VB Forum / Controls / October 2003

   On a win-form, How can I provide tab focus on controls which are within
a user control.
I have a form on which I am adding user controls at run time. Everything
works fine except the tab order.

I am coding a database client in VB6 SP5, backend is MySQL
on Linux. I can not find a way to get the DataCombo to
display multiple columns as is easily done in Access combo
boxes.

I am attempting to create my own control in Vb6.
I created a class in the UserControl project which basically has two fields
       FormatString as string
       TypeOfData  as integer

Is there some way to accurately tell when the form loses focus?  The
Form.LostFocus event doesn't accurately tell me when the form actually
looses focus.  I want to change something on my form when the user clicks on
another program.  When the user clicks on another form in my ...

I'm new to VB. Can some one please help me with the following ... how do
I
1.    Display a MDI child form in center of MDI (parent) form?
2.    Show a form on top center of the screen or in other coronations

Folks:
I am looking for a printable version of of the Visual basic Object Browser.
Maybe in PDF/WORD/etc format.
Thanks in advance

I am using the .sort method of the Msflexgrid to sort the
data within it.  I set the .col to the column i wish to
sort and then execute the .sort method using
FlexSortNumericAscending or FlexSortNumericDescending to

I am writing a control which will be similar to a combo/image box but
with additional functionality. So the control will have a drop down
list which will be displayed when a button on the left hand side is
clicked. My question is: if the control is placed at the bottom of a

I get error number 7 when compiling to an ocx, using VB6 SP5. It compiles OK
but I get the error message when writing out the OCX.
The OCX works fime in the IDE, and consistes of 10 usercontrols. Each one is
a small control, and I've written them to replace the standard button,

Hi All :-)
I am trying to load a Combobox from a file so that only
the entries in the file end up in the combobox, but
somehow, I always end up with 2 blank lines at the end -

   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

I have form1 with dbgrid control (datdata1) to populate
the dbgrid. When I click on a specific row, I want form2
(which has dbgrid also) to open and show the related
record from form1.

I have a picture box that is larger than the screen and I want to save
the image as a bmp file
This picture box won't let me save it, all I get is a blank page.
Can I copy this image to another picture box where it can be saved

I'm using an MSFlexGrid control in my application.  It's not tied to any
data.  I'm just using it for keeping (and editing) information.  I know it's
not designed to edit but I've managed to get it to put information in by
reading keystrokes and putting that in the cell.  Here's my ...

I'm using VB 6. I use validate event for checking field
entry. One problem is validate event active when ever user
press TAB key. I need to bypass them when user press CTRL-
TAB or BACK Tab key. How can I detect CTRL-TAB or BACK Tab