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A brief description of each of the discontinued Visual Basic 4.0 custom
(ActiveX) controls and their Visual Basic 5.0 replacements follows.
AniBtn32.OCX
The Animated Button control is a flexible button control that allows you
to use any icon, bitmap, or metafile to define your own button controls. It
also allows you to create animated or multi-state buttons.
The intrinsic Command Button control in Visual Basic 5.0 now supports a
Picture property. The Picture property supports graphics of the following
types: bitmap, icon, metafile, GIF, and JPEG.
The Animation control can be used to create buttons that display
animations. This control is included with the Windows Common Controls-2,
ComCt232.OCX.
Gauge32.OCX
The Gauge control creates user-defined gauges with a choice of linear
(filled) or needle styles. This control is useful for thermometers, fuel
gauges, percent-complete indicators, or any other type of analog gauge.
In Visual Basic 5.0, use the ProgressBar control found in the Windows
Common Controls, ComCtl32.OCX.
Graph32.OCX
The Graph control allows programmatic creation of graphs and charts in
Visual Basic objects.
In Visual Basic 5.0, the MSChart control, MSChart.OCX, provides similar
functionality.
Grid32.OCX
A Grid control displays a series of rows and columns.
In Visual Basic 5.0 use the FlexGrid control, MSFlxGrd.OCX.
KeySta32.OCX
You can use the Key State control to display or modify the CAPS LOCK, NUM
LOCK, INS, and SCROLL LOCK keyboard states.
In Visual Basic 5.0, you can modify the status of CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK, INS,
and SCROLL LOCK using the SendKeys command or Windows API commands. The
state of the above keys can be displayed using the StatusBar control. The
StatusBar control can be found with the Windows Common Controls,
ComCtl32.OCX.
MSOutl32.OCX
The Outline control is a special type of list box that allows you to
display items in a list hierarchically. This is useful for showing
directories and files in a file system.
In Visual Basic 5.0, the TreeView control provides similar functionality.
The TreeView control can be found in the Windows Common Controls,
ComCtl32.OCX. For displaying directories and file systems, the intrinsic
DriveListBox, DirListBox and FileListBox may be used.
MSRDC32.OCX
Provides access to data stored in a remote ODBC data source. The Remote
Data control enables you to move from row to row in a result set and to
display and manipulate data in bound controls.
In Visual Basic 5.0, this control had been replaced with MSRDC20.OCX.
Spin32.OCX
The Spin button is a spinner control that you can use with another control
to increment and decrement numbers. You can also use it to scroll back and
forth through a range of values or a list of items.
In Visual Basic 5.0, use the UpDown control found in the Windows Common
Controls-2, ComCt232.OCX.
ThreeD32.OCX
The ThreeD32.OCX provides three-dimensional versions of several of the
Visual Basic intrinsic controls, such as the 3D Command Button and 3D
CheckBox.
Most of the functionality provided by this control has been incorporated
into each of the intrinsic Visual Basic 5.0 controls.
NOTE: The discontinued controls listed above are no longer supported in
Visual Basic 5.0 applications. However, for backward compatibility several
of the files are available on the Visual Basic 5.0 installation CD-ROM in
the following location:
Detailed instructions for installing the older versions of the controls are
provided in the README.TXT file in the same folder.