ExcelFile.SetObjectSelection Method

Sets the selected item of an object from the "Forms" palette. It can be a combobox, a listbox, a spinbox or a scrollbar. Note that this only works for objects added through the Forms toolbar. It won't return the values of ActiveX objects.

Remarks

If the object is linked to a cell, this method will change both the object and the cell.

Syntax

Namespace: FlexCel.Core

public abstract void SetObjectSelection(Int32 objectIndex, String objectPath, Int32 selectedItem)

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"
	selectedItem	Int32	Position of the selected item in the object. 0 means no selection, 1 means that the first item is selected.

Examples

To set a combobox selection to be the 5th item, use the code:

    XlsFile xls = new XlsFile("comboboxes.xls");
    for (int i = 1; i <= xls.ObjectCount; i++)
    {
        TShapeProperties shp = xls.GetObjectProperties(i, false);
        if (shp.ObjectType == TObjectType.ComboBox && shp.Text == "MyText")
        {
            xls.SetObjectSelection(i, null, 5);
        }
    }

To change a combo given its name instead of its text, replace shp.Text == "MyText" by shp.Name == "MyName" in the code above.

See also

• ExcelFile