VB Forum / Controls / November 2003

Rational Robot, a windows capture/playback tool, manages to get the name of
a control on a form whilst the applicaiton is running. That is, if you
create an application with a command button that is called cmdButtonTest,
create the exe, run the exe and you get robot to click on the ...

can someone help me.  My computer freezes up when I am
Yahoo games.  I have compaq computer with Windows XP

how can I create f.e. an image-control only with code (not having any
starting-object in a form to which i could reference too)
Dim f as form
Dim img as image

When running this code, the IDE takes several seconds to end the
application, while the app closes OK when run as an EXE. Any idea why?
Private Sub Form_DblClick()
    MsgBox Inet1.OpenURL("http://www.cisco.com")

I have a form with several controls on it - I also have a textbox on there.
what I want to do is change the content of the textbox depending on what
control has focus.
i was going to use the getfocus event of each control to change the text -

Is it possible to add an array of dynamic controls to at
runtime?  I am trying to add multiple pictureboxes within
a container.  I would like to be able to double-click any
of the items and raise an event.

Is there a way to figure out if there is a Horizontal Scrollbar on a
Treeview and resize the control so there is no scrollbar?

I am running Visual Basic 6.0 on my Millennium System. I
have developed an application in which I load images from
various folders into a Visual Basic form. The code I use
is:

Hi all,
I had a problem that a saw a lot of people with: the need for an easy
onscreen keyboard. It was a lot easier than i thought. Thought i'd
share it with y'all, you know, give something back for all i've

Is there a way to prevent a user from typing text in a combo box.
Basically, I populate the combobox with another button.  I've tried using
the locked option in properties, which works great, but then the user also
can not choose from the options in the combo box.

Hello all...
I program in VB, and I am seeking a method of playing assorted .avi clips in
various sequences in response to program events.  Can anyone recommend a
control to use which doesn't have massive overhead?  I'd like to make the

Hi Group,
My Application uses the WebBrowser control for getting
content from the HTML pages it runs , and it works good.
my problem is where i click some link of the HTML page and

how do i code a command button to open a specific webpage?

I have written a custom ocx which I am attempting to compile. With no
compatibility selected the ocx compiles and runs fine, when I
subsequently save a copy of the resultant ocx and use this as the
binary comptatibility target (in a separate folder) and recompile the

I have a std textbox and browse button, using commondialog control.  The
output of commondialog.filename i then use in another function to populate
my combo box.  I've realised that because I set the comdlg.filename to a
variable and use that, the user can not type text into the ...