PowerPoint automation basics - where to start?

[Richard Heathfield]

Hi folks

I'm trying to display a PowerPoint slideshow from within a BCB6
program. Obviously I have access to TPowerPointApplication and
so on, but I'm utterly clueless on how to go about it.

I got as far as this (in a command button's click event):

MsoTriState ro = msoTrue;
MsoTriState ut = msoTrue;
MsoTriState ww = msoTrue;
pptApp->Activate(); //
PresentationsPtr p =
pptApp->Presentations->Open(L"myppt.ppt", ro, ut, ww);

which opens PowerPoint but then brings up this dialog box:

HRCHECK:
? 'this->Open(FileName, ReadOnly, Untitled, WithWindow,
(Powerpoint_2k::PowerPointPresentation**)&Open)': Unspecified
error @ c:\program
files\borland\cbuilder6\include\vcl\PowerPoint_2k.h/3713
Press [Y]es to terminate, [N]o to continue and [C]ancel to Debug

I've tried looking at the <cough> Microsoft KnowledgeBase
article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/169505 but translating
from MFC to BCB6 has proved to be beyond my meagre talents.

Does anyone have any hints about how to proceed? All I want to
do is have the user supply me with a .ppt filename which I then
display fullscreen as a slide show, at which point I'd like
PowerPoint to close so that the user can get on with using my
program (which does other stuff too, of course).

[Richard Heathfield]

Post by Richard Heathfield
Hi folks
I'm trying to display a PowerPoint slideshow from within a BCB6 program.

...but answer came there none. Does that mean I'm off-topic?
That nobody knows how to do this? That I've managed to hit
everyone's killfile? Or simply that nobody saw my article?

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