Thanks Harald,

I think so far I have only about 50 of these controls on
my form. For some reason, at home this Saturday morning
with a PIII processor and 786mb of RAM, I don't have the
same limitation that I have at work with the Excel/VBA
program (with a faster processor and less memory). It
must be some unknown software/hardware issue.

I'm in the process of transferring it all to VB6 this
morning, and all seems to be working well, after working
out some of the Excel VBA and VB6 differences. Thanks for
the information about the 256 control limitations with
VB6, but hopefully that won't be an issue.

You are right in that if in one way it doesn't work, then
it's time to think of another way...with back or next
buttons etc. There are creative ways to reduce the number
of these controls...things we think about after we finish
writing the "first-time" program.

I'm not sure what you meant by saying "...but there are no
multipages (you can not redistribute MSforms and even
referencing it is not recommended from Microsoft."
I did have initial troubles with the VB6 multipage
control, so I'm using the Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control
6.0 that you can find under the Project Components. After
I get it all to work, then I'll look more at what possibly
when wrong with the VB6 multipage control.

Thanks, Rick

-----Original Message-----
Hi Rick

VB6 has a very distinct limitation of 255 (256 ?)
controls on each form.
With workarounds like control arrays and user controls,
but there are no
multipages (you can not redistribute MSforms and even
referencing it is not
recommended from Microsoft).

But really; which user interaction would require more
than 30 intelligent
controls simoultaneously ? I urge you to think this
through one more time.
Think for example "wizard" with Back / Next buttons, and
also that this will
be operated by people like [insert name or position of
ignorant member of
family here] most of the time.

Best wishes Harald

"Rick" skrev i
melding
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Harald,

Thanks for the reply.

To further add dropdowns or other controls, I have found
this afternoon that I have to delete other controls on
the
form. This allows me to do what I need to do, to
continue
with my efforts using this database with different
dropdowns. So I started with the obvious. I deleted
two
of the multipage pages, after consolidating some of the
other dropdown boxes together with others.

I'll try this on a computer at home too, and see if that
makes a difference. Plus I'll see what will happen if I
place all of this on VB6, and run the Excel program from
there. I was planning to do that anyway on VB6, once I
finished with my prototype programming design using
Excel
VBA.

I had never just ran into this type of a limitation.
There seems to always be something....

Thanks, Rick


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