Design Time Controls Properties
Hello,
As a Visual Basic Programmer you probably know that VB stores the
description of a form into a formfile (.frm). I show you a part of this
formfile:
Begin VB.TextBox txtDescription
Height = 852
Left = 1800
MultiLine = -1 'True
ScrollBars = 2 'Vertical
TabIndex = 16
Top = 1080
Width = 5292
End
I want to register also properties of a control, but not in the formfile,
but in a similar way in my database. I was thinking about just a textfield
that contains text like in the example above.
I've three questions that would help me a lot to continue my current
project:
1) Is there somewhere an Active-X DLL or an Active-X Control that reads
text like shown in the example and returns a DTC with the properties found
in the text. And is there also a way to create a text like this with the
properties of a control (so a write function to restore updated properties
in my database)?
2) Is there a way to use the property pages of DTC like in the VB
Environment? But I want to use these property page in my own application
3) Is there a way to find out what properties there are for a control, for
example a construction like this:
For each PropVar in VB.Control
Debug.Print PropVar.Name & " = " & PropVar.Value
Next PropVar
So that I've a list like this:
Height = 852
Left = 1800
...
In some manuals I've found things like "PropertyBag" and "Property Object"
but nowhere there was a good description what it is exactly and how to use
it.
I will be very pleased if you have some answers for me.
Thank you very much.
Martin
