VB Forum / Controls / May 2005

Working on an MDI application with multiple child forms. Trying to split the
Main Form on left and top like a webpage and the main content area changes
according to users selections. The main conent area contains a panel control.
When I tried this:

It's my first time to make a VB-DHTML application. I was able to change
properties of the elements within the HTML part of the designer such as the
textbox, listbox. Since I am very glad with the third party VSFlexgrid
control rather than the old-fashioned and poor HTML tables, ...

I've a really sample usercontrol activeX
just a label on the usercontrol.
I wish to do inside of my activeX (by code):
- give it the focus when I show it,

Hi
I am having trouble selecting more than one item in a listbox through code.
Only the last value is selected in the list. The property
"ListSelectionMode.Multiple" is set. There is no problem selecting manually

Is there a control which will allow me to change the keyboard mapping ?
What I want to do is to be able to map any key to another key (I thought
about using the ASCII codes) for example map B to be V for example so when I
press V it actually acts like a B, I need to do this with ...

I have a form that needs to pass a property (as a Dataset) to a dialog form.
 Dim SurveyForm As New StartSurvey
 ' Send the Clients Dataset to the Form
 SurveyForm.ClientDataset = Clients1.Clone()  <-- Dont know if this is correct!!

I have a msflexgrid control in a VB6 application.  I would like to click on
a row and open a form where more data that is related to the row can be
displayed . I have the first row of the flexgrid fixed as a title bar
(FixedRows=1). The msflex grid can contain 20 rows, but only 10 ...

I want to find the name of the control the user moves to after the
leave a specfic control (call it contolold)
Since it can be mutilple controls some indexed some not I would like
to be able to determine the exact one.

In the form load event, I load the item lists for several comboboxes
from values stored in the registry. When the main form is finally
displayed, the text area for each combobox is highlighted.
I presume this is because I make the first item in the list for each

I wanted to implement a simple LRU algorithm for a combobox whose list
of values is stored in the registry, where the length of the list is
limited to some maximum value.
So, when user selects an item from the combo box, I move the item to

How can I highlight some text in a RichTextBox control ?
My code below makes some text blue, and some red.
How can I highlight some text with yellow?
rtfTest.Text = "hello"

I'm writing VB6 code to enable my users to browse for a certain path where
the program will look for files.
It's on the 'File Locations' tab of an 'Options Screen'
I first started with a Common Dialogue in ShowOpen method, but that will

I am having an issue at the moment that i just can't seem to resolve.
Basically i have created a DLL which allows me to save details from a form
via this DLL. i am using VB6 and for some strange reason if i use the class
modules from within my project the error does not appear ...

I am writing to a multi-lined text box as follows:
txtResult = txtResult & inText & vbCrLf
How can I show the last line written?  Everytime I add a new line, the box
jumps to the top and the user has to scroll down.

I am using the clip funtion to capture values of grid column. When the values
of all the grid is "" I need to make the width =0. This is working only when
the column is 0 but when all the clipped column are "" it fails. when I check
the length of string ColText it says 44 but ...