VB Forum / Controls / April 2007

I am using Viewctl control in Visual Basic application and it is mapped to my
Inbox. I want to populate a text box on my application with the body of the
mail selected in the Viewctl control. Whenever a user changes the selection,
the text box content should change and reflect ...

i have 2 checkboxes. Not both should be unchecked.
When only one is checked and the user tries to uncheck this one, it should
not be possible.
So there has to be something, which cancels the uncheck-process in the

I have a treeview with the Checkboxes property set to true, and all
works as expected. However the checkboxes to the left of each node are
really small squares that may be mistaken for bullets. Is there an
easy way to change the size of just the check box? This seems to occur

I have an ActiveX control that makes a system test, which takes a
while. When the test is finished, the results should be presented in a
php page, myReport.php.
Had this been a java applet, I would have simply called

I have a Form containing two selectable Datagrid controls each supported by
an a simple access table
The first contains a list of valid Businesses
The Second contains a list of  Business Applications for each Business Each

I know that VB stores the date value as a double starting from
12/31/1899 as day 0.  How can I convert a date into the double and
vice versa?

I was burning a dvd of a movie that I had downloaded on my computer.
A family member got on my computer and closed some windows that had
popped up.  They don't know what they closed and now my cd/dvd drive
doesn't read anything, doesn't recognize that there's a cd or dvd

I'm developing an ActiveX control that does the following:
1. Download an application (several files) over HTTP - this works fine
2. Run the application through an entrypoint in a downloaded DLL -
this I can't get to work

I have built a User control that contains another Licensed ActivX control.
I have checke the create a licesnse file.
I deploy both ocx's to a target machine. Change the .vbl extension to .reg
and run the reg file to add the license info.

I've got a ListView control which has a header row, followed by a bunch of
rows of data.  I want to update the ToolTipText as my mouse moves over the
control.  My problem is that if I move my mouse over the header row, the
ListView's ToolTipText displays, but the MouseMove event ...

I am using VB6 (not .net) and need to copy the entire contents of my
listview to the clipboard.
There are no sub items.
I have tried:

I have a Crystal Report created by a coworker in Crystal Reports XI. The
report uses an ODBC DSN to connect to the SQL Server database.
I've figured out how to set the various parameters for the report, how to
point the Report Viewer to the .RPT file, but I can't figure out how to ...

I'm at a bit of a loss here and would greatly appreciate the help.  I've
implemented code in VB6 to subclass a UserControl that contains a Rich Text
Box control and attempt to capture WM_NOTIFY messages in order to get the
height of the rich text box contents.  I've used ...

I have a form with a combo box that pulls 'Client' name data from a
worksheet named 'Billing'.
I want the combo box to show only one occurance of each Client name
from the Billing database and not show/remove any duplicates (without

How do I access the value of a specific subitem in a listbox control?
Thanks in advance.