VB Forum / Controls / June 2004

I have created a ActiveX DLL and can pass a variable a variable to it
ok.
But i need to have a return variable upon clicking a command button on
a form on the ActiveX DLL.

How should I enter the color number as the background color ?
I calculated from several tools that the color number that I need is FFD640
which is a kind of yellow. In case that I enter this as the value for the
backcolor property of any control within the VBE, the color shown is a ...

I was wondering if anyone knows of a place where I can get the code for a
nice algebraic function evaluators in VB 6.0.  I basically want to enter a
formula in a textbox (as a string), and have the program evaluate the
equation for me.

I' m facing a strange behaviour in my project.
I've created an ActiveX control that has some modal (I need it) forms
displayed by public control methods.
In control class module I used friend sub (RaiseEv) to wrap a

mcControls.Add "LineSeg" & CStr(intw * 10 + intl * 100 + inth * 1000),
objLineSeg
Pls help me verify this piece of code.
VB6 said Type mismatch, but Both LineSeg and objLineSeg has been defined and

I want to send a mail via
 MAPIMessages1.MsgNoteText = "string with vbCrLf's"
 Call MAPIMessages1.Send(1)
If I use CrLf in the message. The message will not send.

I am using MAPIMessages object to compose and send
an email message in my VB program.
Sometime the user of the program getting
run time error : 32001 - Unspecified error

Set objLineSeg = Me.Controls.Add("VB.Line", "LineSeg" & intw & intl & inth)
Set objLineSeg.Name = "interweavedLine" & Trim(Str(intw * 10 + intl * 100 +
inth * 1000))
I have also tried this to no avail.

Can someone provide me with the icon file for the 'pointing hand' which
normally is shown as the cursor when clicking at a hyperlink ?

Does any one know of an ActiveX control that will allow me to see thumbnails
for PDF files?
   Thanks!!

Folks:
I am a VB6 newbie.  Here is an UTILITY DESIGN issue that concerns me.
Microsoft has a lot of utilities (built into its O/S) to do all sorts of
nifty things.  Almost always though, these utilities perform their functions

I'm trying to scroll thru the individual items of a collection using a for / next loop.  When VB gets to the For statement, I get the following error:
Run Time Error 438
Object doesn't support this property or method.
The objects contained in this collection are from a class that ...

I have this PROBLEM with controls collection:
The old VB 6.0 syntax was:
MyStr = me.controls("button1").text
VB .NET doesn't function in this way, because in .NET

How is possible to know if a scrollbar of a RichTextBox is actually
displayed or not. Thanks in advance.
W

I need to use the RightToLeft property of MSdatagrid/MSHFlexGrid. Cannot set
this property to True at design time, and even at run time it does not seem
to have an effect. The scrollbars are not shifting, neither does the
alignment of text changes in the grids.