Public (software) Library
            Copyright 1994 Nelson Ford, PsL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


=====VISUAL BASIC CONTROLS

...and routines for those controls


CONTENTS:

-----3-D, Shadows & Frames
-----Alarms
-----Bar Codes
-----Browsing Data Files
-----Dialog Boxes - file boxes, etc.
-----Gauges, Knobs, Slides, LEDs, Etc.
-----Grids
-----Label Boxes
-----List Boxes
-----Other
-----Picture Boxes
-----Scrolling Forms
-----Sets of Custom Controls
-----Spin Controls
-----Status Bars
-----Text Boxes
-----Tool Bars

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-----3-D, Shadows & Frames

[3D4VB]
3D4VB (LAN Services; $10) lets you create beautiful 3-D effects. More than
20 different routines are included to draw 3-D frames, shadowed boxes,
borders, picture buttons, etched and shadowed text, and more.
Interestingly, this is all done with VB code - no DLL's to keep track of.
All source code is included.

[3DCTL]
3DCTL (Bonner, Paul; $0) shows how to use CTL3D.DLL from Excel 4.0 to give
all common dialogs and message boxes in a VB app a 3-D appearance.
(CTL3D.DLL not included.)

[3D_HOW]
3D_How shows you how to draw 3D brushed steel looking controls with VB2.
All code is included; no add-on tools are required.

[FRAMEVB]
FrameVB (Ford, Nelson ASP; $0) is a Module that will draw shadowed frames
around controls to create the illusion of their being recessed. Also
included is a routine for underlining a control such as a Text box.

[VB3D]
VBCtl3D 1.32 allows you to easily add 3-D effects to controls, message
boxes, dialogs, etc. (Bernd Beekes and Jeff Simms, reg. fee: $29)


-----Alarms

[ALARMCC]
Alarm Custom Control this control lets you set an alarm (or multiple
alarms) to go off at a particular time. (Mabry Software, reg. fee: $10)


-----Bar Codes

[BARCOD]
BarCod is a custom control that displays bar codes. You simply place it on
your form, size it to your liking, and set the style. It supports 3 of 9, 2 of
five, and more. (Mabry Software, reg. fee: $15)


-----Browsing Data Files

[BBCC]
Browse Bound Control (Delta Soft Inc.; $20) contains a control that can be
used in conjunction with the standard VB3 Data control to browse any
RecordSet. There are full on-the-spot editing facilities with data pre- and
post-validation. You can freeze columns at the left edge, set column and
header text alignment, and set special coloring for any column.

[BROWSECC]
Browse 3.0 (Oancea, Gabriel; $10) is a VB custom control for browsing DBF
files. Requires vxBASE (on this CD).


-----Dialog Boxes - file boxes, etc.

[DIALOGS]
Dialogs (Kitsos/Johnson; $0) contains example code for using common dialogs
with API calls without the need for a separate DLL.

[EZTABD]
EZ-Tab 2.0 (Bernd Beekes, reg. fee: $23) allows you to implement tabbed
dialogs in Visual Basic without any additional coding or subcontrols.
Tabbed dialogs allow you to present complicated dialogs to the user without
adding a great number of controls to one window or splitting the dialog
into many subdialogs.

[TABDLG]
Tab Dialog (Richard Eke, reg. fee: $?) contains source code and an example
of a simple routine which simulates tabbed dialog boxes like there are in
Word 6.

[FILEBOX]
Filebox (Wykes, Harry JF; $0) shows how to create a Windows style file-open
box using List boxes rather than the VB DriveBox and DirBox objects.

[FOPEN]
FOpen 1.1 (Kitsos, Costas; $0) is a set of forms, VB code, and API calls to
create the standard Windows type of "Open File" dialog box. A demo is
included.

[OPENDLG]
OpenDlg (Thomas, Zane; $0) is a DLL for the Open and Save-As common
dialogs.

[VBDIALG]
VBDialog is a common dialog DLL for saving and loading files. This is a
solution to the problem of saving files with different filters in VB
CMDIALOG.VBX.


-----Gauges, Knobs, Slides, LEDs, Etc.

[GAUGE]
Gauge (Mattila, Jussi; $0) tells how to create a Meter box from two Picture
boxes.

[GRAF_ST]
GrafStat 1.0 (Object Productivity, Inc.; $22-$32) is a custom control for
displaying the status of a process. Two styles are offered: thermometer and
needle.

[KNOBVBX]
Knob VBX Control 1.0 appears as a knob similar to those used on audio/video
equipment such as stereos. The control allows you to set a range for
values, range for degrees, colors and delay. (Northeast Data Corp., reg.
fee: $55)

[LED1VBX]
LED1 VBX Control 1.0 is a custom control that appears to the end user as a
LED similar to those used on audio/video equipment such as stereos, tuners,
and amplifiers. This particular LED control displays numbers. (Northeast
Data Corp., reg. fee: $55)

[MBAR]
Meter Bar for VB is a custom control that simulates a gas gauge or progress
indicator. It allows you to "fill up" the control in any direction and at
any rate. Requires VB3. (Scott Stubbs, reg. fee: $0)

[NIFTOM]
NiftoMeter 1.0 (Timothy D. Noonan, reg. fee: $0-$6) is a 3-D progress meter
custom control for VB.

[PERCNT]
PerCnt is a custom control to display a percentage status bar. (Mabry
Software, reg. fee: $10)

[VB_BAR]
VB_Bar (PoloWood, Felipe; $0) is a percent-complete gauge that requires
only a single Picture box, which conserves resources.

[VBMETER]
VBMeter is a VBX that lets you create a meter type display with horizontal
or vertical bars.

[VBSLID]
Slider VBX Control (Northeast Data Corp.; $?) is a DLL control that appears
as a slider similar to those used on audio/video equipment such as stereos,
tuners, and amplifiers.


-----Grids

[DBGRID]
DBT Grid Custom Control is a grid control in which the cells can be edited.
(Douglas A. Bebber, reg. fee: $40)

[GRIDEG]
Expanding Grid is an example of a self-expanding grid. Data is entered into
a text box above the grid and the grids cell dimensions change to suit the
text.

[GRID]
Grid (G. Guardalben, reg. fee: $0) is a data-aware grid control. A demo
application is included.

[GRIDPL]
GridPl is a routine for entering data into a Grid control and to scroll the
Grid with Cntl-Arrow or the mouse.

[GRIDRTN]
Grid Routines (Ford, Nelson ASP; $0) is a set of routines for use with the
Grid custom control. Routines include cursor key scrolling of the Grid,
direct input to the Grid, add a row, delete a row, save to and load from
disk, clear the Grid and more.

[GRID_VB]
Grid_VB is a single control that lets you display data in columns and rows.
This was originally given to beta testers by Microsoft, but not included in
VB. Jonathan Zuck has made enhancements to it.

[HUGEGRD]
HugeGrid (Ford, Nelson ASP; $0) is sample code illustrating the integration
of a Huge Array with a Grid control. Features include sorting, searching,
adding, deleting and sorted inserting of records into the Huge Array, as
well as paging and scrolling through data with the Grid.

[INPGRID]
Input Grid (Guardalben, G.V.; $15) is a grid control with a built in
floating input box. This takes all the pain out of getting data from the
user and into the grid. C source code for the control is included.

[NODEFND]
Nodes Grid Browser 1.1 (reg. fee: $0) contains source code that implements
a table browser using a grid control. There are no limitations on record
numbers, no VBX's or DLL's, and no fees or copyrights. Requires VB 3.0.

[NUGRD3]
Nugrd3 contains an updated version of the GRID.VBX control that shipped
with VB3. This circumvents a problem causing an error "invalid file format"
when the setting of the HelpContextID was changed from the default value.

[RANDGRD]
RandGrid (Ford, Nelson ASP; $0) is sample code illustrating the integration
of a random access file and a Grid control.


-----Label Boxes

[BLOONVB]
Balloon.vbx 3.0 (Weimar Software, reg. fee: $18) is a custom control that
allows you to add a unique colored balloon help feature to your VB
application.

[PRNTLBL]
Prntlbl shows how to print captions on a Form using API calls instead of
Label controls. The code looks enormously complicated to us, considering
that you can do the same thing with a few straight VB commands, but maybe
we are missing something.

[ROTEXT]
RoText (James Shields, reg. fee: $15) is a custom control that lets you put
a label on your form at any angle of rotation.

[SHAD20]
SHADBX.VBX 3.0 (Weimar Software,, reg. fee: $18) is a VB custom control that
provides a popup text display feature similar to that provided by Windows
help. It allows you to provide advisory or "hotspot" context sensitive text
for your VB application. A mouse click or any keypress removes the window and
continues the program.

[XLABEL]
XLabel 1.1 is a VB label control which lets you rotate text to any angle,
display shadowed text and align text vertically and horizontally within the
label. (Mark Hanson, reg. fee: $12)


-----List Boxes

[BMPLST]
BmpLst (Shields, James; $20) is a list box which can display a bitmap and
a line of text for each item in the list. Support is provided for bitmap,
metafile, and icon picture formats.

[CLBOX]
CLBox is source code for a Combo List Box with incremental search. It also
shows how to quickly clear a List Box.

[COCKTAIL]
Cocktail 2.00 (reg. fee: $?) is a simple example of a scrolling virtual
listbox accessing an indexed file with a fully implemented thumb movement
and keyed, incremental searches.

[DROPDWN]
DropDown shows how to simulate a Combo box with a Text box and a List box.

[ILIST]
IList is a List box which includes the abilities to perform multi-selects,
retrieve and set multiple items in one call, store a long integer for
reference along with each list item, perform partial string matching, clear
listbox with one call, set and retrieve the top visible item and more.

[LNKLST]
Lnklst (Craig Burkett, reg. fee: $0) is a mechanism for implementing a link
list type capability in VB (Win or DOS). This only describes how to create
and insert into it, and deleting/modifying is left to the user.

[MLIST]
Mlist.VBX 4.20 is a custom control for presenting column data in a normal
Windows list box. It allows you to set up columns using different
formatting attributes, and you don't have to use a non-proportional font in
order to get your columns to line up. (McKean Consulting, reg. fee: $5-10)

[MULTDLL]
Multi.DLL (Simms, Jeff; $0) is a DLL for a multi-selection listbox. C
source code and all VB Declares are included. (Note: VB3 Pro has multi-pick
list boxes already.)

[MULTIPK]
MultiPik (Kitsos, Costas; $0) shows how to create a multiple-selection List
box with API calls. Source and demo included.

[TREE_RS]
Tree (Stoepper, Ralf; $0) is code for displaying a data tree with exploding
and hiding of data, similar to an outlining program.

[TXTVIEW]
TextView shows how to create a "Virtual List Box" from a picture box and a
vertical scroll bar in order to view text files larger than 64K. Requires
VB3. (Bob Craig, reg. fee: $0)


-----Other

[CLIPSIB]
ClipSib 1.0 (Funk, Keith; $0) allows you to have overlapping controls with
VB versions prior to 3.0.

[CNTRLC]
CntrlC shows how to create new instances of composite controls (eg: frames
with check boxes) using the SetParent API call.

[IOVBX]
Iovbx contains a VB custom control to read and write to I/O ports.

[MHSAMPL]
MHSample (Patterson, Sam; $0) is a well commented sample custom control.

[PICNIC]
Picnic (Funk, Keith; $0) allows you to make picture controls look like VB
forms. It demonstrates how to use the Win3 API functions to add a caption,
sizing border and a minimize box and system menu to a picture control.

[PID]
PID Controller VBX Control is a demonstration version of a
Proportional-Integral-Derivative controller for industrial process control
and simulation. (Northeast Data Corp., reg. fee: $?)

[SIZ_CC]
SIZ Custom Control 1.00 (William M. Raike; $15) lets you put controls on
forms that have "handles" which let them be resized at runtime.

[SPLINES]
Splines (Andrew S. Dean, reg. fee: $10) is a Windows DLL containing
functions to create spline curves. Curves can be defined in 2 or 3
dimensions.

[TIMETXT]
TimeQueue & TextKey (Curlew Software; $0-$10) are two VB controls. TextKey
lets you attach a prepared text file to it during design time. TimeQueue
lets you execute events at specified time intervals.

[VBMSNGR]
VB Messenger 1.1a is a subclassing custom control for Visual Basic.
(JOSWare, Inc., reg. fee: $30)


-----Picture Boxes

[256PBX]
256PICBX is a DLL with source that displays 256 color bitmaps in a VB
Picture box control. Source for a sample app is included.

[GRAPHIC]
Graphic 1.1 (Cramp, Stephen; $15) is a 256-color custom control. It also
includes support for OS/2 BMP files. This version can only be used within
VB. Registration gets a runtime module.


-----Scrolling Forms

[MHFS]
MHFormScroll 2.0 (MicroHelp; $0) adds scroll bars to Forms. This lets you
have forms that are larger than the screen.

[SCROLVB]
Scroll 1 & Scroll 2 (Paul T. Dawson, reg. fee: $0) contains sample code
that demonstrates how to create a "scrolling form" with VB for Windows. The
included executables require VBRUN200.

[SCRL_CJ]
Scroll.bas (Juerges, Christian; $0) contains sample code that shows how
make a scrolling form under VB 2.0 and 3.0.


-----Sets of Custom Controls

[5PAK20]
5Pak20 (Weimar Software; $35) - a set of five custom controls for VB
including popup menus, balloon help, dynamic menu help, and more.

[JIANG]
Jiang Controls (Jiang, Jeng Long; $0) is a set of controls for VB,
including a 3-D label with right, center, and left justification, a
"spinner" control, and horizontal and vertical percent-complete gauges.
(The author can no longer be reached at the address provided in the
documentation.)

[VCC]
VideoSoft Custom Controls 3.0d (VideoSoft, reg. fee: $45) is a set of powerful
custom controls for VB. The 3D Elastic control automatically resizes forms or
other controls. IndexTab allows you to group controls by subject using a
familiar notebook metaphor. Awksome allows you to quickly scan and parse text
files.

[WSHELP]
WSHelp 3.03 (Weimar Software, reg. fee: $45) contains four custom controls.
BALLOON.VBX provides balloon help popup windows for all form controls.
RTMOUSE.VBX provides ballon help popup when the right mouse button is
clicked. STMOUSE.VBX provides a status line help for each control on a
form. WSHELP.VBX contains all of the functionality of the other three
controls. Help files are included.


-----Spin Controls

[SPIN]
Spin (Kitsos, Costas; $0) is commented VB source code to create a Spin
Button Control. No DLL/VBX files are required.


-----Status Bars

[CLACKER]
Clacker 3.0 (Weimar Software,, reg. fee: $18) is a VB custom control that
allows you to add a dynamic menu help status bar to your applications.

[INFOCUS]
InFocus 1.0 is a custom control that can be used to provide true
context-sensitive status lines in your application. It generates events
when any control receives the input focus, when any menu item is
highlighted by the user, or when the mouse moves over any control. An
executable demo is provided. (Mark Hanson, reg. fee: $20)

[MENUWAT]
MenuWatch (Lathrop, Steve; $15) allows you to easily add a full-featured
menu help status bar to your application. By placing this custom control
directly on your main form, you can display help snippets in a help status
bar at the bottom of the window as the user highlights menu items.

[STBAR]
Stbar 2.26 (Beekes, Bernd; $50-$85) allows you to add a status line to your
VB applications.

[STSBAR]
Stsbar 2.0 (Staffin, Ed; $0-$10) is a DLL for a status bar. This is a bar
that is used to display program parameter/function status, mouse
coordinated, column/row numbers - or any other text you want to assign to
it.

[TAGIT]
Tagit (Al Neese, reg. fee: $0) is an example on how to add a little help
caption to any object on any form. Source code and an executable are
included.


-----Text Boxes

[3DINPUT]
3D-VB Input 3.0a (Liddicoet, Brett; $15) is a Text box custom control that
lets you add a 3-D look to the box and to the text, specify data entry
type, and align text left, centered, etc. The unregistered version is
limited to three controls per project.

[3DVBIN]
3D-VB Input 1.0b (Opaque Software; $15) is a Text Box type custom control
with numerous optional 3D effects, formatted input, justification, and
more.

[ALLTEXT]
AllText (Bennet-Tec Information Systems, reg. fee: $125) is a multiple
font/color text box custom control. It supports the simultaneous display of
multiple fonts, font characteristics and color, paragraph formatting, and the
inclusion of a bitmapped background to the control. You can include an
edit/display text box as part of your VB program. The ability to highlight
words with colors as well as font characteristics make an excellent choice for
use in word processing and hypertext applications. An executable demo is
included.

[EMEDIT]
Early Morning Visual Basic Editor Control 1.4 is a VB custom control for
displaying and editing text files. Features include support for lines up to
64K in size, unlimited number of lines, line and column blocks, stream
blocks, fixed and proportional fonts, automatic load and save, and more.
(Ted Stockwell, reg. fee: $30)

[PROMPT]
Prompt Control is an enhanced Text Box control that allows users to enter
command-line style input. It can be used to implement behavior similar to
the Visual Basic debug window, or the dot prompt which appears in many
xBase products. A demo executable is included. (Andrew S. Dean, reg. fee:
$20)

[REFRESH]
Refresh demonstrates the use of VB's implicit refresh versus an explicit
refresh of a Text Box.

[SETTAB]
Set Tab Stops (Larry Rebich, reg. fee: $0) contains a VB subroutine that
sets tabs in a text box. A sample program is included.

[VBWRITE]
VBWrite (Simms, Jeff; $0) contains source code that demonstrates adding MS
Write as a edit control to a VB application. The advantage is that a Text
box does not allow different fonts, etc., which Write allows. This code is
still in the experimental stage.

[VFEDIT]
Visual FEDIT Custom Control 2.7 (Computer Mindware Corp., reg. fee: $159)
is a superclass of the EDIT control that provides the developer with all
facilities needed to ensure that the data received by a program is correct.


-----Tool Bars

[BUTTONS]
Buttons (Freel, Fred; $0) are ten button arrays for use with ToolButton
2.0. A BMP workspace is also included for modifying the buttons, or
creating and capturing new ones.

[TBAR15]
TBAR 1.5 is a custom control for implementing industry standard toolbars in
Visual Basic. You can design, define, and implement the behavior of your
toolbar without writing any code. (Robin W. McKean, reg. fee: $35)

[TBTN]
TBTN.VBX (Robin W. McKean, reg. fee: $7) is a VB3 custom control which
allows you to place true "buttons" on a toolbar. NEW: "sticky" property
that causes a button to stay pressed until pressed again.

[TOOLBAR]
ToolBar (Murphy, Stephen; $0) walks you through creating a toolbar using a
picture box for the bar and BMP files for the buttons. Sample source code
and BMP files are included.

[TOOLBUT]
ToolButton 2.0 (Foster, Brett; $0-$?) let you have standard toolbar
buttons. Features include nine standard command buttons, six different
button states generated from a single supplied bitmap for custom buttons,
MouseDown event for help messages, on-line help reference, and more.

[TOOLWND]
Toolwnd.DLL (Donahue, Ray; $35) lets you create nice looking toolbars and
toolboxes with icons for each selection.

[VB_TOOL]
VB-Tools 1.0 provides an add-on toolbar for any version of VB. This lets
you program faster by simply clicking on buttons to paste, add a MDI form,
and many other functions. Requires VBRUN300. (Disk & Desk Software, reg.
fee: $25)