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Fire Notification When Activating a Sheet Example (VBA)

This example shows how to fire a notification when a sheet is activated in a drawing document:

Main module

'---------------------------------------------------------------
' Preconditions: Open a drawing document with two or more sheets.
'
' Press F5 to run this macro, then:
' 1. Click an inactive sheet's tab to activate it.
'    A message box informs you that a sheet is about to be activated.
' 2. Click OK to close the message box.
'    A message box informs you that a sheet was activated.
' 3. Click OK to close the message box.
'
' Postconditions: None
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Option Explicit

Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Dim swDraw As SldWorks.DrawingDoc
Dim swDrawEvents As Class1

Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc

'Set up events
Set swDraw = swModel
Set swDrawEvents = New Class1
Set swDrawEvents.swDraw = swApp.ActiveDoc

End Sub

 

Class module

Option Explicit

Public WithEvents swDraw As SldWorks.DrawingDoc

Private Function swDraw_ActivateSheetPreNotify(ByVal SheetName As String) As Long
MsgBox "A sheet is about to be activated."
End Function

Private Function swDraw_ActivateSheetPostNotify(ByVal SheetName As String) As Long
MsgBox "A sheet was activated."
End Function

 



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