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Did you know that VB 5/6 applications will not render their controls with the new visual themes under Windows XP? Obviously, this is not good. This is the solution to this problem. This creates a REAL themed button under Windows XP by calling the Theme APIs, all wrapped up into an easy to use control. All you have to do is drop this control in your forms in place of the regular command button. Plus, as an added bonus, this control is completely backwards compatible! If the OS that your program is running on does not support Themes (or if they are disabled), this control simply displays the standard command button, without any extra work by you. This will give your applications a truely professional touch!

creates containers for objects

Move any form without a title bar! You can use a label, command button, picturebox, anything to move the form.

This code is a template for a scrolling form. This is great to use if you would like to create applications that work in all resolutions. I reccomend placing this form in your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\Template\Forms folder so that it is available as a form template.

Lets you set the minimum size your form can be (I haven't seen anything else like this, I did it cause I wanted a form of mine to not go below a size), Also provides a one-step way to add a bitmap to a menu item (someone submitted something like this in the previous day or two, although I didn't take my code from them), and an easy way to add your icon to the system tray. This is my first submission, although I've been using PSC for a while now. I'ld appreciate any voting you could do. Also, comments are greatly appreciated. I'ld love it if you could fix any bugs you come across and send me an email!

This code takes care of drawing your menu's. It extends the CoolMenu v1.3 by Olivier Martin. The "disabled top menu" bug has been solved.

Pre-version (but full and working) of a software to make Mindmaps.

Updated 11-Aug-2001. Enhanced menus builds on Steve's excellent VbAccelerator popup menus which uses standard Vb menus, not complicated menus created at run-time. Enhancements: Transparent or opaque separator captions with icons. Wallpaper highlights. Variable width (autosizes to font) vertical bar created by writing direct to DC's. Left or right orientation. 90° or 270° text rotation. Standard, gradient, or wallpaper style. Individual captions, icons, and font properties. Translucency NOT WORKING CORRECTLY. CAN ANYONE HELP? Rename Alphablend.DL_ to Alphablend.DLL and copy to your windows system directory. See screenshot.

UPDATED 25-JUNE-2001 -1- Lightweight Windows Blinds Toolbar. Use as is or see VbAccelerator toolbar project below. Button control by J. Pearson (Aug 2000 PSC). Custom message box with Windows Blinds style buttons, optional timer to autoclose box, sounds and icons obtained from system using API. -2- Full implementation of Windows Blinds style buttons in a professional VbAccelerator Toolbar. Complete with Rebar, Pager, Imagelist class, Dropdown Icon Menu, and SubClass from www.vbaccelerator.com with full source code. Pager control hosts toolbar to allow scrolling when toolbar width exceeds pager width. Menus have Icons, background and customizable gradient highlight. Included in Demo is code to swap languages (currently 6) on the fly using resource file, 16 control panel applets selectable from menu, analog progress meter which can double as a Thumbnail viewer. -3- Imagestrip builder for making Normal, HOT, and Disabled picture strips to use in VbAccelerator Toolbar project. Put skins in first button, pictures in buttons, run program, save to clipboard, paste to MsPaint, crop, and save image. Strips attach to imagelist class for a low overhead toolbar. NOTE: Some VbAccelerator code has been modified to fix minor bugs discovered during 8 months of testing. Several new properties and code enhancements added. Uses subclassing so don't use IDE to stop program!

Update 27-May-2001. Use these Windows Blinds, Adobe, & Neoplanet style skinned rollover (hover) buttons to brighten up your GUI. Button control by J. Pearson (Aug 2000 PSC). Hint: Put bmp's in resource file and load them into buttons at run-time in Form_Load. TipofDay & DateTimeStamp forms shows how this is done.

Tutorial how to use Unicode in Visual Basic. 52 Sections. Appx 1Mb download. See Screenshot for Index of Sections.

Update 09 Feb 2003. A simple but nice looking owner draw resizable button control. Custom border and gradient colors allowed. No themes required. Works in 98/2000/Xp. Chm doc file included.

Move forms together as if they were docked. No Timer needed! I had to separate forms used as a kind of toolbox. My idea was, that it would be nice if I could move these two together if they were both active. VB doesn't tell me when my form is moved. But then I realised that I read s.th. about moving forms without a titlebar. Using this trick my code will perform the following action: 1. The form detects a mousedown event 2. The mouse is released and the form moved by FormDrag 3. The other form is notified of the movement 4. The other form will follow the first Don't forget to vote if you like it ;o)

Make your toolbars like Office2000's it's COOL, Menu's with Icons, Dragable Toolbars, Dragable Menubars. USING ONLY THE COMMON MICROSOFT TOOLBAR!!!

Use an Outlook-Toolbar in your forms without using ActiveX.

Autotext is an extended API implementation of Visual Basic's Combo Box. The control can be used as an autotype combobox or an autotype textbox. This code contains a proper implementation of an API timer class as well, using soft references to avoid GPFs. Allows custom context menus and allows the default context menus to be disabled. Raises a Menu_Click event which specifies which menu item was clicked. Has mouse down, mouse move and mouse up events. Code shows how to create a mouse hook. Switchboard code insures that the proper control recieves the right notifications. Has a SyncByItemData function to select an entry by an ItemData entry. Has a FillWithRecSet function to enable it to be filled directly with a recordset. You can specify the ordinal postion within the recordset that you want the drop-down list to be filled with. If you do not require the ItemData to be set, you must specify the optional default ordinal position of one to be zero. Implements an extended interface to make the control faster than the default implementation. eg. Dim eboName As IAutoText Set eboName = cboName.Object I have borrowed many snippets of code from this site an thought that it was my turn to share one of my gems with the people of Planet Source Code. This ActiveX is being used by many programs and has been thouroughly tested for flaws. My thanks to all the people who have contributed to Planet Source Code. PS. Vote if you want to.

A listbox using nothing but a picture box and scrollbar, not done yet.

The designer Top/Bottom bar Activex Control is a scrollable toolbar sort of entity that imitates Outlook bar. I made this for topic selection in my astrology package. Its quite well designed, and will be good for software with multi documents/topics. I have supplied the source(.ctl) file in here. Don't forget to rate this code. Warning: There are no comments in the code.

It's a LED Display to show numbers simply by loading small icons. It also consider 2 decimal digits. You can use this as an example to show numbers in your program in a more "electronical" way.

This program will get local weather using your zip code anywhere in USA. The code can easily be modified to get the weather for the next day. Please tell me what you thing about this custom control and PLEASE vote for me :) :) :)