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Get focus back to Excel
I have an Excel/vba app that is used to place orders at Overstock. Before the order is placed, a dialog box is generated in Excel asking the user if they want to place the order or not. You don't see the dialog box, but excel starts flashing. It you click on Excel, the dialog box appears. Is there someway to get the focus back to Excel?
It is intentional that applications cannot bring themselves in front anymore. Instead, they are flashing in taskbar. This is to make sure noone intercepts interactive input for malicious purposes.
However, you can trick that (IIRC) by making the current window minized and then restore it back again. As you seem to trigger the Dialog Box call somehow from outside of Excel, it should not be difficult to change window state first.
However, you can trick that (IIRC) by making the current window minized and then restore it back again. As you seem to trigger the Dialog Box call somehow from outside of Excel, it should not be difficult to change window state first.
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Here is the code.
Credit card information is entered into the web page, then I want the dialog box to ask the user if they want to proceed with the order.
Credit card information is entered into the web page, then I want the dialog box to ask the user if they want to proceed with the order.
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ieDoc.getElementById("CC").Click
ieDoc.getElementById("CC_number").Value = frmOrderSystem.txtCreditCard
ieDoc.getElementById("exp_month").Value = frmOrderSystem.txtExpMonth
ieDoc.getElementById("exp_year").Value = frmOrderSystem.txtExpYear
Do While ieApp.Busy: DoEvents: Loop
Do Until ieApp.READYSTATE = READYSTATE_COMPLETE: DoEvents: Loop
Func.PauseBrowser
If frmOrderSystem.chkPromptBeforePlacingOrder = True Then
response = MsgBox("Do you want to place this order?" & vbCrLf & "ProfitLoss: " & ProfitLoss, vbYesNo)
Else
There is no way to reasonable do that, if the Web page is shown for confirming it is the correct order to get placed. It only makes sense to either show the msgbox or IE in front, but not both. Unless the resolution is large enough to show both side by side ;-).
If you do need the IE only for executing your login / CC stuff, why not do that invisibly?
If you do need the IE only for executing your login / CC stuff, why not do that invisibly?
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Cannot do it invisibly because we need to watch what is going on until we have the bugs work out of it.
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Which version of Excel are you using?