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  1. DarkMercenary44

    Owner Drawn Listbox...

    I'm wanting to skin the scoller on a listbox, how can I replace the default grey with a picture or image of my choice. I was trying to use device context bitmaps, created in memory on the fly, and then when the control recieves the draw instruction I inserted my code thier, but it just drew...
  2. DarkMercenary44

    Working with Icons? Getting and Saving??

    Ok, what I'm trying to do is extract an icon from a file [I've got this part finished] I'm using a custom control from vbsmart.com that is a ownerdrawn menu, which allows pictures. I'm trying to let the user add thier own menu items (programs, files, etc.) When they do so it will get the icon...
  3. DarkMercenary44

    Subclass Help

    Hi all, I'm trying to skin the scroll bar in either a listbox or treeview, which ever is easier, I've gotten the messages captured via a subclass dll. They are captured from the listbox. I, based on info gotten from GetScrollInfo, have figured out how to calculate the scrollbars position...
  4. DarkMercenary44

    MSScript Control

    I want to know how I let the Script Control know that a Module Exists. I've added the other objects to it but how can I tell it that the sub it's looking for is in the Module DarkMercenary darkmercenary44@earthlink.net In the real world As in dreams Nothing is quite What it seems :Book of...
  5. DarkMercenary44

    UserControl causing error, trying to close parent form with event

    Alright, I'm creating a control that will make a borderless form look like that of a form in Microsoft Project 2000, and Microsoft Visio 2000. I've got everything to work, but one thing. I have the 3 buttons on the top of the form, Minimize, Maximize and Close (these are actually in the...
  6. DarkMercenary44

    How can I get VB to access a database on my website?

    I want to have my VB program access a database on my website, and be able to retrieve the information stored within and then later on write to the same database, all without actually downloading the database, I could also do it with a text file it that is easier. DarkMercenary...
  7. DarkMercenary44

    Question about TCP/IP

    I'm working on a project to help me understand what kind of data comes in and goes out of your computer while connected to the net, or a client or server. What I'm trying to do is to view the data on a connected Dial Up connection, before it gets to the computer, well to the application that...
  8. DarkMercenary44

    Can't read data

    All right I am writing software to ping my favorite counterstrike game servers, i figured out the commands on how to do it using UDP Protocol, I ping it with the command players and this is what it gives me... ÿÿÿÿDDrobe  äá‡D{DED}HolyHandGrenade  dÁDScroTor  2Eblistering...
  9. DarkMercenary44

    Borderless Form in TaskBar???

    How do I get a borderless form to show in the taskbar without using a hidden form to do it with. I've done it before using some kind of API but lost all my code in last drive format. DarkMercenary darkmercenary44@earthlink.net In the real world As in dreams Nothing is quite What it seems...
  10. DarkMercenary44

    Do I need to use VBScript???

    I"m making a MUD Server in Visual Basic, I don't know how many of you know what a MUD is, but If you do, then heres my problem. If you know what mobs are then you should know what mobprogs are, I'm trying to make a user definable AI like behavior for the mobs. What I need to know is how...
  11. DarkMercenary44

    Question about Timer in Custom control

    How do I make the timer not run while in design mode. I set enabled to false but when I add my custom button to a form it enables itself via the UserControl_initialize method. So how do I make it not run in design , but when you actually run the app I want it on right away. DarkMercenary...
  12. DarkMercenary44

    MouseMove Event Detection

    I'm making a custom control, and when the mouse moves over it i want to highlihgt the background, well the problem I'm having is that how do I tell if the mouse is out of the mouse_move event, without putting a statement in form mouse_move. I was thinking something like getting screen X Y...
  13. DarkMercenary44

    How do I delete a record from a dat file [not just set it to blank

    I've got a list box that updates itself from a dat file, the problem I run into is that if I make lets say five entrys, then want to delete like the 3rd one, how do I completely delete the last record in the file [cause I'll be moving all records up one to account for the deletion] Right now if...
  14. DarkMercenary44

    How to make textbox not reformat the information stored with in it

    I'm making an encryption program, and I'm haveing a problem. When I encrypt the text, then put it in a text box and then try to decrypt it, the encrypt algorit, gives me a boat load of errors. I just recently found out that when you use encrypts and you put the results in a text box that the...
  15. DarkMercenary44

    Class Module Question

    I'm making a encryption program that will allow encryption for email and AOL IM. I am having a problem with the encryption classes. I dim a new instance of the class like this Dim newblow as new clsblowfish when i encrypt something, with a password, then encrypt it again with the same...
  16. DarkMercenary44

    Custom Control Resizing with mulitple VB Controls

    I'm in need of help bad. I'm creating a custom list box that will be made up out of 2 pictureboxes, pic1 is the outside box [the container for all the controls], pic2 is the actuall list box area, then I have a label placed in pic2, and a VScroll1 placed in pic1. What I want to know is how the...
  17. DarkMercenary44

    Custom Control Resizing with mulitple VB Controls

    I'm in need of help bad. I'm creating a custom list box that will be made up out of 2 pictureboxes, pic1 is the outside box [the container for all the controls], pic2 is the actuall list box area, then I have a label placed in pic2, and a VScroll1 placed in pic1. What I want to know is how the...
  18. DarkMercenary44

    How do you go about creating a custom control, or just point me source

    Hi, I plan on writing a custom control for my listbox, see FAQ #9 a, and b. Of course it will be more customizable. I know that there are hundreds out there, but I can't find any that are free, I want to make a free one so poor people like me can use it, lol. I've never made a custom...
  19. DarkMercenary44

    Need help passing control array to a sub

    I can't get this to work for some reason. I've gotten the actual code to work, but I got tired of having to have the same code in like 8 different locations in my project file. I want to create a sub that will do it. What it does is take in text that the user entered, and then displays it on...
  20. DarkMercenary44

    List Box Question

    How can I make 8 list boxes link to each other so that I only have to use the scroll bar on one of them, can I do this without the delay that a timer makes. And how do I make it so that with anyone of them if I click on something it highlights the corresponding item in the other 7 boxes. If...

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