VB Forum / Controls / September 2003

Any advise on how to detect when a column width of a MSFlexGrid has changed
would be appreciated. I would like to be able to save and restore column
widths but there is no intrinsic event fired when a column is resized. All
suggestions welcome.

In an MDI application, how do I display a form without the
form being modal and a child. Let me know. Thanks.

I am using mscomm with VB6 and win98SE.
I need to send out ASCII serial characters with a 10ms
delay between each character.  I have tried using timer()
and timer control, but it seems the minimum delay that I

I'm a PowerBuilder programmer but now I need to create an OCX in VB
which will include the MSWINSCK.OCX (because of problems in
PowerBuilder when using the MSWINSCK.OCX directly).
BUT I have NO experiece in VB !  :-(

I need to get download of MS word ActiveX.
Does anyone knows the like on Microsoft site or any other
site
Thanks

Anyone know of some really good charting software/control that i can use
from vb6.0 ?
basically i want to be able to create the chart and then save the chart as a
gif or jpg and view it in a html page

I am trying to create a process in an Excel-based solution
that can perpetually check a network directory for changes
while not preventing Excel from remaining functional.  All
of the timer functions I'm aware of seem to prevent the

Does anyone know if there is an Activex control (.OCX) for use with VB6,
that supports RichEdit 2.0?
Thanks

Is there any sample code someplace that shows how to get
the events or properties coming the mouse wheel on one
those intellicence mice.
More specifically what needs to be done to scroll a flex

My application need to send e-mail with excel file when
user input receiving e-mail address. How can I make that
work? any suggestion please?
Thanks

I'e got a MSHFlexGrid which is filled by a recordset. Because the sorting of
a MSHFlexGrid only goes from left to right, I was forced to sort the
FlexGrid with the recordset.sort property. At the moment he's sorting fine,
but after sorting, I lose my special alignment and ...

Or other similar control can do this?
thanks a lot.
Joey

If I were to use a FTP component (non-WinInet implementation) instead
of the WinInet API for FTP (from VB6), which one should I use? I've
heard that the performance of products like Dart, Xceed, IP*Works etc
is much better & robust as compared to WinInet API.

   we have been using using an ActiveX control inside IE, recently
getting the error "instruction at '####' referenced memory at '####'.
The memory can not be read." and IE crashes.
I have managed to track down the problem to new functions created

Ok a silly question but I am coming from Access to .net and need help.  I
have managed ho add a tree view and a splitter and those work fine on the
left of the screen.
However when a record is selected it can be of one or two types which needs