[vb6] Extending VB's Image Control for PNG, TIFF, and more [v1.1]
UPDATED on 11 Oct 2015. Major revision. Added animated GIF and mutlipage TIFF support. Any previous version must be thrown away. You do not want to run both in the same project, trust me! 12 Oct 2015:...
View ArticleVBIDEUtils now open sources
Hi I wrote very very long time ago (in 1999) the best VB6 addin : VBIDEUtils (You still can find it on a lot of web sites) In the past I was selling it, but as I had shutdown VBDiamond 10 years ago, I...
View Article[VB6] Locale Sensitive Sorting
There are times when you need to sort in a locale-aware manner. One of the more obvious cases is probably when generating cryptographic signatures for web services. These often require you to create a...
View Article[VB6] Use System's Format PropPage Dialog at Run Time
I've never needed this but a question here got me thinking it couldn't be that hard. Then I started searching the MSDN Library and found nothing I recognized as helpful. Then I searched the web and was...
View Article[VB6] clsCursor - Setting the IDC_HAND & Other Cursors Properly
Most solutions that addresses the MousePointer property's lack of support for some of the standard cursors (most notably the "hand" cursor) tend to be based on either converting the standard cursor to...
View ArticleVB6 in AppServer-scenarios (DCOM Replacement per RC5)
In the early days of VB6-usage there was DCOM (later superseded by COM+). It came with the promise of easy cross-machine-calls (RPCs) by simply using the second (optional) Parameter [ServerName] of the...
View Article[VB6] JNode - JSON revisited
JNode is a "little brother" or alternative to my JsonBag. This take on the subject is a kind of stripped down minimal implementation of a VB6 JSON handling Class. Don't read anything into the name (the...
View ArticleVB6 pipe-based UDT-serializing/deserializing InMemory
VB6 has a nice feature, when it comes to UDTs. It has builtin serializing/deserializing routines, which are capable to write an even complex and deeply nested UDT to a File per VBs Put-statement (no...
View ArticleVB6 LightWeight COM and vbFriendly-BaseInterfaces
Some stuff for the advanced VB-users among the community (or the curious) ... I was recently working on some things in this area (preparations for the C-Emitter of a new VB6-compiler, with regards to...
View Article[VB6, Vista+] A compact function to retrieve any property by name, locally...
This is related to the greatly expanded property system available in Vista+, and is closely related to the more complete tour of the system in my other projects. While this method is inefficient and...
View Article[vb6] SavePictureEx (Unicode compatible and a bit more)
Not anywhere close to deep-thought-provoking code nor is it any breakthrough. I thought I'd share a workaround I've been using for awhile. VB's SavePicture uses existing APIs that have the ability to...
View Article[VB6] Register any control as a drop target that shows the Explorer drag image
Dragging from Explorer Dragging from Firefox So as we all know, the drag cursor for a VB drop target is a hideous relic of the Windows 3.1 days. No more! Ever since XP, there has been an interface...
View Article[VB6] PicSave - Simple SavePicture as GIF, PNG, JPEG
Sometimes you need a better SavePicture() function. Not a lot better, just one that can save in some compressed format instead of just BMP format. Like JPEG usually, or PNG. Well this one does that,...
View Article[VB6] Creation of GIF-animation with the transparent background.
Hi everyone! This project allows to create an GIF animations with the transparent background. As far as i know the GDI+ doesn't allow to set the property of "Disposal Method" in the "Graphic Control...
View Article[VB6] - Library info.
Hi everyone. This is quite simple project, which allows to view some information about libraries and PE-files: Export;Import;Delay import;For type libraries and PE which contains the type libraries:...
View Article[vb6] Class to Support PNG, TIF and GIF Animation
We all know VB is old and doesn't support many of the common image formats, specifically: TIF, PNG and alpha-blended icons. The attached class enables VB to support those formats and a bit more. There...
View Article[vb6] Class to make Image Controls Support PNG, TIF, GIF Animation
We all know VB is old and doesn't support many of the common image formats, specifically: TIF, PNG and alpha-blended icons. The attached class enables VB to support those formats and a bit more. There...
View Article[VB6] Create a ZIP file without any DLL depends using IStorage and IDropTarget
About This project is a followup to [VB6] Basic unzip without 3rd party DLL or shell32- IStorage-based, to create a zip using the same method. At the time, I didn't know if it was possible, and later I...
View ArticleVB6 Virtual unicode-aware ListControl (grouping TreeList-Demo)
A Virtual-ListControl is sufficient for almost any purpose, since anything it will render will be triggered from the outside, in appropriate OwnerDraw-Events - which will then visualize Data which is...
View Articleone selecting answer
i need a one selecting answer program written by vb6, becouse i have a project in how to build an e_exam
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