Standard API Color Picker
It's strange that this doesn't have more of a presence on these forums than it does, but hey ho. Attached is the my ChooseColorAPI wrapper that I've just polished up. Here are its features: It just...
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[VB6] BatchRtb 2
Since I am almost 100% retired now and doing a lot less VB6 programming I have been looking for things in my toolkit that might be worth sharing with the remaining VB6 community. I have done a big...
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VB6 - Multiline Textbox Printer
I had previously used a RichTextBox and the SelPrint routine, but I discovered that routine would not work with an InkEdit Control. With the help of jpbro, we put together a routine for the InkEdit...
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VB6 - Text Editor
I found a need for addtional functions that NotePad did not provide, so I came up with my own Text Editor. It has most of the functions of NotePad with a couple of extra ones. Code: File...
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mBox Reader
Hi this is a mail message box reader I made to read old usenet message box files. if you want any mail box files you can find a load on wayback machine. with this little app it makes it easyer to read...
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Text To Picture
Hi This is a project I made sometime ago, it allows you to encrypt text and save as a bitmap, You can then load the bitmap and with the right encrypt key you used you can decrypt the text. Hope you...
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Random Password Generator
Hi, This is a password generator I made a few months back with the help of a friend who added a few featires. it contains many options skins and more hope you like it. Download Source Code:...
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Radial Busy GIF
I was looking for a simple rotary graphic to indicate that a program was busy performing a task. I found such an image at this Web site: http://www.ajaxload.info/ You can change the color combinations...
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ColorPicker similar to PhotoShop's (Learn vbRichClient5.Cairo drawing step by...
There are several good ColorPickers in the CodeBank, for example: (1) ColinE66's ColourPicker[vbRichClient]: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...r-vbRichClient (2) Eduardo's Wheel Color Picker:...
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Simulate TLS 1.3
To understand TLS 1.3, https://tls13.ulfheim.net/ is useful, but unfortunately it contains several discrepancies if you want to follow it in detail (eg. labels are not complete). For the detail,...
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mBox Reader
Hi this is a mail message box reader I made to read old usenet message box files. if you want any mail box files you can find a load on wayback machine. with this little app it makes it easyer to read...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Text To Picture
Hi This is a project I made sometime ago, it allows you to encrypt text and save as a bitmap, You can then load the bitmap and with the right encrypt key you used you can decrypt the text. Hope you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Random Password Generator
Hi, This is a password generator I made a few months back with the help of a friend who added a few featires. it contains many options skins and more hope you like it. Download Source Code:...
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Radial Busy GIF
I was looking for a simple rotary graphic to indicate that a program was busy performing a task. I found such an image at this Web site: http://www.ajaxload.info/ You can change the color combinations...
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ColorPicker similar to PhotoShop's (Learn vbRichClient5.Cairo drawing step by...
There are several good ColorPickers in the CodeBank, for example: (1) ColinE66's ColourPicker[vbRichClient]: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...r-vbRichClient (2) Eduardo's Wheel Color Picker:...
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Simulate TLS 1.3
To understand TLS 1.3, https://tls13.ulfheim.net/ is useful, but unfortunately it contains several discrepancies if you want to follow it in detail (eg. labels are not complete). For the detail,...
View ArticleProgrammatically adding and using buttons on a VB form.
Put this code in Form1, and make sure to set the form's AutoRedraw property to True (you won't want printed text disappearing permanently if it's below the form and you just need to resize it). Code:...
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Anchor Control
This code example is so that the controls can be anchored to the Form to be resized. Although there are several examples of anchoring, I noticed that when placing the controls inside the FormChild, the...
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[VB6] Another "magnifier"
The topic of writing screen magnifiers came up the other day, and I thought I might trot out this old approach. Basically it shows simple use of a GDI Region object with StretchBlt. I had another...
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[VB6] GDI Path clipping
I don't see a lot here on this topic. Perhaps it's a bit "forgotten" or maybe not that useful to most people. This example is a bit silly but it might be enough to get you started using GDI Paths for a...
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