in reply to Win32::PowerPoint to create slides

From looking at the source code of Win32::PowerPoint, the ->new_slide method doesn't return any useful information. The newly allocated slide is stored in $self->{slide}, so you should be able to access it there. It seems that Win32::PowerPoint relies on the idea of having only one "current" slide on which all its methods operate, so that won't buy you much.

The @slides array in your code is to be populated by yourself. Somewhere, you need to have your own idea of what should go into the slides.

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Re^2: Win32::PowerPoint to create slides
by toolic (Bishop) on Jan 12, 2009 at 14:55 UTC
    To supplement Corion's thought on the @slides array, I think the module author assumes that you might create your own Perl data structure.

    Instead of your "for" loop, just try to create a single slide with some dummy information: 

    $ppt_ref->add_text('Here is my title');
$ppt_ref->add_text('This is the 1st line of my text');
$ppt_ref->add_text('This is the 2nd line of my text');

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