Custom Controls

i am making a custom control but it is very confusing

i need a control making tutorial or:

could someone show me how let and get statements work with commenting on what everything represents.

i dont understand things like where it finds out what the name of the variable is that will be refered to in code, is it the sub name, the variable name or what

could someone also show me how propbag and that sorta thing works

A Property Let procedure for setting the property value (if the variable will hold an object reference, you will use a Property Set procedure instead)
A Property Get procedure for retrieving the property value
The Get and Let procedures must have the same name. This is the property name that you will use in the program.

VB Code:

Private name As String
 
Public Property Let gName(ByVal newvalue As String)
    name = newvalue
End Property
 
Public Property Get gName() As String
    gName = name
End Property

Make sense?

The property bag is used to store property values that the user of your control has set at his design time.
If you use the ActiveX control Interface Wizard to design your control then you'll notice that it puts code in the UserControl_ReadProperties and UserControl_WriteProperties events

VB Code:

Private Sub UserControl_ReadProperties(PropBag As PropertyBag)
    m_Test = PropBag.ReadProperty("Test", m_def_Test)
End Sub
 
Private Sub UserControl_WriteProperties(PropBag As PropertyBag)
    Call PropBag.WriteProperty("Test", m_Test, m_def_Test)
End Sub

When the user of your control changes a property in the Properties Window of that control, that value needs to be saved somewhere (in the .FRX file) so that next time the control is instantiated (i.e. when the project is run) that value can be read from the property bag and used as the initial value of that property rather than the default value you specified when you created the control.
Clear?