Maybe it's just me, but I read through the XML library and I couldn't come up
with a method for parsing an XML file produced by one of our copier vendors.
Granted, the XML was really complex. But just the process of drilling down into
the XML seemed so onerous, I gave up. I suppose too that
On 3/2/2020 4:04 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
Out of curiosity, has anyone created a library that will import - the
parts of a Powerpoint presentation that can be recreated in Livecode
- into a LiveCode stack?
Of course .pptx files are actuall just ZIP archives with assorted XML
Hi Paul - I haven't done it although I have gone the other way, creating
content/media with LiveCode and merging it (text, images, audio files) into a
PPT template file (which is then converted to Keynote and exported as a video).
Anyway, getting access to the screen content/media for each PPT
Bob Sneidar wrote:
> The XML parser is going to be the pig.
Would it? I've found the revXML external to be pretty nice.
I was able to use it with the revZip external to transform Word/odoc
into an LC styledText array in an afternoon (at least the basics I
needed at the time).
--
Richard
Hi Rick,
Powerpoint can export to HTML, and while I have not looked at Keynote's
HTML export, I think you would be just trading one problem at file
parsing for another. Tools like PowerPoint and Keynote export to HTML
with CSS, so you can't just:
set the htmlText of field x to URL
Hi Paul,
If you had access to a Mac you could import
your Powerpoint presentation to Keynote, make
whatever changes you want and then Export it
as HTML. It’s really cool how it works.
Keynote can also Export to Powerpoint too, as
well as PDFs.
Then import into LiveCode?
Just my 2 cents.
The XML parser is going to be the pig.
Bob S
> On Mar 2, 2020, at 13:04 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, has anyone created a library that will import - the parts
> of a Powerpoint presentation that can be recreated in Livecode - into a
> LiveCode stack?
>
