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How to limit selections in a listbox control

John — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:09:55 +0000

Sometimes you may require to limit the number of items which can be selected by the user in run time. Here is one of the way I can think of in VB6: In this example, we are going to limit the number of selections in list box control to three. If the user tries to select [...]

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How to add Horizontal ScrollBar to list box control using API

John — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:05:45 +0000

Here is the way of adding Horizontal ScrollBar to a ListBox control. It uses SendMessage API function. Instructions: Create a new Project Add a new Form to it and name it as Form1 Add a list box control to it and name it as list1 Now, copy the following code to Form1: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Option Explicit Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" [...]

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How to add items to combo box control using API

John — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:50:56 +0000

Using API is one of way of adding items to combo box control. Using API is much faster comparing with regular add item method. Instructions: Create a new Project Add a new Form to it and name it as Form1 Add a combo box control to it and name it as combo1 Add a command button control to it and [...]

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How to Pause our application

John — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:10:14 +0000

Sometimes we might require to pause our application for some time. like there might be other processes which needs to be completed before our application proceeds further. There are few ways to achieve that. Here is one of the way to pause or wait our application: Instructions: Create a new Project Add a new module to it and [...]

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How to Ping an IP address

John — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:58:00 +0000

Here is one of the way to ping a given IP address. Check out the main procedure to call the functions: Instructions: Create a new Project Add a new module to it and name it as Module1 Now, add the following code to Module1: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 Option Explicit 'Const IP_STATUS_BASE = 11000 Const IP_SUCCESS = 0 Const IP_BUF_TOO_SMALL = (11000 + 1) Const IP_DEST_NET_UNREACHABLE = (11000 [...]

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