capture cursor location

[laptop]

i need to capture the location of the cursor location on a document, so i
can see if it is sitting on a comment-range.
problem- vba document-level subroutines only handle open-new-close, not
onmousedown, and not onclick.

how do i capture a document-level-onclick-event ???

mike g

 

[Jezebel]

It's technically possible to monitor the Windows message stack; but it's not
something you'd want to try using VBA. Why do you need to know if the user
has clicked within a Comment?

 

[mpg]

the comment will contain the name of an external file or an internal
bookmark jump or some other function i need to perform which will determine
alternate text or altenate document that needs to be displayed in another
frame/pane.
i thought about using hidden text, but it's messy when being viewed, and
that many hyperlinks make the document messy as well. if i hide my
instruction in a comment and execute appropriately, it's much more
attractive visually.

so, if the cursor is resting on an area where a comment exists, then i read
the comment and load other text into the other pane.

hopefully -

mike g

 

[Jezebel]

You could use a macrobutton field.

the comment will contain the name of an external file or an internal
bookmark jump or some other function i need to perform which will
determine alternate text or altenate document that needs to be displayed
in another frame/pane.
i thought about using hidden text, but it's messy when being viewed, and
that many hyperlinks make the document messy as well. if i hide my
instruction in a comment and execute appropriately, it's much more
attractive visually.

so, if the cursor is resting on an area where a comment exists, then i
read the comment and load other text into the other pane.

hopefully -

mike g

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Mpg,

the comment will contain the name of an external file or an internal
bookmark jump or some other function i need to perform which will determine
alternate text or altenate document that needs to be displayed in another
frame/pane.
i thought about using hidden text, but it's messy when being viewed, and
that many hyperlinks make the document messy as well. if i hide my
instruction in a comment and execute appropriately, it's much more
attractive visually.

There's a related discussion (capturing mouse stuff in Word) going on in one
of the office.developer groups that you might be interested in.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[laptop]

cool. thanks Cindy.
mike g

Hi Mpg,

There's a related discussion (capturing mouse stuff in Word) going on in one
of the office.developer groups that you might be interested in.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)


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[mpg]

i looked around and didnt find a discussion group. did a lot of searching
for my question, but that came up empty as well.
is it really so unusual to expect a division-onclick or a document-onclick
to return a range?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Mpg,

i looked around and didnt find a discussion group. did a lot of searching
for my question, but that came up empty as well.
is it really so unusual to expect a division-onclick or a document-onclick
to return a range?

Here's the thread where the discussion started. Peter Huang presents MSFT's
viewpoint on the topic (put succinctly: Word simply doesn't offer this).
There are separate follow-up message threads in the same group

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Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:28:01 -0700
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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