by Jessy Butzke (11 Submissions)
Category: OLE/COM/DCOM/Active-X
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Mon 22nd January 2001
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
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Create an ocx (create a control) from VB to put in your own applications. This is an example on how to do this. (Walkthrough)
VBcoders
Walkthrough to create your own ocx files
By Jessy Butzke
Hey it's me again and I wanted to tell you how to create your own ocx files.
In this example we will create an ocx file that will put the word hello into
a text box within a control.
Step 1.
Open up VB and select Active X Control from the list.
(This will open up a form without a caption bar.)
Step 2.
Put a command button and textbox onto the form (Active X Control)
Step 3.
Copy the code below: and paste into your Active X Control Project
Option Explicit
Event OnFocus()
Public Property Let BoxText(ByVal Word As String)
Text1.Text$ = Word$
End Property
Public Property Get BoxText() As String
BoxText$ = Text1.Text
End Property
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Me.BoxText = "Hello"
End Sub
Private Sub Text1_GotFocus()
RaiseEvent OnFocus
End Sub
NOTE: BoxText Will Set a value into the text box and retrieve what's in the
textbox.
NOTE: BoxText will also be located in the properties window when you use this
control in a Standard Exe project.
Step 4.
After you have put this code with textbox and command button into
the Active X control, Click on File then "Make *.OCX"
(* is the name of your ocx)
Step 5.
Open up a new VB project and select the Standard Exe icon from the menu.
Step 6.
Click on Project and then onto components and select this ocx file
from this list after you click on browse.
NOTE: You will now have this control in your VB Project.
NOTE: If you want to learn more about creating your very own control,
E-Mail me at [email protected] and I will help. Other
information includes:
if, from within VB you want the About property to bring up an about
box just like a real OCX file, or if you want a custom property to set
at design time.
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