I asked this before but I forgot

[dimava]

I'm making an ocx with 1 textbox and after I put that ocx into my program, I want to be able to change the font, fore color, back color, etc. of that text box, no how do I make it so that from the program i can go

Ocx1.

then have Text1 appear in the list so then I do

Ocx1.Text.

then have a list appear with all the functions for that text box


I hope I was clear


thanks in advance

[monte96]

You don't. You will need to create properties in your ActiveX control that pass the value to your Textbox's Text property. Like:

Public Property Get Text() As String
Attribute Text.VB_Description = "Returns/sets the text contained in an object."
    Text = Text1.Text
End Property

Public Property Let Text(ByVal New_Text As String)
    Text1.Text() = New_Text
    PropertyChanged "Text"
End Property

You will need to do this sort of thing for most of the properties of the Textbox except once that are ambient properties such as left, top, width, height, etc..

There is a wizard in VB6 that will allow you to select the properties of the controls within your control to be included in your control's properties.

[tomtan]

You can refer to this article for more information on creating ActiveX componen.

http://www.vb-world.net/activex/articles.html