Re: Loading Add-ins

From: Steve Rindsberg (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:32:41 EST

In article <u3YuFZ7BEHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, Roderick O'Regan wrote:
> S-u-s-h-i? Is there an emoticon for "yukkk!"? Sorry, I know it's dear to
> your heart (and stomach...) but I'm not entirely partial to it myself.

Delighted to hear it! That leaves more for me!

My guess is that you'll want to create some kind of standalone installer
package that'll let the users just run a program that handles all the details
of installing the templates and so forth.

>From there, it's a short simple hop to letting the same installer program
install your add-in automatically. It's really not much more than setting a
few registry entries and copying a few files. Any decent installer app can do
that.

Most of them also create uninstallers that allow your users to remove all the
goodies on demand.

> A client of mine wants me to create a PP template which will be distributed
> to about 300 users scattered about the country. They will also download a
> whole bunch of designer backgrounds that they will place on different slides
> and controlled by macros to change them. Client says that users are not very
> PP-literate and wants them "spoonfed".
>
> I therefore want to create a menu of macros which will change these plus a
> few other macros for changing bullet shapes and their colours as well as
> other selected object fills. Looking at the sites found I think I can create
> these using the example code.
>
> The add-in will also be downloaded with all of the above backgrounds as well
> as the template. The cunning plan was then something along the lines that
> when the user called the template or any presentations based upon it (as in
> Word) the add-in would load for macro work and then unload when said
> documents were closed.
>
> I believe from what you say, and what I have read, that I will have to
> convince my client not to underestimate his users' intelligence and let them
> manually add the add-in by using some guide *** instructions. After all, I
> suppose it will only be needed to be done once as it writes to the registry
> to load every time PP is run.
>
> Thanks also to Brian and Shyam for their help.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Rory O'Regan
>
> "Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote in message
> news:VA.00000316.0689344b@localhost.com...
> > > Is there a way of programatically loading and Add-in when I open a
> > > particular PP file or new template, please? I cannot seem to find an
> answer
> > > in any of the PP sites I have visited.
> >
> > I'm not sure what Brian had in mind, but maybe I'm just grumpy 'cause
> nobody
> > fed me sushi tonight.
> >
> > PowerPoint won't automatically load or run code as the result of opening a
> PPT
> > file or template on its own.
> >
> > In 2000 and up if you have an addin loaded to handle events, it can call
> other
> > code or load an addin programatically.
> >
> > > I don't want users going to Tools|Add-ins etc and loading it manually.
> >
> > An installer program can create the necessary registry entries to get an
> addin
> > to load w/o the user having to mess with it.
> >
> > Let us know what you're actually trying to accomplish here. Maybe there
> are
> > other possibilities.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> > PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> > PPTools: www.pptools.com
> >
> 

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