Simulating PP slide sorter on an Access form

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Hi,

I would like to simulate the PP slidesorter on an A2000 form along with a
Project! cmdbutton that will project the selected slide.
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I think this would be extremely difficult. For one thing, Access forms
don't lend themselves to drag-n-drop interfaces. Why not automate
PowerPoint and use the real slide sorter?
 
Perhaps I do not need the sorter functions, ie: drag/drop/reorder facility
of the PP slidesorter. I agree with you there.

But I do need to be able to browse every slide in the existing presentation
and be able to select a slide on the form and project it, similar to what PP
does.

Any wisdom ?
 
Perhaps I do not need the sorter functions, ie: drag/drop/reorder facility
of the PP slidesorter. I agree with you there.

But I do need to be able to browse every slide in the existing presentation
and be able to select a slide on the form and project it, similar to what PP
does.

Any wisdom ?
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Have a look at the examples at http://skp.mvps.org

Shyam's got an example of displaying slides in an external app on a form.
 
Thanks very much Steve and Stephen.

Most of the code samples I've seen only allow for opening a PP slideshow and
view 1 slide at a time using next, back buttons.


I was wondering about how to amend the code found here :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...-us/dno2k3ta/html/OfficeAccess2PowerPoint.asp
to be able to :
1. View all slides in the presentation simultaneously on a scrolling subform
using bound object frames
2. DblClick on any given form frame/slide to have it project

I was wondering if anyone has already done work similar to this ?

TIA
 
I wonder if a different approach might work better;

It's a fairly simple thing to export an image of whatever size you need from
each slide in a presentation. Export a thumbnail and a full size image of
each slide. You could then create your own slide-sorter-like critter using
multiple image controls on a form, and use those to display thumbnails. Then
when the user doubleclicks a thumbnail, do whatever it takes to display the
image full screen (another form, perhaps)
 
Yes I did think of that. I exported all slides to jpgs and then directed the
Access form to display them in a continuous form. But the form only displays
the 1st image repeatedly.

Unless I'm wrong, I've found that there is no way to display images on a
scrolling continuous Access form. This seems to be a Access limitation.

I wonder if there is an anwer to this in VB ? Then maybe I can shell it from
Access.
 
Yes I did think of that. I exported all slides to jpgs and then directed the
Access form to display them in a continuous form. But the form only displays
the 1st image repeatedly.

Unless I'm wrong, I've found that there is no way to display images on a
scrolling continuous Access form. This seems to be a Access limitation.
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That's possible ... I don't use Access, but I've worked with an Access developer
on a project; from what I gather, the forms are a good bit different than the
forms we're used to in VB/PPT VBA.
I wonder if there is an anwer to this in VB ? Then maybe I can shell it from
Access.
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Possibly an array of image controls?
 
Stephen Lebans came out with an elegant solution on my other posting titled
"initiate PP instance in slidesorter view on A200 forms"
 
Stephen Lebans came out with an elegant solution on my other posting titled
"initiate PP instance in slidesorter view on A200 forms"
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Yes, I saw that. Thanks for following up here with the info too.
 
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