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Axel Kellermann · Guest

Hello NG,

I use the following steps to open and display a PowerPoint presentation from
within my application:

- create an instance of TPowerPointApplication
- create an instance of TPowerPointPresentation
- connect instance of TPowerPointPresentation to instance of
TPowerPointApplication
- load presentation
- set properties of presentation
- start presentation

Everything works fine with the exception that I can't define which window is
used to actually render the presentation. Every time I open a presentation
it is displayed in a newly created window and that's not exactly what I had
in mind. I want to display the presentation inside a TPanel component on my
main window.
My question is: is there a way to define the "container" window for the
PowerPoint presentation? I toyed around with the different properties
(interfaces) of TPowerPointApplication and TPowerPointPresentation (like
Windows, SlideShowWindow e.g.) but didn't find a way to specify the window
used
by the presentation. The only thing I got working is moving and resizing the
presentation window. But that's also kind of awkward because values for
position and size have to be given in points instead of pixels...

I hope this is the right group to ask this question. Sorry if not.

Thanks,

Axel

LC · Guest

Hi Axel,

Did you ever get an answer, or did you find out yourself ?
The reason im asking, is because im having the same problem, and could
really do with an answer.

Kind Regards
LC

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Axel Kellermann · Guest

Hi LC,

I didn't get an answer and I still don't know how to define the window a
PowerPoint presentation is rendered to. But I found an alternative that
works quite well (at least in my case). I use a tool named "PowerCONVERTER
XP" to convert PowerPoint shows into Flash movies and display them using the
ShockwaveFlash ActiveX control. Unfortunately the wrapper class for the
ShockwaveFlash control fails to resize movies properly, so you have to fix
it by overwriting the function Resize() in TShockwaveFlash as follows (im
using CBuilder, but it shouldn't be to hard to convert the code into Delphi
syntax):

- add the following declaration to class TShockwaveFlash

DYNAMIC void __fastcall Resize(void);

- add the following implementation of method Resize()

void __fastcall TShockwaveFlash::Resize(void)
{
TWinControl* SavedParent = Parent;
try
{
Parent = NULL;
TControl::Resize();
}
__finally
{
Parent = SavedParent;
}
}

Hope that helps,
Bye

Axel

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