Ok... calling all powerpoint Guru's lol I need MAJOR help (is this even possible?)

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Hey guys... I need some serrrrrious help here... It has to do with
programming and Powerpoint, and I'm hoping someone can help me.

Ok.. here's the situation:

In my comp apps2 class we're working with powerpoint... yeah easy
stuff, but me and my friend asked if we could team up and do a sweet
presentation... got in a bit too deep heh...

What we want to do is make a Powerpoint Jeopardy, but we didn't want to
do the traditional "multiple choice" as that's not Jeopardy like.

This means this is what we need to make:

-A way for the user to type in an answer
-A button that when pressed, will check what the user has typed against
the correct answer
-A way to make the result of that add or subtract to a running total


This is HARD lol... we've found that you can code in Visual Basic into
powerpoin... but we only have a limited knowledge of that...

We we're thinking that it may be easier to make a HTML/JavaScript app
and imbed it in Powerpoint, but we don't know how to like to a slide in
powerpoint with HTML/JavaScript or how to make a running total box come
up on the slide...


If anyone can help it'd be GREATLY appreciated... if you don't want to
post it here, or have some refrences, e-mail me at (e-mail address removed)

Thanks in advance!!!
 
What you are asking to be done, can be in PowerPoint / VBA without involving
JAVA/HTLM/or any of the multitude of other programming techniques. Of
course it can also be done in any of them, but this is all about PowerPoint.

However, it is not something you can learn to do overnight. How long do you
have before your homework is due?

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Thanks :) I'll check that out

We have a while to work on this... we just got the assignment today (he
assignment was a solo pp presentation on w/e we want, but so we could
work together - which we want to do since we are pretty advanced in
that class, and we atually wanted a challenge where we'd learn
something :) - our teacher said it better be amazing heh... so yeah
this is what we came up with) So this isn't some last-minute cry for
help :)

I'll check out that site tonight, and tomorrow when I can show it to my
partner. Thanks again :)
 
hmm... been checking out pptfaq and can't really find anything to help
specifically how to add a "text box" that the user can type into whil
viewing the slide show...

if you havea nytips for ANYTHING in the project, please let me know :
 
This means this is what we need to make:
-A way for the user to type in an answer
Click to expand...

You can add text controls to slides like you can on VB forms. Those allow
the user to type into the slide in slideshow mode.
On the other hand, controls on slides can get wonky. Instead, I'd consider
a user form or even an input box that pops up when the user clicks the
button for the question.

For example, there's a grid of rectangles on your main slide. Rows/columns
where each column is a category, each rectangle represents the value of the
question, just like the real game on the Tee 'n Vee.

Each rectangle has an action setting of Run Macro.
Each rectangle also has several tags: the question text, the answer text,
value of quesstion and so on.

The macro gets the question text and answer text then pops up an input box
or form.
User types in answer, clicks OK, macro checks answer and if it's good, adds
the value of the question to user's score.
That brings up the question of multiple users ... do you need to do that or
is it strictly mano a mano with The Machine? One on one?
-A button that when pressed, will check what the user has typed against
the correct answer
Click to expand...

Now that'll be the toughie. In the real game, the player yells the answer,
a human decides if it's right or not. Lots of latitude.
You might want to allow for a judge as well? Or give the user a couple
tries?
Otherwise it may be rather frustrating.
 
Hey, me again, but from another location:

Basically you have two options:

1. Click "View", "Toolbars", "Control Toolbox" and drag a text box control
to your slide.
2. Go into the VBE Window (ALT-F11) and insert a UserForm and put the
controls on the form. Keep in mind that you need to have a button with a
macro assigned to open the Userform, and some code assigned to a button on
the UserForm to take the data entered and do with it as you wish.

Keep plugging, it will all come together eventually!

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
 
Alright... that makes sense. We'll play around with that and see wha
we can come up with. Thanks :
 
Alright, we made some progress Friday... we got the script to run t
bring up a pop-up where it will check the answer if it's wrong, it wil
tell you wrong, if it's right it'll say right... however, if it'
right, it says that it's right, then if you hit OK, it displays th
wrong dialog...
 
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