I am creating methods that read and write to a database. I don't want these methods to run during design time. I consider design time when the user embeds an active-x control in a container. I want these methods to run during run-time. What is happenning now is that when I embed the control into a container (excel vba editor), I get database connection errors because some database properties that I expect to be configured by the user aren't set. These methods are used to initialize the values on the control during run-time
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the above works fine if placed in ambientchanged event of the usercontrol. However when I press f5 to compile and run the .ocx, vb opens the .ocx in internet explorer. Internet explorer does not detect the ambient changed event. If I place the .ocx on a user form in excel then the ambientchanged event triggers. It seems that this event only triggers on a user form, but I also need it to trigger ins omething like Internet Explorer as well. any thought?
Apparently you need to update. See this KB article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.c
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by: abelPosted on 2009-04-16 at 02:53:53ID: 24155905
(I thought I remember that VB6 contained a single method for finding that you are in design time or not. According to this post I was wrong: http://visualbasic.about.c
However, I think what you are after is the Ambient.UserMode property, which is True for runtime and False for design time. Not sure whether you are creating a UserControl, I think so, because you talk of a container. If so, you can access this property through UserControl.UserMode.
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