Re: Microsoft Word - bringing a window to the front...
Re: Microsoft Word - bringing a window to the front...
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Word - bringing a window to the front...
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:30:05 -0800
On 1/16/03 9:42 PM, "David Crowe" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On the subject of bringing a window to the front in Word without
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telling it to open the file (and thus have to dismiss the dialog box
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that results if the window has been modified)...
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Thanks to Paul Berkowitz for suggesting to tell Microsoft Word to:
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do Visual Basic "Documents(\"" & docName & "\").Activate"
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and to Hugh Dixon for:
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set selection to window "xxxx.doc"
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The only problem is that neither of these work when the window is
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minimized (to the Dock in OS X). Word does make them the 'frontmost'
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window (i.e. they become checked in the window menu), but it neglects
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to make the window visible.
What do mean "neglects"? Have you told it to "un-minimizing" the window or
make it "visible"?
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Just a bug in Word I guess ... now there's a first.
Why do you call it a bug? (Not that there aren't lots of those.) What
happens with other Carbon apps whose documents are minimized? If you haven't
told the window to de-minimize, what do you expect?
The problem is that there is probably no code for this. I don't think that
they added anything to applescript when carbonizing and rushing out Word X.
I think it's quite possible they may do a lot more in the next version of
Word. In the meantime, it would be good if you could plug the OS X Dock into
the same minimize/normalize/maximize commands of VBA, so you could do a 'do
Visual Basic'. Windows has the same, or similar, sort of dock at the bottom
of the screen and the same 3 states. that's where OS X got it: they stole
something back from Windows. Have you checked the VBA? Maybe it works
already? I'll check the next time I'm in VBE in Word.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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