Prevent 'Open' Dialog box from popping up at end of viewer

[usterra]

At the end of the presentation, after exiting, the PP Viewer2003 'open'
dialog box pops up. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?
thanks
-jim

 

[Sonia]

If you use a playlist, the Viewer will close when it exhausts the list. But,
like other programs, if you open the Viewer and then open a presentation, it
doesn't close just because you have finished with the presentation. It stays
open to give you the opportunity to play another presentation.

 

[usterra]

Sonia,
The viewer autoruns without any input from me (unlike PP97) so there should
be a playlist. Thats why I don't understand why I get the dialog box after I
exit.

 

[Sonia]

Is this from a CD created in PowerPoint 2003?

Sonia,
The viewer autoruns without any input from me (unlike PP97) so there should
be a playlist. Thats why I don't understand why I get the dialog box after I
exit.

 

[usterra]

Yes, it was packaged for CD with PP03 and includes PPV03 which autoruns.

 

[Sonia]

It doesn't work that way for me. Did you let Package for CD burn the CD? Can
you open NotePad and then browse to the CD and open the playlist.txt file? What
is listed there?

 

[usterra]

I had PowerPoint copy the presentation to a folder on my hard drive and then
I Burned it to CD with Nero. The playlist.txt simply says: main menu.pps
When the presentation ends, the dialog shows all my files on the CD listed
from the CDROM drive.

jim

 

[Sonia]

Is it a Windows Explorer window, or is it a PowerPoint 2003 Viewer dialog box?
I can't replicate this.

 

[Kathy J]

Does it work any better if the file name has no spaces?

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[Sonia]

I tested that too, and the Viewer dialog doesn't appear when the presentation is
closed. The new Viewer isn't like the old one. It doesn't have a problem with
spaces in the filename. I guess they coded it to read until it finds a valid
file extension followed by a space instead of the old DOS mentality of seeing a
space as a delimiter.

 

[Kathy J]

I thought that was the case, but I was reaching at straws. I can't get his
problem to recreate here either.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
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Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive.com
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I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Echo S]

I can get the Viewer's Open window to pop up after a presentation finishes
if I package for CD and set an option for the user to select from a list of
presentations instead of playing them all in order or whatever.

I bet that's what usterrra's done...

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

 

[Sonia]

Oh, I'll bet you're right. In that case he shouldn't have used that option
because he stated that he has a menu presentation. He must have misunderstood
the impact of that option.

I can get the Viewer's Open window to pop up after a presentation finishes
if I package for CD and set an option for the user to select from a list of
presentations instead of playing them all in order or whatever.

I bet that's what usterrra's done...

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

I tested that too, and the Viewer dialog doesn't appear when the presentation is
closed. The new Viewer isn't like the old one. It doesn't have a problem with
spaces in the filename. I guess they coded it to read until it finds a valid
file extension followed by a space instead of the old DOS mentality of seeing a
space as a delimiter.

 

[usterra]

Hi all,
When I packaged for CD I selected the option to 'play only the first
presentation automatically' since the 'main menu' is the first and only
presentation that needs to launch automatically. Which option should I select
when packaging?

Thanks,

Jim

Oh, I'll bet you're right. In that case he shouldn't have used that option
because he stated that he has a menu presentation. He must have misunderstood
the impact of that option.

I can get the Viewer's Open window to pop up after a presentation finishes
if I package for CD and set an option for the user to select from a list of
presentations instead of playing them all in order or whatever.

I bet that's what usterrra's done...

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

I tested that too, and the Viewer dialog doesn't appear when the presentation is
closed. The new Viewer isn't like the old one. It doesn't have a problem with
spaces in the filename. I guess they coded it to read until it finds a valid
file extension followed by a space instead of the old DOS mentality of seeing a
space as a delimiter.

Does it work any better if the file name has no spaces?

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive.com
Need to learn about advanced PowerPoint Animations? Check out:
http://www.eclecticacademy.com/newclasses.htm#pptanim

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

I had PowerPoint copy the presentation to a folder on my hard drive and
then
I Burned it to CD with Nero. The playlist.txt simply says: main menu.pps
When the presentation ends, the dialog shows all my files on the CD listed
from the CDROM drive.

jim

:

It doesn't work that way for me. Did you let Package for CD burn the CD?
Can
you open NotePad and then browse to the CD and open the playlist.txt
file? What
is listed there?

Yes, it was packaged for CD with PP03 and includes PPV03 which
autoruns.

:

Is this from a CD created in PowerPoint 2003?

Sonia,
The viewer autoruns without any input from me (unlike PP97) so
there
should
be a playlist. Thats why I don't understand why I get the dialog
box after
I
exit.

:

If you use a playlist, the Viewer will close when it exhausts the
list.
But,
like other programs, if you open the Viewer and then open a
presentation, it
doesn't close just because you have finished with the
presentation. It
stays
open to give you the opportunity to play another presentation.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

At the end of the presentation, after exiting, the PP
Viewer2003
'open'
dialog box pops up. Is there any way to prevent this from
happening?
thanks
-jim

 

[Echo S]

Choose "Play all presentations automatically in the specified order." (It's
the default selection when you go into Options in Package for CD.)

But you might (will probably) have to edit the playlist.txt file, then, to
remove the rest of the presentations so they don't all play automatically
one after the other.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

Hi all,
When I packaged for CD I selected the option to 'play only the first
presentation automatically' since the 'main menu' is the first and only
presentation that needs to launch automatically. Which option should I select
when packaging?

Thanks,

Jim

Oh, I'll bet you're right. In that case he shouldn't have used that option
because he stated that he has a menu presentation. He must have misunderstood
the impact of that option.

I can get the Viewer's Open window to pop up after a presentation finishes
if I package for CD and set an option for the user to select from a list of
presentations instead of playing them all in order or whatever.

I bet that's what usterrra's done...

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



I tested that too, and the Viewer dialog doesn't appear when the
presentation is
closed. The new Viewer isn't like the old one. It doesn't have a problem
with
spaces in the filename. I guess they coded it to read until it finds a
valid
file extension followed by a space instead of the old DOS mentality of
seeing a
space as a delimiter.

Does it work any better if the file name has no spaces?

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro!
Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive.com
Need to learn about advanced PowerPoint Animations? Check out:
http://www.eclecticacademy.com/newclasses.htm#pptanim

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we
lived

I had PowerPoint copy the presentation to a folder on my hard drive and
then
I Burned it to CD with Nero. The playlist.txt simply says: main
menu.pps
When the presentation ends, the dialog shows all my files on the CD
listed
from the CDROM drive.

jim

:

It doesn't work that way for me. Did you let Package for CD burn the
CD?
Can
you open NotePad and then browse to the CD and open the playlist.txt
file? What
is listed there?

Yes, it was packaged for CD with PP03 and includes PPV03 which
autoruns.

:

Is this from a CD created in PowerPoint 2003?

Sonia,
The viewer autoruns without any input from me (unlike PP97) so
there
should
be a playlist. Thats why I don't understand why I get the
dialog
box after
I
exit.

:

If you use a playlist, the Viewer will close when it exhausts
the
list.
But,
like other programs, if you open the Viewer and then open a
presentation, it
doesn't close just because you have finished with the
presentation. It
stays
open to give you the opportunity to play another
presentation.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

message
At the end of the presentation, after exiting, the PP
Viewer2003
'open'
dialog box pops up. Is there any way to prevent this from
happening?
thanks
-jim

 

[Sonia]

Just don't manually provide the other presentation files. Package for CD will
pick them up and include them automagically because there are links to them.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

Choose "Play all presentations automatically in the specified order." (It's
the default selection when you go into Options in Package for CD.)

But you might (will probably) have to edit the playlist.txt file, then, to
remove the rest of the presentations so they don't all play automatically
one after the other.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

Hi all,
When I packaged for CD I selected the option to 'play only the first
presentation automatically' since the 'main menu' is the first and only
presentation that needs to launch automatically. Which option should I select
when packaging?

Thanks,

Jim

Oh, I'll bet you're right. In that case he shouldn't have used that option
because he stated that he has a menu presentation. He must have misunderstood
the impact of that option.

I can get the Viewer's Open window to pop up after a presentation finishes
if I package for CD and set an option for the user to select from a list of
presentations instead of playing them all in order or whatever.

I bet that's what usterrra's done...

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



I tested that too, and the Viewer dialog doesn't appear when the
presentation is
closed. The new Viewer isn't like the old one. It doesn't have a problem
with
spaces in the filename. I guess they coded it to read until it finds a
valid
file extension followed by a space instead of the old DOS mentality of
seeing a
space as a delimiter.

Does it work any better if the file name has no spaces?

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro!
Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive.com
Need to learn about advanced PowerPoint Animations? Check out:
http://www.eclecticacademy.com/newclasses.htm#pptanim

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we
lived

I had PowerPoint copy the presentation to a folder on my hard drive and
then
I Burned it to CD with Nero. The playlist.txt simply says: main
menu.pps
When the presentation ends, the dialog shows all my files on the CD
listed
from the CDROM drive.

jim

:

It doesn't work that way for me. Did you let Package for CD burn the
CD?
Can
you open NotePad and then browse to the CD and open the playlist.txt
file? What
is listed there?

Yes, it was packaged for CD with PP03 and includes PPV03 which
autoruns.

:

Is this from a CD created in PowerPoint 2003?

Sonia,
The viewer autoruns without any input from me (unlike PP97) so
there
should
be a playlist. Thats why I don't understand why I get the
dialog
box after
I
exit.

:

If you use a playlist, the Viewer will close when it exhausts
the
list.
But,
like other programs, if you open the Viewer and then open a
presentation, it
doesn't close just because you have finished with the
presentation. It
stays
open to give you the opportunity to play another
presentation.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

message
At the end of the presentation, after exiting, the PP
Viewer2003
'open'
dialog box pops up. Is there any way to prevent this from
happening?
thanks
-jim

 

[Echo S]

Oh, duh! <smacking forehead!>

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

Just don't manually provide the other presentation files. Package for CD will
pick them up and include them automagically because there are links to them.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

Choose "Play all presentations automatically in the specified order." (It's
the default selection when you go into Options in Package for CD.)

But you might (will probably) have to edit the playlist.txt file, then, to
remove the rest of the presentations so they don't all play automatically
one after the other.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

Hi all,
When I packaged for CD I selected the option to 'play only the first
presentation automatically' since the 'main menu' is the first and only
presentation that needs to launch automatically. Which option should I select
when packaging?

Thanks,

Jim

:

Oh, I'll bet you're right. In that case he shouldn't have used that option
because he stated that he has a menu presentation. He must have misunderstood
the impact of that option.

I can get the Viewer's Open window to pop up after a presentation finishes
if I package for CD and set an option for the user to select from

a
list of

presentations instead of playing them all in order or whatever.

I bet that's what usterrra's done...

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



I tested that too, and the Viewer dialog doesn't appear when the
presentation is
closed. The new Viewer isn't like the old one. It doesn't have

a
problem

with
spaces in the filename. I guess they coded it to read until it finds a
valid
file extension followed by a space instead of the old DOS

mentality
of

seeing a
space as a delimiter.

Does it work any better if the file name has no spaces?

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro!
Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive.com
Need to learn about advanced PowerPoint Animations? Check out:
http://www.eclecticacademy.com/newclasses.htm#pptanim

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we
lived

I had PowerPoint copy the presentation to a folder on my hard drive and
then
I Burned it to CD with Nero. The playlist.txt simply says: main
menu.pps
When the presentation ends, the dialog shows all my files on

the
CD

listed
from the CDROM drive.

jim

:

It doesn't work that way for me. Did you let Package for

CD
burn the

CD?
Can
you open NotePad and then browse to the CD and open the playlist.txt
file? What
is listed there?

Yes, it was packaged for CD with PP03 and includes PPV03 which
autoruns.

:

Is this from a CD created in PowerPoint 2003?

Sonia,
The viewer autoruns without any input from me (unlike PP97) so
there
should
be a playlist. Thats why I don't understand why I get the
dialog
box after
I
exit.

:

If you use a playlist, the Viewer will close when

it
exhausts

the
list.
But,
like other programs, if you open the Viewer and

then
open a

presentation, it
doesn't close just because you have finished with the
presentation. It
stays
open to give you the opportunity to play another
presentation.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

message
At the end of the presentation, after exiting,

the
PP

Viewer2003
'open'
dialog box pops up. Is there any way to prevent

this
from

happening?
thanks
-jim