Maximise/minimise button on userform


Posted by Tammy on December 22, 2001 3:22 AM

Hello all,

Is it possible to put a maximise button on a userform? Or alternatively, automatically resize the userform to the size of the user's screen?

Thanks and Happy Christmas!

Tammy,
London, England.

Posted by Ivan F Moala on December 22, 2001 8:19 AM

Try this code ;comments
Puts Min/Max button menus
Works Win9x / NT ??


Option Explicit
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowLongA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function DrawMenuBar Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long

Private Const GWL_STYLE As Long = (-16) 'Sets a new window style
Private Const WS_SYSMENU As Long = &H80000 'Windows style
Private Const WS_MINIMIZEBOX As Long = &H20000
Private Const WS_MAXIMIZEBOX As Long = &H10000
Private Const SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
Dim lFormHandle As Long, lStyle As Long
'===========================================
'= Originally from Dax =
'= Modified with comments by Ivan F Moala =
'= 22/07/01 =
'===========================================

'Lets find the UserForm Handle the function below retrieves the handle
'to the top-level window whose class name ("ThunderDFrame" for Excel)
'and window name (me.caption or UserformName caption) match the specified strings.
lFormHandle = FindWindow("ThunderDFrame", Me.Caption)

'The GetWindowLong function retrieves information about the specified window.
'The function also retrieves the 32-bit (long) value at the specified offset
'into the extra window memory of a window.
lStyle = GetWindowLong(lFormHandle, GWL_STYLE)

'lStyle is the New window style so lets set it up with the following
lStyle = lStyle Or WS_SYSMENU 'SystemMenu
lStyle = lStyle Or WS_MINIMIZEBOX 'With MinimizeBox
lStyle = lStyle Or WS_MAXIMIZEBOX 'and MaximizeBox

'Now lets set up our New window the SetWindowLong function changes
'the attributes of the specified window , given as lFormHandle,
'GWL_STYLE = New windows style, and our Newly defined style = lStyle
SetWindowLong lFormHandle, GWL_STYLE, (lStyle)

'Remove >'< if you want to show form Maximised
'ShowWindow lFormHandle, SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED 'Shows Form Maximized

'The DrawMenuBar function redraws the menu bar of the specified window.
'We need this as we have changed the menu bar after Windows has created it.
'All we need is the Handle.
DrawMenuBar lFormHandle

End Sub

HTH
Ivan



Posted by Tammy on December 23, 2001 10:52 AM

Thanks Ivan, it worked perfectly. The odd thing is that I saw Dax last night and never thought of asking him, even though you say the code above was from him!

Thanks again,
Tammy.