Hi, kc0fcp I wonder if this is a Delphi thing or a Windows thing. I have noticed that when any application losses focus, then the Windows are not updated. For example, if you have an active progress gauge and go and do something else, the gauge apparently stops. It does not restart even if the window gets focus, until the event is complete, when the gauge jumps to 100%.
This is a new "feature" in XP. Changing the hardware accelerator does not help. In other words, I am suggesting that this is nothing to do with PowerPoint, that PowerPoint is making the new slides but that they are not displayed. You could check the Windows Task Manager and see if PowerPoint takes processing time every ten seconds (or whatever you photo change rate is). You could also tell by noticing which slide is shown after a freeze. Is it the next in sequence or an apparently random one caused by the intervening ones being created but not being shown? (To prove next in sequence you would need to do the test many times as this slide could also be selected "randomly".) I have no suggestions for fixing this but think that you might be looking in the wrong place. Bobby Clarke kc0fcp wrote: > Rob, > > Thanks for the reply. My program is not started by PPT, nor does it > start PPT. The application is in a lobby kiosk. A PPT slide show runs > in an infinite loop. Twice a day, my app is supposed to appear on top > of the running PPT slide show and announce an event and show a > countdown timer. When the countdown reaches 0, my app closes and > disappears. My app is launched as a Scheduled Task. > > AFIK, Powerpoint knows nothing about my program. I don't know why the > presentation pauses - it seems to be a built-in characteristic of PPT. > I reviewed all the show setup options in PPT and didn't see anything > about pausing for other windows, though. > > Thanks, > > Tim. > > > --- In [email protected], Rob Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> What's the relationship between PowerPoint and your program. Why does >> the presentation pause? Does PowerPoint even _know_ about your program? >> What does your program do? >> >> I'm guessing that either your program started PowerPoint, or PowerPoint >> started your program. Which is it? >> >> Is this a presentation that's supposed to advance automatically? >> >> -- >> Rob >> >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.26/598 - Release Date: 22/12/2006 > 15:22 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
