Embed VI in MS Powerpoint, and Then Click on to Run it from Powerpoint?

[DonRoth]

Is the above doable?  If so, how?  (Am also willing to create .exe and embed and run it instead of VI but VI is first choice).

Thanks,

Don 

Message Edited by DonRoth on 09-12-2008 02:46 PM

[jcarmody]

Don,

I ran a quick test by putting a text box on a blank slide.  I selected the text, used (menu) Insert_Hyperlink and navigated to a vi.  The following link says that you can't hyperlink to an application, so you can't link to LabVIEW; linking to the vi worked for me the first time I ran the slide show and clicked the link.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.mac.offi... 

Jm 

[jcarmody]

Alternatively, you can do this (your post specified embedding and all my first post did was link):

(menu) Insert_Object, select "Create from file" and browse to your VI.  Right-click your new object and select "Action settings", pick "Object action" and select "Activate contents". 

[DonRoth]

Hello - Thanks for looking into this.  I tried the latter strategy and here are my results:

1) works well for small simple VI

2) large, complicated VI with many subVIs. Inserts and activates but had big problems related to how powerpoint handles this object during run and it did not run properly

3) large .exe built from the latter would not insert

Sincerely,

Don

[jcarmody]

Don,

I got Powerpoint to launch an executable of a (somewhat) large program by changing the Action Settings (of a plain text box) to "Run program" and selecting the executable.  The only thing ugly is that you get a warning about the dangers of opening files.

Jm

[DonRoth]

I could not get the .exe to even insert into the powerpoint slide.  The hourglass cursor is stuck there forever as if the program is locked up.  So I don't have the opportunity to change the settings.  What version of powerpoint are you using?

Thanks,

Don

[jcarmody]

2003

[DonRoth]

I am using 2007.  My .exe is rather complicated and used dynamically-called subVIs in a number of cases.  In any case, this approach is not looking very promising right now since my actual VI and the .exe built from it both do not work (for different reasons)......Don