowerPoint 2000 on particular
machines, running both Win98 and W2K. The affected machines all
exhibit this behaviour the first time a slideshow is viewed after a
reboot, when a floating window is removed.
Has anyone managed a workaround for this, or even established why it
happens?
Using spy++ on the Windows messages shows nothing out of the ordinary,
just cominations of focus and z-order changes.
The fact that this only happens the 1st time a slideshow loses
focus/changes z-order after a reboot suggests that it may have
something to do with ROT registration?
Any help gratefully received - the sooner the better as the client
wants us to 'fix it'!
example 1:
using an interactive button on a powerpoint 97 slide to start a movie.
In slideshow mode, after playing the movie, the normal powerpoint
(edit)
window is on the screen, with the fullscreen presentation view in
back.
example 2:
playing a slideshow on a laptop, and switching the laptop to external
monitor mode.
The PowerPoint editing window comes to the foreground and the
slideshow
"window" goes to the background behind the other PowerPoint window
example 3:
Displaying a dialog on a timer to send the user a message.
Sometimes the dialog appears normally and the user can remove it by
pressing the OK button. Sometimes, it appears on top of let's say a
PowerPoint
presentation yet it doesn't have the focus. When the user presses the
OK button it either disappears normally, but it sometimes ends his
presentation and
returns PowerPoint back to the Edit mode.