Technical Articles A Winbatch Tutorial and Program The Use of a Dynamic Dialog and a Free OCX Grid to Display Records from a Large Table

By Stan Littlefield
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Wizard's Note

As a service to the community of WinBatch developers, I agreed to host this tutorial created by Stan Littlefield. This is an opportunity for me to give a little back to the community, and I am delighted to have it.

The tutorial demonstrates use of several powerful, advanced features.

• A Microsoft Access data base file to store huge numbers of records
• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) to access the data, without using Microsoft Access itself
• A COM Control hosted by a WIL Dialog
• Dynamic Dialogs, using Dialog Callback Procedures to respond to events raised by a dialog.

Although Stan states in the accompanying ReadMe file that the code requires WinBatch 2006C, I have successfully run it in WinBatch 2005G. Depending on your version of WinBatch, your mileage may vary.

Using the links below, you can download the tutorial only, which is a PDF document, or the entire package, which includes the tutorial, the code, and the grid OCX. The required VB 6.0, SP 6 runtime library is packaged separately. However, the code works as expectted with the VB 6.0, SP 5 runtime.

For support, please contact Stan Littlefield through The WinBatch Bulletin Board.

In the extremely unlikely event that you do not have the required MDAC components, you can download them from MDAC 2.8 Download Page.

Downloads

You can use MD5WIN to verify the MD5 digest of these and other files.

References

The WinBatch Bulletin Board

MDAC 2.8 Download Page

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