ExcelFile.GetObjectSelection Method

Gets the selected item in an object from the "Forms" palette. It can be a combobox or a listbox. 0 means no selection, 1 the first item in the list. Note that this only works for objects added through the Forms toolbar. It won't return the values of ActiveX objects.

Remarks

Note that if the object is linked to a cell and you changed the cell value, this method will return the cell value.

Syntax

Namespace: FlexCel.Core

public abstract Int32 GetObjectSelection(Int32 objectIndex, String objectPath)

Parameters

<->	Parameter	Type	Description
	objectIndex	Int32	Index of the object (1 based)
	objectPath	String	Index to the child object you want to change the property. If it is a simple object, you can use String.Empty here, if not you need to get the ObjectPath from GetObjectProperties(Int32, Boolean) If it is "absolute"(it starts with "\"), then the path includes the objectIndex, and the objectIndex is not used. An object path of "\1\2\3" is exactly the same as using objectIndex = 1 and objectPath = "2\3"

Returns

The position of the selected item in the object. 0 means no selection, 1 the first item is selected.

Examples

To get all the comboboxes in the active sheet, you can use this code:

    XlsFile xls = new XlsFile("comboboxes.xls"); //Open the file we want to read.
    for (int i = 1; i <= xls.ObjectCount; i++) //Loop over all objects.
    {
        TShapeProperties shp = xls.GetObjectProperties(i, false);
        if (shp.ObjectType == TObjectType.ComboBox) //Is it a combobox?
        {
            LogMessage(shp.Text + " :" + xls.GetObjectSelection(i, null).ToString()); //Log the state of the combobox
        }
    }

See also

• ExcelFile