VB Forum / Controls / December 2003

VB5
I'm a newbee
I'm making an addition
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i use a TabStrip Control (Windows Common Controls either 5 or 6) and i show
icons on the tabs and i want the transparent part of the icons to be
transparent. I found out that i have to set the BackColor Property of the
imagelist to the background color of the TabStrip. Now my ...

VB6 Win-NT
Hello,
I am using the CommonDialog control to select files in an application.
Apparently that control can't be sized. The window for selecting files

DLL help,
how can I :
......determine what DLL's are "not" registered
......using a listbox CONTROL dIsplay results in the following form -

this may not be the right group to answer this - but here goes...
How do i program the DataEnvironment to use the application path +
database name
as opposed to hard coding the full address in the Connection tab of the

I want my application shows the current time dynamically. I do the following
but its
static time. The time won't change dynamically unless we close and open the
application again.

I've added the ColorPickerCtrl 1.0 control to my components list.  This
allows me to add a ColorSelector Control to a user form.  My problem is that
I can't seem to be able to set the starting color on this control.  I would
like to be able to specify the color in the form load ...

In VB, I know CInt(Hour(Time)) will get the hour
But how to know AM or PM of the current time??

Does anyone know how to use SFTP (Secure FTP) within VB?  Ideally I am
looking for source code but any help will be appreciated.
I know that you can get the Socketwrench tools or WeOnlyDo components
but there is a cost to these!  I'd rather learn how it works as well.

I have a question.....Just wondering what some people's opinions are on the
subject.
I have a project where each of my combo boxes are data controlled & each
needs an ado recordset for their rowsource property.  I have about 12 of

I have created an application using ADO. Runs fine works
great.  I put it on another pc and it will not run.  
After much frustration I installed vb and tried to run
the project and got the same problem.  The only thing on

Using the standard common controls Treeview, VB6 SP5, W2K professional.
Does anyone know of a way to disable the mouse-over behavior when the
control's viewable area is < length of the node's text?  I don't want the
full text to popup when the mouse is passed over the item.

In VB6, I am using the msflexgrid to display a monthly calendar.  when I
clicks on a date, a listbox appears with the events for that day.  Then when
I click on an item of the listbox, listbox, it displays data about that
event.  However it does not highlight the item.  If I click a ...

Hello.  I use MSWINSCK.OCX in my application, in many
places, and it works fine.  But, with a new installation I
get the following error:
Run-time error 372:

I have an ActiveX control (.OCX file) that is inside an HTML page. The
problem is this:
 Part of the code attempts to disable a series of TextBoxes:
   txtName.Enabled = False