VB Forum / Controls / January 2004

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I'm need to add a group of Label & TextBox controls to my existing SSTab control.  When I add a control I set the focus to tab I want the TextBox to be added and it adds it to the form.  I have run out of idea's.  If someone has run accross this or can give me some insight ...

I would like to be able to access the properties of an active form from a
different form.
With VB6 I could walk through the Forms collection.  .Net Framework no
longer supports that collection.

it's not possible to open the Common dialog box, regardless it is a brand
new project or an old one.
Visual studio crash every time.
I'm running XP, and Visual studio 6.0 SP 5.

Hi, please forgive if the wrong place to post-
my first post on vb and not familiar yet with the groups.
I need get input from a text box and only allow it to be in the form
of "a123", and then stored in a DB.

Dear list,
Currently I open the IE 6 from my app, and define the
document locally that I want it to open. Can please
someone tell me if there is a way of opening the "standard

Do you know any ActiveX control or any how that shows a color plate so that
user can pickup a color?
Thank you,
Ben

Is there a way to make the background of a rich text box
transparent? I don't want to use a label because I would
like to be able to bold and underline etc.
Thanks,

I need to send an email based on a date from our database server
automatically from our application. What has everyone used for a mail client
to send an email from a VB app? Advantages/Disadvantages?
Thanks,

I have a GSM mobile which is connected to my PC via IR. When the mobile gets
a connection to the PC, there is a virtual COM port number assigned to the
mobile. Assume COM 10 is assigned to my mobile. Is it possible to use MSComm
to send and receive AT command and result between ...

I'm a weekend programmer, mostly for VBA applications,
and this is my first clash with an OCX control.  I
developed a little VBA application in WRQ's Reflection
emulator on my PC , which also has VB6 installed.  One of

I saw some posts concerning about licensing related to ActiveX Controls. I
don't really have a clear picture yet.
Normally, If I build my VB Application using my VS6 Enterprise Edition that
I have a license when purchase the software, then I use P&D Wizard for

I want to draw a line between two list boxes. No Problem. How do I keep an anchor point with the Item in the list box?
Very similar to how access links two queries together in the MS Query window.
Any Ideas?
Places to start?

Question... using VB6 is there any way that I can get control-level events
to be captured at the form level?  For example, I have a form with about 30
different TextBox controls.  Whenever any of these controls is changed, I
want to enable a SAVE button.  However, I don't want to ...

   I am using vb6 sp5 for development.
This little  form was to test drag and drop. And also test building controls
at run time.
the problem is this. I have to click twice the lbl_Let object to beable to

On leaving edited record thru DataGrid I get the message :
"Insufficient key column information for updating or
refreshing"
P.S. DataGrid is editable, not locked etc.