Start Power Point Slide Show from Visual Foxpro

[DENNISDBASE]

I can start Power Point using Shellexecute but it won't automatically start the slide show. Is there code to make this happen ?
I tried changing the *.ppt extension to *.pps but it didn't help.

This is my code:
o = CREATEOBJECT("Shell.Application")
pen("C:\Users\LARRY\Documents\cha(1).ppt")

 

[Tore Bleken]

Add "/S" as a command line switch. If you don't understand what I mean, I can correct your code. IOW, show us the code you use.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Yes, there are a couple of ways you can do this.

First, instead of launching PowerPoint itself, you can use ShellExecute() to launch the PowerPoint Viewer. In that case, just pass the name of the presentation file (including its path).

Alternatively, launch PowerPoint, and specify [tt]/S[/tt], and the name of the file (including path).

So, to launch c:\Presentations\MyPresentation.ppt, you would pass [tt]/S "c:\Presentations\MyPresentation.ppt"[/tt]. You place that whole string in the 4th parameter to ShellExecute().

Note that you need the full path, even if the file is on VFP's search path.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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