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From: Steve Rindsberg on 24 Mar 2010 16:26
In article <ub4t1R3yKHA.1236(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, David Marcovitz wrote:
> I knew you would suggest tags, partly because they are a great solution
> for this. I haven't played with them for this, but as I was writing my
> post, I was imagining the code that would have a HideObject procedure
> that would simultaneously move the object off the viewable portion of
> the slide and then add a tag with the current location (but not in that
> order). Then the ShowObject code would simply look in the tag to see
> where the object was supposed to go. I guess I'll have to play with that
> this summer when I teach my multimedia design class again.

Bingo. Or even something like <aircode>

Sub ToggleIt(oSh as Shape)
With oSh
If .Visible Then
' we want to hide it so
Call .Tags.Add("PreviousTop", cStr(.Top))
.Visible = False
' bump it off the slide
.Top = ActivePresentation.PageSetup.SlideHeight + 100
Else
' We want to show it so
.Top = cSng(.Tags("PreviousTop"))
.Visible = True
End If
End With
End Sub


> --David
>
> On 3/24/10 12:33 PM, Steve Rindsberg wrote:
> > Thanks, David. I couldn't recall that li'l trick but knew you'd be along with it
> > shortly. Tip o' the 10-gallon hat to the man from Maryland.
> >
> >> I started noticing this when I was teaching my class that uses VBA last
> >> summer (I had people using 2003, 2004, and 2007 in the class). I found
> >> that the best solution was to have the shape move off the viewable area
> >> of the screen (e.g., set .Top to 5000). The problem is that you then
> >> have to keep track of the original .Top so you can move it back to make
> >> it visible.
> >
> > Tags are good for this type of thing.
> >
> >
> > For my non-programming students, it was another annoying
> >> layer of complexity.
> >>
> >> By the way, welcome back!
> >>
> >> --David
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > PPT Frequently Asked Questions
> > http://www.pptfaq.com/
> >
> > PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint
> > http://www.pptools.com/
> >
> >


==============================
PPT Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.pptfaq.com/

PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint
http://www.pptools.com/


From: Bill Foley on 24 Mar 2010 17:31
Well, Steve's refresh method did nothing. So, for something as simple as
the code below, what would I have to do to make the Q1-1 object appear?

Sub Correct1_1()
ActivePresentation.Slides(3).Shapes("Q1-1").Visible = True
ActivePresentation.Slides(3).Shapes("P1-1").Visible = True
End Sub

Funny thing, the P1-1 object shows up fine (matter of fact I have 5 of these
and they all show up). However, the Q1-1 through Q1-5 do not!

What would I have to do to make this work in PPT 2007? Man, why did this
happen in the first place? But, more importantly HOW???

Any clues would be appreciated. I would even be happy to send the game file
to you (off-line).

TIA!

Bill Foley


"David Marcovitz" <marco(a)nospamloyola.edu> wrote in message
news:umJnVL1yKHA.5040(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> On 3/23/10 10:42 PM, Steve Rindsberg wrote:
>> In article<eB87FfvyKHA.4492(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Bill Foley wrote:
>>> Hey gang,
>>>
>>> Guess who's back!
>>
>> Waaal HOWDY Tex!
>>
>>> I finally broke down and bought Office 2007 (not sure why
>>> though)! One of my games is not working correctly and I have no idea
>>> why.
>>> I have very simple code that hides text boxes, then shows them when
>>> needed
>>> using VBA. One of the objects shows up but the other one doesn't. Yes,
>>> I
>>> verified the names of the shapes. I've used this in PPT 2003 for years
>>> with
>>> no problems. If I go out of Slide Show mode, the text boxes the didn't
>>> show
>>> up are visible.
>>>
>>> Is this some sort of known bug with PPT 2007? Any ideas? They are
>>> simple
>>> text boxes. Nothing more. Both created the exact same way in PPT 2003.
>>
>> Several folks have reported similar problems, where making something
>> invisible/visible in code doesn't change what the user sees on screen in
>> slide
>> show view.
>>
>> It might be enough to do a View.GoToSlide(CurrentSlideIndex) to force a
>> refresh. If not ... um ... 2010's not far off.
>>
>>
>> ==============================
>> PPT Frequently Asked Questions
>> http://www.pptfaq.com/
>>
>> PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint
>> http://www.pptools.com/
>>
>>
>
> What Steve said and ...
>
> I started noticing this when I was teaching my class that uses VBA last
> summer (I had people using 2003, 2004, and 2007 in the class). I found
> that the best solution was to have the shape move off the viewable area of
> the screen (e.g., set .Top to 5000). The problem is that you then have to
> keep track of the original .Top so you can move it back to make it
> visible. For my non-programming students, it was another annoying layer of
> complexity.
>
> By the way, welcome back!
>
> --David
> --
> David M. Marcovitz
> Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
> http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
> Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
> Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland


From: Mark on 24 Mar 2010 17:44
On Mar 24, 5:31 pm, "Bill Foley" <billfo...(a)aircanopy.net> wrote:
> Well, Steve's refresh method did nothing.  So, for something as simple as
> the code below, what would I have to do to make the Q1-1 object appear?
>
> Sub Correct1_1()
> ActivePresentation.Slides(3).Shapes("Q1-1").Visible = True
> ActivePresentation.Slides(3).Shapes("P1-1").Visible = True
> End Sub
>
> Funny thing, the P1-1 object shows up fine (matter of fact I have 5 of these
> and they all show up).  However, the Q1-1 through Q1-5 do not!
>
> What would I have to do to make this work in PPT 2007?  Man, why did this
> happen in the first place?  But, more importantly HOW???
>
> Any clues would be appreciated.  I would even be happy to send the game file
> to you (off-line).
>
> TIA!
>
> Bill Foley
>
> "David Marcovitz" <ma...(a)nospamloyola.edu> wrote in message
>
> news:umJnVL1yKHA.5040(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
>
>
> > On 3/23/10 10:42 PM, Steve Rindsberg wrote:
> >> In article<eB87FfvyKHA.4...(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Bill Foley wrote:
> >>> Hey gang,
>
> >>> Guess who's back!
>
> >> Waaal HOWDY Tex!
>
> >>> I finally broke down and bought Office 2007 (not sure why
> >>> though)!  One of my games is not working correctly and I have no idea
> >>> why.
> >>> I have very simple code that hides text boxes, then shows them when
> >>> needed
> >>> using VBA.  One of the objects shows up but the other one doesn't.  Yes,
> >>> I
> >>> verified the names of the shapes.  I've used this in PPT 2003 for years
> >>> with
> >>> no problems.  If I go out of Slide Show mode, the text boxes the didn't
> >>> show
> >>> up are visible.
>
> >>> Is this some sort of known bug with PPT 2007?  Any ideas?  They are
> >>> simple
> >>> text boxes.  Nothing more.  Both created the exact same way in PPT 2003.
>
> >> Several folks have reported similar problems, where making something
> >> invisible/visible in code doesn't change what the user sees on screen in
> >> slide
> >> show view.
>
> >> It might be enough to do a View.GoToSlide(CurrentSlideIndex) to force a
> >> refresh.  If not ... um ... 2010's not far off.
>
> >> ==============================
> >> PPT Frequently Asked Questions
> >>http://www.pptfaq.com/
>
> >> PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint
> >>http://www.pptools.com/
>
> > What Steve said and ...
>
> > I started noticing this when I was teaching my class that uses VBA last
> > summer (I had people using 2003, 2004, and 2007 in the class). I found
> > that the best solution was to have the shape move off the viewable area of
> > the screen (e.g., set .Top to 5000). The problem is that you then have to
> > keep track of the original .Top so you can move it back to make it
> > visible. For my non-programming students, it was another annoying layer of
> > complexity.
>
> > By the way, welcome back!
>
> > --David
> > --
> > David M. Marcovitz
> > Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
> >http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
> > Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
> > Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I don't know if it will help you, but I have found that running the
'go to current slide' twice tended to help refresh the screen in my
case (sometimes charts didn't show the proper data after being updated
with data from a Userform, but they seem to work better with a double-
go-to-current-slide). May be worth a try to see if it helps in your
case as well.
From: Karl E. Peterson on 24 Mar 2010 17:56
Steve Rindsberg wrote:
> ' bump it off the slide
> .Top = ActivePresentation.PageSetup.SlideHeight + 100

Might be a problem on multimonitor setups?

--
..NET: It's About Trust!
http://vfred.mvps.org


From: Bill Foley on 24 Mar 2010 21:10
No go. I have five buttons that when clicked show a text and a point value.
The point values always show (simple text boxes like the other ones).
However, still a NO-GO on the other text boxes. I thought about just having
a rectangle covering the text and having it hide on a trigger, but I still
have code that needs to show the otehr text box. Is there VBA code that
runs a trigger?

By the way, this is RIDICULOUS! I wish one of my clients never downgraded
to PPT 2007!

Bill Foley


"Mark" <cosmo(a)concentric.net> wrote in message
news:c3d1ecf3-f006-4e14-b659-d124315d41cf(a)i25g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 24, 5:31 pm, "Bill Foley" <billfo...(a)aircanopy.net> wrote:
> Well, Steve's refresh method did nothing. So, for something as simple as
> the code below, what would I have to do to make the Q1-1 object appear?
>
> Sub Correct1_1()
> ActivePresentation.Slides(3).Shapes("Q1-1").Visible = True
> ActivePresentation.Slides(3).Shapes("P1-1").Visible = True
> End Sub
>
> Funny thing, the P1-1 object shows up fine (matter of fact I have 5 of
> these
> and they all show up). However, the Q1-1 through Q1-5 do not!
>
> What would I have to do to make this work in PPT 2007? Man, why did this
> happen in the first place? But, more importantly HOW???
>
> Any clues would be appreciated. I would even be happy to send the game
> file
> to you (off-line).
>
> TIA!
>
> Bill Foley
>
> "David Marcovitz" <ma...(a)nospamloyola.edu> wrote in message
>
> news:umJnVL1yKHA.5040(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
>
>
> > On 3/23/10 10:42 PM, Steve Rindsberg wrote:
> >> In article<eB87FfvyKHA.4...(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Bill Foley wrote:
> >>> Hey gang,
>
> >>> Guess who's back!
>
> >> Waaal HOWDY Tex!
>
> >>> I finally broke down and bought Office 2007 (not sure why
> >>> though)! One of my games is not working correctly and I have no idea
> >>> why.
> >>> I have very simple code that hides text boxes, then shows them when
> >>> needed
> >>> using VBA. One of the objects shows up but the other one doesn't. Yes,
> >>> I
> >>> verified the names of the shapes. I've used this in PPT 2003 for years
> >>> with
> >>> no problems. If I go out of Slide Show mode, the text boxes the didn't
> >>> show
> >>> up are visible.
>
> >>> Is this some sort of known bug with PPT 2007? Any ideas? They are
> >>> simple
> >>> text boxes. Nothing more. Both created the exact same way in PPT 2003.
>
> >> Several folks have reported similar problems, where making something
> >> invisible/visible in code doesn't change what the user sees on screen
> >> in
> >> slide
> >> show view.
>
> >> It might be enough to do a View.GoToSlide(CurrentSlideIndex) to force a
> >> refresh. If not ... um ... 2010's not far off.
>
> >> ==============================
> >> PPT Frequently Asked Questions
> >>http://www.pptfaq.com/
>
> >> PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint
> >>http://www.pptools.com/
>
> > What Steve said and ...
>
> > I started noticing this when I was teaching my class that uses VBA last
> > summer (I had people using 2003, 2004, and 2007 in the class). I found
> > that the best solution was to have the shape move off the viewable area
> > of
> > the screen (e.g., set .Top to 5000). The problem is that you then have
> > to
> > keep track of the original .Top so you can move it back to make it
> > visible. For my non-programming students, it was another annoying layer
> > of
> > complexity.
>
> > By the way, welcome back!
>
> > --David
> > --
> > David M. Marcovitz
> > Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
> >http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
> > Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
> > Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I don't know if it will help you, but I have found that running the
'go to current slide' twice tended to help refresh the screen in my
case (sometimes charts didn't show the proper data after being updated
with data from a Userform, but they seem to work better with a double-
go-to-current-slide). May be worth a try to see if it helps in your
case as well.


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