VB Forum / Controls / December 2003

Does anyone know what the distribution policy of the
FM20.dll.  I have used it internally with applications
that always run with office.
Now, I have a request from a client to create a suite of

I would like to resize columns in my MSHFlexGrid to fit
the field data. Here is the code that I am using:
AutoResizeGrid(ByVal flx As MSHFlexGrid)
Dim r As Long

I have an MDI form in my Visual Basic application. There
are two child forms whose window state is maximized at
design time.
I run the application and open one child form. The child

I have a problem of course.  I'm using VB.Net and have a form on which
there are several combo boxes.  The form is used to add records to a
table.  The problem arises after the form has been used to insert a
record.  I'm clearing all the text boxes but Combo boxes continue to

When you load bitmaps to an ImageList control, are those bitmaps saved to
the .FRX file ?  In other words,  does it matter if those bitmaps are on a
user's machine once you deploy ?
Thanks.

I have three radio buttons within a frame.
To the right of the three radio buttons, I have another frame.
If the first radio button is selected, I would like the right frame to
display a series of checkboxes, text boxes, etc.  The default option.

I have vb.net and access but some file ocx don't works (they are file OLEDB:
ado, commondialog, dataview...).
Both .net and access tell me that i don't have the licence to use this ocx.
Why?

I want to use a web browser control on my form in VB. I
have no idea what I need to do. So will anyone please
provide me an example i.e some simple code from beginning
to end. Just hello world is fine.

Still having problems, I traced it to the icon that starts the program.
I use Install Shield 2.13 to create the build and the icon they build causes short filnames, but if I use explorer to create the icon and send to desktop, that icon gives me the long filenames.
I get the long ...

I'd like to populate a TreeView control with the directories from a
user's machine.  I'd like to show the images of the folder, My Computer,
etc., icons next to each node.
Is there a standard directory from which we can load these type of

I'm using a TreeView to build a directory list.  There is a noticable
delay in the TreeView refreshing itself as it adds a bunch of children
nodes to a parent node.
In other words, if my parent node is "C:\Program Files" and I click to

After typing something into a textbox, I want to hit
the "Enter" key or "Return" key and have an event happen.

Is there any way to control the vertical spacing in a richtextbox?  I have
found nothing and the information I've found on the internet doesn't seem to
work.  I'm using vb6 sp5 and ms richtextbox v6 sp4.  Is there no way to
control the vertical spacing (i.e. single, double)?

Why does Visual Basic sometimes return a long filenames and sometimes
short filenames.
Is there a way to force long filenames in the directory listbox?
Sometimes I will get C:\Progra~1 and other times I get C:\Program Files

I need to get plain text out of an HTML document, i.e.
remove the HTML code and get unformatted text. This HTML
document is fed into a webbrowser control with the
document.write method, but I can't find any control