VB Forum / Controls / November 2003

Could anyone tell me how to use the progress bar, and if it is good practise
to have a seperate form running the progressbar.. or your main form.
Also, i am using visual studio 6, and i though there was a
progressbar1.stepit option, but it doesn't show up in my list of options..

Once a listview controll is populated can you read back the text that is in each column
Example:
Column 1  Column 2  Column
Chris        Flake        200.0

I have a MonthView control with 4 columns and 3 rows, so it displays a whole
year at once. I would like to adjust the control so that the first visible
month is about five months ago, so that the current date is somewhat in the
middle of the control. I have problems finding the way ...

I'm looking for some VB5 or 6 source code to show me how to rip tracks off a
CD. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Rob Steiner

I am looking for a way to disable/enable all the controls that are locate on
a certain frame.
I have seen a few but they end up disabling all the controls everywhere.
Does anyone have a function that I can pass the frame control name and a

I am trying to populate a listview control but it errors up and says run time error 35613 ImageList must be initialized before it can be used. Does anybody know anywhere I can get a simple example on how to populate a listView control?

I would like to have a listbox list the files in a
directory.  But have run into a problem with getting the
list of files in the direcory, does anyone have a
suggestion or sample code.

I have newbie question on listview control.  When a
listview is populated, the first item is selected by
default and the background color is white. But this is
different from user clicking on an item manually, the

I'm able to access data in a newly opened Window.  With the following code
(snippet) in a browser script both works, setting/getting data and calling a
script function
set oWin = window.open("test.htm")

How to make ping ?
Think it is not possible using Winsock cause
ping is not port-related.
Thanks in advance.

  I need to interrogate a generic Control object
(returned by Form.ActiveControl) to determine it's type.  
Try as I might, I can find no list of common control
properties.  "Intellisense" can make no sense of a

Can someone please help?
I have a dialog with a datagrid on it. The dialog also has a menu which was
created using the menu editor and its visible property is set to false. I
then make this call: Call Me.PopupMenu(Me.mnEquipStock,

I need to capture a folder, not a file. This folder could
be on another machine across the network and I don't want
to have to map a drive. Which vb6 control can I use?

I want to create an ActiveX control that uses an MDI form
with children forms.  But the 'Add MDI Form' option is not
available in an ActiveX Control project.  Why?
How can I go about creating an ActiveX control in VB6 that

Is there a way, eather thru code or using a third party version, to rotate
the image in an image box? I need to be able to do 90 degree rotations of a
square image. I am using VB6. Thanks in advance. Elton