How many 'clicks' on a slide ?

[Jerry]

I'm automating PowerPoint using Visual C++ MFC, Dev Studio 6. Among other
things, I'm giving the user control over pacing the show using
SlideShowView.Next. Because of entry effects and the like, a slide will
consume a variable number of .Nexts before advancing to the next slide. How
can I determine when the NEXT click (or next use of .Next) will cause a new
slide to appear? Or, conversely, how can I tell how many clicks (.Nexts) a
slide will consume before advancing to the next slide?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Because there is no way to evaluate if the next event is triggered by a
forward advance or a backward advance, this is not a workable automation.
If there are 5 manual advances on a slide and the user advances thru 4 of
them, then backs up one, the slide will be on animation #3 while the
automation would be registering #5.

Nor is there any way to evaluate where in the slide's animation sequences
the slideshow is currently, so there is no way to double check the actual
vs. theoretical status.

But to get the number of clicks on a slide, just count the number of manual
advances in the timeline object.


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