PPT Game Question

[Guest]

I had a question sent to me that's a little beyond my area. Can any one offer
assistance to this question? Thanks!!!
I am currently working on a "Wheel of Fortune" game.
It has a spinning wheel presentation linked to the
game front presentation where the puzzle is and where
the score is kept. The spinning wheel works great with
no blinking thanks to the awesomebackgrounds tutorial.


The macro to add the score is written as you describe
and gets its value from a named object on the game
front. My problem is getting the value produced by the
spinning wheel (which I put in a named object on the
slide where the spinner stops) to show up in the named
object on the game front.

Both presentations are running, however I can only
reference ActivePresentation which is the spinning
wheel and when I reference the object in the game
front to send the value to it just changes the value
in the spinning wheel to zero.

Is this possible to do? I know you can do it from
slide to slide in the same presentation, but this, I
don't know.

As an alternative I sent the value from the spinning
wheel to an excel sheet, but when I linked that cell
to game front as an object my macro couldn't read it.
If neither of these works I guess I could put the
sixteen slides of the spinning wheel in with the game
front, but I am afraid this would create some blank
spaces in the wheel spin.

I'd appreciate any assistance in answering this question.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

It seems that the person asking the question has been sending several
emails (I got one, too). Let's keep the answers here so everyone can
benefit from the discussion, including the people trying to answer it. I
know there are some people here with experience communicating between
presentations.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Guest]

Definitely!!!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I had a question sent to me that's a little beyond my area. Can any one offer
assistance to this question? Thanks!!!

Might want to direct the correspondent here so you don't have to run back and

The macro to add the score is written as you describe
and gets its value from a named object on the game
front. My problem is getting the value produced by the
spinning wheel (which I put in a named object on the
slide where the spinner stops) to show up in the named
object on the game front.

Both presentations are running, however I can only
reference ActivePresentation which is the spinning
wheel and when I reference the object in the game
front to send the value to it just changes the value
in the spinning wheel to zero.

Is this possible to do? I know you can do it from
slide to slide in the same presentation, but this, I
don't know.

Assuming there are only two presentations open and you know the order, you can
reference e.g. a shape on the second slide of the first via:

Presentations(1).Slides(2).Shapes("MyNamedShape")

 

[Bill Foley]

I suggested in the personal e-mail to assign macros to each piece of the pie
that assigns that value to the variable. Plus I suggested it easier to keep
it all in the same presentation. I have a sample here with me and I might
try to mess with it the next day or so. If so, I'll post back to the
original poster.

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor
www.pttinc.com
Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
"Success, something you measure when you are through succeeding."

 

[Echo S]

I suspect the questioner follows this group, as it seems they sure knew who
to email for this kind of question. So, for others who might be
contemplating the same thing, I'd just like to say that it's really so much
better to keep things here in the newsgroup than to ask a whole bunch of
people individually to work on your problem individually. All that
individual work expends many more man hours in the long run and really isn't
fair to those who will go out of their way to try to get you a good answer.
It's much better to just post your question here in the public group where
everyone can work on it collectively.