Hooking the VTABLE of an Event Interface ?

[RAFAAJ2000]

Hi all,

Is it possible to hook the VTable of an Event Interface such as the ICommandBarButtonEvents of the Microsoft Office Object Library ? ICommandBarButtonEvents Interface GUID ="{55F88890-7708-ACEB-C000-006008961DA5}"

I can successfully hook the Properties and Methods but not the Click event

Thank you

[JAAFAR]

Bump

Any thoughts anyone ?

[JAAFAR]

Nobody ?

[Elroy]

I've never done it from VB6, but it's possible, at least in some form.

My wife is a professor, and she uses this little program called PhraseExpress that somehow latches itself onto Word. When she's reviewing student papers, she has "codes" that she can type in, like "arpq". When she types in these codes, Word (via PhraseExpress) will automatically do various tasks, like possibly make a side-bar comment that's an entire paragraph. I've never used it, but apparently it can do many things from just typing in these codes that you create.

However, the more I think about it, it's probably an add-in into Word, which probably does give you some access to events within Word (such as document_changed). I try to stay away from the VBA and various add-ins as much as I can, but I'm sure there are ways to do it.

To actually contemplate doing it from VB6 though would be a bit strange. This would be a bit like a keyboard sniffer, which is rather discouraged.

Elroy
Regards,

[The trick]

What do you mean (more detail or even project)? Of course you can hook an interface method if you have the such variable.

[Elroy]

@Trick, I think he's wanting to hook events in MS-Word and see them in VB6, sort of like "WithEvents" for a word document. The methods are trivially "hooked" by just using automation.

[Dragokas]

I think he's wanting to hook events in MS-Word and see them in VB6, sort of like "WithEvents" for a word document. The methods are trivially "hooked" by just using automation.

Hmm, if so, RAFAAJ2000, no need to hook. Just use standard strategy.
Here is an example:

Option Explicit

Private WithEvents oButton  As CommandBarButton

Private oWord As Word.Application

Private Sub cmdCreate_Click()
    
    Dim PanelName   As String
    Dim oDoc        As Word.Document
    Dim oBars       As CommandBars
    Dim oBar        As CommandBar
    
    Set oWord = New Word.Application
    
    With oWord
        .Visible = True
        .Activate
        .WindowState = wdWindowStateMaximize
        
        Set oDoc = .Documents.Add(, , , True)
    End With
    
    Set oDoc = oWord.Documents(1)
    Set oBars = oDoc.CommandBars
    
    PanelName = "My Bar"
    
    Set oBar = oBars.Add(Name:=PanelName, Position:=msoBarTop, _
            MenuBar:=False, Temporary:=True)
    
    oBar.Enabled = True
    oBar.Visible = True
    
    Set oButton = oBar.Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlButton)
    
End Sub

Private Sub cmdClose_Click()
    oWord.Documents.Close False
    oWord.Quit
    Set oWord = Nothing
End Sub

Private Sub oButton_Click(ByVal Ctrl As CommandBarButton, CancelDefault As Boolean)
    MsgBox "Event: CommandBar Button Clicked."
End Sub

Add references to:
1. Microsoft Office xx Object Library
2. Microsoft Word xx Object Library

and 2 buttons on VB Form cmdCreate and cmdClose. Run, press cmdCreate, switch to Word, press button on new bar, so, you'll get event in your app.

Best regards,
Alex.

[JAAFAR]

Thanks for answering but hooking the CommandBarButton Click event in the way that Elroy and Dragokas kindly suggested only works with versions of Office prior to Office 2007 .. With the advent of the Ribbon in Office 2007 and later, that approach does'nt work anymore

Still hoping to find an API based (low level) solution.

Regards