VB Forum / Controls / December 2005

I'm working in vb 6 and have a bunch of shapes in my program. I'm
trying to make things happen when a user clicks on an individual shape
but can't get a click event to happen for the shapes. Could someone
please help me. Thanks

I have a form with a masked edit control on it. I can tab around on the form
fine, even from the masked edit control. If I switch focus from the form to
another form (they are 2 forms side-by-side), click on the masked edit
control and then try to tab out, I can't .

what i want to know is whether a scrollable table of rows consisting of
checkboxes can be created in visual basic.
 The situation is like this:
i am conducting an opinion poll , the poll requires users to give

How can I make controls with round corner, such as buttons and labels on
windows as well as on web forms.
Thanks

ActiveElement stucks on the previous Control when having UserControl with TextBoxes
Project Synthesis:
I have an ActiveX control project with a UserControl and a Standard EXE project with a form using that control.
The UserControl has two TextBoxes and a CheckBox.

I want to create controls (input text boxes, dropdown list) dynamically
on the screen. The no. of controls is not known up front. Will
appreciate if you can provide me some code examples.
Many thanks.

I have an embedded Excel file into a VB app. The reason is for security and
piracy
protection (of the excel file). Obviously, after the client opens up the
excel file, he

Can anyone help me with an exapmle of readprinter API function? in VB6
I've been trying but not able to use this in Vb application.
It realy urgent & any suggestion will be very helpful
thanks

While I was editing the menu of a VB form, I got a warning that the form
could not accept the change since the limit of controls was reached. So I
clicked at the Cancel option. After this, my whole menu has disappered.
Any idea how I can restore the menu, is there an option to ...

My app is running fine in win2k machines as long as they use the same version
(build date) of the mscomm32.ocx control (4/3/2000).  Also runs on XP
machines. Recently found an XP machine with a later version of this control.  
Thinking this might be the problem, I unregistered the ...

When the list is visible for a combo box, ENTER selects from the list even
when the form contains a button with Default=True.
My user control has a dropdown list and I would like to be able to reproduce
this behavior. Any ideas?

Hi i have a program that was created in Visual Studio 6 Pro, which links to
an access 97 Dahe database! everytime i try to access the database from the
program i get the following error
ADODC1

This follows on from the user control that works like a multi-column combo
box.
My user control has a text box, button and listview for the multi column
list.

I have a problem with a VB6 SP6 project where a databound DataGrid
(specifically MSDataGridLib.DataGrid) is taking ampersands in the data and
turning them into keyboard accelerators (removes the ampersand and underlines
the next character), which basically makes the data look ...

 My problem is very wierd, and there's no key moment that could
describe when did it start happening.
 In design time, I draw a TextBox, Rich Text Box, Label, Images,
CheckBox or etc... (but not Command buttons :P), well, any of these,