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This is a neat and useful idea i came up with for a form skin. When offering freeware or trialware to your users this could be a useful technique. the skin causes a message, that you specify, to follow the mouse around on your form. There is also a built in "FormOnTop" property as well

A clock usercontrol. It doesnt get any easier (for you) than this. After downloading now, read the breif readme.txt for correct usage

A simple text effect control that is best described as black background with falling green letters that reveal a message. The controls [MatrixText] property lets you control what the message is that is revealed..nice splash sceen effect

LittleButton.ocx is a one of a kind button that is actually many buttons in one. Instantly creates and array of buttons(up to 20 elements). The buttons can be arranged vertically or horizontally (menu style) Just about every visual aspect of the control is totally customizable from the caption style(flat, embossed, shadow, raised) to the mouse over hilite color, and more than 2 dozen additional properties. One look at the screensh0t will convince you of just how much time and work was put into this.

a replacement for the standard line control. creates a line that looks more like the line that makes up the edge of the frame control (screenshot) there are 3 types, (single,double, triple) and 2 different types (embossed, raised). Not a huge or fancy control but will save you about 4 or 5 lines of code, without having to think too hard. with there control there is no coding whatsoever..like the standard line control..just drop and position and your done

This is my ListGrid control..so called because it basically merges the functionality of a listbox with a listgrid control. Some of its appealing features are (1) with a short, simple call you can get or set the text of a specified "cell" in the list (2) you create attractive header (2 possible styles) with as many columns as you wish. (3) clicking any of the columns headers cause the list to be sorted in ascending or descending order (alphabetically) just like in outlook or kazaa (4) There is a property call .highest_index which makes for slightly easier looping...for example with the listbox or any of ms controls..there is a property such as the listcount so if you want to loop through the list you go> for i = 0 to list1.listcount -1 the .highest_index property already takes that into account so now you just loop by>> for i = 0 to listGrid1.highest_index. The listcount is still available to you as well if you prefer that, (5) your can set the font/forecolor/backcolor, individually for both the header and the list itself. If you prefer the lightweightness (not a real word i dont think) of the listbox, and used the settabs api to try to increase the functionality of the listbox but felt like you wish you could take the improvements many steps further than that then you will love this control. Suggestions for improvement will be implemented so suggest away.

you know how it can be difficult to resize the height of the listbox because it only allows you to reset its height + or - a full font height and not in incerments inbetween ? Well this little tip I found out purely by accident.

This extends the functionality of the listbox by (1) allowing you to create an attractive header with 3 styles ( sunken, framed, raised) (2) specify a header backcolor, forecolor and font.. as well as the fore and backcolor and font of the list portion of the control. The best part of this control is that is specifically designed to be a listbox with tabstops AND you can retrieve AND set data in the list based upon a row and column setting...so all the dirty working of juggling text data is taken care of. This is something i whipped together in a couple of hours so its not totally complete..but its pretty much there..and I am hoping to get suggestions from you on how to enhance and refine it..but I am pretty sure you will like and appreciate it!!

This is a simple addin that can help you examine the exact flow of your code. It copies each line of code as it executes...then you can save this as a text file and examine to detect potential weaknesses or bottlenecks your program may have

This is a program who's entire interface is an icon in your system tray that brings up a menu when you right click the trays icon. This menu contains 25 of the freshest FREE proxy servers. A proxy server is another computer that your computer routes through. The whole point of this is its like putting on a mask..the internet cant see who you are (your ip address and other sensitive identifying information) the proxy server becomes your mask guaranteeing your privacy and anonimity on the net. Just point and click to select from one of the 25 FREE proxy servers.

A custom message box with 6 differents "skins" (GlassRed, GlassCandy, GlassOrange, Glassblue, GlassWhite, GlassYellow) use any (or none) icon/bmp for the messagebox..any size you wish, an offsetX and offsetY for exact placement of your messagebox picture, and the ability to play either exclamation, or warning sound, or a custom sound of your choice(or no sound at all) and best of all..it looks real nice)

this is a fast and simple way to implement a sort of tabbed form effect

This project is actually part of a larger project...but the idea of this submission is just a different and effective way to offer user with help tips. The good thing about this way is the user can turn it on or off at will so its never in his way unless he wants it that way. To access the info tips in this project simply left click on the large textbox to the right (text1) which brings up a small menu..select "show help tips"

THIS PROGRAM IS A VB ADDIN THAT SIMPLIFIES AND QUICKENS THE PROCESS OF INSERTING API DECLARATIONS AS WELL AS THEIR ASSOCIATED CONSTANTS AND TYPES IN YOUR PROJECT. HERE IS HOW IT WORKS: 1) FOR API DECLARATION INSERTION: type out the api call i.e "setwindowpos" (without the quotes) select or highlight the call with your mouse cursor, and with the left button still pressed down hit the "a" key on the keyboard. 2) FOR CONSTANTS INSERTION (a) if you know the constants you want type out the first 3 letters ( or more) of the constant(s) you wish to insert. For example..say you've just inserted the api call "DrawText" which requires at least on of the constants prefixed with "DT_ i.e "DT_LEFT or "DT_SINGLELINE" Type out "dt_" (without the quotes) select it with your mouse and with the left button still down hit the "c" key select the constants you desire from the alphabetical list (b) If your unsure of the constants you want with the left mouse button pressed anywhere in the code window hit the "c" key select the constants you desire from the alphabetical list 3) FOR TYPE INSERTION (a) if you know the type you desire type out the entire types name i.e. "pointapi" (without the quotes) select it with your mouse, with the left button still down hit the "t" key, confirm your selection (b) if your usure of the constants you desire with the left mouse button depressed anywhere in the code window, hit the "t" key. The entire list of constants is displayed in alphabetical order. Make your selection(s)

How you can access all the properties, methods, and events of the html object libray/webbrowser control with using any webbrowser or winsock or inet control. Most people believe that in order to use these objects you have to load some sort of browser object into memory..which has always been problem for me since i know that IE has a lot of security holes. the secret basically lies in one method of the HTMLobject library. it is the ".CreateDocumentFromURl" method It goes something like this

This is a webclass that makes it super easy for you to access the document object, the document.body object, all of the links, image, input elements, and table cells for a web page. And because there is no visible interface (directly anyway)..the pages load super super fast...the second part of this submission is a quick and dirty way to provide your applications with multiline tool tips. Please vote because my Im not strong enouph to pick my head up off the sand and put it back on my body but if i get a lot of good votes that will inspire me a little

THis is a joystick class that finds a valid joystick and then returns to you one event that reports everything you need to know to program that joystick..from which button is being pressed to the X and Y pos of both joyhandles(assuming your joypad has two..if only 1 this will still work) to the position of the D-pad

This is a class that allows you to easily..without any api knowledge, create rect regions and fill/paint them in a variety of cool ways..and if you vote make sure you vote for Kerry

This is a listbox class that adds several great features to the standard listbox. (1) function draw_header:=This function draws an attractive header at the top of your listbox so it looks more like a listview control. The string you provide should be the text you want for your header, seperated by pipe ""|"" characters. The [container] parameter is the object the listbox is drawn on..ie the form or frame or picturebox (2) sub additems_with_tabs:="This sub allows you to additems to the listbox in such a manner that string ""string|string2|string3"" takes the pipe character and converts it to tabs" (3) sub horiz_scrollbars:="Allows you to add horizontal scrollbars to the listbox. If [scroll_width] is not supplied then the items in the list are scanned and if horizontal scrollbars are required, then it is added, making the listbox wide enouph to view the widest list entry. If [scroll_width] is supplied then you are manually adding them, the width based upon the value you supply for [scroll_width]." (4) function search:="Allows you to search for an item in the listbox. This acts like the autocomplete feature of browsers in that the search is case insensitive, and a partial match returns the index of the first listitem matching so a search of ""VIS"", for example, will return the index of ""visual basic"" entry in the listbox." (5)initialize_listbox:= "This must be the first method called and it sets reference to the listbox you will be referring to in this class." (6) sub hot_tracking (this one is real cool) "Calling this sub and setting [benable] to True makes your listbox have a ""hot-tracking"" effect in that moving your mouse over the listbox causes the item under your mouse to be hilighted" (7) sub individual_item_tooltips:="The tooltip for the listbox displays the contents of the listitem the mouse is over. Useful if the contents of listitems width exceed the width of the listbox itself" (8) sub tabstops:="Set tabstop points for the listbox. Specify in pixels..a value for each succeeding column" (9) sub add_many_items:="Enables you to add multiple items with one call. Each item to add is seperated by a comma."

This is an application I put together that goes on the web and downloads and lists the links to thousands of vb related software and more. Not all the items are free but enouph are that you ll be busy "unwrapping" your new christmas presents for weeks to come!!