Comments on: It’s not all about rectangles http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2006/09/02/its-not-all-about-rectangles/ Daily posts of Excel tips…and other stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sam http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2006/09/02/its-not-all-about-rectangles/#comment-20825 sam Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:04:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1495#comment-20825 <p>Hello Tushar,</p> <p>Look at some "Xtreme" examples of Userforms on Ivan's site (xcelfiles.com)</p> <p>Regards<br> Sam</p> Hello Tushar,

Look at some “Xtreme” examples of Userforms on Ivan’s site (xcelfiles.com)

Regards
Sam

]]> By: Harald Staff http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2006/09/02/its-not-all-about-rectangles/#comment-20815 Harald Staff Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:15:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1495#comment-20815 <p>Nice, Tushar.<br> I've done similar things to the userform solution in VBA and VB6 when a special look is wanted, or when I need a collection of very small controls on the form. </p> <p>When possible, I've added "got focus/lost focus" functionality/look to the labels. That I've done by putting a similar grid of commandbuttons off the form, outside the visible area. Those allows the user to tab and arrow between the controls. The buttons' enter/exit events handle the focus, and Spacebar clicks the focused button and trigs the desired code. Also, mousemove on a label focus its corresponding commandbutton. Lots of extra code, but writing code is what I like to do anyway.</p> <p>Best wishes Harald</p> Nice, Tushar.
I’ve done similar things to the userform solution in VBA and VB6 when a special look is wanted, or when I need a collection of very small controls on the form.

When possible, I’ve added “got focus/lost focus” functionality/look to the labels. That I’ve done by putting a similar grid of commandbuttons off the form, outside the visible area. Those allows the user to tab and arrow between the controls. The buttons’ enter/exit events handle the focus, and Spacebar clicks the focused button and trigs the desired code. Also, mousemove on a label focus its corresponding commandbutton. Lots of extra code, but writing code is what I like to do anyway.

Best wishes Harald

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