ActiveX control in design mode

[jerry1970]

I am making an ActiveX control in a separate project, to compile it into an OCX. Its purpose is to display a graph and have two forms for exporting and printing.

It contains a UserControl for the displaying of the chart, and two forms.

When I include the compiled OCX in the project, I see a regular UserControl icon in the Components toolbox. Can I have my own icon there?

When I put the control on a form I can resize it, but not move it around, as the UserControl reacts to the mouse and keyboard events. How can I stop the UserControl (and the controls on it) to stop doing that? When do I have to add the Ambient.UserControl code?

Thanks!!!
Jerry

[amitabh]

Use the ToolBoxBitamp property of the UserControl to specify your custom image. But remember, the dimension should be 16 X 15 pixels, otherwise it will be scaled to that sized.

Use the Ambient.Usermode to determine if the usercontrol is on the form or not.

If Ambient.Usermode  then
'this is run time mode
Else
'this is VB design mode
End If

[jerry1970]

Thanks for the TollBoxBitmap tip!

I knew about the Ambient property, but didn't know where to put it to prevent the whole UserControl to receive events in design mode. I solved the problem by setting all contained controls to Enabled = False.

Thanks!
Jerry