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[VB6] Fastest File Search Engine
It is a well-tested code to iterate files by MFT (like 'Everything' by David Carpenter do). Full enumeration took ~ 10 sec. / per volume. Required: 1. Admin (elevated) privilages. 2. NTFS file system....
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Percentage fixed column Graph
Just a small program to create a simple percentage column graph of up to 25 values. Has a simple save load function. Wanting to add some vertical labels at the bottom and a save to bmp feature. Enjoy....
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Goal: Get the font name from the source itself: TTF file Good specifications source found here Did not want to have to install a font to get the information. Wanted to know how to do this, so did some...
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VB6 elevated IE-Control-usage with HTML5-elements and COM-Event-connectors
Just a small Demo, how one can work these days with the IE-Control on a VB6-Form. There's three main-topics which this Demo addresses: - how to elevate the IE-Version from its default (which for...
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IEDevKit
This is an old free control that I made many many years ago and I figured I would finally release open source. It allows you to customize the IE web browser control in many ways. There is a complete...
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VB6 Easing-Functions (a more powerful alternative to AnimateWindow)
For those who never heard of Easing-Functions, they are used in all kind of animation-scenarios - these days most often for Browser-(js)Widgets and -Effects. Here's a link which describes them (with a...
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Make a modal form wich is modal by software, no with modal show
I post the code in a thread to resolve a problem, but i think this code must be here. We have a Form1 like a dialog and we wish to open a "modal" form Form2 and maybe a help form Form3 which maybe stay...
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[VB6] Compression API: Another post-Win7 gem
Here is a wrapper class for the Compression API. This requires Windows 8 or newer. It is used here in a simple demo, which creates a 2.5MB file test.txt which is then read back and run through...
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[VB6] Simple Unicode Textbox (Input Only)
With common controls v6 (available since XP), we can use VB's own textbox (some limitations explained later) for a simple input-only textbox, and have it accept unicode text. Of course, you can get the...
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[VB6] "HashTub" - a collection class
We have a very versatile Collection class built into VB6 and we also have Scripting.Dictionary. Most of the time one or the other of these is all we need. But sometimes we have a special need for...
View ArticleNew to Visual Basic- need help with coding for Microsoft word purposes
I am brand new to visual basic, using it to make documents within Microsoft Word 2016 easier to use. Right now I am designing a userform to ask for data to be entered into a textbox and then for the...
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[VB6, Vista+] Finding and deleting invalid shortcuts with IShellLink and...
Dead Link Cleaner So I went looking for a utility to do this for me, and couldn't find one that either itself or its installer didn't look shady/spammy. Since shell interfaces are my favorite thing...
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lite weight progress bar control with percent
digging through old projects and found this small control I thought I would share. very lite weight progress bar user control, drop in replacement for mscomctl one and includes some extra features like...
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[VB6] CC6 Graphical Buttons
We have "graphical style" command buttons, but they won't accept Common Controls 6 UxTheme adjustments. However I have found a way around this: Code: Option Explicit 'Demonstrates using CommandButtons...
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[VB6] Extending the DataGrid Control
Been playing with the DataGrid control to see if it could be usable in a project of mine. It's not a bad control, just a bit under-powered. Caveat: The code and this posting is 99% focused on using the...
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VB6 - Unicode ListBox/ComboBox
After dilettante pointed out that the MS InkEdit Control could be used to support Unicode non-latin text, I used it effectively in one of my projects. But I was still looking for a ListBox that would...
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VBFlexGrid Control (Replacement of the MSFlexGrid control)
This project is intended to replace the MSFlexGrid control for VB6. The "MSFLXGRD.OCX" can be replaced completly. Even though some enhancements of the MSHFlexGrid control are included, it can't replace...
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VB6 - FisherYates shuffle
Attached is a short demonstration of the FisherYates shuffle. In this particular case we wanted to be able to restore the shuffle back to it's original format, so we had to ensure that the Random...
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VB6 ThemedControls.ocx (uxTheme-based replacements for SSTab and VB.Frame)
The title says it already - this is a project which shows how to use the uxTheme.dll (without any involvement of the comctl32.dll), to render directly onto the default-hWnd of a VB6-UserControl. In the...
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Layered Form + InkPicture = DoodleTop
One of the things we got when mainstream desktop Windows inherited the infrastructure from XP Tablet Edition was the InkPicture control. While there are lot of things you can do with this, few people...
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