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#3533 dBase III DLL Message #3560
From: Bill Reilly MS BASIC Forum · Visual Basic October 17, 1991 9:17 AM
Mike: I know you'll have a market, because dBASE compatible DLLs is a pretty hot topic in this forum. I'm using a dBASE III+/dBASE IV compatible DLL called PowerLibW from ETN. It's very good, I have no complaints at all about it, but I have nothing to compare it to.…
#3220 ComboBox limits Message #3266
From: Bill Reilly MS BASIC Forum · Visual Basic October 15, 1991 5:02 PM
Eamonn: The total capacity of a Combo Box is slightly less than 64k, the limit to the length of a single item is about 1k, and the maximum number of Items is 5440. …Bill
#Database DLL Message #1760
From: Bill Reilly MS BASIC Forum · Visual Basic October 7, 1991 8:45 AM
I've been using PowerLibW for VB and am very pleased with it. It is a dBASE III+, dBASE IV and Clipper compatible Database Management DLL for Visual Basic (and any other language that can access a DLL). It includes over 90 functions, a fully commented sample program written in VB,…
VB-Tips Message #1270
From: Bill Reilly MS BASIC Forum · Visual Basic October 3, 1991 9:58 PM
Nelson: While reading your latest updated VB-Tips, two of the subjects, "Slow loading of Combo Boxes" and "Capacities", reminded me of a some of my recent observations while trying to get Combo Boxes to load faster: – Using the API call CB_ADDSTRING appears to be 5-10 times faster than using…