DDE and PowerPoint

Article View: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc

Article #2602

Back to comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Previous Next

#2602

From: wesley.k.kaplow
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 14:56

31 lines
1651 bytes

We were intending to use ACCESS and DDE to be able to get information
about PowerPoint 3.0 presentations into database tables.  However,
Microsoft has told us that PP 3.0 does not support DDE and that they
have no plans to incorporate DDE in the next few releases.  They did
however state that there is some DDE facilities in PP to support OLE
but that they this was for internal use only.  

Is there any way, other than lots of mouse clicking, to automate at least
the recovery of slide titles, outlines, and slide contents so that the
information can be incorporated into ACCESS or some other database.  I know
that NDW 2.0 will launch and print a PP file if it is dragged over the 
desktop printer icon.  Does this use DDE, or just command line arguments?

It seems strange that the newest release of PP does not support DDE,
a major element if you need to put together a system that is any more
sophisticated that the program's standard interface.  What about the
multi-media angle? Shouldn't every non-trivial program at least support
DDE to control menu operation?

Thanks for any information or hints,

Sincerely,

Wesley Kaplow
Bill Hery
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Whippany, NJ 07981


kaplow@att.com
hery@att.com

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1993Jan8.145603.4543@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsm!cbnewsl!wkk

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsm!cbnewsl!wkk
From: wkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (wesley.k.kaplow)
Subject: DDE and PowerPoint
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:56:03 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Jan8.145603.4543@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
Keywords: DDE PowerPoint ACCESS
Lines: 31