Delphi to VB 6 Form Resize Layout issues

I've been using Delphi for little over two years. Just recently I started a VB project. The issue I have is getting controls to resize and keep the same distance from the right side of the form when resizing the form. I started out doing the math and setting the left property, but to do that for all the controls I'm going to need is a little insane. Has anybody come up with a solution or a third party control that handles this automatically? The TPictureBox Align is the closest thing I have found in VB that I have been used to working with in Delphi. Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Thechno

I prefer using the elastic control in vsOCX from videosoft. I think it goes by a new name, SizerOne since VideoSoft merged with APEX to form ComponentOne. Check out www.componentone.com. They should have some free demo downloads....

I couldn't find a demo for it, let alone the website. I did find THBResize, it seems to be working quite well. I have another problem.

I have a SSTab with 3 tabs. If I maximize the application on Tab 1 everything works fine. While maximized I click on the button that changes the SSTab to Tab 2. Everything is fine until I restore the application size. Then Tab 1 is displayed. It won't go away. I click on the button for Tab 1 no change, I click on the button for Tab 2, no change Tab 1 is still visible. Is there some kind of repaint
event I'm missing.

TIA

Techno

Well, here is the exact link to download a demo of sizerone:
http://www.componentone.com./cmd.boa?product=SIZER7&cmd=download&key=Evaluations
just in case you'd like to try it....

As for the SSTab, maybe somebody else can help because I don't use the SSTab....I use, well, the tab control that comes with vsOCX (ie. SizerOne)....

I'll take a quick look at it though...

OK....I don't get that behaviour you describe....are you modifying the tab control in code? Like maybe the size, or position or something?

I have a frame with Option Buttons representing the different tab pages. The OnClick events are SSTab.Tab = 0, SSTab.Tab = 1, SSTab.Tab = 2 respectively.

I popped the tabs on the SSTab back out an tried them directly, same thing.

It looks the first tab page is being repaitned last, on top of the others.

TIA

Techno

I started a new project. I added the "Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control 6.0 (SP5)". I put one on my form. I added 3 option buttons in a control array. I added the following code to the option buttons.

Private Sub Option1_Click(Index As Integer)
SSTab1.Tab = Index
End Sub

When I run the program, I can switch tabs normally or with the option buttons. When I maximize, it still works. When I go back to normal, it still works.

Either you are doing something else, or your system is messed up somehow.

I found the problem. One of the resizing controls I was testing was causing the funky behavior. Following that I grabbed the SizerOne demo. Nice, that is more of what I'm use to. The one thing that frustates me is the general functionality of resize controls to resize everything. I just want to resize grids, tabs, and the Form. Hopefully SizerOne will work out. A tad on the pricy side though. Hopefully that won't be an issue in deciding if we go with it or not. Thanks for you help. I might need some more in the future as I continue to work this issue out.

Thanks,
Techno