VB Forum / Controls / January 2004

Hello guys and girls,
I have a problem with mswinsck.ocx in VB5 Pro.  I know
it's an old product but it does the job.  Except until now
I've never needed the winsock control.

I am a proficient VB6 programmer, but I can't figure out
how to have multiple controls/tools on a form and have one
shrink while another expands.
I have been reading thru MSDN documents for days, to no

I installed the control for Microsoft Windows Common
Controls -2 and set the clock control how I wanted it.  
when I try in on my computer it works fine but on any
other computer it tells me it has to register the OCX

Hi Friends
I need to know how to add dynamically controls into a tab dynamically
created in a tabstrip control.
I already know how to add tabs to a tabstrip control in run time, but i need

Is there a way to center a picture file which is loaded
from a remote folder, using the CommandDialog? I do not
want to use a picture box or image box.

Is there a control that looks/acts like the DateTimePicker, but allows hours
to equal 0?  I'm trying to use it as a timer length selector, and if someone
wants to run the even every 30 minutes, it forces a 1 in the hours (cause it
obviously doesn't set to military time.) ;)

I am creating a treeview and poluating it with records
returned from a table.
When the form loads, it appears I only get the top node.
However, when I click on the top node to expand it and

Hi, I'm trying to figure out a way to make SSTab use XP Themes, even the
simple repainted kind.  I would switch to a commercial OCX, but I'd need it
to be compatible with SSTab.
Does anyone know how to do this?  Or know of a commercial SSTab control that

When I use this function api RegConnectRegistry in Windows XP the program
that use it, break down, and i don't know why?. Somebody know what happen?.
Because in Windows 98/ME the function work.

I have atimer that execute the following code:
sub timer1_timer().
   ws.RemoteHost = namecpmuter
   ws.sendData message

Is there a place where I can download an up to date copy
of the MSDN Library.  My copy is old and scratched all to
hell.  Since it came with my Visual studio I am not sure
if it costs extra or not.

I wish to iterate through some controls eg Label1, Label2, Label3, etc.  Is
there a way to build the control name programmatically eg "Label" + num and
then reference the control?

I'm trying to disable popups windows in Internet Explorer, but allow windows
that were generated by clicking on a link.
I'm using the NewWindow2 event in the SHDocVw.InternetExplorer object to
capture new windows. How do I determine if the window was generated from

I am trying to add the (seemingly) standard (at least for MS), ctrl-b,
ctrl-i, ctrl-u....to a richtextbox.
However, all have worked, except on closer inspection it turns out that the
ctrl-i is overridden, and acts as a 'tab' instead of italising the

Is there any way to make a form's background color transparent so the metafile I'm using on a MDI parent form as a background show's through?  I'm not familiar with any way to do this.  The form properties only allow me to choose form a pallete or standard windows colors.
Thanks ...