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This little App will allow you to edit or create menus in VB6 Forms. It removes the limitations of the number of nested submenus allowable in the VB6 menu editor on which it is based. New forms can be created with menus in place. It can be used to extract menu structures from one form and place it in another. You can save menu structures as templates for later use. It has only been tested in VB6. Use it as you would the Menu Editor in VB6 with the exception of the Open/Save operations. As with all my submissions, bugs and errors are provided completely free of charge.

Updated version - removed many bugs and errors. Thanks for the feedback and interest shown by all those who emailed me. It helped greatly. This little App will allow you to edit or create menus in VB6 Forms. It removes the limitations of the number of nested submenus allowable in the VB6 menu editor on which it is based. New forms can be created with menus in place. It can be used to extract menu structures from one form and place it in another. You can save menu structures as templates for later use. It has only been tested in VB6. Use it as you would the Menu Editor in VB6 with the exception of the Open/Save operations. As with all my submissions, bugs and errors are provided completely free of charge.

Mixer API demo. A clone of the Windows Mixer(sndvol32.exe). Volume/Balance/Mute controls fully responsive to external changes via callbacks from winmm.dll. The Mixer API causes problems for VB coders everywhere. The tangled web Microsoft created turns what should be simple into a nightmare. In this demo I try to untangle some of this mess by cloning the Windows Mixer(sndvol32.exe) as an example of how to write your own Volume/Balance/Mute controls. As an App it's pretty useless as sndvol32.exe exists on all Windows platforms, but for all those Audio/MP3 coders out there, it should make life a little easier. Update: As requested an "Administrator" version(Included as a separate zip) Added: 1. The ability to lock Volume,Balance and Mute for each control 2. Save settings as presets 3. Run hidden - simple code - not 100% hidden, but good enough to keep the average user out. The save settings demonstrates writing settings to a binary file, something not often seen here on PSC. What it will do: If a control is locked, not even sndvol32.exe can make changes. The given control cannot be altered. Security is low - I'll leave it up to you to bump up the security level. What it wont do: If a 3rd party App communicates directly with the soundcard(WinAmp for example) it can effect changes. Screenshot shows "Administrator" version

This is in response to a 'Request for Code' in the discussion forum. It's similar to lots of other submissions of address book style apps. It shows how to create and access a database without any data controls - just by referencing 'Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library'. Purely an introduction to databases - nothing more. A simple address book in 160 lines of code, easily expanded, with lots of comments to guide a beginner through the code.

Demonstrates how to get the selected text from another application - Notepad for example. Yet another submission in response to questions in the Discussion Forum. Hope you find this useful.

This is a simple demo of using the API to manage files. It demonstrates the use of SHFileOperation. It is by no means a 'File Manager'. It was put together in order to answer questions from many coders new to 'VB in the Discussion Forum. I hope it is of some help to those folks.

This is an app I wrote early last year to see how far I could go with VBs' graphic editing capabilities. It's still a work in progress and could do with a rewrite. After Stu Lishman uploaded his latest version of Stu Paint I added Twain support, thanks Stu. The program was thrown together quickly but is none the less complete and working, with only one or two minor bugs. It does most things Paint Shop Pro will do. I have a version with layers that works quite well but is less complete than this version. It demonstrates cut, copy, paste, selection, freehand selection, shapes, multiple clipboards, color handling, effects, filter browser, inserting text, magnifying, rotation, inversion, MDI window control, toolwindows, MRU lists, Temp files, Undo/Redo, buttonising etc.etc. Some of the effects are modified versions of code downloaded from PSC. Unlike most of my other submissions there is very little commenting of code - it's too big now and I've forgotten more of the functions than I remember. For the more advanced coders however it should not be too difficult to follow. It was an experiment however, so there is some duplication of both code and controls, with heaps of room for optimising.

Threw this together to answer a group of questions in the Discussion forum. It is intended to help those just starting VB. It demostrates string manipulation, file handling, simple navigation, reading and writing to files. It includes four example apps that include menus, window handling, file properties and a basic text editor. Code for each function appear in a textbox ready to copy into your project. I hope this is of some help to people beginning VB. Good luck.

This is in response to many requests for "removing duplicates in a listbox" in the discussion forum. Using the API is almost always faster than using VB. I'm unaware of any examples here on PSC of using the API for removing dupes - I may be wrong. Either way this is a very efficient way of accomplishing this task. No need to vote - code couldn't be much simpler than this! Feel free to improve upon the code yourself. As usual all bugs come entirely free of charge.

If you've ever tried to use the standard Toolbar customise feature then you will know it doesn't work. This is a documented bug - visit MS and do a search. They offer some solutions, but these only partially rectify the problems. The problems involve an inabilty to reliably save the configuration of the Toolbar and a failure to display unused items in the left hand selection Listview. My fix Scrap the feature entirely - uncheck AllowCustimize checkbox in properties Replace the dialog with a clone form Power the function with a simple class

In response to requests for more samples here is Volume 2. This collection includes the use of scrollbars, listboxes and the treeview. Move listitems up or down in a listbox, remove duplicates etc. The treeview example demonstrates a fully functioning 'Favorites bar' for a Web browser application using Internet explorers favorites - add links, add new folders, rename, delete etc. Also included is a KeyCode giver, a picture resizer, and just for fun a random mousemover. Code for each function appear in a textbox ready to copy into your project. I hope this is of some help to people beginning VB. Good luck.

Allows you to alter the text on messagebox buttons. Easy to use and call. Just add a module to your project and call with a single line of code in a similar manner to the standard Msgbox call. Commented code and extensive example usage.

If you are writing an Image Editor or your app opens picture files you need this. Just like the big boys you can now show a preview of images right there in the CommonDialog window. Very easy to use. Add a module and a small form to your project and call with a single line of code.

This is a quick demo of thievery. It demonstrates how to steal the Treeview from the BrowseForFolder dialog for use by us poor VB coders.

Here is the third part of my Web Browser Tricks This time as a Web Browser(nearly). What's here ? - a nearly exact clone of Internet Explorer's Favorites menu, autocomplete Address combo, menu's enabled/disabled by the Webbrowser, text resizing including identification of current size, progress bar in the Statusbar, plus all the standard WebBrowser stuff.

More examples for Beginners by MrBobo. This little demo demostrates the use of Drive boxes, Dir boxes and Filelistboxes. To give the example some purpose it allows you to safely bulk change the extensions of files in a selected directory. To do this safely you need to quickly parse filepaths and include error handling to avoid overwriting. The demo includes an example of a 'Desktop' and 'Up one level' button in its' browse function, get special folders, enumerating all filetypes from the registry and a simple auto-complete function for comboboxes. Includes an interesting function - Safesave - which appends a number to a filename if the file is found to already exist.

Browse for Folders Dialog with 'Create New Folder' button and 'Include Subfolders' checkbox. CommonDialog with image previews. Both these controls are updated versions of functionality included in some of my previous submissions. Now Win 2K compliant. Please vote if you like it.

Another example for Beginners from MrBobo. This example program shows how to communicate between instances of your application. Lets say your application is assosiated to a filetype. The user clicks on such a file and an instance of your application is launched. But what if you want to load the file in the existing instance - not the new one ? There are many examples of how to achieve similar results on PSC. This method is designed for reliability and ease of use with a minimum of code to implement.

Syntax coloring, advanced selection routines and Highlighting. Highlighting using the Richtextbox control is awkward. Whilst there are a host of Selection properties there is no Highlight property we can access from VB. We just have to parse the RTF code.

This module provides a Win2K interface to the Browse for Folder under Win95/98. This is not an update to my earlier submissions but a complete rewrite using pure API. With Win2K MS introduced a new DLL (SHELL32.DLL Version 5.0) which includes a better Edit box, Popup menu and a New Folder button. With this module you can achieve the same result (except the Popup menu) using the old DLL (SHELL32.DLL Version 4.71) as used by Win 95/98. Additionally you can add a checkbox, customise captions for Titlebar, OK button, Cancel button, New Folder button. You can also resize the Browse for folder window. Additionally you can choose to open the dialog double size or full screen. All the usual features are present, such as include files, start at special folders etc. You can select between the old style Editbox or the Win2K style editbox (Much better I think.) Why bother? - Not everyone is running Win2K. Very easy to call. Heavily commented and includes complete sample usage. Please vote if you find this useful.