VB Forum / Controls / October 2003

I have created an ocx which is embedded in an asp page.  
Along with the object in the asp page are several <PARAM>
tags which I need to customize the control.  So I am
reading the params from the property bag using the

I have a simple problem but I cannot find the solution. I have a
custom usercontrol and I want to call a routine that normally takes a
picturebox or form and uses Print, CurrentX, CurrentY, PaintPicture
etc to draw a widget. MyUserControl has AutoRedraw=true -- what do I

I'm looking for a diagram control that can display three dimensional data.
In so far, Excel diagram would do. But I need to display data that are
"interval scaled"!
E.g. Excel 3D diagrams would make from the values "1, 2, ..., 99" a "1, 2, 99"

   How does one check to see if an Internet Connection is live in VB6, and return a message like:
If ConnectionActive then Active = "The Internet Connection is active"
If ConnectionActive then Active = "Not Active - Check Router!"
endif

I am using Listview control in my application. I have a
date field which always gets sorted in alphabetical order
ie.., 1 to 9 and a- z for ascending, which is wrong for
dates.

How can I prevent the spacebar from selecting a
checkbox?  
I want to use the spacebar to toggle a command button on
a form and can do so with KeyPress.  However,the spacebar

I created an about dialog box in VB6, but the program run frmAbout.Show to
pop up the about dialog, it doesn't pop up in the middle of the screen. How
can i change the position to be displayed?

1 - Simple Combo
Why do the arrow keys scroll the list of a combobox on
one form, but wont scroll the list on another form?  Both
forms have KeyPreview and appear to be identical.

how to create a Multicolumn ComboBox like MS ACCESS??
Thanks
ChrisLite 2003

Cannot resize MSHflexgrid in design time and Cannot define
data format.  The data format problem is most serious,
because it still display the numbers that is not round
although I have rounded in the SQL statement!!

I'm getting a problem trying to use the MSFlexGrid
control - problem occurs using VB in Office XP or VB.net.  
The problem and its supposed solution are described in
Q318597 - with a footnote that this solution doesn't work

I would like to set the color of each row using code on
the DataGrid control.  I understand that the
BackgroundColor property will modify the color for the
entire control, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a

I am running Windows 2000 server and am trying to use VB6
canendar control, but every time that I try to add it to a
project from the toolbar VB shuts down.
I also have a project with the calendar control in it, but

I tried to take data of Access 2000 database(table) in to
dbgrid of VB6. However all effort were failed. I could do
it using VB5.
Please send me possible method to use dbgrid of vb6 with

Does anyone know how to capture or create an event that
triggers when you reach the end of a listview box by
scrolling with the mouse?
Thanks in advance.