The CommDlg Ocx provides a standard set of dialog boxes for operations such as opening and saving files, setting print options, and selecting colors and fonts. The control also has the ability to display help.
CommDlg
The CommDlg object provides an interface to the routines in the Microsoft Windows dynamic-link library Commdlg.dll.
You use the CommDlg object in your application by adding it to a form and setting its properties. In code a CommDlg object is created using the Ocx command or the As New clause in a Dim statement.
Ocx CommDlg cd
Dim cd As New CommDlg
The dialog displayed by the Ocx control is determined by the methods of the control. The CommDlg object can display the following dialogs using the specified method.
| ShowOpen | Show Open Dialog Box |
| ShowSave | Show Save As Dialog Box |
| ShowColor | Show Color Dialog Box |
| ShowFont | Show Font Dialog Box |
| ShowPageSetup | Show Page Setup Dialog Box |
| ShowPrint | Show Print or Print Options Dialog Box |
| ShowHelp | Invokes the Windows Help Engine |
| ShowFolders | Show Browse for Folders Dialog Box |
There is no way to specify where a dialog box is displayed except if you wish it centred over the owning form, when you can use the DlgCenter[Hook] command.
.CancelError | Color | Colors | DefExt | DevNames | Enabled | FileName | FileTitle | Filter | FilterIndex | Flags | Font | FontBold | FontItalic | FontStrikethru | FontUnderline | FontName | FontSize | FromPage | hDC | HelpCommand | HelpContext | HelpFile | HelpKey | IniDir | Left | Max | Min | Name | Parent | pgBottom | pgLeft | pgMinBottom | pgMinLeft | pgMinRight | pgMinRight | pgMinTop | pgScale | pgTop | PointSize | Tag | Title | Top | ToPage
AboutBox | ShowColor | ShowFolders | ShowFont | ShowHelp | ShowOpen | ShowPageSetup | ShowPrint | ShowSave
OnHelp
Syntax:
Sub CommDlg_OnHelp
Occurs when the user selects the Help button on the common dialog box. The Help button is displayed if the Flags property includes the Help button flag bit.
Ocx CommDlg cd
cd.Flags = cdfSHowHelp
cd.ShowFont
Sub cd_OnHelp
MsgBox "Help clicked"
EndSub
DlgCenter, DlgCenterHook, Dlg Open, Dlg Save, Dlg Color, Dlg Font, Dlg Print, SplitPath.
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{Created by Sjouke Hamstra; Last updated: 23/02/2022 by James Gaite}