Common Controls 5 and 6 in the same project. 1

[gmmastros]

I'm working on a very large project. There must be 100 forms in my project.

I did a stupid thing a very long time ago. I have the following components in my project...
'Microsoft Windows Common Controls 5.0 (sp2)'
'Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 (SP6)'

I want to remove the version 5 component, but VB won't let me because it is in use. How can I tell where a V5 component is being used so that I can replace it with the V6 component?

Is there a better way of swapping out the V5 components with the V6 components?

 

[DrJavaJoe]

If you use XP themes you might not want to use 6.0 because it does not draw them correctly, I use them both myself.

If you do want to remove them click on each control and click the about property in the properties window to get the version.



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[Sheco]

You can open the .FRM files with a text editor like Notepad.

Below is a .FRM file from a test form that I made. It has 1 of each type of TreeView. The names of the objects are in [red]red[/red] and the names of their respective libraries are in [blue]blue[/blue]

VERSION 5.00
Object = "{6B7E6392-850A-101B-AFC0-4210102A8DA7}#1.3#0"; "COMCTL32.OCX"
Object = "{831FDD16-0C5C-11D2-A9FC-0000F8754DA1}#2.0#0"; "MSCOMCTL.OCX"
Begin VB.Form Form1 
   Caption         =   "Form1"
   ClientHeight    =   3195
   ClientLeft      =   60
   ClientTop       =   345
   ClientWidth     =   4680
   LinkTopic       =   "Form1"
   ScaleHeight     =   3195
   ScaleWidth      =   4680
   StartUpPosition =   3  'Windows Default
   Begin [blue]MSComctlLib.TreeView[/blue] [red]TreeView2[/red] 
      Height          =   1455
      Left            =   2520
      TabIndex        =   1
      Top             =   240
      Width           =   1455
      _ExtentX        =   2566
      _ExtentY        =   2566
      _Version        =   393217
      Style           =   7
      Appearance      =   1
   End
   Begin [blue]ComctlLib.TreeView[[/blue] [red]TreeView1[/red] 
      Height          =   1575
      Left            =   0
      TabIndex        =   0
      Top             =   120
      Width           =   2055
      _ExtentX        =   3625
      _ExtentY        =   2778
      _Version        =   327682
      Style           =   7
      Appearance      =   1
   End
End
Attribute VB_Name = "Form1"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False

 

[gmmastros]

Thanks sheco. I did a search within the forms for the phrase 'Begin ComctlLib'. There were only a small handful. You probably saved me countless hours.

Thank you.