Comments on: Classes: Application Events

By: Tushar Mehta

Tushar Mehta — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:58:00 +0000

Dick addresses a few important issues of why one should forsake events in worksheet and workbook code modules. For more on the subject of raising and consuming events, see the draft
Monitoring events
http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/vba/vba-XL%20events.htm

By: Gábor Horváth

Gábor Horváth — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:39:00 +0000

Hi!
I tried this tip, it worked fine and was very usefull, but suddenly after certain actions I made, it worked no more!
(For example: After pressing the 'Cancel' button in a Dialog Box or an Input box.)
First I tought, it is in connection with "Cancel" button.
But the solution was in the code.
If I write:
***
start= InputBox("Which is the start?")
If start= "" Then End
***
This is wrong, because of this 'End', the above described "SheetChange event" works no more!
But with this:
***
start= InputBox("Which is the start?")
If start= "" Then goto endlabel
***
(The "endlabel:" is directly in the above line of the 'End Sub')

The solution in summarized:

Avoid the use of 'End' in your code, because it stops the execution of this 'Application' event.
(There is no explanation, it is only my experience.

Gábor

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:37:00 +0000

What about an event to deal with the KeyPress event, if a "smart" user tries to delete a cell in a protected worksheet for instance? I know that excel fires up a protected workbook/sheet dialoge but I would like to capture the event in a protected access database that my excel workbook uses for information for the various forms etc., I have done a Google search but no luck...

Any ideas or do I need to think of perhaps another method?

Mark

By: arlene hoffman

arlene hoffman — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:55:00 +0000

Hi Rachel,

our computer crashed and I lost all of my e-mail and skype addresses. Could you please send me both of your addresses.
Arlene

By: Dick

Dick — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:49:00 +0000

Rachel: I have plans to post more about class modules. They take longer than the average post, so it’s easy to procrastinate. It’s nice to know what you’re looking for so I can tailor the post – and at least one person will find it useful.

By: rachel ravitsky

rachel ravitsky — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:14:00 +0000

it was interesting to read the article.
do you have more about class modules, like is the number or class modules per workbook is restricted
how do i set differenct class modules for openning
a workbook and "before closing" a workbook,
where the class modules are in "personal"
do you have articles of how to create user objects,
like for database in excel, and or database in excel
to be inserted into sql sever database
sorry for asking too mant questions and thanks for
your attention
rachel

By: Kevin McKinney

Kevin McKinney — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:05:00 +0000

Dick,
This is extremely useful to me — I just used a variation on your code to add a useful function to my “toolbox” addin… I can use the keyboard to jump back to the last sheet I was on, and also to the last workbook. I was able to jump between sheets before only by adding code to each workbook in which I wanted to do it, but this is far simpler. Thanks!

By: Chuckles123

Chuckles123 — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:09:00 +0000

I got this to work, only, by making two modifications:

Changing the first line of code from
'Public gxlApp As Class1' to
'Dim gxlApp As New Class1' and

by putting it in 'ThisWorkbook' instead of
in a standard Module.

All of the other code and code storage locations are identical.

I conjured these changes by: looking at two other samples; and trial and error. Definitely not from my limited knowledge of VBA.

Now, my changes work when the code is stored in an .xlS file; however, my changes would not work when stored in an .xlA file. (Note, this .xlA file is not installed as an 'AddIn' in Excel.)

Any comments?
Chuckles123