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Page 19
11 lines from the bottom of the page, the Move method is explained to be |
the same as four property assignments. The first two assignments now read:
cmdOK.Width = Me.Width / 10
cmdOK.Heigth = Me.Heigth / 10 * 6
They should read:
cmdOK.Left = Me.Width / 10
cmdOK.Top = Me.Heigth / 10 * 6
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Page 30
CausesValidation |
Every reference in the book implies that this setting affects the control
where the property is set. In fact, it affects the control that loses focus
(to the control with the setting) that is affected.
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Page 60
About half way down the page, you list the "UpdateControls method" under |
the ADO Data Control. This method applies to the Data Control and not the ADO
Data Control.
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Page 86-87
The following option of a common dialog box is not described in the |
text:
1024-cdlOFNExtensionDifferent
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Page 87
missing flag description: |
The following controls (VB6) are not described in the text:
datarepeater
drivelistbox
dirlistbox
filelistbox
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Page 169
Last paragraph |
The last sentence should read:
In cases where the Execute method does not retrieve data (such as the MKDIR
command, which creates a directory on the remote system, or the RMDIR command,
which removes a directory from the remote system), the state value
icResponseCompleted signals that the method has completed successfully.
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Page 186
List View Control |
Here's something you might want to check out: In using the ListView Control,
the value of a Key must be a string. I was trying to use a database PrimaryKey
number of type long and convert it to a string before setting the Key value.
This generates an "Invalid Key" error.
It seems that for the Key value, you cannot use a number even if it is a
string. I appended "ID_" to the string and it worked perfectly. This took
about an hour to figure out so I thought it might be worth mentioning.
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Page 187-188
At the very top of the page, in the Tip section: |
COMCTL32.OCX is listed as the ListView control used for the examples. On page
188, several properties (gridlines, checkboxes, etc) are listed that are not
part of COMCTL32.OCX. MSCOMCTL.OCX should be listed instead as it provides
all the properties that are mentioned.
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Page 223
Figure 5-36 |
Inside the Plot Object box, the LocationRect property is incorrectly
identified as the LocationField property.
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Anonymous |
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Page 226
3rd Line From the Bottom |
Line should start with "SetData" instead of "GetData"
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Page 229
In Figure 5-39, the chart thumbnail on the 2nd line from top, on the |
left, is labeled VtChChartType3dBar. It looks like a line chart to me. Should
this be VtChChartType2dDLine?
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Page 229
Under ChartType property |
ChartType numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 each have an extra "D" following
"2d" or "3d" (e.g., "3-VtChChartType2dDLine" should be
"3-VtChChartType2dLine").
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Page 269
General |
For completeness, the BackColorFixed and BackColorSel properties should be
listed (or at least included in the "ForeColorFixed, ForeColorSel property"
section).
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Page 308
top of the page |
The Case statement "updDuring" is missing the End If to terminate the If
statement within the Select Case. This generates a compile error.
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Anonymous |
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Page 375, 597
I've got one correction and one major bug that you probably should |
mention in any future editions.
The control I've most used it for is the Winsock control. There is a typo on
page 375. Under "The PeekData Method" heading, the code listing says
"GetData." In addition, on page 597 under the "GetData" heading, the syntax
line actually says "GetData."
The major bug is something I found when trying to use it, and it's confirmed
with an article in Microsoft's knowledge base. It's serious enough to mean
that the control is just about unusable for a client-server application, if
there's any likelihood of having more than one client connected at a time.
The problem, according to Microsoft, is that SendData only works over the most
recently established connection - i.e., if you have three clients connected
simultaneously, SendData will only work to the third client.
Trying to use SendData to the other two doesn't give an error, but the data
simply never goes anywhere.
The bug is detailed in article Q245159 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. They
have confirmed it to be a bug in both VB5 and VB6, up to and including Visual
Studio SP3. There's no fix, and no workaround on offer.
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Page 422
The following property of the ListBox control is not described in the |
text:
Columns
Columns is also not described in the "ListBox" entry in the Controls section,
pages 182-186, where it would have made a reasonable "Gotcha" for newbies to
avoid horizontal snaking columns.
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Page 425
The section on the Container property indicates that this property |
applies to all controls. This is incorrect - it does not apply to the timer
control.
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Page 562
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The second "Value" section on the page now reads:
Applies to: FlatScrollBar, HScrollBar, ProgressBar, Slider, UpDown,
VScrollBar
Type: Long integer
Represents the value of the control between its Min and Max properties.
However, according to the MSDN Library help files, the range for HScrollBar
and VScrollBar is from -32,768 to 32,767. This is the same range as Type:
Integer not Type: Long Integer.
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