VB Forum / Controls / November 2003

Is there a workaround for capturing the vbKeytab event if you use
tabstps?

Is there any way to access the ActiveControl of a constituent control?
We have a Container control that dynamically loads controls into a
WebBrowser via UserControl.Controls.Add() so that the user can edit
certain information.  However, these dynamically loaded controls have

I am running VB 6.0 on my Millenium system. The code shown
below, loads images into a from in my library application.
Is there a method to load individual Access database
records into a VB form in a similar manner?

I must reprogram a usercontrol which develop in vb
but I find in this control , a picturebox's method
paintpicture had redifine,but I want use the old paintpicture
feature,how can I do?

How can I check if any child of a node is selected. If the
node itself is selected I want false, if any other node or
it's child's are selected I want false, but if any child
of a specific node is selected I want true returned

Im looking for an OCX or DLL that will read the Id3v1 and id3v2 tag info
from MP3s. I do not play the MP3 so i only need the ability to read and
perhaps
write in the future. Any leads on where I can find a freeware control for

I'm learning VB6 from a book. The following code is
supposed to open a simple text file I created - putting
the text into my VB text box.
Private Sub cmdOpen_Click()

If you put a "&" in front of a letter on a control the
letter is supposed to be underlined and you can access it
with ALT + the letter.
This doesn't work on my PC for MENUS.

When I attempt to place a DBGrid on a form, a dialog box pops up saying
that:  "License Information for this component not found."
A search shows that DbGrid32.ocx and DbGrid32.oca are both in the
C:\Windows\System Folder.

I have a VB 5.0 app that uses MSCOMM successfully to talk
via a COM port to and from a piece of hardware kit using 8-
bit binary bytes.  I want to do the same thing on a PC
which is set up for Chinese windows (with DBCS).  It

I have a combo box with no default value.  The list options is: 1.Install
and 2.Uninstall.
1. How can I set the combobox so that it defaults to install at runtime?
2. Also, how can I then use whatever the option, to store either install or

i have a listview control with 6-8 columns.
the columns have several widths.
The user must not change the width of the last of these columns!!!
Who can help???????????

I have a VB6 (SP5) application written and compiled in windows 2000,
where everything works fine, but after it has been installed on
Windows ME or Windows 98, then the rich text is displayed with all
it's formatting characters as if it was just displaying the raw rtf

I am developing a client server application for file
upload and download using FTP protocol with MSInet.ocx. I
am getting an error message "Unable to connect to remote
host" and error number 35754.

how is it possible to set ColorDepth for images inserted
in an ImageList control for VB6?
I know it is possible with VB.NET because ImageList
component in .NET framework implements ColorDepth