Have a go with the following. Put a button and and image control on a form.
For testing
suggest show the form modeless
Sub ShowForm()
UserForm1.Show vbModeless
End Sub
Run the form, activate Excel, select some cells, (in Excel97-2003) hold
Shift and select Edit - CopyPicture, try both Picture and Bitmap. In
Excel2007 click the arrow below Paste, As picture, Copy Picture (but note
emf/picture does not work correctly in 2007 due a bug).
For your eventual purposes I'm a bit concerned about your overal
arrangement, in particular how do you know user has copied a suitable
picture before opening your workbook (which could destroy the clipboard
depending on other factors). To at least get some idea I've added an
additional function WhatsInClipboard (see code) which will at least tell you
a picture is available, although not if it is an appropriate one. I suspect
you will only want 'bitmap' but if your ChemDraw app supports it the
'metafile' may give a better result. Either way eventually you probably
won't want to be asking the user what type (as below).
Obviously if you want the image to automatically appear when the form loads,
call the PastePicture from the form's initialize event (be sure to pass the
intended picture type).
Finally, you will probably want to tinker with the Image controls picture
properties, either at design or during runtime (see comments).
'' In a UserForm with CommandButton1 and Image1
'' the image control's Autosize, PictureAlignment and PictureSizeMode
'' can be fixed at design or during runtime
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim lPicType As Long, lXlPicType As Long
lPicType = WhatsInClipboard
If lPicType = 1 Then
lXlPicType = xlBitmap
ElseIf lPicType = 2 Then
lXlPicType = xlPicture
If lPicType = 3 Then
res = MsgBox("BMP & EMF available" & vbCr & _
"press Yes for BMP, No for EMF", vbYesNoCancel)
If res = vbYes Then
lXlPicType = xlBitmap
ElseIf res = vbNo Then
lXlPicType = xlPicture
Else
Exit Sub
End If
End If
Else
MsgBox "No picture on clipboard"
Exit Sub
End If
Me.Image1.Picture = PastePicture(lXlPicType)
End Sub
'''' In a Normal Module
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''
'' Based almost entirely on Stephen Bullen's "PastePicture.Zip"
'' available from
http://www.oaltd.co.uk
'' Code below is copied from modPastePicture with headers and some
'' comments removed. Function fnOLEError in the original module
'' is also removed but shold be added back for completion.
''
'' An additional new function - WhatsInClipboard() is included
''
'' Recommend obtain the original module and include WhatsInClipboard
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '''''''''''''''''''
Option Explicit
Option Compare Text
''' User-Defined Types for API Calls
'Declare a UDT to store a GUID for the IPicture OLE Interface
Private Type GUID
Data1 As Long
Data2 As Integer
Data3 As Integer
Data4(0 To 7) As Byte
End Type
'Declare a UDT to store the bitmap information
Private Type uPicDesc
Size As Long
Type As Long
hPic As Long
hPal As Long
End Type
'''Windows API Function Declarations
'Does the clipboard contain a bitmap/metafile?
Private Declare Function IsClipboardFormatAvailable Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal wFormat As Integer) As Long
'Open the clipboard to read
Private Declare Function OpenClipboard Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
'Get a pointer to the bitmap/metafile
Private Declare Function GetClipboardData Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal wFormat As Integer) As Long
'Close the clipboard
Private Declare Function CloseClipboard Lib "user32" () As Long
'Convert the handle into an OLE IPicture interface.
Private Declare Function OleCreatePictureIndirect Lib "olepro32.dll" ( _
PicDesc As uPicDesc, RefIID As GUID, _
ByVal fPictureOwnsHandle As Long, IPic As IPicture) As Long
'Create our own copy of the metafile, so it doesn't get _
'wiped out by subsequent clipboard updates.
Declare Function CopyEnhMetaFile Lib "gdi32" Alias "CopyEnhMetaFileA" ( _
ByVal hemfSrc As Long, ByVal lpszFile As String) As Long
'Create our own copy of the bitmap, so it doesn't get wiped out by
subsequent
'clipboard updates.
Declare Function CopyImage Lib "user32" (ByVal handle As Long, _
ByVal un1 As Long, ByVal n1 As Long, ByVal n2 As Long, _
ByVal un2 As Long) As Long
'The API format types we're interested in
Const CF_BITMAP = 2
Const CF_PALETTE = 9
Const CF_ENHMETAFILE = 14
Const IMAGE_BITMAP = 0
Const LR_COPYRETURNORG = &H4
Function WhatsInClipboard() As Long
' This function is not included in PastePicture.zip
' Purpose is to learn which usable picture formats are in the
' clipboard, if any, before doing 'PastePicture'
Dim hPicAvail As Long
Dim picTypes As Long
If IsClipboardFormatAvailable(CF_BITMAP) Then
picTypes = 1
End If
If IsClipboardFormatAvailable(CF_ENHMETAFILE) Then
picTypes = picTypes Or 2
End If
WhatsInClipboard = picTypes
' 1 got a bitmap
' 2 got a metafile
' 3 got both
' 0 got neither
End Function
Function PastePicture(Optional lXlPicType As Long = xlPicture) As IPicture
'Some pointers
Dim h As Long, hPicAvail As Long, hPtr As Long, hPal As Long
Dim lPicType As Long, hCopy As Long
'Convert xl piture-type constant to the API constant equivalent
lPicType = IIf(lXlPicType = xlBitmap, CF_BITMAP, CF_ENHMETAFILE)
'Check if the clipboard contains the required format
hPicAvail = IsClipboardFormatAvailable(lPicType)
If hPicAvail < 0 Then
'Get access to the clipboard
h = OpenClipboard(0&)
If h 0 Then
'Get a handle to the image data
hPtr = GetClipboardData(lPicType)
'Create our own copy of the image on the clipboard, in the appropriate
format.
If lPicType = CF_BITMAP Then
hCopy = CopyImage(hPtr, IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_COPYRETURNORG)
Else
hCopy = CopyEnhMetaFile(hPtr, vbNullString)
End If
'Release the clipboard to other programs
h = CloseClipboard
'If we got a handle to the image, convert it into a Picture object and
return it
If hPtr < 0 Then Set PastePicture = CreatePicture(hCopy, 0,
lPicType)
End If
End If
End Function
Private Function CreatePicture(ByVal hPic As Long, ByVal hPal As Long, _
ByVal lPicType) As IPicture
' IPicture requires a reference to "OLE Automation"
Dim r As Long, uPicInfo As uPicDesc, IID_IDispatch As GUID, IPic As IPicture
'OLE Picture types
Const PICTYPE_BITMAP = 1
Const PICTYPE_ENHMETAFILE = 4
' Create the Interface GUID (for the IPicture interface)
With IID_IDispatch
.Data1 = &H7BF80980
.Data2 = &HBF32
.Data3 = &H101A
.Data4(0) = &H8B
.Data4(1) = &HBB
.Data4(2) = &H0
.Data4(3) = &HAA
.Data4(4) = &H0
.Data4(5) = &H30
.Data4(6) = &HC
.Data4(7) = &HAB
End With
' Fill uPicInfo with necessary parts.
With uPicInfo
.Size = Len(uPicInfo)
.Type = IIf(lPicType = CF_BITMAP, PICTYPE_BITMAP, PICTYPE_ENHMETAFILE)
.hPic = hPic
.hPal = IIf(lPicType = CF_BITMAP, hPal, 0)
End With
' Create the Picture object.
r = OleCreatePictureIndirect(uPicInfo, IID_IDispatch, True, IPic)
' If an error occured, show the description
If r < 0 Then
'Debug.Print "Create Pictu " & fnOLEError(r)
Debug.Print "Error, call fnOLEError(r) here"
' fnOLEError from modPastePicture not posted
End If
' Return the new Picture object.
Set CreatePicture = IPic
End Function
'' end code
Regards,
Peter T
"Roger on Excel" wrote in message
...
Dear Peter,
The steps are as follows
1) User creates chemical structure picture in ChemDraw
2) user draws a selection box around structure and presses ctrlC
3) user opens excel file
4) user activates form
5)user pastes (ctrlV) structure into some sort of dialog box/text
box/other
control?? on the form- such a control may not exist
6) Excel appends the copied image as a picture onto another predefined
user
form (or the same form)
7) when user opens the predefined userform the pasted image appears on the
form
Not sure if I can describe this any other way apart from the fact that my
spreadsheet is effectively run using user forms with data displayed on
userforms. I am trying to get away from the uder having to paste pictures
directly into the sheets themselves since the spreadsheet is driven by
userforms
Best regards,
Roger
"Roger on Excel" wrote:
I have userforms which I activate to show text information.
I would like to be able to paste a picture from the clipboard onto an
opened
userform so that there is a picture as well as text.
The picture would be a copied picture from the web or a copied wmf from
another application
Traditionally the way to do this is through the vba window by using the
image control and navigating it to a saved image or alternatively pasting
the
image into the picture line of the Image Properties box.
This is too complicated for a user of my spreadsheet to do so I am
looking
for alternative way of pasting an image so that it becomes attached to a
userform and shows when the user opens the form.
Can anyone help?