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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / August 2005Control of dialog boxes
Hello All, Is it possible that we get the control of any dialog box that is opened when we click any menu item. e.g. File->Page Setup opens a dialog box, format->Autocorrect options open a dialog box,etc. I am coding in vb.net and want to get handle of these windows. Please help. GS The Dialogs collection object allows you to manipulate Word's built in dialogs. Information in VBE help should get you started. HTH  SignatureChuck Henrich www.ProductivityApps.com > Hello All, > Is it possible that we get the control of any dialog box that is opened when [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > GS Hi, Can you provide me some links from where i can start my studies. Thanks in advance for the same. GS > The Dialogs collection object allows you to manipulate Word's built in > dialogs. Information in VBE help should get you started. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > > GS If you open Word, drill down through the Tools menu to Macro > Visual Basic Editor and then use Help in the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) you'll find the information you need. SignatureChuck Henrich www.ProductivityApps.com > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > > > > > GS Hi Chuck, I am still not able to track any information. I will once again explain you in detail what i want. When I click File-> Page Setup menu item a Page setup dialog box opens. Now when we click OK, then I want to get which orientation was selected by the user and then depending on the same i have to do some changes. so i am not able to get the orientation details after the OK button is clicked. I think I have clarified my issue to you. GS > If you open Word, drill down through the Tools menu to Macro > Visual Basic > Editor and then use Help in the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) you'll find the [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > > > > > > > GS You really need to take the time to read through the VBE help on Dialogs as well as related links (especially "Displaying built-in Word dialog boxes" and "Built-in dialog box argument lists"). All the information you need is there. I'm assuming that as a developer you have Word installed and that you installed the VBA help files. In a nutshell, you "display" the dialog (if you want to collect information but not execute the dialog settings) or "show" the dialog (if you want to collect information and then execute the settings) and then use a built in argument to return a value from the dialog. For instance, adapting an example from the VBE help topic "Displaying built-in Word dialog boxes": With Dialogs(wdDialogFilePageSetup) .Display MsgBox .Orientation End With will display the Page Setup dialog; when the user clicks OK a message box shows the numeric constant value of the .Orientation setting but because the dialog was "displayed" the change isn't made to the .Orientation setting. For information on how to get numeric constant values see the MS KnowledgeBase article 239930 "How To Obtain Built-In Constant Values for an Office Application" (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;239930). HTH SignatureChuck Henrich www.ProductivityApps.com > Hi Chuck, > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > > > > > > > > > GS Hi, Thanks a lot for the help. I have one more question and want your help. Is it possible that we somehow restrict word to add entries in Undo stack or is it possible that we make a set of events act as one Undo event. GS > You really need to take the time to read through the VBE help on Dialogs as > well as related links (especially "Displaying built-in Word dialog boxes" and [quoted text clipped - 62 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > GS You're welcome for the help. As for the undo question, I don't believe you can pick and choose which event to undo from the stack. You should start another thread for this question because someone else may have an idea. SignatureChuck Henrich www.ProductivityApps.com > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GS Me back again....... Just a small issue left. I am calling a PageSetup dialog box on Page Setup click only and then i am even able to take the return type (thanks for the path you shown me). But i am getting one issue that Word is also opening the PageSetup window once I close mine. Is it possible that the Window that Word launches is not shown and the total function is overriden by my function. GS > You're welcome for the help. > [quoted text clipped - 78 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GS Could you post your function code? SignatureChuck Henrich www.ProductivityApps.com > Me back again....... > Just a small issue left. I am calling a PageSetup dialog box on Page Setup [quoted text clipped - 87 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GS Dim dlgPgSetup As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Dialog Dim retval As Long dlgPgSetup = AppObj.Dialogs(WdWordDialog.wdDialogFilePageSetup) retval = dlgPgSetup.Show If retval = -1 Then If CheckCLI() = False Then 'CheckCLI is my function Exit Sub Else ClassificationBox(0) ' ClassificationBox is my function End If End If > Could you post your function code? > [quoted text clipped - 89 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GS The problem may be that your code is showing the dialog after the user has already clicked PageSetup. If you're trapping the PageSetup click event then you don't need to show the dialog again. You could set the CancelDefault argument of the PageSetup Click event to True to prevent the built in command from executing. Then your code can show the dialog and deal with the return value etc. SignatureChuck Henrich www.ProductivityApps.com > Dim dlgPgSetup As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Dialog > Dim retval As Long [quoted text clipped - 102 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GS I have tried the CancelDefault = true but the same problem persists. This is the issue. Is it possible that I get a return type from the dialog box that is opened by Word itself. Then the problem for me will be solved as i will not be opening a new dialog box and thus trapping the word's dialog will solve my problem. GS > The problem may be that your code is showing the dialog after the user has > already clicked PageSetup. If you're trapping the PageSetup click event then [quoted text clipped - 110 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GS As far as I'm aware, you can only return values from dialog boxes that are objects in your code - otherwise, how would your code know what they are? You'll have to explore why CancelDefault isn't working for you and I don't have any ideas on that score. Sorry. SignatureChuck Henrich www.ProductivityApps.com > I have tried the CancelDefault = true but the same problem persists. This is > the issue. Is it possible that I get a return type from the dialog box that [quoted text clipped - 118 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GS |
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