Launching pps file from different OS's - for Mack

Linda · **Posted:** March 4th, 2010, 3:41 pm

That would really be appreciated.

Thank you very much, Linda

mackavi · **Posted:** March 5th, 2010, 11:49 am

Morning Linda,

I ran this on XP, Vista & W7 and it works :

Code:

var myFile = SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR+"\powerpoint\\gmi01.pps"

if (FileExists("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office11\\PPTVIEW.EXE"))
{
LaunchFile("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office11\\PPTVIEW.EXE",myFile)
} else if (FileExists("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\PPTVIEW.EXE"))
{
LaunchFile("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\PPTVIEW.EXE",myFile)
} else
{
Debug.trace('Viewer Not Found')
}

EXCEPT in the following situations:

1. Where the path has a space
2. Under a 64bit OS accessing the 32bit viewer or PowerPoint

Both of which can be scripted for if a problem.

Mack

Linda · **Posted:** March 5th, 2010, 12:27 pm

Mack, many thanks.

One question: I'm presuming that the launch button should JUST launch this script.

Therefore I should delete the If Else stuff depending on the operating system?

Thanks, Linda

Linda · **Posted:** March 5th, 2010, 1:00 pm

I can now answer that myself - it also needs the launch action as well as the script.

Otherwise it doesn't work on older XP pcs here.

Thanks for your help - I'll let the client loose on it now!

Linda

mackavi · **Posted:** March 5th, 2010, 2:03 pm

Not sure what you mean, but basically it should be a button with a trigger (such as left mouse) that runs the script on any version of Windows.

www.sandbox.interaktiv.co.uk/powerpoint.zip

Mack

Linda · **Posted:** March 5th, 2010, 2:21 pm

Sorry Mack,

What I meant was that, for instance, your script doesn't work on my XP machine with Office 2000.

(In this instance, there's no viewer - slideshows are launched from Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Powerpnt.exe)

But if I also add a Launch action to just launch the file gmi01.pps, it works.

At the moment I've just got the script and the launch button on a left click action.

I'm trying to figure how to tell it to only use the launch action if the script doesn't work....

mackavi · **Posted:** March 5th, 2010, 3:34 pm

I don't have Office 2000 installed but you could try replacing the code with this:

Code:

var myFile = SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR+"\powerpoint\\gmi01.pps"

if (FileExists("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\Powerpnt.exe"))
{
LaunchFile("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\Powerpnt.exe",myFile)
} else if (FileExists("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office11\\PPTVIEW.EXE"))
{
LaunchFile("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office11\\PPTVIEW.EXE",myFile)
} else if (FileExists("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\PPTVIEW.EXE"))
{
LaunchFile("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\PPTVIEW.EXE",myFile)
} else
{
Debug.trace('Viewer Not Found')
}

Mack

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