DrawingControls for VB6: Shape and Line controls replacement with anti-aliasing
This is a further development of the ShapeEx control. In this case, it is in an ocx project and has been added the companion control LineEx, that is a Line control replacement. The main advantage is...
View ArticleucGallery - Direct2D
Hi, I want to share this usercontrol that I have been working on these days, it is a Gallery control to show images and text, I had done this control previously using GDI+ but its performance was not...
View ArticleVB6 - Original InputBox function reloaded with full Unicode and Password Char...
Every time I've searched the internet on how to make the InputBox function support Unicode, the answers were to make your own InputBox using a form, a couple of buttons and a TextBox that supports...
View ArticleVB6 - Unicode Captions for all intrinsic controls (yes, LABEL too!) - no OCX...
When developing international applications there is often a need to display user interface elements in foreign languages. I've put together a small "cCapW" class that can handle Unicode captions for...
View ArticleIocp Server by vb6
"This should be considered a very simple server, with many functions not implemented, and only one framework. I don't think there are many people who need this thing, but I have spent a lot of time...
View ArticleVB6 ADO-Rs-like "multi-column-container"
As the title already suggests, here the base-code for an implementation - which (other than a free-standing ADO-Rs), comes with support for "direct memory-access to already contained data"... to allow...
View ArticleADO Disconnected Recordsets
Over the last few days, I've been exploring the abilities and limits of ADO disconnected recordsets. These are memory-based recordsets that have no need for any physical database, and can be...
View ArticleSingle for-loop traversal over 2D/3D arrays
This source code shows the traversal of a two-dimensional array by one for-loop structure. A 2D-array variable (A) is declared. A string variable t is initially set to empty. A variable v is set to...
View Articlevb6 CallByAddress,call fun by address,api call,dll call by address
vb6 CallByAddress,call fun by address,api call,dll call by address form1 code Code: Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim a As Long, b As Long, C As Long a = 11 b = 22 MsgBox "Result value 2:" &...
View Articlevb6 instrex,Assembly Code Find Image
This should be used to search for image matrices, such as RGB data bytes for a form, and then for RGB data bytes for a small image. You can also find how to change it to a string. Or write another...
View ArticleQuick Find String in large files(Supper Instrb by vb6)
Using memory mapping and virtual pointers, there is no need to allocate memory and convert it into a string for further search. If you open an ansi format file, store it in a unicode string variable,...
View ArticleVB6 Monitoring/Manipulating clipboard example, clipboard viewer
Code: Dim ClipSetCount As Long Private Sub Command1_Click() Clipboard.Clear Clipboard.SetText Text2.Text End Sub Private Sub Form_Load() SetClipboardViewer Me.hwnd Show...
View ArticleVB6 InlineAssembler,asm bind to vb6 function
Code: CDeclTrampolin.vbp [InlineAssembler] FileName=CDeclTrampolin.ia Code: Private Declare Function LoadLibrary Lib "kernel32" _ Alias "LoadLibraryW" ( _...
View ArticleVb6 cdecl wrapper for SQLITE3. DLL
The latest version has perfect support for running in the IDE, no need to press CTRL+F5 In VB6 ide, you need to press CTRL+F5 to run, or press F5 twice before running. After compiling it into EXE,...
View Article"Open" TreeView Helper Procedures thread
I'm starting this thread as a place where people might post "TreeView helper procedures". I'm just making extensive use of TreeView these days, and have developed quite a library of "helper...
View ArticleVB6 Creating Virtual Disk Source Code with API
Without subst.exe DefineDosDevice(0, sDriveLetter, sMountPath) DefineDosDevice(DDD_REMOVE_DEFINITION, sDriveLetter, sMountPath) Code: Private Sub Command3_Click() DefineDosDevice 0, "M:",...
View Article[VB6/Win8+] Using DirectX to show emojis with color
ColorEmojiDemo With phones and web browsers, people are getting used to seeing emojis with color everywhere. But disappointingly, the basic Windows GDI functions do not support these, so in VB6 (and...
View ArticleUsercontrol Listbox by VB6 RC6+RC6Widgets
CaList1.Width = CaList1.Width / 2 How to add controls before resizing and deleting items? Add item? How to delete the controls drpList and Panel in order to redraw the modified LISTBOX? Unsupported...
View ArticleShowPicFromStream by vb6,Show Picture from Byte array
I have found many ways to load images in formats such as PNG, and I don't know which one is the fastest. Interested friends can test it out. Code: Dim Gdi1 As New ShowPicStream Private Sub...
View ArticleHand-rolled windowless Button demo.
An interesting topic about windowless buttons came up recently and it gave me the idea for this demo. Most people are used to controls having a window handle, a window procedure and a device context...
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