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Everything works great, with one exception. Any ideas on supporting the edit undo command?

Does anyone know of a better ActiveX control to use to allow a user to pick colors? The commondialog only has 64 colors I believe. I need a color picker that has 256, much like the way you can pick colors on a Palm IIIc. Thanks! Steve

Does ShellExecute have significant differences than using the Shell command inside of VB?

Hey. In order to print to an old DOS printer from a Win VB program I wrote a Turbo Pascal print spooler (due to font compatibility problems) that I run from the Shell command in VB. The Turbo Pascal program aborts when trying to open LPT1, yet if I run the program directly from a Command prompt...

James, Thanks for the code. I haven't used the Screen object very much and wasn't aware of the ActiveControl property. Sure makes things much easier. Thanks again. Steve

The VB app wizard unfortunately just gives you dummy code to replace. By using the clipboard object I guess I'll have to keep track of which text field has focus. Then I'll know whose text to put in the clipboard. Then I can copy, cut, paste. Undo will be a little harder.

I'm trying to make my UI nice and professional and add an Edit menu like most Win programs have. If the user doesn't know about Ctrl-X for cutting for example, they need to use Cut from the Edit menu. However, I'm not sure what to do at that point. I tried SendKey {^}x (Ctrl-X) but that...