ActiveX and Powerpoint

calli · October 29, 2003, 3:40am

Hi,

I am able to send messages from Powerpoint to the Blender ActiveX, but I could not get the other way around to work.

It looks as the activex is only processing load_url messages…



void CBlenderPlayerCtrl::processMessages(void)
{
	// Only process messages if the engine is running
	if (m_engineRunning && m_networkdevice) {
		vector&lt;NG_NetworkMessage*&gt; msgs;
		msgs = m_networkdevice-&gt;RetrieveNetworkMessages();
		if (msgs.size() &gt; 0) {
			vector&lt;NG_NetworkMessage*&gt;::iterator it;
			/* At the moment, we look for messages for the "host_application"
			 * with subject "load_url" only.
			 */
			for (it = msgs.begin(); it != msgs.end(); it++) {
				NG_NetworkMessage* msg = *it;
				if (msg-&gt;GetDestinationName() == s_messageAddress) {
					if (msg-&gt;GetSubject() == s_messageLoadURLSubject) {
						loadURL(msg-&gt;GetMessageText());
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

But maybe some VBA Guru can think of a workaround?

Idea is to let the Blender ActiveX advance the Powerpoint Presentaton to the next slide.

Greetz,
Carsten.