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Using the docking pane activex with Excel

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Topic: Using the docking pane activex with Excel

Posted By: Armin
Subject: Using the docking pane activex with Excel
Date Posted: 13 April 2007 at 6:11am

Dear All,

has anybody ever tried to link the Docking Pane ActiveX as a docked window into the Excel desktop by using VBA?

I am using the trial version of Xtreme SuitePro and don't have much experience yet with these tools.

Any hint of how to achieve it is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Armin

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Posted By: Armin
Date Posted: 13 April 2007 at 10:55am

Dear All,

regarding my previous request, please let me specify what I want to achieve:

You may get an idea of what I mean by looking at this: http://www.ablebits.com/excel-worksheets-manager-addins/index.php - This add-in is provided by a russian company. It was programmed using Delphi and works with Excel 2000 onwards. Unfortunately they do not provide this technique to others.

I therefore tried to find a solution on my own and thought that the Docking Pane component would be a good starting point.

In the Excel VBE I made a reference to the Xtreme Docking Pane Control (->Tools -> References ...) and typed in the following code into a standard module:

Option Explicit
'
' Retrieve a handle to the top-level window (Parent is always the Desktop)
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "User32" Alias "FindWindowA" ( _
                         ByVal lpClassName As String, _
                         ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
'
' Retrieve a handle to the top-level window in other parents
Private Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "User32" Alias "FindWindowExA" ( _
                         ByVal hWndParent As Long, _
                         ByVal hwndChildAfter As Long, _
                         ByVal lpClassName As String, _
                         ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long

Sub xlDockPane()
    Dim xlAppHandle As Long
    Dim xlDeskHandle As Long
    Dim DockingPaneManager As XtremeDockingPane.DockingPane
    Dim A As XtremeDockingPane.Pane

    xlAppHandle = FindWindow("XLMAIN", Application.Caption)

    If xlAppHandle = 0 Then
        xlAppHandle = FindWindow("XLMAIN", vbNullString)
    End If

    ' find the Excel desktop
    xlDeskHandle = FindWindowEx(xlAppHandle, 0, "XLDESK", vbNullString)

    Set DockingPaneManager = New DockingPane

    DockingPaneManager.AttachToWindow xlDeskHandle

    Set A = DockingPaneManager.CreatePane(1, 400, 400, DockLeftOf, Nothing)
End Sub

Also syntactically correct, the code above doesn't work.

Thus, any hints are very welcome.

BRGDS

Armin