I've added a function to the Win32::PowerPoint module successfully to draw a line and astonishingly enough it works:

sub add_line {
  my ($self, $options) = @_;

  return unless $self->slide;

  $options = {} unless ref $options eq 'HASH';

  my $new_line = $self->slide->Shapes->AddLine($options->{x1}, $option
+s->{y1}, $options->{x2}, $options->{y2});

  return $new_line;
}
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I've tried to add a function to draw a shape with very similar extension like this:

sub add_shape {
  my ($self, $shape, $options) = @_;

  return unless $self->slide;

  $options = {} unless ref $options eq 'HASH';

  my $new_shape = $self->slide->Shapes->AddShape($shape, $options->{le
+ft}, $options->{top}, $options->{width}, $options->{height});

  return $new_shape;
}
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But it doesn't work.

In the horrible MSDN documents on VBA there's discussion about encoded shape names like 'msoShapeRectangle' which is shape enumeration 1, and when I call this function it draws nothing. I've tried calling this new function both the following ways with no success:

# Add the Rectangle
$pp->add_shape('msoShapeRectangle', { left=>100, top=>100, width=>100,
+ height=>100});

# Add the Rectangle
$pp->add_shape(1, { left=>100, top=>100, width=>100, height=>100});
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Neither works.

Any help or guidance would be apprecaited. There's almost no help in the Win32::PowerPoint in CPAN.

Also, I've searched for hours for examples on even how to change the color of the line that I can successfully draw - to no avail.

Kind regards, nzsvz9

I'm not a coder, I just play one in my job

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