VB Forum / General 2 / January 2004

I want my usercontrol to show Tooltips.
If I set the TooltipText property for a empty usercontrol  (with no
constituent controls) and run my app, the Tooltip is shown properly.
However, if I add constituent controls which use the whole usercontrol's

I've trolled the archives but no luck on this one.
I'm using VB6 with the bundled Crystal Reports Writer Ver: 4.6 (Ok I'm
cheap)
After updating to XP, compiled VB programs using Access 2000 with the

Hello group,
I've been scratching around google trying to find out some tips or an
example on adding a "history of files opened" to the file menu on a
small application.  What I imagine I need to do is this:  every time a

hei all
I having a problem while making exe in vb 6. saying that
"Unexpected error occured in code generator or linker,
view error messages" if i press yes then the messages in

I have a row with different numbers from 169769012 to 2887129298.
(They represent IP adresses)
When I make a asceding sort on those the order is wrong, the
2887xxxxxx are first and the 169xxxxxx are last.

I've enabled
 Project - References... - Microsoft Scripting Runtime
I use the following code to get the number of files and the size of all the
files in a specific folder.

I am new to VB and I'm using VB 6.
I have made the MS Agent to show up and show text in a bubble but I can't
get him to speak it out load...
I have used MS Agent in JavaScript and there it works perfect so I have

I have a little problem. I have a grid control that when i double click on a particular line i want to show another form
The problem is that when the form opens, focus is returned back to the original form with the grid control. With the second form in the background.
Annoying ...

I have a favorite client that I have helped for over a decade, developing
projects going all the way back to VB3 and windows 3.1
Some of largest projects that I've completed were written in VB5
(professional edition) with lots of Sheridan add-ons. I'm using VB.NET now

I have just created a user control so that i can have bitmaps with
transparancy, but now when i try to change the picture property of the
control in run time it says, "Invalid use of property".  Ive ran the
VB Interface Control Wizard to add the picture property to the control

I am trying to write a program to build layouts, like Visual Basic, Access
form editor, PowerPoint, etc., in which I can place several objects on the
screen that can be added, moved, and resized by the user. The selected
control(s) would have sizing boxes on the corners and the user ...

I am currently working on a project for school in VB. The programme will be
used by a number of people from the same computer. I therefore need to create a
system whereby each person has their own username and password, so that they
can logon to their own part of the programme.

I'm making a class. I want there to be a property that the user can
set. I want the property to be a LongInteger, but there should only be
a restricted set of values.
I thought the way to approach this is make a Type. However, where do I

I've noticed that most applications use a combo-filebox*, unlike the
one available in VB6 which has annoying scroll tabs. (* - That is a
DirListBox which expands like a combobox, I'm sure you've seen what
I'm talking about, though I'm at a loss for a term for it)

I use a dynamic datareport. Which means I set the width of textboxes
programmatically. But.. how do I convert the width of a string to the
setting of the width of a textbox? Naturally it depends on fonttype and
points. Is there some property I can use to calculate with?