userform ease of use.

[spalton]

Hi guys,

Starting to program more and more Vb apps here at work, and trying to make things as easy as poss for the users by using userforms etc etc.

I usually make application visible=false, so they don't see the spreadsheet in the background, however by doing this, it means there's no excel icon down in the taskbar, which makes switching to the forms difficult when they have other apps open.

Is there anyway to have the spreadsheet hidden, but still have an icon down on the windows taksbar, and how would I go about adding minimise and maximise buttons to the userforms

I appreciate this is quite lot to ask in one post but any advice you can offer would be great.

Thankyou!

 

[Jaafar Tribak]

see here

 

[spalton]

Thanks for the link! However, I can't download the example workbook, it just opens about 10 popups, none of which actually include the correct place to download from.

 

[Jaafar Tribak]

Thanks for the link! However, I can't download the example workbook, it just opens about 10 popups, none of which actually include the correct place to download from.

Just did a small search and found this ready on this board :

'Daniel Klann, 19th November 2003
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowLongA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) 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 SetFocus Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Private Const GWL_STYLE As Long = -16
Private Const GWL_EXSTYLE As Long = -20
Private Const WS_CAPTION As Long = &HC00000
Private Const WS_MINIMIZEBOX As Long = &H20000
Private Const WS_MAXIMIZEBOX As Long = &H10000
Private Const WS_POPUP As Long = &H80000000
Private Const WS_VISIBLE As Long = &H10000000
Private Const WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME As Long = &H1
Private Const WS_EX_APPWINDOW As Long = &H40000
Private Const SW_SHOW As Long = 5

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
Application.Visible = False
Application.VBE.MainWindow.Visible = False
    Dim lngHwnd As Long
    Dim lngCurrentStyle As Long, lngNewStyle As Long
    If Val(Application.Version) < 9 Then
        lngHwnd = FindWindow("ThunderXFrame", Me.Caption)  'XL97
    Else
        lngHwnd = FindWindow("ThunderDFrame", Me.Caption)  'XL2000, XP, 2003?
    End If
    'Set the Windows style so that the userform has a minimise and maximise button
    lngCurrentStyle = GetWindowLong(lngHwnd, GWL_STYLE)
    lngNewStyle = lngCurrentStyle Or WS_MINIMIZEBOX Or WS_MAXIMIZEBOX
    lngNewStyle = lngNewStyle And Not WS_VISIBLE And Not WS_POPUP
    SetWindowLong lngHwnd, GWL_STYLE, lngNewStyle

    'Set the extended style to provide a taskbar icon
    lngCurrentStyle = GetWindowLong(lngHwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE)
    lngNewStyle = lngCurrentStyle Or WS_EX_APPWINDOW
    SetWindowLong lngHwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, lngNewStyle
    ShowWindow lngHwnd, SW_SHOW
End Sub
Private Sub UserForm_Terminate()
Application.Visible = True
End Sub

Regards.

 

[nodacrunch]

Just did a small search and found this ready on this board :

'Daniel Klann, 19th November 2003
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowLongA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) 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 SetFocus Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Private Const GWL_STYLE As Long = -16
Private Const GWL_EXSTYLE As Long = -20
Private Const WS_CAPTION As Long = &HC00000
Private Const WS_MINIMIZEBOX As Long = &H20000
Private Const WS_MAXIMIZEBOX As Long = &H10000
Private Const WS_POPUP As Long = &H80000000
Private Const WS_VISIBLE As Long = &H10000000
Private Const WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME As Long = &H1
Private Const WS_EX_APPWINDOW As Long = &H40000
Private Const SW_SHOW As Long = 5

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
Application.Visible = False
Application.VBE.MainWindow.Visible = False
    Dim lngHwnd As Long
    Dim lngCurrentStyle As Long, lngNewStyle As Long
    If Val(Application.Version) < 9 Then
        lngHwnd = FindWindow("ThunderXFrame", Me.Caption)  'XL97
    Else
        lngHwnd = FindWindow("ThunderDFrame", Me.Caption)  'XL2000, XP, 2003?
    End If
    'Set the Windows style so that the userform has a minimise and maximise button
    lngCurrentStyle = GetWindowLong(lngHwnd, GWL_STYLE)
    lngNewStyle = lngCurrentStyle Or WS_MINIMIZEBOX Or WS_MAXIMIZEBOX
    lngNewStyle = lngNewStyle And Not WS_VISIBLE And Not WS_POPUP
    SetWindowLong lngHwnd, GWL_STYLE, lngNewStyle

    'Set the extended style to provide a taskbar icon
    lngCurrentStyle = GetWindowLong(lngHwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE)
    lngNewStyle = lngCurrentStyle Or WS_EX_APPWINDOW
    SetWindowLong lngHwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, lngNewStyle
    ShowWindow lngHwnd, SW_SHOW
End Sub
Private Sub UserForm_Terminate()
Application.Visible = True
End Sub

Regards.

How to use this code? can teach me how sorry newbie here i tried where to paste it nothing works