Updated Event -- Event Procedures

Description

To create an event procedure that is run when the Updated event occurs, set the OnUpdated property to [Event Procedure], and click the Build button.

To see if an object’s data has been changed since it was last saved, set a global variable in the Updated event procedure indicating that the object needs to be saved. When you save the OLE object, reset the variable.

Syntax

Private Sub controlname_Updated (Code As Integer)

The Updated event procedure uses the following argument.

Argument

Description

controlname

A string that is the name of the control affected by the Updated event procedure.

Code

An intrinsic constant that indicates how the OLE object was updated. The Code argument can have the following constants:


Argument

acOLEChanged

Description

Indicates that the object’s data has changed.


acOLESaved

Indicates that the object’s data has been saved by the application that created the object. This usually occurs when the user chooses the application’s Update command or whatever command is used for updating.

acOLEClosed

Indicates that the file containing the object’s data has been closed by the application that created the object.

acOLERenamed

Indicates that the file containing the object’s data has been renamed by the application that created the object.


See Also

Updated Event — Macros.