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Hi Thanks alot. I thought there must be a VB function somewhere to help me. Thanks again, Simon Thanks Simon

Hi I am trying to sort numerical columns of a listview control. I've worked out that I must add leading spaces to my number strings to do this. For example, if I have the following numbers 10.234, 100.234, 1000.234 then I must convert each string to " 10.234", " 100.234&quot...

Good Morning/Afternoon I'm after some advice on automation. I've written an ActiveX EXE in VB which I can automate from within a VC++ program that I have written. The only trouble is the auotmation is 'one way'. That is, everything is driven from my VC++ client. Can someone please tell me...

Good Morning Can someone please point me in the right direction to the easiest way to add a splitter window to a dialog? I want to create a splitter akin to that of Windows Explorer for my form. Much appreciated, Simon (from a cold and wet North East of England)

Good Morning/Afternoon I am automating a ActiveX EXE (that I've written in VB) from a fairly simple Visual C++ program. Everything appears to be OK. However, I want the client C++ program to be able to know when my server VB ActiveX EXE has been closed by the user. How do I do this? Is it...

Good Morning/Afternoon I have a simple VB ActiveX EXE which has the usual Maximise/Minimise/Close control buttons at the top right of my main window. Is it at all possible to disable the Close control button whilst the maximise/minimise buttons are left enabled? (I'm wanting to prevent the...

Hi Please bear with me on this one. I've just followed a tutorial to create an ActiveX EXE component. It works fine. I am able to automate my component from within another VB project (I haven't tried from VC++ yet) and it works standalone. One thing that confuses me is this: the class that...

Hi Thanks for the prompt reply. The bit I don't understand is the interface between my calling VB program and the activeX EXE. For example if I declare an object of type Y (my standalone EXE thing) and I want to do things to Y (like open a document in Y) then how do I do it? Cheers again Simon

Hi, I've a VB Application written as a standalone 'Standard EXE'. It contains a main form, which can display various modal forms, and a few different class modules, standard modules etc. Nothing special really. What I want to do is create an 'ActiveX EXE' so that my application can be...

Hi I want to drive my VB application from another in-house application written in C++. I've been told I can do this using Automation (formerly OLE?). a) Is this true? b) How do I do it? c) What do I have to do with my VB application to make it 'automation' compliant? Thanks for your help Simon

Hi Is there a VB equivalent of the CProgressCtrl in C++?

Use this type of thing... Private Sub ListView1_ColumnClick(ByVal ColumnHeader As ColumnHeader) ' When a ColumnHeader object is clicked, the ListView control is ' sorted by the subitems of that column. ' Set the SortKey to the Index of the ColumnHeader - 1 ListView1.SortKey =...

Hi All I've a bit of VB code (a For loop) that takes some time to run (about 2-3 mins typically) and I want to show a progress dialog (i.e. a small dialog with a progress bar and message) whilst this code runs. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it?

Hello I'm looking to find an API function (or otherwise) that tells me if a printer is 'available' or 'online'. Can anyone help? Thanks Simon

Hi, Thanks for the prompt reply. That sounds good. But, my mainform that currently drives the app shows up to 3 other forms (each with their own menu bar/tool bar) as modeless. How do I keep the functionalities of these forms in an MDI enviorment? (do they retain their original tool/menu...