Activex Control ... button on a property

Hi all,

On a activex control in a property how do i get the button with ... on it that lets you select a path or file!

I need it to set a path to a directory??? not a file just a directory?

ANyone??

thanks
beacon

I am not sure exactly what you are doing Beacon, but try a seacrch for SHBrowseForFolder.

That button appears when you have a special type of property. As far as I know, it only appears for font and picture ones because they have special property pages and ways to allow you to choose something. For just selecting a file/path I don't think you can actually make them come up like that. If you want the buttons to appear for properties like that, you need to use something like this:

VB Code:

Public Property Get Font() As Font
   Set Font = UserControl.Font
End Property
 
Public Property Set Font(ByVal NewFont As Font)
   Set UserControl.Font = NewFont
End Property
 
Public Property Get Picture() As Picture
   Set Picture = UserControl.Picture
End Property
 
Public Property Set Picture(ByVal NewPicture As Picture)
   Set UserControl.Picture = NewPicture
End Property
 
'this one doesn't have anything to do with the ... button, but it's how you get the color palette to appear for your control in the prop window
Public Property Get Color() As OLE_COLOR
   Color = UserControl.BackColor
End Property
 
Public Property Let Color(ByVal NewColor As OLE_COLOR)
   UserControl.BackColor = NewColor
End Property

Even though it looks weird because the properties have the same name as the objects involved, this is what lets the special buttons appear in the property window. When you use these types, you can get the premade windows property pages to appear inside the (Custom) part of the property list as well if you add any property pages to the control using the wizard. They're the Standard Font/Picture/Color ones.

dammit!!
How does adodc do it?
And dao?

Puzzling!!!

thanks anyway fellas!!:)