The following statement creates a Text Box at run time.

Set TextBoxData = Me.Controls.Add("vb.TextBox", "TextBoxData", Me)

The created text box is Multiline = False, and the Multiline property
is ReadOnly at Run Time.

Is there any way to modify the above statement to create the text box
as Multiline = True?

Any other way?

Thanks,

Fred Holmes

Hi Fred:

Nope.

The problem is that the textbox has to be recreated to change the style bits, and vb does not support this at runtime.
At one time you could do this using third party tools (such as Spyworks from Desaware), but I don't know if the tools still have
this capablility for VB6.

Another option I have seen used, it to create two usercontrols where each control contains a txtbox, one is single line, the other
is multiline.  Then you can use controls.add to add whatever user control is reqr.

Hope this helps,

Doug.

I tried using SetWindowLong to change the TextBox's style to
multiline, but doesn't work.
Another solution might be to encapsulate a single-line textbox
in a separate ActiveX control and a multi-textbox in another
ActiveX control. You could also create a single ActiveX
control which contains both, a single-line and a multi-line
TextBox, and show the one or the other depending on the
multiline property.

Hope this helps

Alexander Kienzle