VB Forum / Controls / September 2003

I want to display an animated gif file on a form and have
the animation run.
How do I do this?
Thanks,

 What do you think is the best way to print on a dot matrix printer? I
tried all these ways, but still finding the best one:
1. Using the printer as a filke and so opening it with - open "Lpt1:" for
output as #1

How can I move a TextBox from Tab 1 of an SSTab to Tab 3?

I'm dynamically loading one of my project's usercontrols into a member
variable of type vbControlExtender
When I issue the
Set m_Usercontrol = Usercontrol.Controls.Add("ictlQueryControl",

I have ended up with lots of different versions of mscomctl.ocx and
msvbvm60.dll on different machines on different OS platforms (WIN98, XP,
WIN2K, WIN2003).
I have to clean up, and want to use the latest version of each file. But as

Does someone know where I can find and download it ?
Thks. :)

I am using a homemade tabstrip which use labels with code behind their click
event. I don't want User to be able to tab to these labels but I don't know
how to get them out of the tab order since they don't have a tabstop
property.

I'm stumped.  I have a combobox that has to have an item chosen.  I have a
message pop up if it's blank on LostFocus.  Is there a way to see if the
focus has gone to a specific control (the command button to close the form)?
I want it to skip the checking if the user is trying to ...

I have a huge client/server (TPC/IP, SMTP, SQL) program with many forms.
The program is basicly broken down into aprox 12 area's (each of the area's
are basicly a program within in the exe).
What I want to do is break the program out into dll or ocx files, so I will

I'm doing one file upload using HTTP multipart/form-data
I'm sending all the bytes, but at the server end (ASP) it is receiving 0
bytes.
Here is the code.

How can I download files from an ftp server using Visual
Basic. Is there any dll that can be used. Let me know.
Thanks.

Dear Sirs,
I want to put a button which will start internet exploerer with specified
html page.
I try to use shell(), but with shell, I have to know where is the

Does anyone know where there is information on how to use the MS chat addin.
What I am trying to do is to send and receive text from a VB program thru a
chat window. I need to find out how to access it. I am running VB 6
enterprise.

In ms outlook (office xp) while working on tasks, and selecting <New>
<Task> menu item,then after i clicked on the <Categories> command
button, the categories dialog box has a list item that has a text with
a check box for each item on the list.

Does anyone have a reference chart for the AxMMcontrol? I can get it to work
using standard buttons, but not with the controls built in events...
This example works:
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