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November 9, 1999

Creating Submenus During Run Time

Question: I’m trying to create a drop-down sub menu in a VB form. I’ve tried almost every applicable API32 call and have not been able to do it. Answer: If

Length of a PowerBuilder Structure

Question: How can I determine a length of a PB structure? Answer: There is no way in PowerBuilder to do this. If you require the size of the structure for

Writing directly to a printer

Question: How to write a text directly to printer port, such as lpt1? Answer: While there is no standard method of writing directly to a printer, you can try writing

Function Binding

Question: Is there a compiler or run-time option to specify whether to use static binding or dynamic binding for function calls? This option, if it exists, may actually override the

Large Forms

Question: Is there any way I can create scrollable forms in VB 5.0? Answer: There isn’t a simple way that I know of. If you must have scrollable screens consider