Run between Excel and application.

[water]

Here you can find how to remove the black slide at the end of the presentation.

[f1fan]

I've got rid of the black slide. I mean.... I'm still getting the same script, where it only runs the presentation and not the other application.

[water]

But does the presentation end now? Please try this script and tell me if you get the MsgBox.

While 1
    ShellExecuteWait("C:testMcLarenshopfloorPresentation1.pps")
    MsgBox(0, "", "Presentation finished!")
    WinActivate("MaxTalk")
WEnd

[f1fan]

The presentation runs, but now with this error after it ends. "While 1 ShellExecuteWait(C:testMclarenshopfloorPresentation1.pps") While^ERROR error: Error in expression."

[water]

A " is missing after ShellExecuteWait. It should look like the code I posted in #43.

[f1fan]

The code below. the same as yours in #43....

While 1 ShellExecuteWait("C:testMcLarenshopfloorPresentation1.pps")

MsgBox(0, "", "Presentation finished!")

WinActivate("MaxTalk")

WEnd

[water]

You can't have multiple AutoIt statements in one line! Hence it should be:

While 1
    ShellExecuteWait("C:testMcLarenshopfloorPresentation1.pps")
    MsgBox(0, "", "Presentation finished!") 
    WinActivate("MaxTalk")
WEnd

Edited September 28, 2012 by water

[f1fan]

Okay. The presentation works and the message box comes up, but the other application still doesn't load.

Also, I don't really want the message box to come up....

what I would like:

Presentation plays.

then it ends.

the other apllication loads up (for certain amount of time)

then presentation plays.

then it ends.

then the other application loads up (for certain amount of time)

and this process continues.

[water]

The MsgBox is just to make sure that the presentation has ended. It can be removed.

So now we have to check why the other application doesn't come up.

Could you please run this script the other application ("MaxTalk" ) is running?

#include <Array.au3>
AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
Global $aWindows = WinList("Max")
_ArrayDisplay($aWindows)

Edited October 1, 2012 by water

[f1fan]

It's came up with this...

Row Col0 Col1

[1] MaxTalk 0x000609D6

In it's own GUI.

I ran the script within a new script editor, by the way.

[water]

Looks good.

What do you get when you run this script?

AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
Global $iResult
While 1
ShellExecuteWait("C:\test\McLarenshopfloorPresentation1.pps")
$iResult = WinActivate("MaxTalk")
MsgBox(0, "", $iResult)
WEnd

[f1fan]

We're slowly getting there..

When i ran that script, it would run the Presentation fine and then the other application would come up but with a message box. So I took out the "MsgBoox (), "", $iResult)"

And it ran preety smoothly, but the application would come up for around a second and then the presentation would come back up. So Spot on, apart from the duration of the other application ha.

[water]

How long do you want to show the application? Or do you want to wait for the user to press a key to continue?

[f1fan]

I don't want any user intervention! Er let's say 3 minutes long, and then it switches back to the presentation.

[bogQ]

then insert

Sleep(1000*60*3);1000ms 60sec 3min

on new empty line just after WinActivate("MaxTalk")

Edited October 1, 2012 by bogQ

[water]

As bogQ suggested: Insert Sleep and your script should exactly do what you want.

[f1fan]

Yup. That seems to have made it work.

thanks both of you!

[water]

Glad to be of service