Please Heeeeelp! Vba code to add animation to an existing object

I am a teacher trying to make a game using 2007, and i am trying to do two
things. One is to add an animation like the spin to a picture by clicking on
a botton, but all the examples i find , add the animations while creating a
shape so i dont know how to make the animation to an existing picture in my
slide. the other thing is to stop the animation by clicking on a button. I
found an example to pause the slide but the problem is that i have other
animations that are stopped as well and i cant use that. The picture is of a
wheel with numbers that i want to spin so when i click the stop it stops on a
different number of the wheel. for the spin i used the animation set to
..01 speed until slide ends and used the pause botton to stop it and that
works great to make it stop in a random number but as i said it stops the
textboxes that should appear with the questions for the students. any aideas
on how to use a code to do what i want. i have bought 3 books and read a
thousand sites, posted in every forum i have found but no one care to answer.
this is my last resort.

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"lizsantiago" wrote:

I am a teacher trying to make a game using 2007, and i am trying to do two
things. One is to add an animation like the spin to a picture by clicking on
a botton, but all the examples i find , add the animations while creating a
shape so i dont know how to make the animation to an existing picture in my
slide. the other thing is to stop the animation by clicking on a button. I
found an example to pause the slide but the problem is that i have other
animations that are stopped as well and i cant use that. The picture is of a
wheel with numbers that i want to spin so when i click the stop it stops on a
different number of the wheel. for the spin i used the animation set to
.01 speed until slide ends and used the pause botton to stop it and that
works great to make it stop in a random number but as i said it stops the
textboxes that should appear with the questions for the students. any aideas
on how to use a code to do what i want. i have bought 3 books and read a
thousand sites, posted in every forum i have found but no one care to answer.
this is my last resort.

On 4/1/10 9:01 PM, lizsantiago wrote:
I am a teacher trying to make a game using 2007, and i am trying to do two
things. One is to add an animation like the spin to a picture by clicking on
a botton, but all the examples i find , add the animations while creating a
shape so i dont know how to make the animation to an existing picture in my
slide. the other thing is to stop the animation by clicking on a button. I
found an example to pause the slide but the problem is that i have other
animations that are stopped as well and i cant use that. The picture is of a
wheel with numbers that i want to spin so when i click the stop it stops on a
different number of the wheel. for the spin i used the animation set to
.01 speed until slide ends and used the pause botton to stop it and that
works great to make it stop in a random number but as i said it stops the
textboxes that should appear with the questions for the students. any aideas
on how to use a code to do what i want. i have bought 3 books and read a
thousand sites, posted in every forum i have found but no one care to answer.
this is my last resort.

If you want to set an animation to an existing shape, you have to
identify the shape. This can be done by shape name or number (names tend
to be more stable). For example,

ActivePresentation.Slides(3).Shapes(5)

is a pointer to the 5th shape on slide 3. If you name that shape, then
you could use the name. For example if you named it My Pretty Shape, you
could get to the shape with:

ActivePresentation.Slides(3).Shapes("My Pretty Shape")

Whatever code you have that does something to a slide that is being
added should then work with this. If you post a snippet, we can help you
get it to work properly.

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

Thanks David, I know how to name the object that i am using since i bought your book, which by the way have made me get interested in vba, my real problem is that i dont know how to assign to a shape one of the effects like spin or fade or something like that. For now i am using this
Sub RndSpin(oShp as Shape)
Dim t As Single
t = Timer + (Rnd * 4) + 1
Do Until Timer t
oShp.Rotation = oShp.Rotation + 5
DoEvents
Loop
End Sub

but the spinning is too slow, though it has the exact effect that i need because it lands in a random position of the wheel.





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Great. I'm glad you are learning from the book. Assigning animation with
VBA is a bit tricky and then using VBA to activate it is trickier still.
As I was looking for a link to Shyam's site with explanation of this, I
came across this post by him:

You can assign an animation in PPT
2002 and later using the following code:
Sub CreateAnimation()
Dim oEffect As Effect
Dim oShpA As Shape
With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
'Create two autoshapes on the slide.
Set oShpA = .Shapes.AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, 100, 100, 50, 50)
' Assign an animation to shape A
Set oEffect = .TimeLine.MainSequence.AddEffect(Shape:=oShpA,
effectId:=msoAnimEffectAppear)
End With
End Sub


To assign an interactive animation take a look at the code he
http://skp.mvps.org/pptxp012.htm#interactive

You can turn off the animations on the slides but this applies to the
presentation as a whole and not specific slides. Look at the
slideshowsetting - ShowWithAnimation property to address this.

To determine the animation status you need to setup an event hook to track
the animations as they fire. Look on my site for a downloadable example of
eventhandler in PowerPoint http://skp.mvps.org/download.htm


--
Regards,
Shyam Pillai


In this example, you already have the shape so you don't need to create
the shapes or assign it to oShpA. You can skip that part of the code and
just use the oShp that you already have.

--David

On 4/2/10 12:00 PM, liz santiago wrote:
Thanks David, I know how to name the object that i am using since i bought your book, which by the way have made me get interested in vba, my real problem is that i dont know how to assign to a shape one of the effects like spin or fade or something like that. For now i am using this
Sub RndSpin(oShp as Shape)
Dim t As Single
t = Timer + (Rnd * 4) + 1
Do Until Timer t
oShp.Rotation = oShp.Rotation + 5
DoEvents
Loop
End Sub

but the spinning is too slow, though it has the exact effect that i need because it lands in a random position of the wheel.





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frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...xisting-object


--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

Liz

Do you have a special reason to use vba. It's not necessary to acheive what
you ask

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/spin.ppt
--
john ATSIGN PPTAlchemy.co.uk

Free PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoi...tutorials.html






"lizsantiago" wrote:

I am a teacher trying to make a game using 2007, and i am trying to do two
things. One is to add an animation like the spin to a picture by clicking on
a botton, but all the examples i find , add the animations while creating a
shape so i dont know how to make the animation to an existing picture in my
slide. the other thing is to stop the animation by clicking on a button. I
found an example to pause the slide but the problem is that i have other
animations that are stopped as well and i cant use that. The picture is of a
wheel with numbers that i want to spin so when i click the stop it stops on a
different number of the wheel. for the spin i used the animation set to
.01 speed until slide ends and used the pause botton to stop it and that
works great to make it stop in a random number but as i said it stops the
textboxes that should appear with the questions for the students. any aideas
on how to use a code to do what i want. i have bought 3 books and read a
thousand sites, posted in every forum i have found but no one care to answer.
this is my last resort.

Thank you again for your time, i am trying this but it doesnt work
Sub CreateAnimation()
Dim oEffect As Effect

With ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes("Picture 3")
Set oEffect = .TimeLine.MainSequence.AddEffect(Shape:="Picture 3",
effectId:=msoAnimEffectSpin)
End With
End Sub
It says method or data member not found while highlitghing TimeLine. I have
no idea what is that.

another thing is there a way to make the rotation in this one to go faster?
Sub RndSpin(oShp as Shape)
Dim t As Single
t = Timer + (Rnd * 4) + 1
Do Until Timer t
oShp.Rotation = oShp.Rotation + 5
DoEvents
Loop
End Sub
Thanx thanx thanx !!


"David Marcovitz" wrote:

Great. I'm glad you are learning from the book. Assigning animation with
VBA is a bit tricky and then using VBA to activate it is trickier still.
As I was looking for a link to Shyam's site with explanation of this, I
came across this post by him:

You can assign an animation in PPT
2002 and later using the following code:
Sub CreateAnimation()
Dim oEffect As Effect
Dim oShpA As Shape
With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
'Create two autoshapes on the slide.
Set oShpA = .Shapes.AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, 100, 100, 50, 50)
' Assign an animation to shape A
Set oEffect = .TimeLine.MainSequence.AddEffect(Shape:=oShpA,
effectId:=msoAnimEffectAppear)
End With
End Sub


To assign an interactive animation take a look at the code he
http://skp.mvps.org/pptxp012.htm#interactive

You can turn off the animations on the slides but this applies to the
presentation as a whole and not specific slides. Look at the
slideshowsetting - ShowWithAnimation property to address this.

To determine the animation status you need to setup an event hook to track
the animations as they fire. Look on my site for a downloadable example of
eventhandler in PowerPoint http://skp.mvps.org/download.htm


--
Regards,
Shyam Pillai


In this example, you already have the shape so you don't need to create
the shapes or assign it to oShpA. You can skip that part of the code and
just use the oShp that you already have.

--David

On 4/2/10 12:00 PM, liz santiago wrote:
Thanks David, I know how to name the object that i am using since i bought your book, which by the way have made me get interested in vba, my real problem is that i dont know how to assign to a shape one of the effects like spin or fade or something like that. For now i am using this
Sub RndSpin(oShp as Shape)
Dim t As Single
t = Timer + (Rnd * 4) + 1
Do Until Timer t
oShp.Rotation = oShp.Rotation + 5
DoEvents
Loop
End Sub

but the spinning is too slow, though it has the exact effect that i need because it lands in a random position of the wheel.





---
frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...xisting-object


--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland
.

Well any other suggestion would be appreciated... i think i do need a code
because what i want is to make a wheel with numbers spins and stops at a
random place for a game and i dont want to use a long list of animations to
make it stop at different points that at the end and after playing the game a
couple of time with my students they will know what number would come next.
besides that i want to be able to add animations to shapes that i already
have and all the examples i have seen (and believe me i have seen thousands)
they all add the effects while creating the shape like the one posted in
here, and when i try to apply it to my shapes( pictures) they never work (of
course i am just learning vba). So if you know a code that i can use to do
this i will be in debt with you my whole life!! i am a teacher and 90% of my
class is about games in powerpoint.

"John Wilson" wrote:

Liz

Do you have a special reason to use vba. It's not necessary to acheive what
you ask

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/spin.ppt
--
john ATSIGN PPTAlchemy.co.uk

Free PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoi...tutorials.html






"lizsantiago" wrote:

I am a teacher trying to make a game using 2007, and i am trying to do two
things. One is to add an animation like the spin to a picture by clicking on
a botton, but all the examples i find , add the animations while creating a
shape so i dont know how to make the animation to an existing picture in my
slide. the other thing is to stop the animation by clicking on a button. I
found an example to pause the slide but the problem is that i have other
animations that are stopped as well and i cant use that. The picture is of a
wheel with numbers that i want to spin so when i click the stop it stops on a
different number of the wheel. for the spin i used the animation set to
.01 speed until slide ends and used the pause botton to stop it and that
works great to make it stop in a random number but as i said it stops the
textboxes that should appear with the questions for the students. any aideas
on how to use a code to do what i want. i have bought 3 books and read a
thousand sites, posted in every forum i have found but no one care to answer.
this is my last resort.

That's because the Timeline is part of the Slide, not the Shape. If your
shape is oShp, then you need something like (I haven't tested this)

With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
Set oEffect = .TimeLine.MainSequence.AddEffect(shape:=oShp, effectId:=
msoAnimEffectSpin)
End With

If you haven't already, then you probably need to set oShp to be the
right thing before this:

Set oShp = ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes("Picture 3")

--David

On 4/2/10 3:03 PM, lizsantiago wrote:
Thank you again for your time, i am trying this but it doesnt work
Sub CreateAnimation()
Dim oEffect As Effect

With ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes("Picture 3")
Set oEffect = .TimeLine.MainSequence.AddEffect(Shape:="Picture 3",
effectId:=msoAnimEffectSpin)
End With
End Sub
It says method or data member not found while highlitghing TimeLine. I have
no idea what is that.

another thing is there a way to make the rotation in this one to go faster?
Sub RndSpin(oShp as Shape)
Dim t As Single
t = Timer + (Rnd * 4) + 1
Do Until Timer t
oShp.Rotation = oShp.Rotation + 5
DoEvents
Loop
End Sub
Thanx thanx thanx !!


"David Marcovitz" wrote:

Great. I'm glad you are learning from the book. Assigning animation with
VBA is a bit tricky and then using VBA to activate it is trickier still.
As I was looking for a link to Shyam's site with explanation of this, I
came across this post by him:

You can assign an animation in PPT
2002 and later using the following code:
Sub CreateAnimation()
Dim oEffect As Effect
Dim oShpA As Shape
With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
'Create two autoshapes on the slide.
Set oShpA = .Shapes.AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, 100, 100, 50, 50)
' Assign an animation to shape A
Set oEffect = .TimeLine.MainSequence.AddEffect(Shape:=oShpA,
effectId:=msoAnimEffectAppear)
End With
End Sub


To assign an interactive animation take a look at the code he
http://skp.mvps.org/pptxp012.htm#interactive

You can turn off the animations on the slides but this applies to the
presentation as a whole and not specific slides. Look at the
slideshowsetting - ShowWithAnimation property to address this.

To determine the animation status you need to setup an event hook to track
the animations as they fire. Look on my site for a downloadable example of
eventhandler in PowerPoint http://skp.mvps.org/download.htm


--
Regards,
Shyam Pillai


In this example, you already have the shape so you don't need to create
the shapes or assign it to oShpA. You can skip that part of the code and
just use the oShp that you already have.

--David

On 4/2/10 12:00 PM, liz santiago wrote:
Thanks David, I know how to name the object that i am using since i bought your book, which by the way have made me get interested in vba, my real problem is that i dont know how to assign to a shape one of the effects like spin or fade or something like that. For now i am using this
Sub RndSpin(oShp as Shape)
Dim t As Single
t = Timer + (Rnd * 4) + 1
Do Until Timer t
oShp.Rotation = oShp.Rotation + 5
DoEvents
Loop
End Sub

but the spinning is too slow, though it has the exact effect that i need because it lands in a random position of the wheel.





---
frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...xisting-object


--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland
.



--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

Look the at required argument types. AddEffect is expecting a shape
reference and not the name of the shape.

Sub CreateAnimationS()
Dim oEffect As Effect

With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
Set oEffect =
..TimeLine.MainSequence.AddEffect(Shape:=.Shapes(" Picture 3"),
effectId:=msoAnimEffectSpin)
End With
End Sub

Regards,
Shyam Pillai

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"lizsantiago" wrote in message
...
Thank you again for your time, i am trying this but it doesnt work
Sub CreateAnimation()
Dim oEffect As Effect

With ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes("Picture 3")
Set oEffect = .TimeLine.MainSequence.AddEffect(Shape:="Picture 3",
effectId:=msoAnimEffectSpin)
End With
End Sub
It says method or data member not found while highlitghing TimeLine. I
have
no idea what is that.

another thing is there a way to make the rotation in this one to go
faster?
Sub RndSpin(oShp as Shape)
Dim t As Single
t = Timer + (Rnd * 4) + 1
Do Until Timer t
oShp.Rotation = oShp.Rotation + 5
DoEvents
Loop
End Sub
Thanx thanx thanx !!


"David Marcovitz" wrote:

Great. I'm glad you are learning from the book. Assigning animation with
VBA is a bit tricky and then using VBA to activate it is trickier still.
As I was looking for a link to Shyam's site with explanation of this, I
came across this post by him:

You can assign an animation in PPT
2002 and later using the following code:
Sub CreateAnimation()
Dim oEffect As Effect
Dim oShpA As Shape
With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
'Create two autoshapes on the slide.
Set oShpA = .Shapes.AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, 100, 100, 50, 50)
' Assign an animation to shape A
Set oEffect = .TimeLine.MainSequence.AddEffect(Shape:=oShpA,
effectId:=msoAnimEffectAppear)
End With
End Sub


To assign an interactive animation take a look at the code he
http://skp.mvps.org/pptxp012.htm#interactive

You can turn off the animations on the slides but this applies to the
presentation as a whole and not specific slides. Look at the
slideshowsetting - ShowWithAnimation property to address this.

To determine the animation status you need to setup an event hook to
track
the animations as they fire. Look on my site for a downloadable example
of
eventhandler in PowerPoint http://skp.mvps.org/download.htm


--
Regards,
Shyam Pillai


In this example, you already have the shape so you don't need to create
the shapes or assign it to oShpA. You can skip that part of the code and
just use the oShp that you already have.

--David

On 4/2/10 12:00 PM, liz santiago wrote:
Thanks David, I know how to name the object that i am using since i
bought your book, which by the way have made me get interested in vba,
my real problem is that i dont know how to assign to a shape one of the
effects like spin or fade or something like that. For now i am using
this
Sub RndSpin(oShp as Shape)
Dim t As Single
t = Timer + (Rnd * 4) + 1
Do Until Timer t
oShp.Rotation = oShp.Rotation + 5
DoEvents
Loop
End Sub

but the spinning is too slow, though it has the exact effect that i
need because it lands in a random position of the wheel.





---
frmsrcurl:
http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...xisting-object


--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland
.