Jim
Sun Oct 21 19:11:03 PDT 2007
Russ <drsN0SPAMmikle@hotmailD0Tcom.INVALID> wrote in
news:C341343B.1E54D%drsN0SPAMmikle@hotmailD0Tcom.INVALID:
Thanks, I'll check it out
Jim
> Dave,
> What you describe may be a good application of AutoTextLists:
>
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/AutoTextList.htm
> And you may be able to do without the 'chevrons'.
>
>> Dave D-C <dacromley@wyoming.kom> wrote in
>> news:5m8kh31akak9nqqcjotqdk1ej9rr19q7nb@4ax.com:
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for responding -
>>
>> I see what you mean about having both the double click and click
events
>> being mutually exclusive. I don't need both in the labels, just
noticed
>> that it has both capabilities.
>>
>> What I am trying to do is make a word document with textboxes for
>> entering physical exam results. This ideally would contain a normal
>> exam as the first option, then various subsets of the exam within
esch
>> category, both with normal and abnornal findings. The way I have set
>> this up is to embed the phrases in < and > marks ( I call them
chevrons,
>> but it is probably not the right term).
>>
>>
>> one line is like this:
>>
>> Lungs: <clear with good air movement><clear, ><good air movement, >
>> <decreased breath sounds, ><no wheeze, ><no crackles, ><no rhonchii,
>
>> <no rub, >
>>
>> The user would click on a place in the textbox and my vba code then
>> determines if the textbox.selstart is in text which is embedded
between
>> 2 chevrons. The reason I would like a click and double click event
(
>> or something else) is that I would like just one click to clear the
>> chevrons, which converts the test to "straight" text. All of the
>> reamining chevron embedded text is delected prior to saving/printing
the
>> forrm , this leaves only what I want to keep.
>>
>> The second action would cause a dropdown to open right over the
selected
>> text phrase, containing varaition on the selected phrase - things
like
>> "scattered wheeze, " or "very diminished breath sound on right, "
>> which the user could then pick.
>>
>> I didn't want a dropdown every time a text is clicked, as most of the
>> time, the correct embedded text will be ok as it is, and only needs
to
>> be marked to keep when the extra is removed later.
>>
>> I tried a right click, but it doesn't do anything in a textbox on a
word
>> document as an inlineshape.
>>
>>
>> I will try to work on a submenu that opens with a rightclick in a
>> textbox, but If I can't, then maybe I'll use 2 types of embedding,
<>'s
>> and [] marks, converting to the [] after the first click, and opening
up
>> a dropdown if text embedded in [] is then clicked. Then making []
text
>> into clear text before the final save/print.
>>
>>
>> Again thanks for your help.
>> PS - some pointers on how to get a dropdown box to open right below
>> selected spot in a text box would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>>> There may be another way to achieve the same results?
>>> If you want multiple options, I suggest a right-click popup menu.
>>>
>>> "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:
>>>> Jim was telling us:
>>>>> hello,
>>>>> I have a form with a number of textboxes embedded as inlineshapes,
>>>>> each of which have a dblclick event assigned to them - this works
>>>>> just fine. I would very much like to have a seperate click event
to
>>>>> do something else, but a textbox (as an inline shape) does not
have
>>>>> a click event. I tried using a mousedown event, but this activated
>>>>> before I could double click it.
>>>>> Embedded labels do have both click and doubleclick events, and
these
>>>>> work but are not what I need for this application.
>>>>> here is what the double click does: , the single click would have
to
>>>>> start a different subroutine.
>>>>> Private Sub TBox1_DblClick(ByVal Cancel As MSForms.ReturnBoolean)
>>>>> TBox1.Text = ChangeTextBoxText(GetILS, TBox1.SelStart, TBox1.Text)
>>>>> End Sub
>>>>
>>>> Labels do have both events, but you could not use both. If you try
to
>>>> use both, as soon as a click is detected, the click event is
triggered
>>>> and even if that click is the first of a double click event. If you
>>>> use both, as soon as you double click, both events are triggered.
In
>>>> any case, this is what I observed just now with Word 2003. I have
>>>> never worked with events and labels before as I have always used
them
>>>> as just that... plain inert labels!
>>>>
>>>> What event you need the single click to perform? There may be
another
>>>> way to achieve the same results?
>>>
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