Comments on: COM/ActiveX tips & tricks

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 20:05:10 +0000

In reply to Gary Roth. @Gary - MathWorks constantly change their website without bothering to redirect the old webpages to their new URLs. This is yet another example of this. I fixed the link that you mentioned to the new URL (hopefully it will not be changed again in the near future, but who know). Unfortunately, all the other links in the article that lead to MathWorks webpage are also broken, and I have not fixed them. If anyone has time to search for the new URLs and email me, then I will update them.

By: Gary Roth

Gary Roth — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 19:23:58 +0000

I tried to follow the “well documented” link (https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/brd4at8.html) and received the message “The page you were looking for does not exist. Use the search box or browse topics below to find the page you were looking for.”

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:01:05 +0000

In reply to Manju.

@Manju – you can start the Excel Macro Recorder, then do whatever you want in Excel, then stop the recording, view the resulting VB code (using Alt-F8 or the Macros menu), and then convert that VB code into corresponding Matlab code (a process called “Matlabization”).

By: Manju

Manju — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 04:21:30 +0000

Hi,
How do we click on a excel user form using matlab actxserver? Using workbooks.Worksheet.Item(userformName) is not working…

By: Jaideep

Jaideep — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:37:26 +0000

How do i stack an activeX control(Windows Media player) behind an axes?
I want my axes to appear on top of my activex control i.e. windows media player in my case? My guide however is not allowing me to do this inspite of selecting ‘Bring to front’ or ‘Send to Back’ option. The axes is always stuck behind my active x control.
Thank you in advance.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:40:27 +0000

Hi Yair,

Two comments here. First, there actually is a way to use the VB syntax via the verbose get and set. To use the context of your example:

hSheet = get(hWorkbook,'Worksheets',2);

Secondly, I have found the Microsoft developer resources pretty useful for finding enumerated values. Most of the time, they will list the numeric value next to the enumerated name. It’s pretty well laid out, except for using links instead of a tree view. Here is the link to the one for Excel:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb149081.aspx