I have a UserForm which contains many labels and textboxes inside them. As a part of my Requirement, I need to go and change my label name using vba.
I couldn't find help on the Internet about this. So if somebody knows, Please kindly share your thoughts.
You cannot change the name of an object at run-time. You have to do that at design time using the property pane.
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To illustrate what I'm asking, let's say I have a custom TextBox that has 2 modes. Mode 1 only allows numbers, and mode 2 only allows dates in a particular format.
Using a class module I can create this custom TextBox, and I can use a loop when the userform initialises to set which TextBoxes are custom.
What I'd like to happen is have the custom TextBox, or what ever custom control I want, show up in the toolbox. And I also want its custom properties, if they exist, to show up in the property window.
So far, I've been unable to find a way to do this. In fact, I've been unable to find out if it's even possible. It seems, to me anyway, that it's something that should be possible, but maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. If it's possible I'd really appreciate being pointed to a resource.
So I feel a little foolish asking this question. I have spent plenty of time searching and only found a crude work-around. I have given this due diligence before posting.
For controls placed within a worksheet I cannot pull up the properties or even view the name to reference in code. The work-around I came across is if you right-click on the control (listbox in this case) and choose assign macro. It will suggest a macro name with the control name (e.g. ListBox13_change). In the code I refer to this listbox as Sheet2.ListBox13, but getting an error message for missing object.
With ActiveX controls or controls within a userform I can view the properties. I don't know why I am having trouble with this case.
Any guidance is much appreciated.
You can get the real name of the form control from the Immediate Window in the VBE by executing this line:
?Sheet2.Shapes(1).Name
Form controls are actually shapes in the object model.
The above assumes you have no other shapes on the worksheet.
Of course you can also see the name (and edit it) from the Name Box if the control is selected.
Once you have the name you can use it in code like so:
MsgBox Sheet2.Shapes("List Box 1").Top
I googled a lot but I had absolutely no luck finding anything about my problem.
I would like to create ListBox - just like the one anyone can create using UserForms. The problem is that I do not want to draw it but write it with a code. I know how to add values to ListBox etc. The only thing I am missing is how to create it programatically.
I found this: Creating form programmatically in the module using vba but this code didn't work for me. It stops at declaring Forms.
The idea behind this ListBox is to create a ListBox to choose from sheets in a workbook to later do some stuff.
Me.Controls.Add ("Forms.Listbox.1")
allows you to add a control at runtime only using an event procedure.
I have this userform that i'm developing for my report formatting task. My whole code is finished, there are only 2 problems that i need to work on.
Making my VBA application work on every excel file that user choose
Exception Handling for ComboBoxes on my form.
(Edit: I hope trying to get attention of people who are interested in this question to another stackoverflow.com topic is not against forum rules)
You guys can reach first problem's topic from here: (There is already one suggestion but i'm little bit confused. So it would be super for alternative suggestions) http://bit.ly/VnF3cK
And about my second problem, when i click empty place of combobox, i can type whatever i want, but i want to restrict it, so users can only choose values [1-5] that i put inside of combobox. How can I achieve this?
In answer to your secondary question, you need to change the ComboBox's Style property to frmStyleDropDownList
Perhaps you can help me. I am writing a windows application in VB.Net.
My client wants an intelligent combo box with type ahead capability. For example let’s I have a list of companies. I want to find my company “MetaPro”. With the Microsoft combo box if you type in the first letter of the name it will bring up first one starting with that letter. For example I type in “M” it will bring up “Mass. Dept. of Ed.”, I then type in “E” I get the first one starting with “E” maybe “E, G & G” where I want the first one starting with “ME”.
Perhaps there is an open source solution to this or I could create a custom control. But I don't know how. Any help or guidence would be appreciated.
In design view, change the AutoCompleteSource to ListItems and AutoCompleteMode to SuggestAppend for the comboBox.