PowerPoint VBA SetTimer Function

[Dave Runyan]

In my 2003 PowerPoint Add-In, I use the popular win32 "SetTimer" function to
create a "heartbeat" that allows me to dynamically position obects on a
slide, in support of process-modeling application. Works great.

Now I am planning to port from WinXP/Office 2003 to Win7/Office 2007. Will
this function continue to work, or will I have to find another technique. I
realize this is really two questions: XP->win7, and 2003-2007. I think the
later will be okay, but I am worried my win32-based SetTimer won't work on
Win7, and I have not been able to find any information on this yet.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

In my 2003 PowerPoint Add-In, I use the popular win32 "SetTimer" function to
create a "heartbeat" that allows me to dynamically position obects on a
slide, in support of process-modeling application. Works great.

Now I am planning to port from WinXP/Office 2003 to Win7/Office 2007. Will
this function continue to work, or will I have to find another technique. I
realize this is really two questions: XP->win7, and 2003-2007. I think the
later will be okay, but I am worried my win32-based SetTimer won't work on
Win7, and I have not been able to find any information on this yet.

Are you talking Win7/32 bit or 64 bit?

If 32-bit, it'll probably work; if you've got a sample code snippet, post it
here and I'll give it a whirl in PPT 2007/Win7 for you.