Thanks Mike and Richmond, I'll take a look at autoit as I don't want to get into VB unless I REALLY have to!
I was hoping that a short VBA script might do the job so I can use LC for the file/folder management, but autoit may be the solution anyway. Peter -- Peter Reid Loughborough, UK > On 8 Aug 2016, at 11:00am, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 10:22:36 -0600 > From: Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Re: PowerPoint VBA from LC? > Message-ID: > <CAG1cpSp_mWDq3fxn=uyy9kxi3j8aikodx2fy3jddnfxzmqi...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > If you can send keys to the powerpoint app, you might be able to open the > file, and then send keys to open the menu, and then step through the > keypresses you need to do what you want. > > Having said that, have you considered using autoit instead? (its geared for > just this sort of thing) Theres one or two macro builders that can do this > sort of thing too, but the few times I used autoit it worked well. > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
