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Using Dropdown Control in TrueGrid Pro

Question: I am using a Truegrid and implementing their Value list, combo box. I fill the list in code and would like to be able to have the “pick-list” drop

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White vs. Grey Background in Panel Control

Question: I’m using the 3D Panel in my application. When I setits background coulor to light grey, it looks fine onmy workstation but it’s white in any other workstations.That’s true

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Incorrect Number of Event Arguments

Question: I am getting the error: INCORRECT NUMBER OF EVENT PROCEDURE ARGUMENTS. This has been occuring ever since I created a control array of command buttons. I have to complete

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Using JOIN Clauses

Question: I’m working with Visual Basic and Access 1.1. Currently my program uses two tables (tblrep and tblsales). The common field being tblrep.id = tblsales.id. The first form of the

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Right Justifying Text in a Command Button

Question: I’m using VB Professional edition and I would like to combine in a command button an icon, left justified, and the caption, right justified. The default setting sets the

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Simulating Click Event

Question: How can I have a combo box “combo1” execute another combo boxs “combo2” procedure click ? Answer: Doing this action this way can have some messy side effects. I

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Including Single Quotes in Queries

Question: How do you include a single quotation mark in a query?Example:“Select * From BATCH Where BATCH.NAME = ‘O’Connel’” Answer: Simply replace the single quote with two single quotes together.

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Closing a Database

Question: I have made a program to use a database, and will makea copy of this file to a disk. The problem is that Ican’t make a copy of the