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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / December 2007Problem creating a filesystem object
I created a presentation 'first slide' that can display shapes and/or pictures randomly on the screen. It can also show a random background picture and play either a single wav (song) file or a cd. The options selected are determined by a control file. This was created in Office 2000 on a Windows me machine. It worked for about 2 years without a problem. I have migrated to xp, and now it does not work. It fails at the line: Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") with the message: "Automation error. The specified module could not be found." Can anyone give me some direction as to what is causing the problem. Thanks in advance John Crawford Probably, PowerPoint is not able to resolve reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime. Check that the reference is still present: 1. In PowerPoint VBA Editor, select "Tools" | "References..." menu item. 2. Ensure that "Microsoft Scripting Runtime" item is checked. If you don't find "Microsoft Scripting Runtime" item there, do the following: 1. In the same References dialog box, click "Browse..." button. 2. The "Add Reference" dialog box normally opens in Windows System directory and that is what we want. 3. Locate and select "scrrun.dll" in Windows System directory. 4. Click Open button after selecting scrrun.dll. 5. Click OK in the "References" dialog box. See if your code now runs. - Chirag PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html > I created a presentation 'first slide' that can display shapes and/or > pictures randomly on the screen. It can also show a random background [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Thanks in advance > John Crawford Chirag: Thanks. The reference was not set. So I set it. Same result. However I did try the same presentation on another machine with basically the same setup, and it worked!! I hate it when it is something local in my machine, especially when it involves probably trying to get it resolved through Microsoft. If you have anything else that I could check I would appreciate it. The error number returned is -2147024770. Thanks again for getting me at least this far. John > Probably, PowerPoint is not able to resolve reference to Microsoft > Scripting Runtime. Check that the reference is still present: [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >> Thanks in advance >> John Crawford Hi John, What are the differences between your machine and another machine? Taking a long shot here: Any anti-virus running? - Chirag PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html > Chirag: > Thanks. The reference was not set. So I set it. Same result. However I [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] >>> Thanks in advance >>> John Crawford Is it possible that scripting is disabled on your computer as a security measure? I believe you can do this somehow. Also, are you doing anything complex with the control file? From what I've seen, the FSO doesn't seem to have many, if any, features that you can't replicate in a few lines of VB code (and by doing that, you free yourself of dependencies on the FSO) > Chirag: > Thanks. The reference was not set. So I set it. Same result. However [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > >> Thanks in advance > >> John Crawford ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Chirag: The two xp machines are both at the same Windows level. One is Dell and one Toshiba. Both machines have Office 2000 professional, at the same level. Both are running AVG at the same level. One other thing that I noticed is that the presentation came from Windows me. Again it had Windows 2000 professional. However the scripting runtime was not checked on that version (as can been seen by the fact that I brought the presentation over intact). Steve: I will try to find some way on the machine of disabling scripting. What I am trying to do is open an ascii file and read the contents to set up the parameters for the startup. Basically I am just trying to process an input file. When I first started down this road, I could not find a VBA method to do this in PP. I asked this forum, and the response was FSO. If there is an easier/better way I am all for it. Thanks to both of you. John > Is it possible that scripting is disabled on your computer as a security > measure? I believe you can do this somehow. [quoted text clipped - 60 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > Steve: > I will try to find some way on the machine of disabling scripting. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > find a VBA method to do this in PP. I asked this forum, and the response > was FSO. If there is an easier/better way I am all for it. I just added this page ... have a look and see if it suits: Use VBA to read text from a file http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00913.htm ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Steve: Actually, after I read your previous note I thought to re-look at the problem again. Yes VBA dors have an open, and line input functions. So I now read the file as I do in all other vb programs, and it works fine. I cannot find the original question that got me to the FileSystemObject solution. Thanks. John >>Steve: >> I will try to find some way on the machine of disabling scripting. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > Steve: > Actually, after I read your previous note I thought to re-look at > the problem again. Yes VBA dors have an open, and line input functions. > So I now read the file as I do in all other vb programs, and it works fine. > I cannot find the original question that got me to the > FileSystemObject solution. No matter ... you've now found your way to Truth, Enlightenment and Freedom from Technology of the Week. <g> > Thanks. > John [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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