VB Forum / Controls / March 2004

Is there a simple way to use a string value to reference a form or controls on a form?  For example, a routine reads a text file that includes the name of a form, and I want to use that string variable (that is a form name) to open the form that has that name.  For example, take ...

What is a Dongle ?
Are there any software dongles.?
I want to develop a dll which will create a valid licence file ( both eval
and release versions depending on the user).

Having just installed Visual Studio 6 on WinXP. When I insert certain
controls on a form I get get a message "You do not have a license to use
this control at design time". Does anybody know what's up with this?
Thanks

Hello ng
i got a big problem. i programmed a scrollabel picturebox with dynamic generated controls. but if i set a height of about 52.000 twips i reached the limit of the control. how can i enlarge this limit? is it possible by subclassing the control?

Hi there, we have a problem when using NetDDE from a non-interactive session.
Our solution is a VB6 program which - among other things - requests data from a DDE server. The program is not a service itself but it is activated by another program which is a service. When we try to ...

Our VB6 SP5 application communicates with our hardware using the
MSComm control.  We're getting reports from a customer that this
communication is failing on their Chinese language version of Windows
2000 (on the workstation they supplied).

I have two image lists. One image list is for large icons, the second for small. The large icons work correctly, but when I switch views to small icons, the icons dont appear, but there is an empty space where they should appear
Has anyone seen this. What if anything should I try

I have been trying to place a Image on a Textbox and every time I draw the
image it ends up underneath the Textbox. Why is this?

An application exhibits unusual behavior when run on Windows XP.  When a listvie
control's columnheader is clicked to sort the column, the columns expand to fill the entir
list and the text disappears.  The listview is useless at this point and the application must be ende
to ...

i need to set or select the text value proerty of a combo box where the
value coming from the database is a single character and the valyues in the
combo box  begin with the letter.  in other words, only the first character
of this field is stored, but the combo contains a match for ...

How to keep height/width ratio of a window when it is resized ?
Thank's for your help
Jean-Marie

I have always written my own code to fill in controls from a database. eg combobox.additem "xyz"
However I am starting to find it hard to use third party controls in that way (particularly now I'm looking at Component One controls)
What are the positives and negatives each way.  ...

I don't know if I call it right, I need a scolling "histogram" which shifts
from left to right. It should show the information about my program which
looks like the network performance meter of the Cisco logo.
Thanks

I've got a problem which I still didn't solve. Here it is:
I've got a client project and various usercontrols, which are created at
runtime as VBControlExtender. These usercontrol raise events to the client.
Every now and then various usercontrol stop raising events. Looking and

Does anybody know of an image / picture control that:
1. Displays transparent GIFs
2. Has a hwnd property (so that it can easily be moved without flickering
the image)