I try to make a word document with two checkboxes where each checkbox will show/hide a part of the document with a custom style.
I plan to set value Style.Font.Hidden = True/False depending from checkbox values, but...
I found that there are 3 types of controls:
Legacy Controls - This seems old the ugly.
ActiveX Controls - I can easyly attach to checkbox onChange events, but these are also ugly and I think it's not that secure, also this is probably now working on mac.
ContentControls - This seems like the right way to do this, but I just can't attach to the right event. (Also there is some XML attachment described, but I'm not using this, this seem too complicated, I don't know.)
Can you tell me how to atach to onChange event of CheckBox ContentContol? I need the same behaviour like it's ActiveX CheckBox.
Content Controls do not have "onChange" events, so you can't get a content control to behave like the ActiveX checkbox in a simple manner. Similarly to form fields, the code for ContentControls fires when the control is entered/exited.
The only way to emulate "onChange" for a Content Control is to link the content control to a node in a CustomXMLPart in the document then work with the Document_ContentControlBeforeStoreUpdate event that triggers when the content of the node in the CustomXMLPart is going to be changed.
If, as your question indicates, this is too complex for your purposes you could use a MacroButton field that displays a font character (Symbol) that looks like a checkbox. Clicking the field would exchange that character for a different one, that looks checked. And the reverse again for the next click. Here's some sample code to get you started. If you don't like the checkboxes I chose, you can pick something else from Insert/Symbols/Symbol. Just change the character numbers and the font name.
By default a MacroButton field triggers on double click. You can change this to a single click when the document is opened in an AutoOpen macro.
Sub AutoOpen()
Application.Options.ButtonFieldClicks = 1
End Sub
Sub ToggleCheckBox()
Dim iNotChecked As Integer, iChecked As Integer
Dim rngCheck As word.Range
Dim sBkmName As String, sFontName as String
iNotChecked = 111
iChecked = 253
sBkmName = "bkmCheck"
sFontName = "Wingdings"
Set rngCheck = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(sBkmName).Range
If Asc(rngCheck.Text) = iNotChecked Then
rngCheck.Text = Chr(iChecked)
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add sBkmName, rngCheck
rngCheck.Font.Name = sFontName
ElseIf Asc(rngCheck.Text) = iChecked Then
rngCheck.Text = Chr(iNotChecked)
rngCheck.Font.Name = sFontName
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add sBkmName, rngCheck
End If
End Sub
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I'm so close to getting this code working, I just need a little push please. I would like to
take the name of a combo box and then add a string to the end, But then get the value of a textbox with that string. This is to create a dynamic function instead of pasting the same code over and over.
Here's what I have so far, after you select something in the dropdown, the data is then pulled to populate the boxes next to it. I have about 8 drop downs so far so that's why I need this to work.
'Combobox after update
Call GrabData(Me, Me.ActiveControl)
Then
Private Sub GrabData(ctl As Control)
'name of ctl/combobox is "Kitchen"
data1 = (ctl.Name & "Size") '"KitchenSize"
'Here is where it all goes wrong
data1.Value = size.value
'size.value is just a textbox for example
End Sub
I can debug this with:
msgbox(data1)
'outputs "KitchenSize"
But I cannot get the value of kitchensize's textbox with data1.value
Error:
Object Required
I have also added Dim As String / Dim As Control.
I will be assigning the variable to some other stuff in this 50 line code I wrote so please don't take the above example as exactly what I intend to do, I just need help appending the ctl.name to a string, then use that to reference another control and so on.
EDIT
For anyone who wants to know, I figured it out.
Dim Ctrl As Control
Dim CtrlName As String
CtrlName = ctl.Name & "Size"
Set Ctrl = Me.Controls(CtrlName)
Ctrl.Value = 'Wherever you want to send the values to
See the edit.
You need to dim it as a string, then use Set Ctrl
I've been trying to use a combobox to show/hide a PDF viewer that I've added into a MS Access form.
When I use the form_current event, then the form only updates when I move between the data entries. When I use the afterupdate event, the same code does nothing at all.
Does anyone have a fix? The code I have used is below, which I have tried both the AfterUpdate event for the Browser and the Form_Current event for the whole form
Private Sub PDFT900_AfterUpdate() / Private Sub Form_Current()
Dim ESNComb As String
ESNComb = Me.ESNCombo.Column(1)
If ESNComb Like "9????" Then
Me.PDFT900.Visible = True
Else
Me.PDFT900.Visible = False
End If
End Sub
In the code below, I'm hiding and showing the Adobe PDF Reader ActiveX control named, "AcroPDF0". Since the Like operator returns true on an expression match and false on a mismatch or no match, it serves as a simple boolean switch for the visible property. I've used the (*) wild card instead of (?). It works {shrug}. See demonstration images below.
Private Sub ESNCombo_AfterUpdate()
'AcroPDF0.Visible = ESNCombo.Text Like "P*"
AcroPDF0.Visible = ESNCombo.Column(0) Like "P*"
AcroPDF0.src = acroPDFOSrc
End Sub
ComboBox List Items
"File Browser" Selected in ComboBox
Toggled ComboBox back to "PDFT900"
My code creates a 5x5 grid of buttons. I am wanting to give each of these buttons different names "BtnColour1", "BtnColour2", etc. How do I give them all different names and how do I refer to each button later in the program?
Dim bytCounter As Byte
For bytCounter = 1 To 25
Dim btnColour As New Button
Me.Controls.Add(btnColour)
btnColour.Height = 50
btnColour.Width = 50
btnColour.Name = "btnColour" & bytCounter
btnColour.Enabled = False
btnColour.Left = ((bytCounter - 1) Mod 5) * 51
btnColour.Top = ((bytCounter - 1) \ 5) * 51
AddHandler btnColour.Click, AddressOf BtnClick
Your code (I guess you forgot the ending Next) does create 25 Buttons, with names btnColour1... btnColour25.
In the BtnClick event, to get the name of the clicked button, you should write something like:
Private Sub BtnClick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
Dim buttonName as string=CType(sender, Button).Name
'buttonName now has the clicked button name
End Sub
Of course, since you set the enabled property to False, your button click event will not fire.
In a general sense (and in addition to Spyros' answer, which is a good way to do it in an event handler - the sender is always the thing that raised the event), when you give a control a name and add it to a control's Controls collection, you can then retrieve it by that name later:
'Here you added the button to the form controls:
Me.Controls.Add(btnColour)
'later in the code you can ask for it back by name, for example:
Dim controls = Me.Controls.Find("btnColour1")
What you get back is an array of Controls. You get an array because Find can search all children (panels inside panels inside groupboxes inside forms etc) and it is thus conceivable that multiple controls in different panels will both have the same name. In your case if you know you only have one control called "btnColour1" it's safe to get it by array index:
Dim control = controls(0) 'controls variable is from the above Find
Lastly, remember that it comes back as a Control, the parent class for all controls. Because you know it's a button, it's safe to cast without check:
Dim button = DirectCast(control, Button)
Remember that if your property is available on the base Control class you don't even need a cast:
'here's a 1 line way to get the text of the button named btnColour1
'Find all controls named btnColour1, take the first, get the text
Dim t = Me.Controls.Find("btnColour1")(0).Text
If you want to refer to the buttons later in the program to change a setting without clicking the button, you can add each button to an array and call each of them with an index number:
Dim buttons(24) As Button
Then as the buttons are created, you can add each button to the array:
Dim bytCounter As Byte
For bytCounter = 1 To 25
Dim btnColour As New Button
Me.Controls.Add(btnColour)
buttons(bytCounter) = btnColour
you can then reference each button and their properties using the index number of the button in the array. You may also want to add a specific tag to each button to make each button more unique using:
btnColour.Tag = bytCounter
I am trying to switch users to use a different printer for envelopes in Word. If they create the envelope, then print it, it works great using DocumentBeforePrint. However, this event is NOT fired when using the Print button on the dialog Mailings --> Envelopes. Is there any event fired when this happens that I can catch?
thanks,
Mike
There is no event, as such, however...
It is possible to Display, Execute or Show Word's built-in dialog boxes. A number of the controls in these dialog boxes are exposed so that they can be set or read. And the button used to dismiss the dialog box returns a value that can be evaluated.
The list of exposed controls is documented here. The WdWordDialog enumerator for envelopes is wdDialogToolsCreateEnvelope. The properties listed are for both envelopes and labels, keep that in mind when sorting through the possibilities. Note that there is no IntelliSense for these properties. (For .NET people reading this, the properties are accessed via late-binding, meaning C# must use PInvoke in order to work with them.)
To read the user's input, place the properties after the method; to make "default setting", place the properties before the method.
Dismissing this dialog box returns the following values:
0 Cancel (or the "X" button)
1 Print
2 Add to Document:
Since you need to do something before the print job is sent, you probably need to use Display rather than Show. Display does not execute the dialog box when the user dismisses it. Instead, it's necessary to capture the settings, do something with them, then Execute the the dialog box.
For example, the following code displays the dialog box to the user, capture's the delivery address typed into that box, then handles the various return values.
Sub PrintEnvelopes()
Dim dlg As Word.Dialog
Dim retVal As Long
Dim recipAddress As String
Set dlg = Application.Dialogs(wdDialogToolsCreateEnvelope)
With dlg
retVal = .Display
recipAddress = .envaddress
End With
Select Case retVal
Case 1 'Print
With dlg
'Change the printer here
.envaddress = recipAddress
.Execute
End With
Case 0 'Cancel
Case 2 'Add to document
With dlg
.envaddress = recipAddress
.Execute
End With
End Select
End Sub
Turns out, there are events you can place in a module to intercept the Envelope tool launch (h/t http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm). As such, I added the following to one of my modules, and it runs when Mailings-->Envelopes is selected, so I can switch the printer, load the dialog, then switch the printer back after the dialog is finished:
Sub ToolsCreateEnvelope()
Dim DoChangePrinter As Boolean
Dim OriginalPrinterName As String
DoChangePrinter = False
OriginalPrinterName = Application.ActivePrinter
CurrentPrinterName = OriginalPrinterName
//Change to use color if on B&W printer
If InStr(1, LCase(CurrentPrinterName), "b&w") Then
CurrentPrinterName = Replace(CurrentPrinterName, "B&W", "COLOR")
DoChangePrinter = True
End If
If (DoChangePrinter) Then ChangePrinter
Application.ActiveDocument.Envelope.DefaultOmitReturnAddress = True
//Show dialog
Dim oDlg As Dialog
Set oDlg = Dialogs(wdDialogToolsCreateEnvelope)
With oDlg 'Pop up the envelopes dialog
.extractaddress = True
.Show
End With
ActivePrinter = OriginalPrinterName 'Restore the original printer
End Sub
I'm maintaining an old-ish application written in VBA for Excel 2002 (XP)/2003, and am trying to internationalise it.
To do this, I read in the translated strings dynamically and update the various controls on my userform by updating their .Caption property.
This works as expected for all controls but not for the form itself -- when I change the form's .Caption property, then the title bar keeps displaying the "hard-coded" value, and the new value is instead displayed just below it, at the top of the "canvas" of the form itself.
Is it possible to change the title bar text of a UserForm after it has been shown, or do I have to change the .Caption property of the form before it is shown in order for it to be reflected in the title bar rather than in the canvas/client area?
My code looks something like this:
' in frmFoo
Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
' ...
TranslateDialog Me, "frmFoo"
' ...
End Sub
' in a VBA module
Sub TranslateDialog(pForm As UserForm, pFormName As String)
Dim new Caption As String
Const notFound As String = "###!!##NOTFOUND##!!###"
' ...
' GetMessage() returns the translated message for a given key, or the
' default value (second parameter) if no translation is available.
' The translation key for the form caption is the form name itself.
newCaption = GetMessage(pFormName, notFound)
If newCaption <> notFound Then pForm.Caption = newCaption
' ...
End Sub
As I said, the assignment to pForm.Caption does have an effect - but it doesn't write to the title bar of the window, but rather directly beneath it. I'm running Excel 2003 on Windows XP SP 3.
Your frmFoo is not actually the same type as the base UserForm, rather it's internally "descended" from it in VBA's wierd OO implementation so you can't use that reliably as a parameter type, using Object instead will work;
Sub TranslateDialog(pForm As Object, pFormName As String)