PowerPoint Resize and Control

PowerPoint Resize and Control V 3.1

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I uploaded a freshly compiled exe (V 2.7a) to virustotal.com. See results below. 4 vendors flagged it, while the majority did not, amongst them ZoneAlarm by Check Point, Palo Alto, Kaspersly, McAfee, Microsoft, Avira, Avast, BitDefender, Fortinet, G-Data and Trendmicro.

You can do the same to see the results for yourself and not only in my screenshot.

I assume that it is the nature of what the tool is doing: intercepting keystrokes with a global hook and controling PowerPoint with OLE, also it sends Windows messages through WinAPI to PowerPoint (the resizing) and makes screenshots on your request. That maybe somewhat similar to what e.g. a keylogger or a trojan does, so some heuristic pretection algorithms might find that suspicious and create the false positive.

I'm afraid that's all I can do. You may decide to report the false positive to Microsoft I will do the same of course. In the meantime you may decide to tell Windows Defender to run it anway ("I know the risk"...).

Of course you can trust me and more than 1000 others who're using the tool - that being said of course in a zero trust world you may decide not to.

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Nice app. Here's some feedback for version 2.7:

Not working for me: I'm using PP 2019 and tried .ppt and .pptx files but there's no thumbnail of the active page.
Question: What does 'Active at pgm start' mean and do?
Question: You can resize the slideshow window by dragging the window edges and further finetune in OBS, so why use the numbers in the resizing window of PPT S&C?
Suggestion: To add a reminder in the UI that 'Browsed by an individual (window)' should be set in the Set Up Show dialog of PP.
 
Thanks for looking into this one as well.

I am still working with Office 2010, so I cannot test 2019 - you'll have to do without the thumbnail ;-)

The whole purpose is this: if you do not run the PPT show in fullscreen but rather windowed, then PPT will start with whatever size (window height and width) you left it with last time - e.g. when you edited your PPT in a larger window or in full screen. So no matter how fine you tune in OBS: you will always have to manually adjust back to that setting you once had, when the scene meets the window size

Of course you don't have to do that when you run PPT show in full screen on a, say, 1920x1080 monitor (always the same size...).

There is simply no way to start PowerPoint precisely with, say 1280X720.

What the tool does is to monitor the PPT size window - so even if you move it around and resize by error it will be reset to whatever dimensions you defined. Active at PGM start means, that you want this monitoring to be active when my tool starts.

Do the hotkeys work for your version of PPT?
 
Just to be safe: do you see this section at all? I mean the buttons auto resize, screw up test etc.

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Yes, I got it that the app controls the window size of the PP slideshow. Very useful. What I was talking about is, since you can adjust the slideshow window generated by your app by dragging its edges with the mouse, why still use the numbers in the resizing section?

Yes, I have the resizing section as per screenshots and, yes, the hotkeys work as well.
 
You're right, you can of course size the ppt window manually. It's just a matter if precision and time. I use ppt in OBS combined with the image of a flatscreen grouped with the ppt and I modified that group with a little 3D rotation yaw.
So if the ppt is not precisely 16:9 there will be black bars either on the sides or on top and below. Fixing that manually is annoying and the tool does it automatically, so I have 1 thing less to fumble around with.
 
The tool is ... 99% perfect It works great through keboard hotkeys, but if I send the hotkeys through Stream Deck, it doesn't work when OBS window is topmost. Any suggestion to resolve? Thanks
 
B2Run said:
The tool is ... 99% perfect It works great through keboard hotkeys, but if I send the hotkeys through Stream Deck, it doesn't work when OBS window is topmost. Any suggestion to resolve? Thanks
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Please note that your app doesn't work just when OBS runs in admin mode. Otherwise, it works great even if OBS is topmost window
 
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