I have struggled with this problem for while now...I want to do something very simple. I want to create multiple commandbuttons at runtime, and then handle events for these commandbuttons with one procedure. So I have built a "withevents" class to handle the automation, but my code is not working. When I run Test(), the CommandButton is created, but when I click on it...there is no messagebox response...I cannot find the error..Please any help would be great!!
Class cTest
Public WithEvents Button As MSForms.CommandButton
Public Sub Button_Click()
s = MsgBox("Hello", vbOKOnly)
End Sub
Module 1
Public TestCollection As Collection
Sub Test()
Set TestCollection = New Collection
Dim Btn As CommandButton
Dim OLEBtnObj As cTest
Set OLEBtnObj = New cTest
Set Btn = Sheet1.OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.CommandButton.1", link:=False,_ DisplayAsIcon:=False, Left:=368.25, Top:=51, Width:=44.25, Height:=24).Object
Set OLEBtnObj.Button = Btn
TestCollection.Add Item:=OLEBtnObj
End Sub
I have one rather impractical solution. To test it place the following code in Sheet Class Module (see attached image). The Me.CodeName
refers to Code-Name of the sheet.
For each new Sheet1-button a new event handled will be added. This event handler will execute the common event handler and pass the name of the clicked command button to it.
' Standard Module
Sub test()
' adds three buttons to Sheet1 with click-event handlers
Sheet1.AddButton
ActiveCell.Offset(5, 0).Activate
Sheet1.AddButton
ActiveCell.Offset(5, 0).Activate
Sheet1.AddButton
End Sub
' Sheet1 Class Module
Option Explicit
' Add Microsoft Visual Basic For Applications Extensibility
Public Function AddButton() As MSForms.CommandButton
Dim msFormsCommandButton As MSForms.CommandButton
Set msFormsCommandButton = Me.OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.CommandButton.1").Object
CreateEventHandler msFormsCommandButton.Name
Set AddButton = msFormsCommandButton
End Function
Private Sub CommonButton_Click(ByVal buttonName As String)
MsgBox "You clicked button [" & buttonName & "]"
End Sub
Private Sub CreateEventHandler(ByVal buttonName As String)
Dim VBComp As VBIDE.VBComponent
Dim CodeMod As VBIDE.CodeModule
Dim codeText As String
Dim LineNum As Long
Set VBComp = ThisWorkbook.VBProject.VBComponents(Me.CodeName)
Set CodeMod = VBComp.CodeModule
LineNum = CodeMod.CountOfLines + 1
codeText = codeText & "Private Sub " & buttonName & "_Click()" & vbCrLf
codeText = codeText & " Dim buttonName As String" & vbCrLf
codeText = codeText & " buttonName = """ & buttonName & "" & vbCrLf
codeText = codeText & " CommonButton_Click buttonName" & vbCrLf
codeText = codeText & "End Sub"
CodeMod.InsertLines LineNum, codeText
End Sub