I need to place custom button at titlebar of userform. At this time when I click on custom button it show me only “hello world”

Your help will be higherly appericiated.

Thanks in advance…

Xtream..

http://cid-ea73b3a00e16f94f.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Mr%20Excel%20Example/AnchorCommandBarInUserFormv2.zip

Sometimes it is just a handy interface. The background is the Name Manager. I got feedback in Dennis’ forum about the buttons with icons being hard to memorize. I can agree with that.

Since there are so many commands on that thing, I thought to create a menu on it.

I haven’t implemented this on NM yet, I was first trying to get a generic way to set one up, so I can throw in a couple of class modules and some init subs in the form along with a table on a worksheet to get it working on any userform.

It seems to be working (one level deep though, not two or more).

I have the “Onaction” thing lined up, I just need to implement it.

I thought about the popup commandbar, but liked this challenge better. It was a good puzzle to solve and at the same time I got the opportunity to excercise with class modules, collections and central event handling. All in one small project. So there you go. It IS sort of a “do because I can” project, but I suspect it might come in handy too, because it is a good excercise in how to add controls on the fly, *including* their event code.

“FWIW, I’ve written a COM Addin in VB6 to exercise both the new RibbonX and Custom Task Panes and they both work well”

Sounds good to me.

What I have in mind is:

- Implement VB6 forms as native Excel userforms.

- Present solutions to handle events like Combobox_Change etc.

Kind regards,
Dennis

I guess that depends what you mean by ‘issues’. In general, they work fine. There are some issues with commandbars disappearing, but I think they’re redraw/rebuild bugs rather than big issues. FWIW, I’ve written a COM Addin in VB6 to exercise both the new RibbonX and Custom Task Panes and they both work well. I haven’t looked at the nuances of Commandbar support (e.g. demand-loaded commandbars). What issues were you thinking of?

With all the respect to the “can do”-approach I fully agree with Jamie. Despite the issues with some events-driven procedures in classic VB I would simple set up a COM add-in instead of trying to do it with Excel.

Of course, I fully understand that there is a point to challenge it with Excel

BTW, those of You who run Excel 12 have You experienced any issues with COM add-ins developed with classic VB?

Kind regards,
Dennis

I think that is what Dick suggested, when he blog about it here, it’s also what i used in my example (this did work, but is broken now ?!?!, I have also improved the “tool bar” idea)
http://www.methodsinexcel.co.uk/Downloads/MIE_Toolbars_And_MenuBars.zip
for new example toolbar see this post:
http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2006/03/06/spell-checking-in-user-forms/

I would go a fix it, but with Ivan’s work it hardly seems woth it? No?

John, I was thinking, when I first saw office 12, that someone (or a workgroup) could use the API method to completely replace the ribbions bar – if you could hide the ribbions that is. Not sure what you would do about toolbars anyway? – well it might not be worth it, but it would be possible.

Maybe there is a good reason design why there is no menu component available for userforms: only the primary window should have a menu and in an Excel application the primary window is the Excel application (note it already has a menu ). You can hide the Excel application of course and make your userform behave as the primary window but that would beg the question, ‘Why build this application in Excel?’

Jamie.

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