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

"gary" wrote:

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



"NickHK" wrote:

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

"gary" wrote in message
...
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" wrote:

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

"gary" wrote in message
...
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
string"
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.com"



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" wrote:

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

"gary" wrote in message
...
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