copy effects to slide by programming

[joel]

HI

When an animation scheme is in effect in a presentation and applied to
all slides, you can use the User Interface in the custom animation
panel to copy the animation scheme effects to a particular slide, --
replacing the animation scheme for that slide.

Can this be done by programming, using the PowerPoint API?

Thanks,

Joel

 

[Guest]

I doubt if there is any API that we can use to just copy an animation scheme.
It could have been possible if PowerPoint had some "copy animation scheme"
(to a particular slide) option. But, there is no option like that. So,ifyou
want to apply an Animation scheme U will have to apply it on all slides. It
will apply the same scheme for all the slides. As far I as I have understood
you want to copy a scheme to a slide onwhich the scheme hasn't been applied
yet (say u add a new slide to an existing ppt). In that case U will have to
check which kind of animation is applied to what kind of object. Say for eg.
the animation scheme applied fade to title and "fly fromleft" to body text.
Then u will have to first read what item has got what kind of object (like
title got fade,body got flyfromleft etc) and then apply the same kind of
animation to the corresponding objects in the new slide.

If I have understood wrongly then please do clarify. If any confusion feel
free to ask.

 

[joel]

Hi

I'm talking about the situation where the animation scheme has already
been applied to a slide. When you open the custom animation panel you
see the animation effect, but dimmed. If you click on it, you get an
option to copy the animation scheme effects to actual effects for the
current slide. One reason you might want to do that is to change or add
effects for that slide only.

My question is: can you do that copy operation by PowerPoint
programming - API. I think the answer is no but maybe someone can
correct me.

Thanks, Joel