VB Forum / Controls / April 2006

I am wanting my app to make a file automatically but if the user cancel's
the dialogbox it must return the focus back to the main form.  But it's not,
it continues to show the frmDocuments form. Can anybody point me in the
right direction please.

I am mostly an amateur with VB6 but I would like some advice about two
problems.  I have run out of help materials and have no other choice
but to ask for help.
First:

I would like to be able to change the font of a text box at run time.  when I
try to do something like:
txtMyCtl.Font = varMyVar
the Font property is readonly.  Why is this?  Is their another way to set

I have built an ActiveX control using Visual Basic 6 sp6 and it works
perfectly fine on my development machine and other test machines.  The
control contains some common edit boxes, combo boxes, drop lists, lists and
common dialog.  We found that it works fine on most of our ...

I created a custom collection that derives from
System.Collections.Generic.List(Of Person) and populated it with 5 person
objects. I bound a Gridview to BindingSource object. I set the Datasource
property of the bindingsource object to my custom collection. I then set the

hi group,
I have been a devoted fan of the ccrp registration utility on win98
for years.  Never a problem.
I recently tried to use the ccrp registration utility on winXP, and

I have a club membership database application.  One feature is the ability
to select any member and say "send this person an email".  The application
then brings up the "compose mail" window of the user's standard mail
application (in my case Outlook Express), with the member's ...

Here is one of those ones that may be hard to resolve.
We have an application that uses the "stock" ADO Data Control and the MS
DataGrid. We have a form that was developed in a later version of our app
(VB6 SP6) and later ported "backward" to an earlier version of the app to

The maximum number of items in a ListBox is 32768.
However, no error is raised when I attempt to exceed that limit using
.AddItem.
Obviously, I can test the ListCount property.

I am building an application that returns a large amount of data when a user
runs a query and I want to display the data in a grid format.  Additionally I
would like the users to be able to sort the returned data when they click a
column header. Which is the best contol to use?

i use 2 winsock controll to execute an ftp passive mode on a server, when
there arent problems all runs correctly (i'm a genious!!!).
I suppose that there should be some network's problems, then i wrote a
controll code that after 10 seconds close the winsock controlls if the file

I'm running VB 6, and I created a combo box, but there's no RowSource or
RowSourceType property. Same for list box. Why is that?
Thanks.

I would like to have a progress bar indicate the saving
of a MsFlexgrid to ini.
I have the ini file working (saving to harddisk)
I have a "function" that saves and loads the Msflexgrid.

Vb.net provides read-only access to parent property of a treenode in treeview.
How can I set the parent property of a treenode after i have populated the
treeview with nodes tp give the hierachical view?

Can i know Visual Basic 2005 can do offline games or online games ?
Thank...