Solved: Turn txtbox on an off

[Mike_H]

Hi can anyone help me please. I have looked everywhere but cannot find a solution to my quandry.

I have a form that has three text boxes that relate to specific functions. I have 3 other text boxes that will hold hyperlinks to technical manuals. I want to be able to keep the technical references invisible until the user clicks or mouse overs the box.

I keep reading that there is no way to do an "On_Mouse_Over" or equivilant in excel. Do any of you guys have a workaround?

On the Form the three main text boxes are

txtGovCritPass reference textbox = 'txtApppass
txtGovCritWarn reference textbox = 'txtAppwarn
txtGovCritFail reference textbox = 'txtAppFail

[mikerickson]

If you have a userform with TextBox1 and TextBox2, this code in the UF code module will hide TextBox2 unless the mouse is over TextBox1.

(Not critical but the default value of TextBox2's Visible property should be False.)

[VBA]Private Sub TextBox1_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal x As Single, ByVal y As Single)
TextBox2.Visible = True
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal x As Single, ByVal y As Single)
TextBox2.Visible = False
End Sub[/VBA]
I just realized there is a problem, If the mouse is over TextBox1, TB2 will show. When the user moves the mouse to click on the hyperlink, it will leave TextBox1, hiding TB2. Hm....

[Paul_Hossler]

This seems to work in my testing, in 2007 at least

This is the code in UserForm1, with 6 textboxes (tbPass, tbPassLink, etc.)


[vba]
Option Explicit
Dim X_Pos As Single, Y_Pos As Single

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
tbPassLink.Visible = False
tbWarnLink.Visible = False
tbFailLink.Visible = False
End Sub

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
UserForm1.Hide
Unload UserForm1
End Sub
Private Sub UserForm_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
X_Pos = X
Y_Pos = Y
If tbPassLink.Visible Then tbPassLink.Visible = False
If tbWarnLink.Visible Then tbWarnLink.Visible = False
If tbFailLink.Visible Then tbFailLink.Visible = False
End Sub

Private Sub tbPass_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
X_Pos = tbPass.Left + X
Y_Pos = tbPass.Top + Y
If InsideTextbox(tbPass) Then tbPassLink.Visible = True
End Sub
Private Sub tbWarn_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
X_Pos = tbWarn.Left + X
Y_Pos = tbWarn.Top + Y
If InsideTextbox(tbWarn) Then tbWarnLink.Visible = True
End Sub
Private Sub tbFail_MouseMove(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
X_Pos = tbFail.Left + X
Y_Pos = tbFail.Top + Y
If InsideTextbox(tbFail) Then tbFailLink.Visible = True
End Sub
Function InsideTextbox(tb As msforms.TextBox) As Boolean
InsideTextbox = False

If X_Pos < tb.Left Then Exit Function
If X_Pos > tb.Left + tb.Width Then Exit Function

If Y_Pos < tb.Top Then Exit Function
If Y_Pos > tb.Top + tb.Height Then Exit Function

InsideTextbox = True
End Function
[/vba]

Paul

[Mike_H]

Paul / Mike Thanks for your input.All working, thx

Mike