display powerpoint on three monitors

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Eamon Kelly

My setup consists of a laptop, a projector and an external monitor.

I control the slideshow from the laptop and I need to display the powerpoint
notes on the external monitor while showing the slideshow on the projector.

So far my only solution has been to arrange the desktop so that the
projector is above the laptop and the external monitor is to the right of the
laptop.
Then I use the powerpoint viewer to display the slides on the projector and
stretch its control window so that the notes frame appears in the external
monitor.

The problem is that it requires too much setup so I want to write a program
to display the notes page in a separate window. But how do I detect when the
slide changes in Powerpoint?

From the examples on the web, I can see how to control powerpoint, but I
can't figure out how to write a callback, ideally in C++ 6.
Or is there an easier way?
 
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Eamon Kelly

thanks TAJ, but its for use in a church, so the time spent programming is
"free", but the cost of the software has to come out of donations.
regards,
Eamon
 
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Steve Rindsberg

Eamon,

This explains how to write an addin that responds to events in PPT:

Make PPT respond to events
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00004.htm

I'm not sure how that would hook up with an app written in any other tongue, but
it might help. If nothing else, it explains the events that you can tap into.
 
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Eamon Kelly

Many thanks Steve, I used this to copy the text on the slide into the
clipboard and then wrote a separate clipboard viewer to display the notes on
the third monitor.
 

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