Developing a digital noticeboard (inc. PowerPoint)

Hi,

I'm trying to develop a digital noticeboard which takes the form of a Widescreen plasma TV connected by VGA to a computer. Most media to be displayed is in the form of PowerPoint presentations (and even videos and other required content can be embedded into PPT files) but I'm looking for a way to link presentations, so after cycling through one (using timings) the next automatically loads. I tried copying and pasting slides into one big powerpoint, but this destroys all themes and design templates, which are required.

Ideally, I'd like to divide the screen into variable sections (similar to Acer GridVista) so the main powerpoint can be displayed in one large quadrant, perhaps with a smaller scrolling marquee at the bottom and another permanent box for text on daily events.

My first thought was VBA & Macros or a hard-coded VB6 solution, although if someone knows a faster/easier/better alternative, please let me know. Therefore, does anyone have any ideas where to begin with this?

All suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
IanR

Sorry to bump this, but any ideas?

well you should be able to load a presentation and display it by vba code, but how to know when that display has completed, to know when to load the next is outside my experience,
to load the presentation you should be able to record a macro

hmmm thanks, the loading should be easy to code / macro, but as you said it's the "what happens at the end" that I'm struggling with.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

Many Thanks
IanR

IF you have everything timed then you should be able to time when the next presentation loads.
If you know that presentation A takes five minutes to run then you could programaticaly start the next presentation to load at say five minutes and two seconds.
To accomplish this try using the wait method.

did you post this the other day?

if the presentations are set to run for a certain period - you will know the exact time from the timings of each slide

could you set your procedure, after opening each presentation, to wait for the length of the presentation - before closing and opening the next?

i've never automated powerpoint, so i don't really know if there is something like end of slide show event that you could use

sorry, i'm probably posting overcomplicated rubbish when theres probably somethin easier to do

maybe if the active slide = to slides.count then close and open the next?

just some thoughts anyway ha

yeah, you have posted this twice

Yes sorry, I posted one for general ideas on a digital notice board, and then after getting an idea using automated PowerPont posted a more specific one a week later, although I should really have closed the first one.

thanks for the ideas anyway!

Threads merged

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Originally Posted by IanRoberts

I'm looking for a way to link presentations, so after cycling through one (using timings) the next automatically loads.

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Hi Use the SlideShowEnd Event to load the next slide...

Hope this helps...