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Is there a book or site that explains the settings on properties?

i.e. On a form the property “StartUpPosition” has 4 settings: 0 – Manual; 1 – CenterOwner; 2 – CenterScreen; 3 – WindowDefault

I need something that will tell me what the difference is for these and other settings of properties. I have tried changing the settings to see the result but there was none that I could see.

Mary

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Complete documentation for VB6 can be found in the MSDN library: Visual Basic Documentation Map.

But admittedly, the descriptions are often rather terse. For StartupPosition, it says this:

Constant	Value	Description
vbStartUpManual	0	No initial setting specified.
vbStartUpOwner	1	Center on the item to which the UserForm belongs.
vbStartUpScreen	2	Center on the whole screen.
vbStartUpWindowsDefault	3	Position in upper-left corner of screen.

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Hi Hans

Thanks for your reply. The search on this site is much better than the MSDN Library CD I have.

Mary

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I’m not sure, but I think that the October 2001 MSDN Library was the last MSDN distribution to have the full VB 6 stuff.

If you have the October 2001 edition, you may want to install that in addition to the later editions which have the newer format/

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I’m not sure, but I think that the October 2001 MSDN Library was the last MSDN distribution to have the full VB 6 stuff.

If you have the October 2001 edition, you may want to install that in addition to the later editions which have the newer format/

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Hi Hans

Thanks for your reply. The search on this site is much better than the MSDN Library CD I have.

Mary

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Complete documentation for VB6 can be found in the MSDN library: Visual Basic Documentation Map.

But admittedly, the descriptions are often rather terse. For StartupPosition, it says this:

Constant	Value	Description
vbStartUpManual	0	No initial setting specified.
vbStartUpOwner	1	Center on the item to which the UserForm belongs.
vbStartUpScreen	2	Center on the whole screen.
vbStartUpWindowsDefault	3	Position in upper-left corner of screen.

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Don’t forget about the handy ol’ F1 key. For your particular example, clicking StartUpPosition in the Properties window of the IDE then hitting F1 jumps to a help screen showing:

StartUpPosition Property

Returns or sets a value specifying the position of a UserForm when it first appears.

You can use one of four settings for StartUpPosition:

Setting Value Description
Manual 0 No initial setting specified.
CenterOwner 1 Center on the item to which the UserForm belongs.
CenterScreen 2 Center on the whole screen.
WindowsDefault 3 Position in upper-left corner of screen.

Remarks
You can set the StartUpPosition property programmatically or from the Properties window.

Alan

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Depends on whether you have the online help. I managed to convince IT to install VB6 for me (I can’t install software myself), but the MSDN collection was a bridge too far…

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Depends on whether you have the online help. I managed to convince IT to install VB6 for me (I can’t install software myself), but the MSDN collection was a bridge too far…

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Don’t forget about the handy ol’ F1 key. For your particular example, clicking StartUpPosition in the Properties window of the IDE then hitting F1 jumps to a help screen showing:

StartUpPosition Property

Returns or sets a value specifying the position of a UserForm when it first appears.

You can use one of four settings for StartUpPosition:

Setting Value Description
Manual 0 No initial setting specified.
CenterOwner 1 Center on the item to which the UserForm belongs.
CenterScreen 2 Center on the whole screen.
WindowsDefault 3 Position in upper-left corner of screen.

Remarks
You can set the StartUpPosition property programmatically or from the Properties window.

Alan

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