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Reputation: 11

How to interface with a custom office addin using pywin32

I'm trying to interface with a custom add-in for powerpoint using python 3. Specifically think-cell, a charting tool. I need to use just one function documented here: https://www.think-cell.com/en/support/manual/exceldataautomation.shtml

I can successfuly use pywin32 to connect to powerpoint and get a reference to the addin

import win32com.client as win32

def ppt():
    return win32.gencache.EnsureDispatch('PowerPoint.Application')

def excel():
    return win32.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.Application')
e = excel()
p = ppt()
thinkcell = p.COMAddIns("thinkcell.addin").Object

However when I call thinkcell.UpdateChart(slide, "Chart24", r) (slide and r defined elsewhere) I get: AttributeError: <unknown>.UpdateChart.

I believe this to mean that the issue is there's no python interface written for the think-cell addin or that the addin is not registered in such a way that the object can call its functions.

How can I resolve this? If I need to write an interface that allows calling UpdateChart, what would that look like?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 431

Answers (1)

Renaud
Renaud

Reputation: 2819

Did you tried some simple actions as:

p.Visible = True
presentation=p.Presentations.Add()
slide = presentation.Slides.Add(1, 12)
myDiamond = slide.Shapes.AddShape(4, Top=100,Left=100, Width=20, Height=20)

presentation.SaveAs(“C:\\Temp\\myPowerPoint”,1)

Also, Did you tried with:

p = win32com.client.Dispatch("PowerPoint.Application")

Upvotes: 0

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