Coding a table of constants

[Bear]

I need to use 2 x 20 and 3 x 20 arrays of constants in my code for loading
list or combo boxes.

Surely there must be some easier, more visually coherent way to do this than
specifying the contents of each element of the array. Ideally, I'd like to
list them comma-delimeted:

Item01 = "CB1, Column Break, modCb190"
Item02 = "CB2, Column Break, modCb198"
Item03 = "Date 1, Date Field, datRc224"
....

Any way to do this sort of thing? Snippets of sample code would be
appreciated.

Bear

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Put them in a table in a document and use code such as the following to load
them into the listbox

This routine loads a listbox with client details stored in a table in a
separate
document (which makes it easy to maintain with additions, deletions etc.),
that document being saved as Clients.Doc for the following code.

On the UserForm, have a list box (ListBox1) and a Command Button
(CommandButton1) and use the following code in the UserForm_Initialize() and
the CommandButton1_Click() routines

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim sourcedoc As Document, i As Integer, j As Integer, myitem As Range,
m As Long, n As Long
' Modify the path in the following line so that it matches where you
saved Clients.doc
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
' Open the file containing the client details
Set sourcedoc = Documents.Open(FileName:="e:\worddocs\Clients.doc")
' Get the number or clients = number of rows in the table of client
details less one
i = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Rows.Count - 1
' Get the number of columns in the table of client details
j = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Columns.Count
' Set the number of columns in the Listbox to match
' the number of columns in the table of client details
ListBox1.ColumnCount = j
' Define an array to be loaded with the client data
Dim MyArray() As Variant
'Load client data into MyArray
ReDim MyArray(i, j)
For n = 0 To j - 1
For m = 0 To i - 1
Set myitem = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Cell(m + 2, n + 1).Range
myitem.End = myitem.End - 1
MyArray(m, n) = myitem.Text
Next m
Next n
' Load data into ListBox1
ListBox1.List() = MyArray
' Close the file containing the client details
sourcedoc.Close SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub


The code has been written so that it will deal with
any number of clients and any number of details about each client. It
assumes that the first row of the table containing the client details is a
header row.


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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Bear]

Doug:

Thanks a bunch. Using an external table was going to be my next evolution of
the project. I may just leap ahead -- but I'd sure like to know if there's a
better way of filling up an array in VBA, so as to improve my VBA chops.

Bear

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I would take the leap. It's much easier to maintain the list of items if
it's not buried somewhere in your code.

The Split function works very nicely for a one dimensional array. For more
than one dimension, I would iterate through a table, but then you may as
well go straight to populating the listbox.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP