VB Forum / Controls / January 2004

I am using an instance of MSComctlLib.TabStrip.2 on a form in Access XP.  (I know this is not the Access group, but nobody in that group has yet responded to a much simpler question about the control. So...)
When I programmatically select one of the tabs, it fires the Click() ...

How do I work with two different lists on separate forms, one on top of the other?  I have set the nonmodal property to the smaller form but how do I keep it there when it loses focus?  

The common dialog control hangs for about 12 seconds after selection of a printer on my Win Xp Pro machine, but is OK on other machines in the office. How can I debug this problem? I am using VB on my machine and the hang is both in the IDE and compiled.

I've successfully bound a class to a PropertyGrid control but would like to customise some of the property names to be more user friendly.  I have an idea that it will have to do something with the ICustomTypeDescriptor interface but I can't find any examples in VB.NET.  Does any ...

I've endeavoured to use the UrlEditor in a PropertGrid control but i's throwing an error
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
This wonderfully clear error message leaves me none the wiser.  Does anyone know what needs to happen to make it work?  The property ...

What is the easiest way to move a node (and all child nodes) within a
treeview to another node (This node becomes the parent of the node being
moved). Just like moving folders (drag and Drop) in Explorer.
In other words, Changing the parent of a node.

Hell
Why this doesn´t work
Printer.CurrentX = 5
Printer.CurrentY = 5

Hi Group,
How do I add controls to a page of the MultiPage control at design time?
Thanks,
Ken Hutson

I am so desperate right now...I hope someone can help...
I have a VB6 project that includes a Data Environment with a hierarchical command from a SQL 2000 database.  I have a form that displays the data.  Some controls are bound to the Data Environment and not edittable, and ...

There's yet another question I have, concerning VB <-->internet interaction.
I want to send an email with an attachment from within a VB app.
In my VB-handbook, it says that I should work with "active messaging", by
selecting "Active Messaging Object Library" in the References.

I have the following procedure which correctly allows the user to only input
numbers which are then automatically formatted to: 12-3456-7890
The problem is when the backspace key is entered instead of moving back the
cursor and deleting the last digit entered a thick bar type ...

I am building Proxy server for news post, mail, ... and to support different encoding types not supported by OE or Outlook. Now I
have tried to send news post with attachment of 1.7Mb and have discovered large amount of time loss!?
Main thing is that I need some faster method for ...

Ken, Others...
I would like to resize my active x control at runtime based on the number of
textboxes that I've added to the control. I've used Ken H's sample code to
add the control elements I need, but now I would like to resize the itself.

I am not able to display XP styles for my DLL project in VB, which has a
band object that can show up in IE.  I followed the steps provided in the KB
article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309366
However I am able to get VB Standard EXE projects to show XP Styles

A question from users of one of my programs. When sliding the mouse cursor
over labels (filled with text) or over a button (for other functions) it
should be a good effect to change the backgroundcolor, but only when the
mousecursos is on the labelobject, so when leaving, the old ...