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  1. Jul 26th, 2010, 02:14 PM #1
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    Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    I perticularly like ListView, what about you?
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    CommandButton... that's where the power was... it made things go.

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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    PictureBox, it lets you be flashy
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    Does Form count?
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    Had lots of fun with the progress bar
    Delete it. They just clutter threads anyway.
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    Winsock.
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    Treeview... I simply love that control....
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    RichTextBox. Especially how you had to 'subclass' it for it to do anything useful, but then it would crash constantly. Loved it.
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    My favourite was always the FlexGrid. What better place to store and sort 500MB of data? For added efficiency, hide it behind a groupbox so it doesn't mess up your GUI design. Ahh those were the days.

    I wish VB6 GUIs hadn't been so slow though, never did get to the bottom of that. Hmm.
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    Quote Originally Posted by wossname View Post
    For added efficiency, hide it behind a groupbox so it doesn't mess up your GUI design. .
    What about .Visible = False?
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

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    What about .Visible = False?
    Tried it, but never saw it ;-)
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    Timer let's you do some cool stuff.
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    ShockWave Flash control....

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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    The console. Ultimate classic.
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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    Quote Originally Posted by MaximilianMayrhofer View Post
    The console. Ultimate classic.
    Eh, that's not exactly a control, is it?

    What I loved in VB6 was the winsock control. And the timer control was the only way to do any asynchronous operations. So that too gets my vote.

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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    It was a joke..............................................................

    Sigh.

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    Re: Which is your favourite VB (classic) control?

    What about .Visible = False?
    Nah, just set it's top left outside the bounds of the form. That way the user could resize their form if they wanted to see it. Now that's good GUI design.
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