VB Forum / Controls / October 2003

I have a picture stored as large binary column in my DB. When I execute the
following code I get an imvalid picture type. The data is correct as I can
use virtually the same code in EVB to display the picture.
       showPicData goADOrs.Fields("Photo")

I am developing an App using VB6.  I have:
1 exe file
1 Active X OCX
1 ActiveX dll

The VB6 help file says that you the picture box has the Print method, but I
can't find it.
I want to print on top of a picture box on a usercontrol.
UserControl.Redraw = true

I want to pass the ListItem object to a procedure:
The passing procedure is set up like this:
Dim liitem As MSComctlLib.ListItem
For Each liitem In lvwPreview.ListItems

Hi, I have a listview thats in Report view ... so it displays everything in
rows.
Changing the ForeColor property of a ListItem changes the text of the first
column.

   I need a combo box to do the following in VB6:
       Whenb a presses the S, the combo box will automatically go to the
first word beginning with "S".
eg:  "South Carolina" will be the first state to appear if the user presses

Is there a way to limit the number of rows that display when you click the
dbc control. The control I am using only has 5 records and leaves alot of
blank space at the bottom of th drop down.

Could anyone suggest to me a way to get tooltips to work in a treeview?
 I tracked down a nice piece of code to allow me to add tooltips to
components on a form but I can't seem to add tips to a node in a treeview.
Any suggestions would be welcome.

I am new to Visual Studio.NET. Studio.NET provides a set
of controls in "Windows Forms" toolbox.  Can I import and
use additional controls (like a tree control, etc.)? If
so, how?

Is there a way to not let someone close a form. I want to throw a form into my
startup menu with a textbox and button where you need to type a password to use
the close button. I've maximized the form, got rid of the Min Max buttons. But
can't get rid of the X button. Should I just ...

I've a Header and a Footer in the rtf file, after loading
it into ReachTextBox the Header and Footer are erased.
What should I do to prevent this disappearance?
I want also copy questions from DB to this file and to add

  When I create forms or controls in VB In notice that even if you set the
scale mode to "Inches" or "Cms" the size( Width & height) is not drawn to
scale. In other words, if you set your form to 10 inches, what you see on
the screen isn't really 10 inches.  Screen resolution seems ...

In Visual Basic 6.0, the Change event of the ComboBox
control was raised when the text in the text-entry portion
of the control was modified; it was not raised when an
item was selected from the list portion of the control.  

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 would like to put a watermark on a MDI form (ie under the child forms).
Picture prop does not work as it does stay centered.
Any ides?