My First Custom Control

[eyeRmonkey]

I am in the process of making my first custom control in VB6. I was wondering if anyone had links to good tutorials on the subject because Google hasn't provided me with too much help.

Basically what I am trying to make is an improved RTB. I intend it to be used with LightFusion™ but I might make it for more general use. Mouer has some good stuff in the codebank about RTBs, but I am not that familiar with making my own controls.

I have used the ActiveX control wizard to generate some output and do most of the work for me and that helped me understand some things.

One question I have is how do Property Pages work (making a custom one). I won't be doing it until later, but I was curious.

If anyone has any suggestions/tutorials that would help me in making my first control or with RTBs, I would appriciate hearing them.

Thanks.

[wiz126]

This tutorial might look primitive but it is by fare very easy to follow (lots of picture to help )

http://cuinl.tripod.com/tutorials/ocx-11.htm


Here is another good one from developer.com although it got very few picture and used some other code

http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/1539541

[Joacim Andersson]

There is a Property Page Wizard add-in available that can help you with the creation of a property page.

[Wokawidget]

Here's a quick demo of an RTB Custom control.
It pretty much does nothing except "override" the text property and adds "WOOF" to the text.

This is merely a concept idea on how you can modify the control.

Just type into the normal textbox and then click the button.

WOka