I'm trying to create/copy/duplicate or whatever in excel VBA in shared workbook. My goal is to create new button, when workbook is shared.
In standart worksheet mode I tried which works in standart mode, but fail in shared (VBA dont know .add method of buttons)
Sub copyButton3()
Dim projectSheet As Worksheet
Set projectSheet = Sheets("Projects")
Dim newButton As button
With projectSheet
Set newButton = .Buttons("buttonToCopy").Add(10, 10, 10, 10)
With newButton
'some changes like name, size, caption, on action...
End With
End Sub
Then I tried Duplicate method, but with similar result as with Add
Sub copyButton3()
Dim projectSheet As Worksheet
Set projectSheet = Sheets("Projects")
Dim newButton As button
With projectSheet
Set newButton = .Buttons("buttonToCopy").Duplicate
With newButton
'some changes like name, size, caption, on action...
End With
End With
End Sub
Then I tried to use copy and paste, where i achieved some success with this. Finally, there is new button created, but I cant manipulate him, cause I can't select him. I tried assign selection to button variable, but in shared mode i'm getting Run time error 438 Object doesn't support this property or method (in normal mode everything works like a charm).
Sub copyButton()
Dim projectSheet As Worksheet
Set projectSheet = Sheets("Projects")
Dim newButton As Variant
With projectSheet
.Buttons("buttonToCopy").Copy
.Paste
Set newButton = Selection
With newButton
.Caption = "selected Button"
End With
End With
End Sub
So now I'm nearly out of ideas.
Is it even possible to cheat VBA to create new button in shared mode (I can create it) but to manipulate it later?
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I have a table with the following values:
Now, I would like to call the Userform in column H based on the value in column G, but I can't work out how to call the Userform based on the cell value. The error occurs in line
form.Name = wsControls.Cells(loop2, 8).Value
Here is my code:
Sub Check_Scenarios()
Dim wsAbsatz As Worksheet
Dim wsControls As Worksheet
Dim wsData As Worksheet
Dim loop1 As Long
Dim loop2 As Long
Dim lngKW As Long
Dim form As UserForm
Set wsAbsatz = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Production")
Set wsData = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Data")
Set wsControls = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Controls")
lngKW = wsControls.Cells(1, 2).Value + 2
If lngKW = 3 Then
Exit Sub
End If
For loop1 = wsControls.Cells(10, 2).Value To wsControls.Cells(19, 2).Value Step 10
If wsData.Cells(loop1 + 3, lngKW).Value <> "" Then
MsgBox (wsData.Cells(loop1 + 3, lngKW).Value)
For loop2 = 2 To 16
If wsData.Cells(loop1 + 3, lngKW).Value = wsControls.Cells(loop2, 7).Value Then
form.Name = wsControls.Cells(loop2, 8).Value 'error occurs here
form.Show
End If
Next loop2
End If
Next loop1
End Sub
Project:
Many thanks for your help!
You are trying to assign a Name to a blueprint. These are two errors.
You have to initialize your blueprint as something. Like this:
Dim form As New UserForm
Then, most probably your UserForm does not have a property called Name. It is called Caption. Thus it is like this:
Sub TestMe()
Dim uf As New UserForm1 'judging from your screenshot
uf.Caption = "Testing"
uf.Show
End Sub
Disclaimer:
There is a better way to work with UserForms, not abusing the blueprint, although almost every VBA book shows this UserForm.Show method (in fact every single one I have read so far).
If you have the time and the OOP knowledge implement the ideas from here - or from my interpretation of the ideas. There was also a documentation article about it in StackOverflow, but it was deleted with the whole documentation idea.
You don't "call" a userform. You instantiate it, and then you Show it.
UserForm is the "base class" from which all userforms are derived. See there is inheritance in VBA, only not with custom classes.
So you have a UserForm2 class, a UserForm3 class, a UserForm4 class, and so on.
These classes need to be instantiated before they can be used.
Dim theForm As UserForm
Set theForm = New UserForm2
theForm.Show
Set theForm = New UserForm3
theForm.Show
'...
So what you need is a way to parameterize this Set theForm = New ????? part.
And you can't. Because whatever you're going to do, the contents of a cell is going to be a string, and there's no way you can get an instance of a UserForm3 out of a String that says "UserForm3".
Make a factory function that does the translation:
Public Function CreateForm(ByVal formName As String) As UserForm
Select Case formName
Case "UserForm1"
Set CreateForm = New UserForm1
Case "UserForm2"
Set CreateForm = New UserForm2
Case "UserForm3"
Set CreateForm = New UserForm3
'...
End Select
End Function
And then call that function to get your form object:
Set form = CreateForm(wsControls.Cells(loop2, 8).Value)
If Not form Is Nothing Then form.Show
Is there a way to runtime copy image from worksheet to userform image control?
I got a shape on a worksheet containing image. And when I select --> copy (ctrl + C) this shape, go to the UserForm1 design --> image1 properties I can do ctrl + v in the picture property of image1 and the image is pasted from clipboard to image1 control.
How can I achieve this using VBA in runtime?
I tried UserForm1.Image1.Picture = ActiveSheet.Shapes("Picture 1").Picture
And many similar bot none of them work
I usually get "Object doesn't support this property or method" or "Type mismatch"
Some time ago I was looking for a solution of the same problem. Did not find a solution, but I found a great workaround:
Make a separate form with plenty of pictures in it. Name it user_form_pics.
Then call the following on your form:
Me.Image1.Picture = user_form_pics.img_name11.Picture
This is how to use it in the constructor:
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Me.Image1.Picture = user_form_pics.img_name11.Picture
End Sub
It works! Now your form has the picture of the user_form_pics.img_name11
Edit:
In case that you need to save Chart to picture, the procedure is the following:
Option Explicit
Public Sub TestMe()
Dim chtChart As Chart
Dim strPath As String
Set chtChart = ActiveSheet.ChartObjects(1).Chart
strPath = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\myChart.bmp"
chtChart.Export (strPath)
UserForm1.Show vbModeless
UserForm1.Image1.Picture = LoadPicture(strPath)
End Sub
I have been trying to write a macro that will dynamically fill a textbox on a new sheet will the value of a cell from another sheet.
I have managed to get it working using this:
Sub copyDetail()
' Define variables
Dim pre As Worksheet
Dim des As Worksheet
Set pre = Sheets("Presentation")
Set des = Sheets("Description")
Dim i As Integer
Dim lbl As String
' Scroll through labels and copy where boolean = 1
For i = 2 To 17
If des.Cells(i, 2) = 1 Then
lbl = des.Cells(i, 11)
Sheets("Presentation").Select
ActiveSheet.Shapes.Range(Array("TextBox 1")).Select
Selection.Text = lbl
Else
End If
Next i
End Sub
I basically want to be able to do exactly what this does but without using select all the time as this changes sheets and slows down my code (I have many other sub's to run alongside this one). I've tried things like defining the textbox using this:
Dim myLabel As Object
Set myLabel = pre.Shapes.Range(Array("TextBox 1"))
But then I get an "object doesn't support this property or method" error when I try and call:
myLabel.Text = lbl
You can set the text of a TextBox like so:
ActiveSheet.Shapes("TextBox 1").TextFrame.Characters.Text = "Hello world"
You can set-up a little helper Sub in a Module to make the code re-usable:
Public Sub SetTextBoxText(ws As Worksheet, strShapeName As String, strText As String)
Dim shp As Shape
On Error Resume Next
Set shp = ws.Shapes(strShapeName)
If Not shp Is Nothing Then
shp.TextFrame.Characters.Text = strText
Else
Debug.Print "Shape not found"
End If
End Sub
I have found many resources on the internet that do almost what i want to do, but not quite.I have a named range "daylist". For each day in the dayList, i want to create a button on a user form that will run the macro for that day. I am able to add the buttons dynamically but dont know how to pass the daycell.text from the named range, to the button, to the event handler, to the macro :S Heres the code i have to create the user form:
Sub addLabel()
ReadingsLauncher.Show vbModeless
Dim theLabel As Object
Dim labelCounter As Long
Dim daycell As Range
Dim btn As CommandButton
Dim btnCaption As String
For Each daycell In Range("daylist")
btnCaption = daycell.Text
Set theLabel = ReadingsLauncher.Controls.Add("Forms.Label.1", btnCaption, True)
With theLabel
.Caption = btnCaption
.Left = 10
.Width = 50
.Top = 20 * labelCounter
End With
Set btn = ReadingsLauncher.Controls.Add("Forms.CommandButton.1", "runButton", True)
With btn
.Caption = "Run Macro for " & btnCaption
.Left = 80
.Width = 80
.Top = 20 * labelCounter
' .OnAction = "btnPressed"
End With
labelCounter = labelCounter + 1
Next daycell
End Sub
To get around the above issue i currently prompt the user to type the day they want to run (e.g. Day1) and pass this to the macro and it works:
Sub B45runJoinTransactionAndFMMS()
loadDayNumber = InputBox("Please type the day you would like to load:", Title:="Enter Day", Default:="Day1")
Call JoinTransactionAndFMMS(loadDayNumber)
End Sub
Sub JoinTransactionAndFMMS(loadDayNumber As String)
xDayNumber = loadDayNumber
Sheets(xDayNumber).Activate
-Do stuff
End Sub
So for each of my runButtons, it needs to display daycell.text, and run a macro that uses that same text as a parameter to select the worksheet to do its stuff on.
Any help would be awesome. Ive seen responses that dynamically writes the vba code, to handle the macros, but i believe there must be someway it can be done a little more elegantly through passing parameters, just not sure how. Many thanks in advance!
I know you have accepted a solution now that will work for you and is much simpler than the below, but if you're interested, this would be the more direct answer to your question.
You need to create a class to handle the button clicks, so every time the button is clicked it uses the event in the class, you only need to do this once then create a new instance of it for every button. To stop these classes going out of scope and being lost, they need storing in a class level declaration. In the below I've moved your code around a little.
In the class module (I've called it cButtonHandler)
Public WithEvents btn As MSForms.CommandButton
Private Sub btn_Click()
MsgBox btn.Caption
End Sub
With events is used as it allows you to use most of the events for the control. I've moved the button generation code into the userform as below:
Dim collBtns As Collection
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim theLabel As Object
Dim labelCounter As Long
Dim daycell As Range
Dim btn As CommandButton
Dim btnCaption As String
'Create a variable of our events class
Dim btnH As cButtonHandler
'Create a new collection to hold the classes
Set collBtns = New Collection
For Each daycell In Range("daylist")
btnCaption = daycell.Text
Set theLabel = ReadingsLauncher.Controls.Add("Forms.Label.1", btnCaption, True)
With theLabel
.Caption = btnCaption
.Left = 10
.Width = 50
.Top = 20 * labelCounter
End With
Set btn = ReadingsLauncher.Controls.Add("Forms.CommandButton.1", "runButton", True)
With btn
.Caption = "Run Macro for " & btnCaption
.Left = 80
.Width = 80
.Top = 20 * labelCounter
'Create a new instance of our events class
Set btnH = New cButtonHandler
'Set the button we have created as the button in the class
Set btnH.btn = btn
'Add the class to the collection so it is not lost
'when this procedure finishes
collBtns.Add btnH
End With
labelCounter = labelCounter + 1
Next daycell
End Sub
Then we can call the useform from a separate routine:
Sub addLabel()
ReadingsLauncher.Show vbModeless
End Sub
Classes in VBA aren't particularly well covered in many VBA books (generally you need to read VB6 books to get an understanding), however once you understand them and how they work, they become incredibly useful :)
Hope this helps
EDIT - to address additional queries
To refer to objects in a collection, this is either done through the key or the index. To use the key, you need to add it as you add the item to the collection, so:
collBtns.Add btnH
Would become
collBtns.Add btnH, btnCaption
For this reason, keys must be unique. You can then refer as follows:
'We refer to objects in a collection via the collection's key
'Or by it's place in the collection
'So either:
MsgBox collBtns("Monday").btn.Caption
'or:
MsgBox collBtns(1).btn.Caption
'We can then access it's properties and methods
'N.B you won't get any intellisense
collBtns("Monday").btn.Enabled = False
You can also add additional properties/method to your class if required, so for example:
Public WithEvents btn As MSForms.CommandButton
Private Sub btn_Click()
MsgBox btn.Caption
End Sub
Public Property Let Enabled(value As Boolean)
btn.Enabled = value
End Property
Would then be accessed:
collBtns("Monday").Enabled = False
Does this help? For further reading I would point you towards Chip Pearson's site, he has great stuff on most topics http://www.cpearson.com/excel/Events.aspx
Just remember that VBA is based on VB6 so is not a fully fledged OO language, for example, it does not support inheritance in the normal sense, only interface inheritance
Hope this helps :)
Example of catching click on worksheet. Put this in the worksheet module:
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
' e.g., range(A1:E1) is clicked
If Not Application.Intersect(Target, Range("A1:E1")) Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "You clicked " & Target.Address
End If
End Sub
I'm developing a PowerPoint C# VSTO add-in. I want to be able to capture a text changed event whenever the Title text of a slide is changed.
How can I attach a custom event handler that will fire whenever the Title text is changed?
Two things: 1) this is in VBA, but should be easily portable to C# and VSTO, 2) The "text changed" thing is a bit tricky. I can get you as far as "are you in a Title box" - the rest is more trival. It has to do with finding original state versus any changes. Probably doable, I just haven't done it.
To hook a selection change in PPT VBA, you'll need one class and one module. In the class, put this:
Public WithEvents PPTEvent As Application
Private Sub PPTEvent_WindowSelectionChange(ByVal Sel As Selection)
With Sel
If .Type = ppSelectionText Then
Dim sh As Shape: Set sh = .ShapeRange(1)
If sh.Type = msoPlaceholder Then
originalText = sh.TextFrame.Text
Dim placeHolderType As Integer
placeHolderType = sh.PlaceholderFormat.Type
If placeHolderType = ppPlaceholderTitle Then
MsgBox "this is a title placeholder"
End If
End If
End If
End With
End Sub
Name the class "clsPPTEvents". Then in any module, put the following:
Public newPPTEvents As New clsPPTEvents
Sub StartEvents()
Set newPPTEvents.PPTEvent = Application
End Sub
Sub EndEvents()
Set newPPTEvents.PPTEvent = Nothing
Set newPPTEvents = Nothing
End Sub
Press F5 on the StartEvents and that will enable the hook. Press F5 on the EndEvents to disable it.