If an API call is not achieving the desired or expected effects, tryplacing ByVal in front of parameters. Likely ones to cause trouble arestrings and anything declared “As Any.” The
Attributes such as the foreground color, background color, and fontsof cells in Sheridan’s DataGrid can easily be changed by setting RowCellxxxxproperties such as RowCellForeColor, RowCellBackColor, RowCellItalic, andso on from within
When you use the Declare statement, approximately 11 bytes are addedto the size of your EXE. The name of the function and library where itresides are also stored in the
If you need to fire a command button’s Click event, you can set theValue property to True: cmdAdd.Value = True The real benefit of this is that you can call
There may be situations in which you want to display text that theuser cannot edit, but a label control doesn’t quite fit the bill. Whatyou need is a read-only text
The Outline control might at first seem very usable. Well, it isn’t.Apart from the arcane interface, it’s almost guaranteed to blow up yourapp if it’s running on a “nonstandard” video
You can set .SelectedColor and .FillColor in the Mh3DList to be thesame, and use .ListPicture and .ListPictureSel properties to indicate selected/deselectedstates.
Programmer’s of all skill levels often make errors when using Booleanlogic. This statement might not evaluate the way you think it should: IF (SomeNumber AND 16) OR _ (SomeOtherNumber 0)
Always use Option Explicit: it draws immediate attention to variabletypos. Always use Save As Text: files are less easily corrupted, more easilyrecovered, and editable by a text editor other than