If-Then-Else in custom animations pane

[Breck]

Suppose I have a slide with half a dozen triggered custom-animation
sequences, and I want what happens in each of them to depend slightly of
which sequences have already been run.

In other words, what I'd like to do is have If-Then-Else available in the
custom-animation pane, but it ain't there. ("If trigger 1 has happened, then
fly-in Oval 23, else if trigger 2 has happend, then emphasize-spin photo
1493, ... and so on)

Any suggestions?

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hmmm, that sounds like a tricky one to me. How many permutations are we
talking about? Depending on what you are trying to do, you may be able to
tackle this with a combination of hyperlinks to other slides & triggers, but
that could awful complex awful quick. Maybe one of the VBAers has a
solution...

Perhaps if you let us know a little more about the project (and your version
please) we can come up with some creative solutions

Lucy

 

[Breck]

(Sorry for the delay, the "Notify me of replies" thing didn't work.)

It's PPt 2002 that I'm using.

"A little more about the project..." Okay, it would be something like this.
Suppose I have five triggered animation sequences on a slide, each one
consisting of six or eight steps. I want sequence #1 to run only if sequence
#3 or sequence #4 has run. Sequence #5 can run if #1 and #3 have run, but
not if #4 has. And so on.

You're right, it's probably possible to do this with links to other slides,
but you're also right that that would become very complicated very fast.

I tried learning enough VBA to be able to do this, but 8 hours later I'm
about to give up on that idea.

Thanks,
Breck

 

[David Marcovitz]

Here's another thought that might be too complicated but maybe not.
Because the animations are triggered, you can have them trigger
something extra. For example suppose shape 1 triggers animation sequence
1 and shape 2 triggers sequence 2. If you don't want shape 2 to work
until shape 1 has been clicked, then you could put another shape (either
a 99% transparent shape or a duplicate of shape 2) on top of shape 2.
When shape 1 is clicked, it can trigger an exit of the fake shape 2
(along with all the other stuff it triggers). That way, the real shape 2
will be covered until shape 1 is clicked.

If you need to have more conditions met, you can have multiple fake
shape 2s, each with an exit trigger. Shape 2 won't be clickable until
all the conditions (exiting all the shapes on top of shape 2) are met.

--David

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hmm complex. I like David's idea. And I would suggest a great deal of work
with pen & paper before starting with powerpoint... ;-)

Lucy

--
Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[Breck]

Thanks, David. I need to play with that idea a little. What I've tried
before, that does NOT work, is moving (Custom paths) one shape out from in
front of (or from underneath) another. PPt thinks the shapes are always
where they were when the slide started. But I did a little testing with your
idea just now, and it DOES work if you simply make the top shape disappear.

 

[David Marcovitz]

Great. Unless it gets too complicated, I'm pretty sure that this
solution will work for you. Thanks for getting back to us.
--David