Need a Simple "How to"

[tmonteit]

Beginner question here. Looking at the demos I’ve figured out how to add slides to the presentation. I’m having problems populating the text in the slides.

Say I have 3 slides {A, B, and C} ; Say each slide has 3 bullets {A1, A2, A3}

How do I set the slide text to be:
Slide Title: A

• Bullet A1
• Bullet A2
• Bullet A3

Slide Title: B … and so forth.

I’m getting confused by the Placeholders and Textholders objects. Anyone have a cookbook answer?

[tmonteit]

Looking for a cook book recepie to

1. New slide

2. Add bullet

3. Add bullet

4. Add bullet

I would like to programatically do this as naturally as powerpoint.

[lajolla]

This is exactly my question. Can someone give an example how to create a slide with a heading and a few bullet points (like this below)?

HEADING

• item 1
• item 2
  
• item 3
  

[shakeel.faiz]

Dear lajolla,

Please see the attached output presentation which is generated by the following code.

This is the .NET code that creates a slide with a heading and a few bullet points.

Presentation pres = new Presentation();
Slide bodySlide = pres.AddBodySlide();

Paragraph para = ((TextHolder)bodySlide.Placeholders[0]).Paragraphs[0];
para.Alignment = TextAlignment.Left;
para.Text = "Heading";
TextHolder th = (TextHolder)bodySlide.Placeholders[1];
para = th.Paragraphs[0];
para.Alignment = TextAlignment.Left;
para.HasBullet = 1;
para.BulletColor = Color.Blue;
para.BulletHeight = 125; // bullet height

//para.Portions[0].FontUnderline = true;
para.Portions[0].Text = "Item 1";

//Add second item
Paragraph newPara = new Paragraph(para);
newPara.Portions[0].Text = "Item 2";
th.Paragraphs.Add(newPara);

//Add third item
newPara = new Paragraph(para);
newPara.Portions[0].Text = "Item 3";
th.Paragraphs.Add(newPara);

pres.Write(@"c:\out.ppt");

This is the .JAVA code that creates a slide with a heading and a few bullet points.

Presentation pres = new Presentation();
Slide bodySlide = pres.addBodySlide();

Paragraph para = ((TextHolder) bodySlide.getPlaceholders().get(0)).getParagraphs().get(0);
para.setAlignment(TextAlignment.LEFT);
para.setText("Heading");
TextHolder th = (TextHolder) bodySlide.getPlaceholders().get(1);
para = th.getParagraphs().get(0);
para.setAlignment(TextAlignmentLEFT);
para.setHasBullet((short) 1);
para.setBulletColor(Color.BLUE);

//para.getPortions().get(0).setFontUnderline(true);
para.getPortions().get(0).setText("Item 1");

//Add second item
Paragraph newPara = new Paragraph(para);
newPara.getPortions().get(0).setText("Item 2");
th.getParagraphs().add(newPara);

//Add third item
newPara = new Paragraph(para);
newPara.getPortions().get(0).setText("Item 3");
th.getParagraphs().add(newPara);

//Write Presentaiton
pres.write(new FileOutputStream("c:\\out.ppt"));