Userforms - update view whit userform still active
As for your first question, its a little hard to be sure of what you're asking, but perhaps Norman's third answer in this thread will answer your question.
As to your second question, you can't expect much help with errors if you don't show your code so we can see what you might be doing wrong. It may be that you added code to your button event and then renamed the button. VBA won't rename the event for you. You need to rename the code signature too. For example, if you had a button named "CommandButton1" and modified the Click event to the following:
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
MsgBox "This is a test"
End Sub
Then you changed the Name property to "cmdTest", the previous CommandButton1_Click() method will be orphaned and a cmdTest_Click() method will be created. You need to manually edit the previous method's name in the code module or move the code from that method to the newly created method.
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Using UserForm as modeless form (float form) to only show information without the need of user interaction is fine. BUt in most cases in AutoCAD, you would need some sort of user interaction. So, you need to add an AcFocus control to the form in order for the form to be able to stay focused. It is a very strange way to do things (that is why I said that I do not recommend it in previous reply). Also, when the form is floating, you must realize that user can which active drawing from one to other. If the floating form showing data related to one drawing, when the active drawing changes, you must either somehow automatically update the form's data, or close the form, so use is not confused to face a drawing and see data on the form for different drawing...
When displaying form as Modal dialog, you CAN STILL UPDATE AutoCAD view for reflect the change you made to the entities in the drawing, or update the current view (zoom/pan...).
I wrote following code for a small UserForm to show how to update an AcadText entity is updated in AutoCAD via a dialog box:
Option Explicit
Private entText As AcadText
Private Sub cmdPick_Click()
Me.Hide
Set entText = PickTextEntity
If Not entText Is Nothing Then
cmdUpdate.Enabled = True
txtText.Text = entText.TextString
Else
cmdUpdate.Enabled = False
End If
Me.show
End Sub
Private Sub cmdUpdate_Click()
If Len(Trim(txtText.Text)) = 0 Then
MsgBox "Text value is required!"
Exit Sub
End If
If Not entText Is Nothing Then
entText.TextString = Trim(txtText.Text)
entText.Update
End If
End Sub
Private Function PickTextEntity() As AcadText
Dim ent As AcadEntity
Dim pt As Variant
On Error Resume Next
ThisDrawing.Utility.GetEntity ent, pt, vbCr & "Pick a text entity:"
If Not ent Is Nothing Then
If TypeOf ent Is AcadText Then
Set PickTextEntity = ent
Exit Function
End If
End If
Set PickTextEntity = Nothing
End Function
See the video clip below:
It was Autodesk's ScreenCast, which was free for login AutoCAD users, until Autodesk recently discontinued the support. So, you have to find your own screen capture app.
