Property Choices During Run Time

[solutions]

How do I give the user a number of choices when they change a property on my ActiveX Control, like the little dropdown box you see when you change the allignment on a text box.

[Sam Finch]

You Need to use an enumerator. say you want to want to let your user choose one of the 7 Dwarves (for some reason) place this code at the top uf your control

Public Enum enmDwarves
    
    Happy
    Grumpy
    Sneezy
    Bashfull
    Doc
    Dopey
    TheOtherOne

End Enum

then when yuo declare your property use

Public Property Let Dwarf as enmDwarves

you can give the members of the enum values if you need to by putting = x after their names when you declare (x is a number, dont write x) them eg

Public Enum enmDwarves
    
    Happy = 1 
    Grumpy = 2
    Sneezy = 3
    Bashfull = 4
    Doc = 5
    Dopey = 6
    TheOtherOne = 7

End Enum

but you shouldn't need to, the names of the dwarves act just like constants, whatever values they take, so you can just write

If Dwarf = Happy Then

and it'll work fine


Hope this helps.