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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / June 2007Playing video files automatically and cursor hidding
Hi people, I have a kiosk presentation that contains video files that I want to start automatically when the slides containing them are accessed. When I insert them, PowerPoint asks whether I want them to play automatically. When they are viewed for the first time since the presentation has been started, the video plays automatically, but when a user goes back to a video that has been viewed before, they need to click on the video for it to start. Is that a problem that can be fixed with PowerPoint's functions or should VBA be used to play the videos automatically with an event when the slides are accessed? If VBA would do the trick, would any of you know how I could do this? I would also need the cursor to be hidden after 5 seconds that the mouse hasn't been moved... any way to do this? Thank you very much for your help on this matter! Gaetan, The problem you are running into is that by design PowerPoint returns to the END of the slide. That is to say, all animations (including playing video) have completed. The simplest way around this is to place a "dummy" slide before the slide with the video and navigate to it. Make it look just like the slide with the video and set it to advance automatically after 0 seconds. The end result is the user will never know the difference and when the dummy slide advances to the slide with the video it does so at the beginning of all the animations (including your video) and they play as expected. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress www.playsforcertain.com > Hi people, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Thank you very much for your help on this matter! Alright... this fixes my problem. Thanks Austin! Any clue about hidding the cursor ofter some time of inactivity? As it is now, it stays in the middle of the screen over the video... it's more or less in the way. > Gaetan, > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > > Thank you very much for your help on this matter! This should help. http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00633.htm Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress www.playsforcertain.com > Alright... this fixes my problem. Thanks Austin! > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] >> > >> > Thank you very much for your help on this matter! Unfortunatly, this seems to give a semi-permanent solution to hiding the cursor. I would need it to become invisible just at the moment the slide opens and become visible again when the cursor is being moved. Is there an event handler for a slideshow window opening? > This should help. > http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00633.htm [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] > >> > > >> > Thank you very much for your help on this matter! > Unfortunatly, this seems to give a semi-permanent solution to hiding the > cursor. I would need it to become invisible just at the moment the slide > opens and become visible again when the cursor is being moved. > > Is there an event handler for a slideshow window opening? Have a look here: Make PPT respond to events http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00004.htm > > This should help. > > http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00633.htm [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] > > >> > > > >> > Thank you very much for your help on this matter! ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Alright... I made the cursor move to the bottom left of the screen out of view with a SetCursorPos function triggered by an App_SlideShowNextSlide event. Thanks for the input Steve. > > Unfortunatly, this seems to give a semi-permanent solution to hiding the > > cursor. I would need it to become invisible just at the moment the slide [quoted text clipped - 80 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ |
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