VB Forum / Controls / January 2004

I am trying to replace one of my datagrids with an MSFlexGrid. I have two columns of data that are currently stored as decimal(15,4) that I am reading out of another SQL database. I need to display these values with normal currency format $55,555.50 not 5555.or for whatever ...

I am trying to connect to a mobile phone via irda using the mscomm control
and a usb irda
unit.
My Vb code lists all ports as such

Sending a message LB_SETTABSTOPS in VB.NET works for the ListBox but is failing for the CheckedListBox. TabStops are recognized in the CheckedListBox they are just not in good places for my data. Any Ideas
thank
vin

I use Install Shield and even though some files such as tabctl32.ocx
or msflxgrd.ocx are in the install and should go to the windows system folder, sometimes they do not work, but if I copy them to the application folder on my clients computer the application works fine.
Can I set ...

I am a newbie to VB 6.0, I am doing a small db project in vb 6.0.
I have a small query?
How to merge cells of a MSFlexGrid in the following fashion.
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I would like to use the function FileCopy on a sourcefile on the internet.
So I tried:
FileCopy "htt p://inter.net.adres/source.doc", "c:\temp\destination.doc"
But it won't work. (I placed a space between the htt and p here, because

I want to supply accelerator keys for my form's buttons and menus.  Simple
concept, right?  I used to do it all the time in VB6.
When I'm in design mode I can see the correct letter underlined, but when I
run the project there are no letters underlined.  However if I press the Alt

I am working on a project which has as part of its main user interface, a
standard SSTab control (Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control 6.0(SP5) -
TABCTL32.OXC). The customer 'thinks it would be nice!' if it was in their
corporate colours. I think it would be nice if I could make it any ...

How can I fill a multiline textbox with selections from a listbox?

   I want to hide my form and dont want to show its icon in taskbar so can
somebudy tell me how can i do this.
Regards
Asad Kazmi

I have a MDI form (frmMain) which contains some menu controls. (i.e. mnuSave)   I would like code in my child forms to change the Enabled property of these menu items.  I tried to us
frmMain!mnuSave.Enabled = Fals
but at run time VB tells me that I can only have one MDI form open, ...

Can I ask for some recommendations.
I need a multi column tree view control to put in an application with some
or all of the following features:
1. Hierachical Data is to be supplied to the tree view via ADO recordsets

I need to use a label with a 106 but the number 6 has to be superscript.
The fonts dues not give me the superscript option.
How do I do that?
Can you please help me!

Hi.  I need to create a quick little VB program that will hit a few
websites and report on whether they are up or not.  I have the program
hitting the various websites, but how can I detect if the page was
displayed properly or if the web server is down?  I was looking at

if I make word save files as rtf and load them in a RichTextBox does it use
any margin settings form the file?
if not how can I add this for later printing and previewing?
Andrew