VB Forum / Controls / January 2004

Hi Guys, got a problem with combo boxes. I have combo
boxes that is bound to a dataset.
The problem is that, when the value appears in the
dropdown, it contains the whole length of the field. So

Hi all out there
I have an application, build with VB6 sp5, working fine, but now I have a
question.
The application uses a picturebox which contains a number of textlabels

Hi Every on
I want to right an application that looks in a folder for and .txt or .csv file and opens them one by one, but I do not know what the file name is. I have used FileSystemObject and TextStream before but both these object require me to know the file name
Is there another ...

I'm trying to make a program that will copy 3 different
id numbers from one program's screen, then paste them
into 3 different spots on another program.  The 2
programs have been used for a long time, but it is very

We usually use right click to turn on a "option menu".
This "option menu" allows us to do some activities quickly, such as
copy,past,properties...
This "option menu" will appear next to the pointer when we do right click

I use the following sub to add columnheadings to a FlexGrid-control.
(FixedRows=1)
Sub AddHeading(Grd As MSFlexGrid, ParamArray Headings() As Variant)
   Dim i As Integer

I have a form with a lot of textboxes and flexgrids.
How do I suspend updating of the form while new data is loaded into the
textboxes and grids?
/PO

does anyone knows where I can get information on how to use the PDF.ocx
included with acrobat ? or any code / samples ?
Thank you
Alex

How do I copy the contents of a listbox to the clipboard.  
I can choose one selected option but I want the entire
list copied.

One user has a problem installing my program, they get an error message,
C:\Program Files\Bowl101VI\tx4ole.ocx Failed to self  Register
What can be causing this?
I have just a few users with this problem out of several thousand that

I have a situation in Microsoft Access that isn't practiced very often, but
however is probably more used in Visual Basic...
I have many very complex forms built that display searchable data and lookup
grids (Sheridan/Infragistics DataWidgets 3.12) .

Since I just read that comctl32.ocx requires comctl32.dll... I figure
I really need to find a document that spells how to deploy the
components that come with the VB SP. Besides, neither the PDW nor
DependencyWalker list all dependencies, such as localized files (.DLL

I have written a utility to move files from place to
place.  I have tried to duplicate some of the
functionality of the Windows Explorer, but I have found
that the control will not list "C:\Documents and

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 display bold and underlined text.

Hi i heard that their is a Microsoft Systray OCX i was wandering where it is
i serached my visual studio CD and my hard disc and cant see it anywhere
i cant use 3rd party controls cos its a college project
thanks all