VBA - Click mouse to change cursor to cross hair that spans the en

[Guest]

I need the ability to allow the user to change the cursor to a cross hair
that covers the entire form that detected the mouse event. This is needed so
user can read values along sides and bottom of form as he/she moves mouse
over the form. I have been unable to find any vba code to do this.

Gary

 

[Guest]

Application.Cursor = xlDefault or...

 

[Guest]

Jim,

What I need is a full-form cross hair, not just a "+" sign cursor. The
lines need to extend from the cursor position on the form to the horizontal
and vertical edges of the form. I'm thinking some code will be required.

Thanks,

Gary

 

[NickHK]

Gary,
On a userform with 2 labels, lblHoriz and lblVert:

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
With lblHoriz
.Height = 1
.Left = 0
.Width = Me.Width
End With

With lblVert
.Width = 1
.Top = 0
.Height = Me.Height
End With
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As
Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
lblHoriz.Top = Y
lblVert.Left = X
End Sub

NickHK

 

[NickHK]

Gary,
Or if you only wish to track the mouse when a button is held down:
Dim MoveCrossHairs As Boolean

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
With lblHoriz
.Height = 1
.Left = 0
.Width = Me.Width
End With

With lblVert
.Width = 1
.Top = 0
.Height = Me.Height
End With
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As
Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
If Button = xlPrimaryButton Then 'Or whichever button you wish to respond
to
MoveCrossHairs = True
lblHoriz.Top = Y
lblVert.Left = X
End If
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As
Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
If MoveCrossHairs Then
lblHoriz.Top = Y
lblVert.Left = X
End If
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_MouseUp(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As
Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
MoveCrossHairs = False
End Sub

NickHK

 

[Guest]

Hi Nick,

Your solution is very elegant. All I had to add was to set the label border
style to 1 (single line) so I could see the lines. It does exactly what I
asked. (Single one).

What I am actually trying to do is add cross hairs to an IE object set with
the following code.

The Addlabel dies at runtime with “Run time error Invalid class stringâ€
which I think is due to the “ ie.label.lblHoriz†not being the correct way to
add a label control to the IE object. I don’t know what would be correct.

Also I don’t know how to make the correct event handler for the mouse move
event while the mouse is on the IE form.

Any ideas?

Dim ie as Object

Sub Addlabel(strControl As String, intLeft As Integer, intTop As Integer,
intWidth As Integer, intHeight As Integer, strCaption As String)

Dim mycmd As Control

Set mycmd = Controls.Add(strControl)
mycmd.Left = intLeft
mycmd.Top = intTop
mycmd.Width = intWidth
mycmd.Height = intHeight
mycmd.BorderStyle = 1
If strCaption <> "" Then
mycmd.Caption = strCaption
End If
mycmd.Visible = True
End Sub


'
' not sure about this
'
Private Sub ie_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer,
ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
lblHoriz.Top = Y
lblVert.Left = X
End Sub


Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()

With lblHoriz
.Height = 1
.Left = 0
.Width = Me.Width
End With

With lblVert
.Width = 1
.Top = 0
.Height = Me.Height
End With


set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
ie.AddressBar = False
ie.MenuBar = False
ie.Toolbar = False
ie.Width = 600
ie.Height = 750
ie.Left = 0
ie.Top = 0
ie.navigate "www.yahoo.comâ€



With ie

While Not .readyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE
DoEvents
Wend

‘ I can control scroll bars with:

..document.parentWindow.Scroll 100, 200
..Visible = True

‘Add cross hairs here --NOT CORRECT
Call UserForm1.Addlabel( "ie.label.lblHoriz",2, 10, 175, 20, "")

Call UserForm1.Addlabel( " ie.label.lblVert",2, 20, 175, 20, "")

..end with

 

[NickHK]

Gary,
You've lost me now.
You are creating an instance of Internet Explorer at run time, but I do not
see the connection between that and the userform.
You can place a web browser on a userform using the "Microsoft web Browser"
control.
You then want to put cross hairs over that ?
Is that what you are after ?

NickHK

 

[Guest]

Nick,

The user form contains several controls to allow the user to specify what
charts he wants to see in the IE window. Once I have the inputs I attempt
to create an IE browser window and go to the URL that will get the desired
info. I would like the cursor to change to cross hairs while it is over the
IE window so the user can more accurately get values that are displayed along
the borders.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks for asking,

Gary

 

[NickHK]

Gary,
But you are attempting to draw cross hairs on IE that is completely
separated from your userform and Excel ?
Or you do have a web browser control on your userform ?

NickHK

 

[Guest]

Nick,

The IE browser is completely separate from the User Form. The code to
control the browser resides on the user form which is kicked off from excel
after the user has set several parameters. So besides needing to put cross
hairs on the IE browser, the cross hairs need to be responsive to mouse
movements on the browser.

Gay

 

[Guest]

Nick,

Also, I tried awhile back to start up IE as a control on the UserForm
without success. I got a licensing problem (This control could not be
created because it is not properly licensed) when I tried to draw the control
on the UsereForm. I have no idea what the problem is since I am the legal
owner of my copy of Excel and VBA.

Gary

 

[NickHK]

Gary,
I'm no expert in this (or Excel for that matter..), but this now sounds like
it has little to do Excel as such.
Whilst you can reparent IE to your userform, I see no way to respond to
mouse movements (without sub-classing or something). Also, how do you intend
to draw your cross hairs ?
I'm not clear on why you need to do this. You say "so the user can more
accurately get values that are displayed along the borders".
So what do "get values" mean ?

NickHK

 

[NickHK]

Gary,
The reason for that may be the same reason as in the thread "MSFlexgrid in
Excel" in this NG.
I have VB6 installed so don't have that problem.

NickHK

 

[Guest]

Nick,

OK, I was able to upgrade to VB 6 (still VBA part of Excel) and rewrote much
of my code so the WebBrowser1 control now resides on my UserForm1. I also
added a lblHoriz and lblVert to the UserFrom1 and did a “send forward†on
each of them; I also did a “send backward†to the browser. Now the cross
hairs move around the user form (I know how to adjust the length of the
lines) but the cross hairs DO NOT go on top of the browser control which is
where I need them.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your continued patience,

Gary

 

[NickHK]

Gary,
One way is put the browser in a frame and disable the frame. You also
disable the browser, but does the user need to interact with the browser ?

NickHK

 

[Guest]

Nick,

I tried what you suggested (Browser inside Frame that is disabled) but no
difference. The cross hairs do not cover the frame either. The user might
want to get control of the browser which I could accomodate with a button I
could add on the UserForm.

Gary

 

[NickHK]

Gary,
That works for me.
Sure you have Frame1.Enabled=False ?
You can have a button to toggle the .Enabled state of the frame.

NickHK

 

[Guest]

Nick,

Yes, I even added "Frame1.enabled = false" to no avail. The cross hairs
go behind the frame.

Any ideas ?

 

[NickHK]

gary,
Sorry, forgot I had changed the 2 x labels to 2 x frames.
Also, make sure the frame containing the browser is behind the 2 frames;
right-click on the frame's border and "Send Backward".

 

[Guest]

Nick,

I reread your last reply and you said I needed to disable the browser as
well as the Frame. How do I disable the browser ? I'm suspicious becaue the
cross hairs in no way cover the frame right now.

Gary