Scripting Bridge and Powerpoint, how to make new slide?

Question

I know how to make a new slide in an active presentation in Powerpoint. It works like this:
tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
set newSlideC to make new slide at before slide 2 of active presentation ¬
with properties {layout:slide layout media clip and text}
end tell
(I stole this snippet from http://www.mactech.com/vba-transition-guide/index-094.html)
Now I would like to do the same via Scripting Bridge in my Cocoa app.
But I seem to be unable to find the appropriate classes, objects, methods, or properties in Powerpoint.h
(which I created with this command:
sdef /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2008/Microsoft\ PowerPoint.app | sdp -fh --basename Powerpoint
According to Script Editor's dictionary of Powerpoint, the "make" command is in the 'Standard Suite'.
But I have no idea how to find it's defintion, let alone how to use it from my Cocoa application.
Could somebody please give a hint to me?
Since I'm not (yet) subscribed to the applescript-users mailing list, I am taking the liberty to post my question here.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Best regards,
Gabriel.

Answer 1

Hello
You need to alloc and init to make an object instance in Scripting Bridge.
See the following documents.
Scripting Bridge Programming Guide for Cocoa
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ScriptingB ridgeConcepts/
Scripting Bridge Framework Reference
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/ScriptingAutomation/Referen ce/ScriptingBridgeFramework/
Some sample codes
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/SBSendEmail/
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/SBSetFinderComment/
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/ScriptingBridgeFinder/
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/ScriptingBridgeiCal
As for your example, code would be something like this.
NOT TESTED AT ALL. AND PROBABLY IT'S WRONG IN PARTS.
Just for showing the outline, hopefully.
PowerPointApplication *powerpoint = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier:@"com.microsoft.powerpoint"];
[powerpoint activate];
PowerPointSlide *s = [[[powerpoint classForScriptingClass:@"slide"] alloc]
initWithProperties:
[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"slideLayoutMediaClipAndText", @"layout",
nil]];
[[powerpoint.activePresentation slides] insertObject:s atArrangedObjectIndex:0];
Good luck,
H
Message was edited by: Hiroto (fixed typo)