Re: PPT VBA - Clicking on non-existent textbox?

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From: Steve Rindsberg (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:30:20 EST

Monsieur Ziggie, bon soir.

This bit of appears to be VBA has a SNOBOL's chance of helping you do the deed,
you pascal (how appropriate at this time of year) rascal. Go forth. Blaise
new trails!

Use VBA to create popup text
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00691.htm

In article <uABpehkIFHA.576@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl>, Zigzag wrote:
> >Ah, Monsieur Hollerith is a good fellow but he doesn't know how easy his
> >life was. Cards? We only had stacks of >wooden slabs. And we had to run
> >thread every which way through them before we could think of starting. And
> >they kept >the machinery atop a mountain we had to climb every morning.
> >Barefoot. Through thorns that grew atop the icepack.
>
> Luxury. And you tell kids these days and they don't believe you.
>
> >Cobol seemed SO longwinded. We had to enter everything onto punchcards;
> >bad enough in Fortran. I'd still be punching >at it if I'd done Cobol!
>
> I too started with Fortran, then Pascal, then Cobol. When starting Cobol I
> believed it was like writing in sanskrit, it looked so archaic. But you
> know, after a while, I preferred it. I believe the effect is something akin
> to the Stockholm syndrome.
>
> Now OO languages I just can't get my head around. That's not a criticism of
> the genre, just my view of them.
>
> Which brings me, longwindedly, to my problem which I hope someone can help
> me with.
>
> I am experimenting with putting together a presentation on one slide using
> animation appear and disappear effects. I know that a work-around would be
> to use more than one slide but I would like to learn how to resolve this
> particular problem.
> When I click on an image, an associated descriptive textbox fades in. This
> is fine until I have more text than I can reasonably show in the textbox. If
> there is more text I display a "More >>>" textbox on the slide and make it
> clickable to fade out the original description and fade in the additional
> text. This works hunky-dory until I have more than one image with two pages
> of text. As the "More >>>" textboxes are located in the same position on the
> slide then ppt only allows me to click on the one on top of the zorder.
> I've tried moving the appropriate "More >>>" textbox to the top of the
> zorder using vba. This moves the textbox but doesn't make it clickable when
> running the show. Understandable but not the effect I want.
> So here's what I now want to do:
> Click on an image to display the descriptive text and Create the "More >>>"
> textbox (where appropriate).
> Click on the created "More >>>" textbox to fade out the descriptive text,
> show the additional textbox and remove the "More >>>" textbox.
> I can use vba to create the "More >>>" textbox but I don't know how to make
> it clickable and associate a procedure with it when it doesn't exist at
> runtime. I need to do this for each image where there is more than one
> textbox worth of descriptive text.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Zig
>

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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