Excel VBA - getting name of range.

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Seeking a simple VBA solution to to determine name of a text label object located on an excel Userform...

When this control is placed directly on a raw Userform - it works correctly by returning a message prompt saying "Label19" ..... But when the label is placed within a frame on the form..it returns the name of the frame ("Frame20") instead of its true name ("Label19")

Any ideas how to get this code to work for a text label located inside a frame?


Code: 
Private Sub Label19_Click()


Dim ButtonName As Variant
ButtonName = Me.ActiveControl.name


MsgBox ButtonName


Exit Sub
 

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MacroEcon1337 said:
Seeking a simple VBA solution to to determine name of a text label object located on an excel Userform...

When this control is placed directly on a raw Userform - it works correctly by returning a message prompt saying "Label19" ..... But when the label is placed within a frame on the form..it returns the name of the frame ("Frame20") instead of its true name ("Label19")

Any ideas how to get this code to work for a text label located inside a frame?


Code: 
Private Sub Label19_Click()


Dim ButtonName As Variant
ButtonName = Me.ActiveControl.name


MsgBox ButtonName


Exit Sub
Click to expand...
 
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A label cannot be an active control so how is it possible that your first code works !!
 
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Jaafar Tribak said:
A label cannot be an active control so how is it possible that your first code works !!
Click to expand...

Ah, the code I posted was actually taken from a command button. When the press the button, it tells you its name. Except it doesn't work when the button is on/in a frame - it returns the name of the frame instead.

Getting this script to work with a command button on a frame would be nice. Getting it to work with a text label, on a frame- if that is even possible - would be the best.

Any ideas greatly appreciated,

MC
 
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For a command button on a frame you could use this :
Code: 
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
    Dim ButtonName As Variant
    ButtonName = Me.ActiveControl.ActiveControl.Name
    MsgBox ButtonName
End Sub


For the Label why not return its name like :
Code: 
Private Sub Label1_Click()
    Dim Labelname As Variant
    Labelname = "Label1"
    MsgBox Labelname
End Sub


If you have several labels then you could use a Class module so you can have one generic click routine for all of them.
 
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If you have several labels inside frames controls or inside MultiPages or directly placed on the userform and you want to have a generic label Click event for all of the labels then, as I said earlier, using a Class module is the standard way to go.

An alternative to using a class module which keeps the whole code within the userform module and which I personally find more tidy is the following API-based workaround :

Place the following in the userform module :

Code: 
Option Explicit

Private Type POINTAPI
        X As Long
        Y As Long
End Type

[URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=If"]#If[/URL]  VBA7 Then
    Private Declare PtrSafe Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
    Private Declare PtrSafe Function GetKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As Integer
    Private Declare PtrSafe Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (Destination As Any, Source As Any, ByVal Length As LongPtr)
    [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=If"]#If[/URL]  Win64 Then
         Private Declare PtrSafe Function AccessibleObjectFromPoint Lib "oleacc" (ByVal arg1 As LongPtr, ppacc As Any, pvarChild As Variant) As Long
    [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=Else"]#Else[/URL] 
         Private Declare PtrSafe Function AccessibleObjectFromPoint Lib "oleacc" (ByVal lX As Long, ByVal lY As Long, ppacc As IAccessible, pvarChild As Variant) As Long
    [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=End"]#End[/URL]  If
[URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=Else"]#Else[/URL] 
    Private Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
    Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As Integer
    Private Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (Destination As Any, Source As Any, ByVal Length As Long)
    Private Declare Function AccessibleObjectFromPoint Lib "oleacc" (ByVal lX As Long, ByVal lY As Long, ppacc As IAccessible, pvarChild As Variant) As Long
[URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=End"]#End[/URL]  If

Private Const CHILDID_SELF = &H0&
Private bXitLoop As Boolean

[COLOR=#008000]'*************************************************************[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#008000]' This is the generic label On_Click pseudo-event.          '*[/COLOR]
Private Sub GenericLabelClickEvent(ByVal Label As Control)  [COLOR=#008000]'*[/COLOR]
    MsgBox "You clicked Label : '" & Label.Name & "'"       [COLOR=#008000]'*[/COLOR]
End Sub                                                     [COLOR=#008000]'*[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#008000]'*************************************************************[/COLOR]

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()

    [COLOR=#008000]'run any pre-existing form activation code here before starting the loop.[/COLOR]

    Call StartLoop
    
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_QueryClose(Cancel As Integer, CloseMode As Integer)
    bXitLoop = True
End Sub

Private Sub StartLoop()
    Dim tCurPos As POINTAPI
    Dim oIA As IAccessible
    Dim vKid  As Variant
    Dim Ctl As Control
    Dim ArLabels() As Control
    Dim ArLabelCaptions() As String
    Dim i As Integer
    
    For Each Ctl In Me.Controls
        If TypeName(Ctl) = "Label" Then
            ReDim Preserve ArLabels(i)
            ReDim Preserve ArLabelCaptions(i)
            Set ArLabels(i) = Ctl
            ArLabelCaptions(i) = Ctl.Caption
            i = i + 1
        End If
    Next Ctl
    
    Do
        GetCursorPos tCurPos
        [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=If"]#If[/URL]  Win64 Then
            Dim Ptr As LongPtr
            CopyMemory Ptr, tCurPos, LenB(tCurPos)
            Call AccessibleObjectFromPoint(Ptr, oIA, vKid)
        [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=Else"]#Else[/URL] 
            Call AccessibleObjectFromPoint(tCurPos.X, tCurPos.Y, oIA, vKid)
        [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=End"]#End[/URL]  If
        If Not IsError(Application.Match(oIA.accName(CHILDID_SELF), ArLabelCaptions, 0)) Then
            If GetKeyState(vbKeyLButton) = -127 Or GetKeyState(vbKeyLButton) = -128 Then
                Call GenericLabelClickEvent(ArLabels(Application.Match(oIA.accName(CHILDID_SELF), ArLabelCaptions, 0) - 1))
            End If
        End If
        DoEvents
    Loop Until bXitLoop
    
End Sub
 
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1. The "double active control" is brilliant - a good tip to know.

2. I have hundreds of text labels. I think class module (or the API technique you suggest below) is the way to go.

Questions:

1. These text labels are distributed across 15 different forms. Would I need to copy the below API code into each individual forms?

2. In terms of calculation speed - would either of these methods introduce substantial "calculation overhead" for other areas of the workbook? If the added calculation load is significant, it might be better for me to program the text captions by hand.

thank you your wisdom on this,




Jaafar Tribak said:
If you have several labels inside frames controls or inside MultiPages or directly placed on the userform and you want to have a generic label Click event for all of the labels then, as I said earlier, using a Class module is the standard way to go.

An alternative to using a class module which keeps the whole code within the userform module and which I personally find more tidy is the following API-based workaround :

Place the following in the userform module :

Code: 
Option Explicit

Private Type POINTAPI
        X As Long
        Y As Long
End Type

[URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=If"]#If[/URL]  VBA7 Then
    Private Declare PtrSafe Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
    Private Declare PtrSafe Function GetKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As Integer
    Private Declare PtrSafe Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (Destination As Any, Source As Any, ByVal Length As LongPtr)
    [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=If"]#If[/URL]  Win64 Then
         Private Declare PtrSafe Function AccessibleObjectFromPoint Lib "oleacc" (ByVal arg1 As LongPtr, ppacc As Any, pvarChild As Variant) As Long
    [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=Else"]#Else[/URL] 
         Private Declare PtrSafe Function AccessibleObjectFromPoint Lib "oleacc" (ByVal lX As Long, ByVal lY As Long, ppacc As IAccessible, pvarChild As Variant) As Long
    [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=End"]#End[/URL]  If
[URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=Else"]#Else[/URL] 
    Private Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
    Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As Integer
    Private Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (Destination As Any, Source As Any, ByVal Length As Long)
    Private Declare Function AccessibleObjectFromPoint Lib "oleacc" (ByVal lX As Long, ByVal lY As Long, ppacc As IAccessible, pvarChild As Variant) As Long
[URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=End"]#End[/URL]  If

Private Const CHILDID_SELF = &H0&
Private bXitLoop As Boolean

[COLOR=#008000]'*************************************************************[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#008000]' This is the generic label On_Click pseudo-event.          '*[/COLOR]
Private Sub GenericLabelClickEvent(ByVal Label As Control)  [COLOR=#008000]'*[/COLOR]
    MsgBox "You clicked Label : '" & Label.Name & "'"       [COLOR=#008000]'*[/COLOR]
End Sub                                                     [COLOR=#008000]'*[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#008000]'*************************************************************[/COLOR]

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()

    [COLOR=#008000]'run any pre-existing form activation code here before starting the loop.[/COLOR]

    Call StartLoop
    
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_QueryClose(Cancel As Integer, CloseMode As Integer)
    bXitLoop = True
End Sub

Private Sub StartLoop()
    Dim tCurPos As POINTAPI
    Dim oIA As IAccessible
    Dim vKid  As Variant
    Dim Ctl As Control
    Dim ArLabels() As Control
    Dim ArLabelCaptions() As String
    Dim i As Integer
    
    For Each Ctl In Me.Controls
        If TypeName(Ctl) = "Label" Then
            ReDim Preserve ArLabels(i)
            ReDim Preserve ArLabelCaptions(i)
            Set ArLabels(i) = Ctl
            ArLabelCaptions(i) = Ctl.Caption
            i = i + 1
        End If
    Next Ctl
    
    Do
        GetCursorPos tCurPos
        [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=If"]#If[/URL]  Win64 Then
            Dim Ptr As LongPtr
            CopyMemory Ptr, tCurPos, LenB(tCurPos)
            Call AccessibleObjectFromPoint(Ptr, oIA, vKid)
        [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=Else"]#Else[/URL] 
            Call AccessibleObjectFromPoint(tCurPos.X, tCurPos.Y, oIA, vKid)
        [URL="https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=End"]#End[/URL]  If
        If Not IsError(Application.Match(oIA.accName(CHILDID_SELF), ArLabelCaptions, 0)) Then
            If GetKeyState(vbKeyLButton) = -127 Or GetKeyState(vbKeyLButton) = -128 Then
                Call GenericLabelClickEvent(ArLabels(Application.Match(oIA.accName(CHILDID_SELF), ArLabelCaptions, 0) - 1))
            End If
        End If
        DoEvents
    Loop Until bXitLoop
    
End Sub
Click to expand...
 
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1. These text labels are distributed across 15 different forms. Would I need to copy the below API code into each individual forms?
Click to expand...
Yes.

2. In terms of calculation speed - would either of these methods introduce substantial "calculation overhead" for other areas of the workbook? If the added calculation load is significant, it might be better for me to program the text captions by hand.
Click to expand...
I would recommend using a Class module -
 
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Hi im in trouble,
[TABLE="width: 128"]
<colgroup><col width="64" span="2" style="width:48pt"> </colgroup><tbody>[TR]
[TD="class: xl63, width: 64"]Name[/TD]
[TD="class: xl64, width: 64"]Total[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl65"]Adsmi[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl65"]Adsjj[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl65"]Adshh[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl65"]Mahh[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl65"]Makk[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]57[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl65"]Maiis[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]9[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl65"]you[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]900[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl65"]Yopp[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl67"]Yodd[/TD]
[TD="class: xl68, align: right"]42
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Hi all, i need to sum up all the amount for the same name in front.
For example, first three row same name in front which is "ads****" which total will be 6.
and for name with "ma***" infront will be 70 and "Yo***" will be 948.
How can i do?
Help me......
 
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