Do any of you know what the best way is to deploy a mobile Powerpoint Add-In?
I developed an add-in that logs the time whenever a teacher switches slides, and also exports all the slides as separate JPEG files. This is necessary, because we also record the presentations on video, and want to combine the two using a second-screen. The whole back-end behind this is finished and is working (but we need to manually type in the positions of the 'slide'. So we figured we could automate this).
The users the add in needs to run on don't have any Administrator rights, and we don't have access to the administrator account either (this is in an Educational environment). But we do need to launch a Powerpoint application with the add in already installed, so we can record the presentation.
Can you write a few entries to the registry, in HKEY_CurrentUser? Specifically:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\PowerPoint\AddIns\YourAddinName
Under that, add a new
String: Path = the full path to your add-in's PPA/PPAM file
DWORD: AutoLoad = ffff ffff hex
That will cause PPT to load your add-in automatically when it starts up.
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I don't see any methods in the PowerPoint Object Model to add one of PowerPoint's built in icons. I see the ability to add the built in shapes and pictures, but not icons?
How would you do it? Would it be best to just have a slide with the icons I want to use saved somewhere and just copy it off the slide?
It seems that upon looking into the problem further PowerPoint does not have the ability to insert its built in icons using VBA. Additionally, when creating a PPAM file from a PPTM you lose all slides, masters, layouts, etc.
The best way to insert slides or objects on slides is to just create another PPTX file and store it on SharePoint, a share drive, or just distribute a file with your add-in so that you can reference the slides and objects on the slides in your add-in.
The Slides.InsertFromFile method requires a filename and index. The filename is a string and while the example shows a local resource I have tested and it also works with an internet URI (specifically tried a SharePoint resource, but I could do further testing if needed).
I have an Access database that uses VBA code to generate a GPX map file. That works fine. I then want the contents of the GPX file to be displayed on a website, https://mapy.cz
The method that the site authors intend is for users to open the site, then manually drag and drop GPX files onto the site, at which point the contents are read in and displayed by the website. This also works fine.
What I want to do is NOT require my database user to open a browser, locate the file and drag it onto the browser by hand. I want my VBA code to not only create this GPX file, but also open the user's default browser, direct it to this mapping site (all this also works okay), but then SIMULATE or FORCE the drag and drop action FROM MY VBA CODE. That is the part that on which I'm floundering. I've looked up things like using VBA's IE.Document object, and it seems to me that it should be in there somewhere, but I can't find anything that makes sense to me.
I've done similar things in the past, with SendKeys to simulate the user typing, and AutoIT to code-control a running DOS application, including reading the programs responses from the DOS screen and forcing in commands, all from VBA. It seems to me that this should be possible, and not even all that uncommon a requirement, but I've not located anything helpful in all my searching, and I've done a lot. Maybe I'm simply phrasing my searches wrong, but at this point, I'm just flat stuck.
All:
I am writing a PowerPoint add-in that will allow a user to drop specific safety related images onto a map. I've written the code that copies the images and places them on the slide and I would like to place it into an add-in. Unfortunately, I cannot find a way to either:
a) place the images into the add-in
b) reference images if I were able to place them in the add-in
The alternative approach is to require the user to start with a special template that includes all of the images and then load the add-in to get the menu functionality. I would much rather have a single file that contains both the code and bitmap images.
With best regards,
Walt
PPA files contain only code, not presentation content like images. As an alternative, you could distribute a PPT/PPTX that you open invisibly and extract the image you need.
After quite a bit of looking around I found a solution that resolves the problem adequately. Using Microsoft's Custom UI Editor, I created an XML entry in the PowerPoint Presentation that performs the Auto_Open function that would have been part of the Add-In. This allows me to add the menu functions that will be responsible for loading the specific images.
I've added a reference page at the beginning of the presentation that contains instructions on how to use the template... This page also contains all of the images that are used by the visual basic code. The 'Visible' flag on these images are set to False so the user does not see them. As they are copied from the reference page into the presentation, the Visible flag is set to True and they are pasted onto the current slide.
It is not a perfect solution, but it is adequate...
I am working on a VSTO PowerPoint 2010 add-in which will allow the user to playback a media object (video or audio) in a windows form using windows media player control.
In which way can I extract the embedded media object an play it back to the user?
I have access to the objects name, will that be enough to get to the embedded object?
Kinda yes and no.
The "No". Through VBA and VSTO, the answer is no or at least I've never seen it done before and have no idea. I've looked at this before and didn't find it to be possible.
The "Kinda Yes". Any embedded media in 2007/2010 can be extracted through Open XML. Here's where the "kinda" comes in - you can extract it so long as you know what you're extracting. Sounds easy enough, but it's not. When you insert a video or audio piece, it gets embedded into a shape. That shape is given a name[1], which is the file name of the audio/video file. So if I insert the sample video that comes with Win7, my shape name that holds the video is "wildlife.wmv". It can easily be renamed by an end user who knows how to do so (the Selection Pane in the client) and in that case, it would be impossible to find based on just having the name.
But if it hasn't been renamed, you would open an in-memory copy of your .pptx in Open XML, search on the name in each of the slides in the /ppt/slides/ folder and once found, use it's relationship Id to locate it's name in the /ppt/media folder. Then you can pull it out, save it to disk, play it, etc.
1 PowerPoint, however, renames the file based on an internal naming convention. My "wildlife.wmv" is renamed "media1.wmv" inside the package. Subsequent media items would be named media2.wmv, media1.mpg, etc.
PREFACE: Yes we're moving away from VSS in the next few months.
One of my web projects contains, as one of its files, a PDF. The PDF on our QA site is being pulled from VSS.
A QA tester recently told me he's being prompted for a password when he tries to open it. VSS says the file I have on disk is different than the one it has, so I updated it, but afterwards it's still being shown as different.
So basically VSS is mangling my PDF and the results are so wobbly that Adobe Acrobat Reader is confused and thinks it has a password.
I've tried adding it as Auto-Detect and as Binary. Same results.
Why does my PDF ask for a password after being retrieved from Visual SourceSafe and how can I prevent it?
Do you have the SourceSafe 2005 Update installed?
Handy list of known issues: http://blogs.msdn.com/richardb/archive/2007/06/06/list-of-bugs-fixed-in-sourcesafe-2005-gdr.aspx
The PDF bug was one of the most commonly requested hotfixes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925234
I've tried adding it as Auto-Detect and as Binary. Same results.
To be clear, are you adding a version of the file you know is not already corrupted? Even so, there are plenty of other bug fixes on the list above which can cause random file corruption -- try that first.
You can remove PDF password by this tool:
Advanced PDF Password Remover 5.0
Step 1: Import PDF files
Click the "Add File(s)" button, browse your computer to find the PDF files and load them.You can import as many as 200 PDF files into this program for every batch processing.The imported files are listed in the file list window as below.
Step 2: Set output folder
You can customize a folder to save the output files all together. The default folder is My Documents\Advanced PDF Password Removerr. Click "Brows" button to specify a folder on your computer, or you can make a new folder manually in the text box.
Step 3: Remove restrictions
Click "Start" button, and the files are processed one by one.
"SUCCEED" is displayed in the Result column after the removing process is finished.