Eazyrider

Problem solved, the answer is the property ActivePresentation is applied to an Application, unlike what i wrote in my program. Thanks again !

I just saw that ! Will confirm tomorrow but am very confident you found the solution. Thanks guys.

... I think you are right indeed ! I can not test that tonight unfortunately, but will let you inform tomorrow morning. But from what I found on the net, it seems that ActivePresentation is a property used on an Application. I'll let you know tomorrow. Thanks for your help anyway.

Hi everyone, I was looking for a way to handle an Active Presentation. I started to write a code, but soon an error occured which I couldn't correct yet... Global $oAppl = ObjGet("", "PowerPoint.Application") If @error Or Not IsObj($oAppl) Then Exit MsgBox(0, "Error", "Error creating PPT application. @error = " & @error & ", @extended = " & @extended) Global $oPresInterface = $oAppl.Presentations ; Get presentation interface Global $oPresentation = $oPresInterface.ActivePresentation The error of course is on last line... All I want is to create an object related to the current active presentation. Any help on this would be much appreciated !

Yep I was aware of it before I posted in this forum. I couldn't find in the UDF any function allowing me to manipulate the Active Presentation... I guess there must be a simple way though, not too far from the code I wrote maybe . Any help on this will be much appreciated !

Hi everyone ! My question is in the title : I'm using PPT Office 2003, and don't succeed to create the object for the presentation already opened in a current PPT session. I'm very new to handling COM objects via AutoIt and as you can see still have a lot to learn I tried this code : Global $oAppl = ObjGet("", "PowerPoint.Application") If @error Or Not IsObj($oAppl) Then Exit MsgBox(0, "Error", "Error creating PPT application. @error = " & @error & ", @extended = " & @extended) Global $oPresInterface = $oAppl.Presentations ; Get presentation interface Global $oPresentation = $oPresInterface.ActivePresentation Obviously last line doesn't work at all, I got an error message saying the command is unknown... please anyone, help me with this ! Thanks in advance, Eazyrider

To finish off this conversation : I use a 2003 version of PPT. That might explain the differences of behaviour ! Finally, I was able to build my application properly using COM as described in your example. Thanks again for your help Water !

Oddly, it behaves in a different way on my comp : when PowerPoint is already open, if I launch your program as you wrote it (just changing $ppPastePNG with $ppPasteDefault), it works fine, the clipboard doesn't get empty and the picture is correctly pasted. Now if the PowerPoint application is closed and that Autoit generates a new one with the command ObjCreate, I can see that the clipboard is now empty... anyway it is not that terrible, just weird... and somehow disturbing PS: I think this is my last post available for today... I will keep you inform tomorrow Water of the evolution tomorrow. Thanks again for your time !

Very nice Water ! Thanks alot . I just replaced PNG by Default to make it work. Now I have a very minor problem : I noticed that straight after the creation of the object, Global $oAppl = ObjCreate("PowerPoint.Application") the clipboard gets empty... I don't see any reason why... though it's not a big problem in my application since I can copy paste after I create the ppt file. It's just to understand things...

I'm actually reading stuff in the help menu about the COM. Since I'm a beginner, I didn't even know the existance of that . Looks very powerful. To be precise, I want to resize the picture by setting the height and reposition it at the Horizontal location 2.16cm and Vertical 2.32cm. Thanks again for your help water !

Hey water, Thanks for quick answer Actually, I'm simply automating a Copy Paste of a picture on a slide that is managed with an old version of Paint Shop Pro software. I would also like to play with the properties of the picture I have just Paste on my slide.

Hi everybody, I'm having trouble to manage the control with ClassNameNN MsoCommandBar5 of a PowerPoint application. This control corresponds to the Menubar of PowerPoint. In short, I just want to use the command paste, without using the keystroke "^v". I have found a way of doing that in a manner that is not very satisfying because it is striclty equivalent to sending "^v" using the following command lines : $hPPT = WinGetHandle ("") ControlSend($hPPT, "", "MsoCommandBar5", "Eo") ; I'm using a french version of PPT. "Eo" corresponds to "&Edition/C&oller" which means Edit/Paste Does anyone know how to handle the different menu items of this MsoCommandBar ? Is there any UDF existing on this particular control by chance ? Thanks in advance for your answers.