passing variables

[K J Boland]

How do I pass variables from a macro in one presentation to a macro in a
second presentation ? The PUBLIC declaration does not appear to work.

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Check out:
Inter-presentation communication using a function
http://skp.mvps.org/pptxp013.htm


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Shyam Pillai

Handout Wizard
http://skp.mvps.org/how

 

[K J Boland]

Shyam,

thanks for that.. unfortunately I had seen that; this requires knowíng the
name of the first presentation in advance, and does not allow that the 1st
presentation may be any one of a number of presentations creating the link
to the second.

I know I can pass the variable by writing it to a text file and then have
the second pick it up. It seems ridiculuous that there is not some way of
writing to a "global" memory variable.

 

[K J Boland]

thanks Steve,

clearer now....

Yes and no. Compared to a normal program, an add-in or macro running
inside
PowerPoint is in a weird place.

Consider the chaos if you were running several addins in PowerPoint and
each of
them declared a public variable of the same name.

How do you spell "Real ugly, Real fast"? ;-)

A bit of isolation is a good thing, IMO.

Writing to a file's one way of doing the job; you can also write to the
registry ( see SaveSetting, GetSetting )


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