I have a Kiosk that is using PowerPoint 2003 viewer to display a continuously looping presentation. Within that presentation, I have two slides that are simply an image, stretched to the full size of the slide. These images however change at different intervals in the day, while this presentation continues to run. (These two images are of our local forecast and the local radar image, each is a static image from a website, being downloaded and saved to a share, overwriting the previous image.)
My problem is that while the PowerPoint presentation is running, it doesn't go out and reload the new versions of these image files. It simply continues to display the image that was loaded when PowerPoint was launched…even though the original image has been updated.
I've tried two things to rectify this issue.
First, rather than pasting the image into a slide, I made a Linked OLE object, pointing it to an image and setting it to "Automatically Update". The "Automatic" part of this seems to only work when you initially launch the presentation and prompts you to select “Update”. It doesn't actively go out and pull/refresh the image file. No luck on this attempt.
The second thing I tried was to again insert a Linked OLE object, but this time point it to another PowerPoint presentation. This second presentation would contain only 2 slides, one for each image. Then, after some "Custom Animation" tweaks on the original presentation, I can have this presentation call out to the other presentation...hoping when it launches it, it will update the images. No luck here either.
Does anyone else have any ideas on how I can get PowerPoint to refresh or reload these images files to update on a continuously looping .ppt?
Chris
My problem is that while the PowerPoint presentation is running, it doesn't go out and reload the new versions of these image files. It simply continues to display the image that was loaded when PowerPoint was launched…even though the original image has been updated.
I've tried two things to rectify this issue.
First, rather than pasting the image into a slide, I made a Linked OLE object, pointing it to an image and setting it to "Automatically Update". The "Automatic" part of this seems to only work when you initially launch the presentation and prompts you to select “Update”. It doesn't actively go out and pull/refresh the image file. No luck on this attempt.
The second thing I tried was to again insert a Linked OLE object, but this time point it to another PowerPoint presentation. This second presentation would contain only 2 slides, one for each image. Then, after some "Custom Animation" tweaks on the original presentation, I can have this presentation call out to the other presentation...hoping when it launches it, it will update the images. No luck here either.
Does anyone else have any ideas on how I can get PowerPoint to refresh or reload these images files to update on a continuously looping .ppt?
Chris