We have C# code in a PowerPoint Addin for custom printing. In Office 2003,
SendKeys.Send("^+{F12}");
works fine to bring up the Print Dialog after doing some stuff.
But in Office 2007 it does not, instead just sending the document to the printer without the dialog.
Getting the Dialog is very important.
using "^{p}" or "^p" as the string will acheive the same thing, no dialog.
Executing the command via:
Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso("FilePrint");
will also acheive the same thing, no dialog.
Any clues, tips or suggestions as to how can I may get the Print Dialog to appear would be most appreciated.
For the record, here's how I was able to eventually get this working, but i dont fully understand why.
three things required (all necessary)
- use ExecuteMso instead of SendKeys
- remove code prior to print which selected a particular slide
- add call to Application.DoEvents() after ExecuteMso()
Also works OK with Select code restored, but after the Print call, and also including a DoEvents() call.
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I am writing a c# application that opens a number of PI ProcessBook display files. PI Processbook is a program that has embedded Visual Basic for Applications support, including a VBE environment.
The problem that I have is that a number of the displays I want to open have macros in them that run automatically when the display is opened. I have set the macro protection to maximum (which should disable macros completely!), but unfortunately there is something in the TypeLibrary that I am using that means that when a file is opened programatically, it bypasses macro security and the macros run anyway. Go figure....
I am therefore trying to find a way to programatically kill these macros, even if they have started. I have tried using SendKeys.Wait("^{BREAK}") to force into break mode. This "works", but is a bit hit-and-miss: I find that if the macro doesn't pause at some point, SetForegroundWindow can't force the VB Editor to the foreground to accept the sendkeys input. I therefore tried using sendmessage. I used SPY++ to see that CTRL+BREAK appears to send a WM_CANCELMODE message to the window. Apparently, this is somehow handled differently from literally ALT+Tabbing or clicking on the window with a mouse and pressing the CTRL+Break keys, in that the message gets queued, but does not appear to process until the macro has finished executing.
Does anyone have any other suggestions of things to try?
I am therefore trying to find a way to programatically kill these
macros, even if they have started.
Hold down the Shift key while opening the Spreadsheet and the Macro's wont run.
Otherwise you could try halting the code while its running: Ctrl + Alt + PauseBreak
Edit:
I have set the macro protection to maximum (which should disable
macros completely!)
Try disabling them:
I have a C# application which uses a System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.
The problem is: i'd like the user to navigate smoothly in my application, without prompts, without javascript windows popping up, without security prompts. Even if this requires some contents to be unavailable.
I just want to have one window (always one window, if a receive a new window event, i redirect it to the single window).
How can i do this?
I tried to use this.browser.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true but i doesnt seem to work.
For example, if i test it on a browser page which performs text validation, i still receive a popup window saying that my text is invalid.
Thank you!
I've found a solution somewhere else, since it wasn't available here.
Here it is: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31163/Suppressing-Hosted-WebBrowser-Control-Dialogs
Basically, you have to hook the WM_INITDIALOG message.
It works wonders here.
I'm developing an addon for IE8+.
Main function:
- when I click the toolbar, it will display a box inside every single page, ex: google.com, bing.com, codeproject.com... by using execScript to execute jQuery.
Therefore, what Im doing is run javascript in the current page.
Everything has done except when that page perform an Pop-up, it doesnt work anymore.
I click the toolbar, nothing happen, but when I look at the pop-up, surprise! has the box which im trying to display. So, I think the current tab and the popup of its is running the same process.
I have change registry key TabProcGrowth to 20, to make sure every single tab run by its own process, but maybe it not work with popup.
sr for my bad english, any suggestion is welcome.
Thanks in advance.
update:
I have changed the way to develop my addon, so I change my question, too. (But any suggestion for the 1st question still very useful for me).
My new question still mention the "execScript" problem.
HOW to execute javascript with every individual tab of IE browser with TabProcGrowth = 0. I need this value set to 0 because I have the timer to request to the server every interval1 (ex: 60s). So if there are more than one processes of IE, the addon will send multi request to server at the sametime.
In my situation now, I set TabProcGrowth to 0. Open IE, open some tabs. Click the toolbar at the newest tab, it works, ofcourse!. But when I click toolbar at the old one, nothing happen. The script still be execute but it takes effect on the newest tab.
It's the big problem for me, resolve this problem, you guys save my life.
I am debugging a C# program that calls Word 2007 for rendering of some office files. It all works well as long as Word starts up and shuts down properly.
In the few instances where it wasn't, there is a pop-up message from Word the next time. It basically says that it wasn't started properly last time and then asks if I would like to start it in Safe-mode. Is there any way of avoiding this popup message?
There are a few approaches here:
Do you really need to avoid safe mode, or just the dialog? If you can start Word with the /safe option then it will always be in safe mode and shouldn't ask you.
Do you know what causes safe mode? Maybe starting Word with the /a option to disable add-ins (assuming you're not using any) would prevent the cause of the crashing in the first place.
See if you can figure out what causes Word to think it should open in safe mode. There has to be a file or registry entry that trips it up. You can use Process Monitor to see what files and registry entries it looks at, and see which ones are different between traces from a regular startup and one where it asks for safe mode. Then make sure that condition doesn't exist just prior to opening Word.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210565 for a list of command line options for Word.
I have the same problem with powerpoint. We run a theatre that does slide shows in between shows. If powerpoint somehow crashes or closes uncleanly, you are prompted to start in safe mode. What happens is that the "do you want to start powerpoint in safe mode" comes up and requires user intervention to fix. I would like to disable this "feature" or safe mode entirely. The closest I have come is the following fix, which I have now implemented but I do not know if it will actually prevent it or not until another crash (which can take months to happen - thankfully). Seems promising though!
Open up a blank Word document on your computer.
Click on the circular icon in the upper left-hand corner. Select "Word Options" from the menu.
Click on "Trust Center" on the left-hand side of the menu.
Select "Trust Center Settings."
Select the "Active X Settings" and uncheck the box for "Safe Mode." This will disable the feature in all Office programs.
Hit "OK" to save your changes and close the Microsoft Word document.
Most likely, but you must look to fix the problem at the level of diagnosis, not fire-fight the symptoms away.
Look into the code which utilises
Word
Localise the piece of code which
could cause failure
Find particular solutions to the
found problem
Correct the issue
Don't look to 'auto-click' the dialog away or any other such flakiness, this is a hack.
The code in question would be useful, if not invaluable to providing real help.
I have similar problem dealing with PowerPoint in .Net
the safe-mode message box will show up when I launch it from my program after PowerPoint crashed, which stopped my automatically process
after some investigation into the registry, deleting this
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\PowerPoint\Resiliency (change the Product and Version)
before starting the Office program will avoid the Safe-mode
(This registry key stores the info of last opened file, by deleting this, PowerPoint won't know it was crashed, so it opens normally)
After opening a Word document, using .NET interop, a dialog box is created that blocks programmatic editing of the opened file. The user cannot see the winword.exe process and so cannot close the dialog. Is there a way to close a dialog or to prevent them being opened on startup?
I believe it might be the dialog asking first time users to set their name and initials.
Note: I know that it would be nicer to avoid using the interops and am familiar with Aspose products.
See my answer here.
Basically, you need to disable all "alerts", such the dialog that you describe above. Instead of "MSProject", use "Word" of course.