Hallo Paul,
are you shure that MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",0) is a property and not a
method?
Have You tried
MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",240)
Jörg
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Von: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von Paul Newton
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2022 19:18
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: Problem setting ActiveX control property (Folderview and Fileview
controls)
Thanks Tracy
It's worth a try ... I tried ... and still get "Function argument value,type
or count is invalid"
Paul
On 02/06/2022 17:39, Tracy Pearson wrote:
> Have you tried to use the STORE command
> STORE 240 TO MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",0)
>
> It might not work either.
>
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> From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Paul Newton
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2022 12:20 PM To:[email protected]
> Subject: Re: Problem setting ActiveX control property (Folderview and
> Fileview controls)
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Eric but the first column is in fact 0
> because the following
>
> ? MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",0) gives the correct result for the
> width of the first column Paul
>
> On 02/06/2022 16:59, Eric Selje wrote:
>> It's interesting that the VB syntax has the first column as 0 when VB
>> is a one-based array language. Have you tried a 1 there instead for
>> the 2nd parameter?
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 7:55 PM Paul
>> Newton<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> It's a few years old now, but I have the Sky Software Shell Megapack
>>> suite (V8) which contains the two (ActiveX) controls above as well
>>> as a drive combo control. I have used these successfully in the
>>> past but have run into a problem. The Fileview control has a Public
>>> Read-Write Property ColumnWidth which, according to the help file,
>>> "Gets/Sets the width of the column in pixels". The VB syntax in the help
>>> is:
>>>
>>> Public Property ColumnWidth(ByVal ColumnName As String, ByVal
>>> ColumnIndex As Long) As Long
>>>
>>> ? MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",0) and ?
>>> MyFileView.Object.ColumnWidth("Name",0) both work fine and return 120.
>>>
>>> Trying to set the column width as follows
>>>
>>> MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",0) = 240 gives "Function argument
>>> value, type or count is invalid"
>>>
>>> and MyFileView.Object.ColumnWidth("Name",0) = 240 gives "Syntax error"
>>>
>>> Am I missing something (I have checked and there is no method or
>>> event on the control which references ColumnWidth).
>>>
>>> Alternatively, can anybody suggest affordable (aka cheap, preferably
>>> free) alternatives to these controls which are designed to closely
>>> mimic the behaviour of Windows Explorer?
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>>
>>> Paul Newton
>>>
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