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VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft) FAQ

VBA How To

Add min/max buttons to a userform by Nelviticus
faq707-4773
Posted: 26 Jan 04

This was posted by IvanMoala in response to a question in this thread: Thread707-754928

It was so useful that I thought I'd put it in a FAQ.

The following code lets VBA access some Windows functions and defines a few constants. Put it at the top of your form's code module before all the functions and after the Option Explicit statement if you have one:

Private Declare Function FindWindow _
    Lib "user32" _
        Alias "FindWindowA" ( _
            ByVal lpClassName As String, _
            ByVal lpWindowName As String) _
    As Long

Private Declare Function GetWindowLong _
    Lib "user32" _
        Alias "GetWindowLongA" ( _
            ByVal hWnd As Long, _
            ByVal nIndex As Long) _
    As Long

Private Declare Function SetWindowLong _
    Lib "user32" _
        Alias "SetWindowLongA" ( _
            ByVal hWnd As Long, _
            ByVal nIndex As Long, _
            ByVal dwNewLong As Long) _
    As Long

Private Declare Function DrawMenuBar _
    Lib "user32" ( _
        ByVal hWnd As Long) _
    As Long

Private Const GWL_STYLE As Long = (-16)
Private Const WS_SYSMENU As Long = &H80000
Private Const WS_MINIMIZEBOX As Long = &H20000
Private Const WS_MAXIMIZEBOX As Long = &H10000

The following procedure adds the min and max buttons to your form when it activates. Add it to your form's code module (or add the code to your existing UserForm_Activate procedure if you have one):

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
    
    Dim Frmhdl As Long
    Dim lStyle As Long
    
    Frmhdl = FindWindow(vbNullString, Me.Caption)
    
    lStyle = GetWindowLong(Frmhdl, GWL_STYLE)
    lStyle = lStyle Or WS_SYSMENU
    lStyle = lStyle Or WS_MINIMIZEBOX
    lStyle = lStyle Or WS_MAXIMIZEBOX
    
    SetWindowLong Frmhdl, GWL_STYLE, (lStyle)
    DrawMenuBar Frmhdl
    
End Sub

Thanks again to IvanMoala for this.

Nelviticus

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