Robin,
My apologize for not replying sooner. I changed my setting on the user list
to get digest sent to me and it somehow did not forward this to me when it
was posted.
perhaps if I clarify what my intent is, the suggestions may be different.
I have been writing a wxpython application for which, when no activity is
detected for a period of time, the application goes into "screensaver" mode.
The content which I want to display today only exists as a ppt presentation.
This means, the content is in windows ppt file format, it will display in
full screen, and finally, the wx application being written will be running
on a linux machine where powerpoint as an application does not run.
I hope you can suggest or point me in the right direction.
Thanks
NoviceAtLinux
Karl Kobata wrote:
Has anyone found a way to show a powerpoint (ppt) slide show?
- best would be to read in ppt file somehow and animate through wx each of
the slides in the file.
- next best would be to launch the powerpoint application and display the
screen in wx.
Does PowerPoint have an ActiveX control?
- lastly which is the most work, is to convert in gif and animate. For
this, is there a way to animate the gif, full window, like a screensaver?
There is the AnimationCtrl, but I wouldn't use that for something like
this, it would be huge. Instead just export the PPT as a series of
images, and then load the images in the wxPython app in the EVT_PAINT
event handler for the display window. Use a timer to know when to load
the next image and then refresh the window.
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Robin Dunn
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