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Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
I've searched Internet and groups, but can't find a solution to this. Can anyone, please, tell, is there any way to perform exit from Excel edit mode in programmatic way with either accepting user input or cancelling it. I need to do that from another application using the IDispatch pointer to Excel. Here is another trick comes out: I can get the pointer to the active instance of Excel. I can even determine if is it in edit mode (just call the function to activate my ole object of excel and I get the E_OUTOFMEMORY error. That is understandable). So when I detect, that excel is in Edit mode, is there any way to tell excel to exit that mode? Any ideas? Thanks for any help. |
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Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
It sounds like you need to call the following:
IOleInplaceObject::InPlaceDeactivate() IOleObject::Close() IUnknown::Realease() In order to fully exit and close the Excel process. It has been years since I did anything like that though! HTH, Colby |
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Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
Thanks, however the problem is a bit different.
User opens some file and starts editing the cell, thus putting excel into the edit mode. Then I launch my application that works with excel ole object. And I can't activate that object, bacause of an error. I've ivestigated that issue and found out, that this is because excel is in the edit mode. So, I basically need to tell excel to exit that mode. If its possible :) On Nov 13, 10:34 pm, Colby Africa wrote: It sounds like you need to call the following: IOleInplaceObject::InPlaceDeactivate() IOleObject::Close() IUnknown::Realease() In order to fully exit and close theExcelprocess. It has been years since I did anything like that though! HTH, Colby |
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Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
Hello,
Excel provides the Application.Interactive property. Try (and catch) to set it to false. If the exception fires, you cannot do anything because the edit mode is on. Regards from Belarus, Andrei Smolin Add-in Express Team Leader www.add-in-express.com "Goofball" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks, however the problem is a bit different. User opens some file and starts editing the cell, thus putting excel into the edit mode. Then I launch my application that works with excel ole object. And I can't activate that object, bacause of an error. I've ivestigated that issue and found out, that this is because excel is in the edit mode. So, I basically need to tell excel to exit that mode. If its possible :) On Nov 13, 10:34 pm, Colby Africa wrote: It sounds like you need to call the following: IOleInplaceObject::InPlaceDeactivate() IOleObject::Close() IUnknown::Realease() In order to fully exit and close theExcelprocess. It has been years since I did anything like that though! HTH, Colby |
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Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
Thanks. That's one more way to find out if edit mode is on. The
question is still open: is there a way to turn it off?... On Nov 14, 7:21 pm, "Andrei Smolin [Add-in Express]" <andrei dot smolin @ add-in-express dot_com wrote: Hello, Excel provides the Application.Interactive property. Try (and catch) to set it to false. If the exception fires, you cannot do anything because the edit mode is on. Regards from Belarus, Andrei Smolin Add-in Express Team Leaderwww.add-in-express.com "Goofball" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks, however the problem is a bit different. User opens some file and starts editing the cell, thus putting excel into the edit mode. Then I launch my application that works with excel ole object. And I can't activate that object, bacause of an error. I've ivestigated that issue and found out, that this is because excel is in the edit mode. So, I basically need to tell excel to exit that mode. If its possible :) On Nov 13, 10:34 pm, Colby Africa wrote: It sounds like you need to call the following: IOleInplaceObject::InPlaceDeactivate() IOleObject::Close() IUnknown::Realease() In order to fully exit and close theExcelprocess. It has been years since I did anything like that though! HTH, Colby |
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Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
Have you tried to set focus to another control on the application that
is hosting Excel? |
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Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
If this is possible, I'd rather not take upon me the responsibility for
saving changes made by the user. Regards from Belarus, Andrei Smolin Add-in Express Team Leader www.add-in-express.com "Goofball" wrote in message ... Thanks. That's one more way to find out if edit mode is on. The question is still open: is there a way to turn it off?... On Nov 14, 7:21 pm, "Andrei Smolin [Add-in Express]" <andrei dot smolin @ add-in-express dot_com wrote: Hello, Excel provides the Application.Interactive property. Try (and catch) to set it to false. If the exception fires, you cannot do anything because the edit mode is on. Regards from Belarus, Andrei Smolin Add-in Express Team Leaderwww.add-in-express.com "Goofball" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks, however the problem is a bit different. User opens some file and starts editing the cell, thus putting excel into the edit mode. Then I launch my application that works with excel ole object. And I can't activate that object, bacause of an error. I've ivestigated that issue and found out, that this is because excel is in the edit mode. So, I basically need to tell excel to exit that mode. If its possible :) On Nov 13, 10:34 pm, Colby Africa wrote: It sounds like you need to call the following: IOleInplaceObject::InPlaceDeactivate() IOleObject::Close() IUnknown::Realease() In order to fully exit and close theExcelprocess. It has been years since I did anything like that though! HTH, Colby |
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Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
This probably is a horrible way to approach the problem, from a style point
of view, but would sending the Excel application either an ESC (would clear edit and other user-interaction modes) or ENTER (would accept user input or execute a paste operation, etc.) keystroke via the Win32 API work for you? The latter might carry risks that are unacceptable, the user getting things copied over existing cells, for example. "Goofball" wrote in message ups.com... Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch I've searched Internet and groups, but can't find a solution to this. Can anyone, please, tell, is there any way to perform exit from Excel edit mode in programmatic way with either accepting user input or cancelling it. I need to do that from another application using the IDispatch pointer to Excel. Here is another trick comes out: I can get the pointer to the active instance of Excel. I can even determine if is it in edit mode (just call the function to activate my ole object of excel and I get the E_OUTOFMEMORY error. That is understandable). So when I detect, that excel is in Edit mode, is there any way to tell excel to exit that mode? Any ideas? Thanks for any help. |
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Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch
Thanks. By now, I've made it such a way, that I ask user to exit the
edit mode and click Retry. Interesting thing: I was sending the Enter key, but it didn't work if a save dialog was opened and the focus was on some folder - it just opened that folder in the dialog :) If I send ESC key, then it exists the save dialog, but looses the changes made by user. Looks like the only way is to ask the user what he/she want to do. And another thing: sending keys does not work the same on different versions of office. Excel 2000 just did nothing... Well, anyway, thanks you for your help. On Nov 17, 12:11 pm, "Steve Dalton" <NOsteveSPAM(at)NOeigensysSPAM(dot)com wrote: This probably is a horrible way to approach the problem, from a style point of view, but would sending the Excel application either an ESC (would clear edit and other user-interaction modes) or ENTER (would accept user input or execute a paste operation, etc.) keystroke via the Win32 API work for you? The latter might carry risks that are unacceptable, the user getting things copied over existing cells, for example. "Goofball" wrote in message ups.com... Exit from Excel edit mode using IDispatch I've searched Internet and groups, but can't find a solution to this. Can anyone, please, tell, is there any way to perform exit from Excel edit mode in programmatic way with either accepting user input or cancelling it. I need to do that from another application using the IDispatch pointer to Excel. Here is another trick comes out: I can get the pointer to the active instance of Excel. I can even determine if is it in edit mode (just call the function to activate my ole object of excel and I get the E_OUTOFMEMORY error. That is understandable). So when I detect, that excel is in Edit mode, is there any way to tell excel to exit that mode? Any ideas? Thanks for any help. |
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