Hi Wesley, * wesley chun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> just a small OT question coming from a linux openoffice >> system... >> >> Does there exist something similar for powerpoint? Would be >> nice, if anybody can direct me to more examples... > > > fabian, > > see below for a PP example. you mentioned you were coming from a > linux OOo system... are you trying to do COM stuff with OOo? i'm not > familiar with it, but since they do support > some level of VB-like scripting, i don't believe it's out of the question. > > one thing that i did forget to mention in my earlier message is that i > use static dispatch for these apps. if you did not go and run the > makepy utility, you would have to use dynamic dispatch, start your > apps with win32com.client.Dispatch(), or, using the same import > statement as below, win32.Dispatch().
> > anyway, here is pretty much the same script as i sent earlier but for > PowerPoint instead of Excel (the book has small examples for each of > Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook): > > # based on ppoint.pyw in Core Python Programming, 2nd ed > > from time import sleep > import win32com.client as win32 > > def ppoint(): > ppoint = win32.gencache.EnsureDispatch('PowerPoint.Application') > pres = ppoint.Presentations.Add() > ppoint.Visible = True > > s1 = pres.Slides.Add(1, win32.constants.ppLayoutText) > sleep(1) > s1a = s1.Shapes[0].TextFrame.TextRange > s1a.Text = 'Python-to-PowerPoint Demo' > sleep(1) > s1b = s1.Shapes[1].TextFrame.TextRange > for i in range(3, 8): > s1b.InsertAfter("Line %d\r\n" % i) > sleep(1) > s1b.InsertAfter("\r\nTh-th-th-that's all folks!") > > sleep(5) > pres.Close() > ppoint.Quit() > > if __name__=='__main__': > ppoint() Thanks! I am not able to try it out yet, but as soon as I get access to my windows machine, I'll give it a try. Greetings! Fabian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list