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Re: Changing ActivePresentation

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From: Steve Rindsberg
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:43
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In article <1109601286.547140@news.liwest.at>, Roland Leisch wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have a very strange problem:
> 
> I try to change the active window (so change are applied to the right 
> window if several windows are open) and therefore I wrote a method which 
> searches for a special custom property and if it finds the needed one 
> this presentation is activated (at last it should be!). The problem now 
> is, that I cannont activate the presentations since Windows - Count is 0 
> and I get an exception.
> 
> Can anybody give me a hint where the problem could be? My main problem 
> is that I cant understand, why Windows collection can be 0 (I thought 
> that at least one window has to be opened)?
> 
> Im using a Java-COM bridge to integrate Powerpoint in an ole container 
> within my Java application.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Source:
> ((_PresentationImpl) presentations.item(new 
> Variant(1))).getWindows().item(new Int(1)).activate();
> 
> I thought that this piece of code should work alsways since there has 
> always to be a least one presentation and one window but there is an 
> exception thrown in getWindows since count is zero?!?

Unless other code forces it, there doesn't have to be at least one 
presentation.  Might that be the problem?

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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