Re: how can i use clipboard with Jawin?

If your problem is that you can't get PowerPoint to paste in the data =
the way you need, you're mostly out of luck. Jawin is a tool to enable =
COM automation; automation implies requesting that another application =
does something. The pre-defined PowerPoint API is not at all extensible.
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Having said that, you can write a native .DLL and load it as a plugin in =
PowerPoint to enable additional functionality. You could also embed an =
.OCX ActiveX Control in a PowerPoint presentation with additional native =
functionality.
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If you have data on the clipboard (put there either by Java or a native =
app) and PowerPoint lacks the method to paste it in the way you want, =
you're mostly out of luck (unless you are willing to write and use a =
native control as stated above).
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If, on the other hand, you want to read data into the clipboard from =
somewhere inside a Java app, there is a great library for that, but it's =
not Jawin. It's built into the Java AWT API. See =
http://www.javapractices.com/Topic82.cjp for a tutorial.
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As I enjoy stating frequently on this list -- if you can't do it using =
VBA inside your automated application (in this case PowerPoint), you =
certainly can't do it with Jawin. In some cases, even a valid API can't =
be marshalled properly by Jawin, so the most you can hope for out of =
Jawin is a fairly good subset of existing native or COM APIs. =
Unfortunately I am not familiar enough with the PowerPoint API to =
suggest another method of using the clipboard.
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HTH,
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Sean
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From: Discussion of Java/Win32/COM integration with Jawin on behalf of =
Alex Chew
Sent: Thu 10/26/2006 1:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWIN] how can i use clipboard with Jawin?



I am trying to create PPT with Jawin.
It seems there are no other ways but using PasteClipboard for paste a =
piece
of HTML string to ppt slide.

thanks for telling how to complete this.

regards
alex