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Replacement for the standard VB textbox. This has single and multiline as well as password styles. Password style has an XP look because it uses an standard edit control. Also this control is protected against WM_GETTEXT and GetWindowText (tested with Spy++). This is a major update with bugfixes, event implementation and new features like cue banner and balloon tip support. Compile and see. Comments, bug reports and suggestions are welcome and remeber to vote!

ucCalendar is an small and self contained user control that provides basic calendar functionality. With support for mouse and keyboard control, multiple border, line and even selection styles you can integrate it with ANY user interface. I'm writing this control for a program and I wanted to share it. Feedback is always welcome (specially if you have found a bug or you've fixed one), so if you like please vote!

Desktop menu with slide effects, expand, collapse, and popout menus. Copy and paste code to new forms to make as many levels of menu as you want. Easy to customise with your own buttons, menus etc. Wallpaper changer routine, program execution routine, play a wav sound file routine. All "menu Items" sit over Desktop, can be made bigger/smaller, positioning easy to change. just change FormMain startup position

Often I use to thought of using a particular cell of DBGrid control as a Combo box, so that user can select using the combo box.This facility is available in MS Access. This code shows how to combine DBGrid control and a combo box in VB, so that whenever the user clicks a particular cell if DBGrid control this combo box is visible and user can select the value from the combo box.

(Update:Fixed Default UserControl Propities) Allows your app to run when windows starts using the registry not the startup menu folder. This checkbox control supports command line arguements, forecolor, backcolor, font, left/right alignment, all the things you expext from a regular checkbox. Please comment.

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

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 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)

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 a unique way of implementing tooltips in your project that allows you to totally customize each individual tooltip for each individual control in your project. in addition, the tooltip can recieve a mousedown event just like the tooltips in planets tooltips

This is a flash button simulation in that when the mouse enters the button the caption flashes several times. In terms of the actual number of lines of code needed for this button it is quite thrifty which should mean a totally error free and processor easy button. I call it black beauty. Once again feedback to motivate me for improvement is highly desired.

yea yea I know..there are around a million messageboxes on planet. But i was building this one for my app and Im really partial to it and here is why. This does the same things the windows message box does but (1) you can have any size or type picture you want, and specify a transparent color (2) this message box will self close after any number of predefined seconds you specify (If the message box requires a response..ie YesNo messagebox this feature is disabled for obvious reasons) (3)This messagebox self centers vertically and horizontally in relation to its calling form. (4)This message box also responds to the shortcut keys so it can be interacted with the keyboard OR the mouse. Take a look...i think you will like it now.

A superior, in many ways, messagebox. Based on my yesterday submission with improvements. It is in the form of an activeX (usercontrol) now and has 6 differents "skins" (red/candy/blue/orange/yellow/silver) has an option of showing the message with no buttons and self closing as fast as you specify...and you can have a picture, any type, any size. This really makes microsoft messagebox look flat and boring.

This is a control that displays animated gif images. The control, and its associated animated gif are totally resizable. Its properties include pathToGif which is the string path to the animated gif, ShowBorder, offsetx and offsety allow you to center or frame the animation perfectly for your tastes. feedback comments and upgrade ideas totally welcomed

If you havent heard about it..the api assistant is your api best friend. The api assistant is a thin, unobtrussive strip that sits at the very top or very bottom of your screen (a full 22 pixels high). It is a library of close to 200 of the most common api calls. Here is how it works. Your working on your project..you realize you need the api call "SetWindowPos" Just click on that item (everthing in the api assistant is alphabetized for fast access), click back on your project and the api call is instantly pasted into your project..followed immediately by a window that contains all of the constants or types that that api call would need. Its a huge time saver. Other time saving features of the api assistant also include the skeleton coding of all the most common vb calls. for instance..click the vb functions menu item "select case", an input box asks you how many cases you want..you enter 4...click in your project and instantly a 4 case select case skeleton structure is typed into your project where you clicked. the VB API assistant also has a small, but, evergrowing menu list of functions to also assist you. And just in case this program doesnt give you a specific api solution for you, there is a menu of other api resources for you as well. sorry for the large screenshot movie (2mb) but i felt it was necessarry to communicate what the program does..you know..a picture and a thousand words

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