Excel Add-in Development in C/C++: Applications in ... - F9

xiiContents8.14.6 Trapping a window selection event: xlcOnWindow 2818.14.7 Trapping a system clock event: xlcOnTime 2828.15 Miscellaneous commands and functions 2828.15.1 Disabling screen updating during command execution:xlcEcho 2828.15.2 Displaying text in the status bar: xlcMessage 2838.15.3 Evaluating a cell formula: xlfEvaluate 2838.16 The XLCallVer() C API function 2839 Miscellaneous Topics 2859.1 Timing function execution in VB and C/C++ 2859.2 Relative performance of VB, C/C++: Tests and results 2899.2.1 Conclusion of test results 2939.3 Relative performance of C API versus VBA calling from aworksheet cell 2939.4 Detecting when a worksheet function is called from the PasteFunction dialog (Function Wizard) 2949.5 Accessing Excel functionality using COM/OLE Automation usingC++ 2959.5.1 Initialising and un-initialising COM 2979.5.2 Getting Excel to recalculate worksheets using COM 2999.5.3 Calling user-defined commands using COM 3009.5.4 Calling user-defined functions using COM 3029.5.5 Calling XLM functions using COM 3039.5.6 Calling worksheet functions using COM 3039.6 Maintaining large data structures within the DLL 3059.7 A C++ Excel name class example, xlName 3079.8 Keeping track of the calling cell of a DLL function 3099.8.1 Generating a unique name 3109.8.2 Obtaining the internal name of the calling cell 3119.8.3 Naming the calling cell 3139.8.4 Internal XLL name housekeeping 3159.9 Multi-tasking, multi-threading and asynchronous calls in DLLs 3169.9.1 Setting up timed calls to DLL commands: xlcOnTime 3169.9.2 Starting and stopping threads from within a DLL 3189.9.3 Calling the C API from a DLL-created thread 3209.10 A background task management class and strategy 3209.10.1 Requirements 3219.10.2 Communication between Excel and a background thread 3229.10.3 The software components needed 3229.10.4 Imposing restrictions on the worksheet function 3239.10.5 Organising the task list 3249.10.6 Creating, deleting, suspending, resuming the thread 3269.10.7 The task processing loop 3269.10.8 The task interface and main functions 3289.10.9 The polling command 3309.10.10 Configuring and controlling the background thread 331