Subclassing or Something?

[Tec-Nico]

I have a class which contains like three controls... Let's say it contains a FlexGrid, a TextBox and a ComboBox.

I use this three controls to give the FlexGrid a feeling of being "Editable". So some of the Procedures of the controls have an equivalent inside of the class I created.

For example, I could have the Text_KeyPress which would need to be called from the Form in the Text1_KeyPress.

So this class saves me a lot of coding for each individual in the Form, but it still forces me to write in all the events I defined from the class and I was wondering if there could be a way to:

1.- "Trap" or "Catch" these Procedures and make the class handle them automatically.
2.- To raise the events after handling them (I know there is WithEvents and RaiseEvent, so I guess this can be done)

3.- To have the controls inside the class so I wouldn't need to add them to the Form something like "Dim Text as New TextBox" (Which I know won't work)

Well, that's it... Could you please guide me through this?

Thanks in advance.

[Tec-Nico]

Anyone? Martin, Manavo, Hack, Bruce, Rob...?

[manavo11]

What about making your own ocx?

[Tec-Nico]

But that would imply I would need to register it manually when installing the program that has it.. Am I wrong?

[manavo11]

How do you mean manually? The installer can register it just as it registers whatever else you ship along with your app (Common Dialog Control)...

[Tec-Nico]

And if I am using the DTPicker I would need to add a reference to it to or what?

[Tec-Nico]

I mean, lets think I have myControl.ocx and it has inside a DTPicker... Will it be registered too?

[manavo11]

If you are using the DTPicker, you'll need to ship the OCX... But I'm thinking, you don't need to create the OCX seperatelly (different project). Look at the attachment and hopefully you'll see what I mean

[manavo11]

Originally posted by Tec-Nico
I mean, lets think I have myControl.ocx and it has inside a DTPicker... Will it be registered too?

The installer takes care of the registering. Which one are you using? P&D? Inno?

[Tec-Nico]

Thanks Manavo, I will check it.

You always get me out of this kind of problems. If all goes fine I will publish my OCX in the CodeBank...

Thanks again!

[Tec-Nico]

I use P&D, Manavo.

[manavo11]

Originally posted by Tec-Nico
Thanks Manavo, I will check it.

You always get me out of this kind of problems. If all goes fine I will publish my OCX in the CodeBank...

Thanks again!

It sounds good

I would suggest that you use Inno though... I don't have much experience with either but almost everyone here praises Inno

[Tec-Nico]

Yeah, I have seen people here praising it too... But I haven't been able to test it because I have been very busy.

I will test Inno as soon as I am not that occupied.