Visual Basic - Unicode with VB6

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Unicode with VB6

Peter

2004-09-02, 8:55 am

Dear All

I need a textbox control that supports unicode? The main job would be to
enter arabic or chinese characters and get the 16bit unicode character code.
MSForms2.0 control works OK, but does anybody know an alternative textbox
control that supports unicode?
I have seen that the RichText Control can display unicode characters but it
does not deliver the right character code.
Thanks in advance for any hints
Regards
Peter

Ken Halter

2004-09-02, 3:55 pm

Peter wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I need a textbox control that supports unicode? The main job would be to
> enter arabic or chinese characters and get the 16bit unicode character code.
> MSForms2.0 control works OK, but does anybody know an alternative textbox
> control that supports unicode?

If you need multiple controls, this may be the ticket.

Controls for Unicode development in Visual Basic
http://www.unitoolbox.com/

> I have seen that the RichText Control can display unicode characters but it
> does not deliver the right character code.

This one should do a better job. It's based on the newer RTF support
dlls. Plus it's free.

RichEdit Control
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/vb6/controls/index.shtml

btw... Even though MS suggests that you use MSForms for Unicode, I can't
let you go without the speech below <g>

-------Canned FM20 Response-------------
INFO: Usage and Redistribution of FM20.DLL
<http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...s/Q224/3/05.ASP>
MSForms components weren't designed to work with VB. There are several
licensing issues as well as the fact that they just don't work well..

You can't legally distribute that library in any way shape or form. The
end user *must* have this library correctly installed. It is installed
as part of Microsoft Office and a few other Microsoft packages. There is
at least one free way to download the library but that must be done by
the end user.

If you use and distribute it anyway, below is what the end user will see...
Q241245 - PRB: "Error 7 - Out of Memory" Error Message From Visual Basic
Application Using FM20.DLL
<http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...s/Q241/2/45.ASP>
-----------------------------------

--
Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.vbsight.com
Please keep all discussions in the groups..

Peter

2004-09-02, 3:55 pm

Thanks Ken, I will check it out.
Regards
Peter

"Ken Halter" <Ken_Halter@Use_Sparingly_Hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:efoANsPkEHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Peter wrote:
>
> If you need multiple controls, this may be the ticket.
>
> Controls for Unicode development in Visual Basic
> http://www.unitoolbox.com/
>
>
> This one should do a better job. It's based on the newer RTF support dlls.
> Plus it's free.
>
> RichEdit Control
> http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/vb6/controls/index.shtml
>
> btw... Even though MS suggests that you use MSForms for Unicode, I can't
> let you go without the speech below <g>
>
> -------Canned FM20 Response-------------
> INFO: Usage and Redistribution of FM20.DLL
> <http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...s/Q224/3/05.ASP>
> MSForms components weren't designed to work with VB. There are several
> licensing issues as well as the fact that they just don't work well..
>
> You can't legally distribute that library in any way shape or form. The
> end user *must* have this library correctly installed. It is installed as
> part of Microsoft Office and a few other Microsoft packages. There is at
> least one free way to download the library but that must be done by the
> end user.
>
> If you use and distribute it anyway, below is what the end user will
> see...
> Q241245 - PRB: "Error 7 - Out of Memory" Error Message From Visual Basic
> Application Using FM20.DLL
> <http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...s/Q241/2/45.ASP>
> -----------------------------------
>
>
> --
> Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.vbsight.com
> Please keep all discussions in the groups..

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