Microsoft Powerpoint

[leebowers]

Hello 🙂

How can i embed a microsoft powerpoint presentation into a front panel

[Jonas Van Otterdijk]

Hi,

Try using the internet explorer activeX. Works perfect for Excel and Word too.

Kind regards,

[tst]

For some reason, PowerPoint doesn't seem to have an ActiveX control in the list. What you can do is use an Internet Explorer control instead, which apparently can call the PowerPoint ActiveX control.

Place an ActiveX container on the FP (Containers palette), right click it and select Insert AX control. Find the browser (In my PC it's called Microsoft Web Browser). Wire its reference into an invoke node and select the Navigate method. Wire the path of the presentation into the URL input.

[leebowers]

ok thats great, thankyou very much - I have done that, but a scroll bar appears and you use that to step through the presentation - anyway to get rid of the scroll bar and just let it run say off of a mouse click or button press

[Jonas Van Otterdijk]

Hi,

Save your power point presentation as a powerpoint slide show (*.pps)...

[leebowers]

Hello again
I saved the presentation as a PPS but still the same response .....

[PNHorn]

Hi Lee,

We have made an example for you which gets rid of the toolbar at the bottom of the presentation. This works by opening up the powerpoint presentation as a slide show and then just using position property nodes to keep it on top of the LabVIEW VI.

The trouble is that LabVIEW judges position by pixels where as Powerpoint judges position by points. Due to this it makes your screensize and resolution important. This was programming on a 17 inch monitor with the resolution set at 1280 x 1024. If you have different screensize to this then you may need to change some of the numbers in the move window sub vi.

Hope this helps,

Best regards

Peter H.

Applications Engineer.

NIUK.

[PNHorn]

And here is the main vi.

Cheers,

Pete.