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This function will select the value of a List Box or Combo Box based upon the Index ID. This is helpful when you are trying to edit a record and want to select a saved value in a combo box or list box.

Access-like AutoComplete of a dropdown combobox or a simple combo box based on what's already in the list. Simple code but can handle backspace and delete and will finish the 'complete' on Enter keystroke or lost focus. Could easily be converted to a user control.

This code was taken from O'Neil. It searches a combo box as the user types. O'Neil's code was modified to use the SendMessage API to search the combo box, which made it much faster. This is very fast, even with thousands of records in the combo box. Thank you O'Neil for the idea, and the well commented code!

This will take an object on a form, and place it in the center of the screen. Good for password protection programs that take up the whole screen, this will ensure that an object that you want in the middle of the screen, will remain there for any resolution.

Shows how to fill an Image Combo (part of Microsoft Common Controls) with each of the 16 standard colors to be used as a color picker such as in a word proccessor on the toolbar. All the images are created by code for ease of modification (As opposed to using 16 Bitmaps).

This code extracts icons from Dll's and Exe's. The code is so simple any VB newbie should be able to understand it.

Gives you application the Windows 95 look of a floating menu. Right click any where on the form and the menu will appear.

Resize and move controls during Runtime...very simple to understand

The background generator should now work. the *.frx files are now in the zip. The program will make bitmap images for either windows desktop background images or web page backgrounds. I got some code from other programs from PlanetSourceCode the rest is mine.

Changes the backcolor of a control when the mouse move on and off of the control. Like the changing links you see on web pages. Good for trivia gaming code.

This is just a little game were you will have to pop the balloons when they pop up in the picture boxes. Demostrates how to use the timer controls.

This is yet another submission for printing, loading from the file and saving to the file from Listview, ListBox, ComboBox and all one Forms textboxes controls. There are couple changes for part of this code. Check the explanations, please.

A little game that I created, it is a little like who wants to be a millionaire. You got three life lines and if you get one wrong then you're finished. There are only 38 questions there, but hey it's just a demo. The source code is in a zip file along with the exe.

This example demonstrates what most people using Graphics in VB really needs, the use of Transparent Images in your programs that can overlap each other (using BitBlt), like GIF images do for example! This is the Ultimate Demonstration Program and it's REALLY easy to use. All the lines have been commented and turned into functions so you can easily use them in your programs. The program also shows how you can flip your images horizontal and vertical with just a mouse-click and includes a really fast code for creating masks (which you need when dealing with Transparent Images). This is a "must have" code not only for the beginners but also for EVERYONE using Visual Basic!

Creates a pretty neat geometric design!

This code is all in a simple module, making it fairly easy to draw a spiral at run time. I have commented most lines, but anybody with some understanding of trigonometry should be able to get it. Uses about 9 different input parameters to totally customize your program. I have tested this with VB 6 and 5, so no guarantees for the lower ones, but it should work 'coz all it is is maths. I have also included a nice testing app to show what types of spiral are possible ;) Please vote. Thanks!

Dev Fade is a control which can create faded text on your forms.

You can edit the shape of your forms using mouse or images. The OCX attached makes the effect visible in design and runtime mode.

Yes! A module that creates gradients! This BAS file will seperate a color into red, green, and blue with one sub, then create a gradient in another. This BAS allows horizontal, vertical, or circular gradients to be created for your VB projects easily! It also has a quality feature, if your gradient is particularly large. This BAS can write to any control that can be drawn on. No API! UPDATED!!! This code can now create a gradient in ANY SHAPE OR SIZE!!!!!!!!!!!! Also added in the update: Common Dialog boxes for color picking, click the from and to boxes showing the sample color to get a common dialog for the appropriate one. Also new, is the feature to save your gradient as a bitmap file!

Simulates a cool/flat button. Easy and simple. No API's or advanced codes. Could be used but coding is really newby-ish.