How to set Animation Order using Timeline object?

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I am into PowerPoint Automation. I m using PPT 2002 and VB.

What I have done?
My application applies animation to text items. It also creates
rectangle(programmatically) for each individual text box (behind the text
box) and during the slideshow the text & its corresponding rectanlge comes
together. I have used timeline object since animationsettings object won't
allow me to animate both, the text box and its rectangle, together.

What I want to do?
Before I programatically create rectangles, I want to delete all the custom
animations for text objects. I am not deleting the CA for any other object.
So after deleting the animations, all the other objects (except for the text
animations) are retained along with their respective custom animations.
Obviosuly the animation order wil change. Please note that I haven't created
the rectangles for the text items yet. Now, when I create the rectangles I
want to set the animation order for the text as per my desire. I check the
timeline object. The "index" represents the animation order. When I tried to
set the index it won't allow me to do so (since its a read only property). If
I set animation order using AnimationSettings then the text items+their
rectangle won't come together.

So, is there any way by which I can set the animation order using timeline
object and not the animationsettings object? Becoz animationsettings won't
allow two shapes to be animated together.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

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