VB6 or Powerpoint

[Robbo]

Basically ive a prject to display data on a big screen

also has been mentioned is to display weather or RSS feeds to news

i know in VB6 can add a web browser

but was thinking wud just want a scrolling feed at bottom, cud this be done in powerpoint, just want a proffessional opition

ok thanks in advance

have somethin in powerpoint already just not sure how u can add an internet feed, cheers

[leinad31]

Is this an interactive GUI or just for display? If just for display then a screensaver can implement RSS feed.

[alex_read]

Could it be done in PowerPoint & VBA? Yes.

However if you use VB you wouldn't need to rely on an external program and you could also resize your form to just fit along the bottom of the screen displaying this information as opposed to having all the toolbars etc. of PowerPoint loaded and opened. I'd write this in standard VB myself, but that's just my opinion.

Whichever you use, I imagine a label and a timer would get your scrolling text working - there's a ton of examples on this part on the net.

[Robbo]

its just for display

can i do this on powerpoint?

for example like how news channels are and have a scrolling messgae underneath

fed by some internet source or would it have to be manual?

ok thanks

[RobDog888]

If you do it in PowerPoint you wont have all the toolbars showing when you run the slideshow/presentation.

[Robbo]

think it wud be best in powerpoint

can i not add a feed to this even if a manual one?

[alex_read]

If you are asking how to read an RSS feed, then you can check this thread out. The code will will extremely similar, if not exactly the same for VB or PowerPoint VBA for this part.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...&highlight=rss