Comments on: Compiling Excel VBA

By: sZx

sZx — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:55:00 +0000

Ok. Small example:
- in thw folder C:Test you have Excel file with the macros, named macros "UF" and let he call userform.
- now, create text file on the desktop, name it "run.vbs". Click right mouse button and select "Edit", you will see notepad. Copy and Paste that code:

Dim objExcel
Dim objWorkbook
Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
objExcel.Visible = False
set objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open("C:Test1.xlsm")
objExcel.Run "'1.xlsm'!UF"
objWorkbook.Close True
objExcel.Quit
Set objWorkbook = Nothing
Set objExcel = Nothing

- Save and Run

objExcel.Visible = False 'Hide Excel, change it to see Excel.

That was a simple exsample how to use VBS. I show you how to combine VBS and VBA.
Sorry for my english, i'm russian.
Have a good days, guys.

By: sZx

sZx — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:24:00 +0000

Thanks, Colo. I think VBS will be a best i this case.
To make a VBS file: create blank txt file – put your code in it – save it as a .vbs file – run (or execute using cscript.exe or wscript.exe).

By: milka

milka — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:06:00 +0000

Hi,

I am importing a new encrypted module from a file as a new component and deleting the old one to update my excel to a new version.

By: Leigh Yaxley

Leigh Yaxley — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 06:12:00 +0000

I have recently tried out the trial version of Calc4Web from SavvySoft.
The VBA compilation would not work for anything other than simple arithmetic.
So despite what the manual and the above list from sZx on 31 August claim my experience with the trial version is that most useful features do not compile.
Perhaps this is just a limitation of the trial version but as SavvySoft will not answer my questions about this I do not know.

By: sZx

sZx — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:19:00 +0000

What can and cannot be converted in Calc4Web

The types of VBA code that can be converted are limited. Please see the limitations
chapter.
What can be converted are:
Mathematical operations
Calls into built-in VBA functions (as opposed to methods of built-in objects)
Calls into user-defined VBA subs and functions (provided the caller and callee are
converted together)
Calls into user-defined methods of class modules
Declare statements to allow calling into functions inside DLLs
If/Then/Else
Goto
Iterative constructs such as for-next and while-wend, but not Do While-Loop
With blocks
Text file I/O
Collections
Select/Case (not for user-defined data types)
Comments
Calling into functions via Tools References
Data types: integer, long, double, string, array and variant, but not Date.
Some but not all built-in VBA objects and methods are supported. These include Range
object methods:
Value
Formula
Select
Calculate
Cells
Offset
End
Address
EntireColumn
EntireRow
FormulaArray
Hidden
This allows you to get values out of the spreadsheet, and, in subs, put values into the
spreadsheet.
Also, the following are defined for the Application class:
Excel worksheet functions
Calculate
Goto
ActiveCell
ActiveSheet
Cells
Selection
Wait
StatusBar
ScreenUpdating
Worksheets
One great benefit of VBA conversion is to complement Calc4Web's spreadsheet
programming capabilities. The product allows you to use Excel as a programming
environment, and the spreadsheet is a very simple paradigm for entering complex
algorithms. It's very much of a visual programming environment, where the user doesn't
need to be concerned about what order to write the code in, and formulas can be created
by pointing and clicking.
But as nice as spreadsheets are for programming, they lack two basic features found in
"real" programming languages: looping, and conditional branching (if then else). But
these vital programming tools are available in Visual Basic. And, since Visual Basic
allows users to call into DLL functions via the Declare statement, it's possible to use a
spreadsheet, and Calc4Web, to write a complex function that does not require looping or
if then else, and then call into that function in a loop in VBA. And then, use Calc4Web to
convert the VBA function to C++.

By: oladapo wale

oladapo wale — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:45:00 +0000

please tell me how to compile my excel-vba project. Thanks

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:07:00 +0000

Hi,

I love the idea of compiling VB! Question, can I use Web4calc and put the complied code back into the spreadsheet? I only want to protect and speed up the code, not require a link to a DLL. I.e. I want to be able to email the spread sheet across the world and not figure out how to get it to reference back to the DLL on a different server. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Lee

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:17:00 +0000

Brett -

Use the "deprecated" checkbox object:

Sub WillSoRun()
With ActiveSheet.CheckBoxes("Check Box 1")
.Value = xlOn
.LinkedCell = "$F$11"
.Display3DShading = False
End With
End Sub

This worked for the first two properties:

Sub WillPartlyRun()
With ActiveSheet.Shapes("Check Box 1").ControlFormat
.Value = xlOn
.LinkedCell = "$g$11"
' error next line
.Display3DShading = False
End With
End Sub

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:33:00 +0000

Brad,

I see your comment about not selecting anything. What's up with the following?

Sub WillRun()

ActiveSheet.Shapes("Check Box 1").Select
With Selection
.Value = xlOn
.LinkedCell = "$F$11"
.Display3DShading = False
End With
End Sub

Sub WillNotRun()

With ActiveSheet.Shapes("Check Box 1")
.Value = xlOn
.LinkedCell = "$F$11"
.Display3DShading = False
End With
End Sub

By: Brad Yundt

Brad Yundt — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:26:00 +0000

Zach,
Calc4Web is one of those products I am aware of, but have never actually used. To get full VBA functionality is fairly expensive.