Shimmer Custom Animation Runtime Error

[Shelley]

I have a user who has a presentation set up with one slide using the
shimmer custom animation effect on a text box. When they go into the
VB Editor and type in the following line in the immediate window, an
error message occurs:

debug.Print activepresentation.Slides(1).TimeLine.MainSequence(1).EffectType

Error: Run-Time error '-2147467259 (80004005)': Effect(unknown
member): Failed.

This line of code works for all other types of custom animation and it
displays the number of the effect. He needs to know this number
because he is using VB to run some custom settings within the
presentation. Does anybody know the number of the shimmer effect or
why this error is occuring?

Thanks,
Shelley

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Shelly,
This is a bug. There are no constants defined for Shimmer and Blink. If you
try to read effect type when it is set to either of the two it will error
out. You cannot set the value for the same two animations.