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VB Forum / General 2 / December 2006Form properties
Using VB6 Enterprise Edition. Is 'Cancel' supposed to be a from property? It is supposed to close a form by pushing <Esc> if set to true. Chuck -- > Using VB6 Enterprise Edition. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Chuck > -- No, but you can set the Cancel property of a command button to True. This means it is "clicked" when the user presses escape. On modal dialogs particularly, you often set the Enter property true on the OK button, and the Cancel property true on the Cancel button. Then pressing escape has the same effect as clicking the Cancel button. You get to write the code for the Cancel button, which is usually to close the form without saving changes. Chuck <libbeyc@schoollink.net>'s wild thoughts were released on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:17:43 -0500 bearing the following fruit: >Using VB6 Enterprise Edition. > >Is 'Cancel' supposed to be a from property? >It is supposed to close a form by pushing <Esc> if set to true. It is in VB.Net but not with VB6 and below, where you set the cancel property of a command button. Jan Hyde (VB MVP)  SignatureWhen ancient wall sculptors were finished, it was a relief. (David Kahn) >Using VB6 Enterprise Edition. > >Is 'Cancel' supposed to be a from property? >It is supposed to close a form by pushing <Esc> if set to true. > >Chuck Thanks Steve and Jan. I'm new to windows programming. The last time I wrote a program it was in Pascal and DOS 3 was king. What I'm trying to do is translate a program written in BASIC about 1990 to Visual Basic. I want an opening screen that gives credit to the original programmer and to several other people who made modifications over the years. The program runs just fine in a DOS Window. However if you click to have a hard copy of the output data, the program looks for a DOS printer connected to the LPT1 port. All I want to do is make it print to a Windows printer connected to a USB port. I am not going to change to functioning of the program. Chuck -- >>Using VB6 Enterprise Edition. >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >do is make it print to a Windows printer connected to a USB port. I am not >going to change to functioning of the program. Print to a file and get a 10 line Windows App to shunt it into the spooler. >>>Using VB6 Enterprise Edition. >>> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >Print to a file and get a 10 line Windows App to shunt it into the >spooler. When the BASIC program runs, it is in a DOS window. Does the *shunt* occur within the BASIC program? In the past I've made DOS programs print to a file. Then when the program closes I open the file and print. A little akward if making multiple runs. <snip> >>Print to a file and get a 10 line Windows App to shunt it into the >>spooler. >When the BASIC program runs, it is in a DOS window. >Does the *shunt* occur within the BASIC program? >In the past I've made DOS programs print to a file. Then when the program >closes I open the file and print. A little akward if making multiple runs. You should be able to kick off a Windows App from VB, the App does not need to be visible. I'm sure that there are plenty of utilities out there, if not someone would run one up for you, it is about 10 mins work. I used to print to LPT1 directly using Int 17h (well my code still does) but with the plethora of printers out there nowadays it is probably better to go for something structured and generic. >>Using VB6 Enterprise Edition. >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Chuck Finally got what I want. added code at the very top of the data input form: Private Sub Form Load () MsgBox"......." & Chr$(13) & "......") End Sub Notice the Chr$(13) for line feed. The VB6 book that I have shows Chr(13) without the $. If the $ is left our there is a compile error. The message doesn't fill the whole screen, but it looks good and is centered nicely. There are 14 lines of text and the box has an OK button that closes the message box and opens the data input form. Is it possible to format only the first line of text to a larger font and make it bold? Chuck -- > Finally got what I want. added code at the very top of the data input form: > Private Sub Form Load () [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Notice the Chr$(13) for line feed. The VB6 book that I have shows Chr(13) > without the $. If the $ is left our there is a compile error. I would have written "......." & vbCrLf & "......") vbCrLf is a pre-defined constant that puts a carriage return and line feed into a string. > The message doesn't fill the whole screen, but it looks good and is centered > nicely. There are 14 lines of text and the box has an OK button that closes > the message box and opens the data input form. > > Is it possible to format only the first line of text to a larger font and make > it bold? You can just create your own message form, with whatever properties you need, including a one line label in bold followed by a multi-line label in regular. To run it, I would change your project to start with Sub Main, and then in a module write Sub Main() MsgForm.Show vbModal ' vbModal = code stops and waits for form to close... FormMain.Show End Sub >> Finally got what I want. added code at the very top of the data input form: >> Private Sub Form Load () [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > FormMain.Show >End Sub Thanks Steve. I don't understand exactly what you'r telling me, but I'm going to play around with it and see what I can do. I'll get back and let you know what happens. Chuck -- Beginning to understand a little, very little. I don't think I've installed VB6 completely. Added "Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0" to the controls window Added toolbar to top of form. Under Properties Pages/General Image List drop down box does not have any choices other than "None" I have VB6 Enterprise Edition. When VB6 was installed, 'select all' was chosen for components to install. Obviously something else needs to be done. Suggestions please. Chuck -- Solved. And all I had to do was RTFM. >Beginning to understand a little, very little. >I don't think I've installed VB6 completely. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Chuck > Solved. And all I had to do was RTFM. Yes, but the instruction to RTFM is found on page 4, so not everyone gets there...:) >> Solved. And all I had to do was RTFM. > >Yes, but the instruction to RTFM is found on page 4, so not everyone gets >there...:) Amen |
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