VB Forum / Controls / October 2003

Folks:
I am a VB6 newbie who is thoroughly enjoying the variou featues of this
language.  Here are a few of my current questions:
*  I have a bunch of DOS programs.  I would like to be able to click various

I've written my own tab control - basically to see if I can do it, and I
have except with one problem,
I would like to copy the old SSTab control which allowed you to put controls
on individual tabs.

I've written a telnet client with the winsock control.  
Most of the data I'm receiving I can read but some of it
comes through as garbled text.  Can anyone offer a reason
for this?  Here is my code;

Anybody have any idea how to export the picture that a
picturebox contains to an external bitmap or jpeg file ? I
have an application that changes the image at runtime but
have found no way to save that image.

I want to display the MS common dialog
control 'COMDLG32.OCX' such that when calling ShowFont
method ...  all the frames show on it.
But the 'Color' combo stays hidden (not visible) in

I am maintaining an Object Oriented application designed
using VB 6.0. The application seems to works fine on NT
4.0 machines.
On Windows 2000 machines, the following error happens on

Does anyone have a copy of the above subject software.
I desperately need to purchase a copy!  My computer
crashed recently.  When I tried to re-install DBGrid
from the CD I have, there was an error in reading the

I've a form with VB Timer Control.
The problem is that the Timer event is not firing when the form's Visisble
propery is false AND when the form is deactived.
I need to force timer to continue cycling when the form is invisible or

Does anyone know of any (reasonably simple) way of changing the backcolor
property of a VScrollBar in VB.Net? I've seen some conversation about this
on the internet, but have not seen any working code. I'd sure like to do
this if possible.

I am calling a MessageBox within my TextBox Validating
method. When I press the enter key to close this dialog
box the TextBox's KeyUp method is receiving and
processing the enter key - thus putting me in an infinate

I'm new to Visual Basic, so my apologies if this question is really
basic.
I'm creating a number of ActiveX controls that have some common
enumerations and user defined types. To avoid having to redefine these

I want to delete some worksheets in a macro, but I don't
know how to suppress the confirmation box that asks me
whether I'm sure.
Here is the code as it came up from recording the macro:

how to popup a dialog box when pressing Ctrl + F placing the cursor in a
text box
thanks in advance

I have a VB6 app where we enable/dissabler menu items
based on a security policy.
i.e. We have tables holding security groups and names of
menus.

About a hour ago I joined this newsgroup, now I have received loads of
emails, pretending to be a microsoft update but containing a virus.
Does anybody else suffer from this?
Can I do anything about it?