Microsoft KB Archive/187834

= How To Select and Unselect a Range of Cells in MSFlexGrid =

Article ID: 187834

Article Last Modified on 7/13/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q187834



SUMMARY
This article demonstrates how to select a range of cells and how to unselect a range of selected cells using the MSFlexGrid control.



MORE INFORMATION
The Visual Basic documentation provides a good explanation in the Online Help of how to select a range of cells in a MSFlexgrid control. However, there is no such explanation for how to undo a selection that has already been made. The example below demonstrates both.

Step-by-Step Example
 Start a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default. Click Components on the Project menu, check "Microsoft FlexGrid Control," and then click OK. Add a MSFlexGrid control to Form1. Add two CommandButtons to Form1. Change the Caption property of Command1 to "UnSelect." Change the Caption property of Command2 to "Select."  Add the following code to the module of Form1:

Private Sub Command1_Click ' unselect a range With MSFlexGrid1 ' cancel selection by setting end points to start points .RowSel = .Row .ColSel = .Col .SetFocus End With End Sub

Private Sub Command2_Click ' select a range With MSFlexGrid1 ' Row and Col properties must be set before RowSel and ColSel .Col = 0 ' start selection in this column .Row = 2 ' start selection in this row .ColSel = 1 ' end selection in this column .RowSel = 4 ' end selection in this row .SetFocus End With End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load With MSFlexGrid1 .Clear .FixedCols = 0 .FixedRows = 0 .AddItem "mike" & vbTab & 10, 0 .AddItem "fred" & vbTab & 11, 1 .AddItem "jack" & vbTab & 13, 2 .AddItem "herman" & vbTab & 55, 3 .AddItem "irene" & vbTab & 88, 4 .AddItem "jane" & vbTab & 22, 5 End With End Sub

</li> Press the F5 key to run the project. Click on the "Select" button. You should see the middle of the MSFlexGrid selected.</li> Click on the "UnSelect" button, and note that the selection is undone.</li></ol>

Additional query words: kbDSupport kbDSD flex grid kbVBp kbVBp500 kbCtrl kbVBp600

Keywords: kbhowto KB187834

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