I'm trying to fetch the title from PowerPoint 2004 slide. It seems
that there is no direct way to access the title, and you actually
have to search through the shapes for a one of the title placeholders
types, and get the text from its text frame. This search become slow
if the slide contain many shapes.
I use this code:
set slideTitle to ""
set titleTypes to {placeholder type title placeholder, placeholder
type center title placeholder, placeholder type vertical title
placeholder}
-- Get the text of the first title placeholder
repeat with i from 1 to count of shapes of currentSlide
set aShape to shape i of currentSlide
set aType to placeholder type of aShape
if aType is not missing value and titleTypes contains aType then
set slideTitle to content of text range of text frame of aShape
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
So I tried to run this with do Visual Basic, but the script does not
return anything. The dictionary says:
do Visual Basic v : Execute a Visual Basic script
do Visual Basic string : The script to execute
→ anything : the result of the script
But in reality, "anything" turns out to be "nothing". I really like
this kind of docs!
I made little research, and found this article: http://word.mvps.org/
mac/Applescript-VBA.html. It seems that the only way to return
result from do visual basic is by writing it to a file in VBA, and
reading the file elsewhere.
But I guess that do visual basic is not the way as Microsoft is
killing VBA in the next Office for Mac anyway.
I wonder if anyone can come up with an easier and faster way to fetch
the title?
