Extending a textbox's properties

[Dave]

My question is it possible to extend the properties of a textbox, combobox,
etc... to store values at design time ? I want to create a property that
stores the database name, but I want to have appear that it is anormal property
of a textbox like tag. I would like to accomplish this without creating and
ActiveX Control. I just want to extend the properties of a VB Intrinsic control.
Any ideas how to do this?

[Michael Culley]

Dave,

You could create a class call TextBoxExtender that grabbed then events of
the textbox using withevents keyword. But you could not store design time
values.

Another method would be to create a textbox extender usercontrol, just like
the class above, but then you could store design time values.

But by far the best way would be to create your own usercontrol that is a
wrapper for the textbox.

--
Michael Culley
www.vbdotcom.com


"Dave" <januchowski.david@healthnow.org> wrote in message
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>
> My question is it possible to extend the properties of a textbox,
combobox,
> etc... to store values at design time ? I want to create a property that
> stores the database name, but I want to have appear that it is anormal
property
> of a textbox like tag. I would like to accomplish this without creating
and
> ActiveX Control. I just want to extend the properties of a VB Intrinsic
control.
> Any ideas how to do this?

[naman kiani]

"Dave" <januchowski.david@healthnow.org> wrote:
>
>My question is it possible to extend the properties of a textbox, combobox,
>etc... to store values at design time ? I want to create a property that
>stores the database name, but I want to have appear that it is anormal property
>of a textbox like tag. I would like to accomplish this without creating
and
>ActiveX Control. I just want to extend the properties of a VB Intrinsic
control.
>Any ideas how to do this?