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Define MS PowerPoint animation triggers using activeX / matlab

I'm creating PowerPoint presentations programmatically using MATLAB and inserting videos using activeX. However, I then need to manually select each video to set "play with previous" in the animation effects for the videos to play automatically when in presentation mode.

How can I automate this using MATLAB / activeX controls? I have tried searching with no success.

Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • After much googling and playing around, I found a working solution.

    Link to doc for the sequence.addeffect method:

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/powerpoint.sequence.addeffect

    My implementation:

    %Define video animation to play automatically
sequence = slidePage.Timeline.MainSequence;      %get slide animation sequence
vidEffect = sequence.AddEffect(video, 83, 0, 2); %define vid to autoplay