VB Forum / Controls / March 2004

I have a VB6 app using a multiple document interface, I would like one of the child forms to update the Statusbar on the main (parent) form. For example, one of the child forms is used to search records, and if say we are at record 35, I would like for the statusbar on the parent ...

I have a directory full of images of various sizes.
I need all these images to be a certain size (e.g. 250 x 200) or smaller.
Some of these images are already smaller.
So, I need to load each image, find out it's size and if it doesn't fit in

While using combo boxes with their style set to "dropdown list", I'd like to move the focus away as soon as the user closes the dropdown list. When the user clicks an item WITHIN the dropdown list, thereby closing it, I use the Click event to move the focus to another control. ...

My little program need to do "multi select" of "Folders".  (just like those in "File Explorer"
However I find i have a dilemm
1.   File List Box control can not display  "Folders
2.   Dir List Box  control can not be "multi-selected

The following code right out of the documentation doesn't compile and
stops on the very first line saying "User-defined type not defined"
It doesn't recognise the keyword Font.  So my question is where is it?
What is it called now?  Why don't they never update the documentation?

I have an app (VB6) where I am using a Masked Edit Control to ensure that the user inputs the correct date format. The date format required is the following: mm/dd/yyyy. It appears that the control that comes with VB6 limits the format to
dd-mmm-yy. My question is there a way ...

VB 6 Problem
I am trying to associate the Itemdata newindex to a
person's id without showing the person's id to the user
in a combo box. I tried setting the itemdata newindex to

I have problem with textbox bound to Text field. When I code to
insert/update data to textbox containing (' or ") character, it cause error.
How to solve this problem?
Thnk;

I hope someone can help me with this one.
I have a VB 6.0  MDI project and I want to add a side bar to it.  It would
be nice if I could adjust the width of the bar at run time but not
necessary.  The main thing is that it has the look and feel of the Outlook

I have a VB6 app with a text box into which I would like the user to be able
to enter formatted text (simple stuff like bold and underline). I then need
access to the contents of the text as HTML (preferably XHTML).
I have tried the built in RichText control but the only thing I can ...

Hail thee (hopefully) wise newsgroup! ;)
I just finishes some lines of code on a internet-café kiosk-software,
written around a webbrowser-control. Everything just works fine in the GDI,
but as soon as launching the compiled EXE there's that nasty runtime-error

I have very little experience of V.B (6.0), and need some help.  
Currently I have an applcation that will place the source code of a
particular web site in a rich text box.
I would now like to parse this code to ensure it corresponds to w3c

I want to open a file of certain extension and load the file and put it on a
control on the form and do syntax coloring. what control i should use? and
if some one can show me how to do the coloring.
thakns in advance

[Vb.net question] how to apply online update function into program (the
effect just like Norton system work live update)
The situation is below:
I want to develop a program that contains some product information (in the

I have sized a flexgrid so it displays 10 rows at a time.
As long as there are <=10 records loaded into the grid no vertical scrollbar
is displayed. If there are more then 10 records loaded the vertical
scrollbar appears and takes up space from the rightmost column so that parts