Have you tried to use the STORE command
STORE 240 TO MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",0)
It might not work either.
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Newton
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2022 12:20 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: Problem setting ActiveX control property (Folderview and
Fileview controls)
Thanks for the suggestion Eric but the first column is in fact 0 because
the following
? MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",0) gives the correct result for the
width of the first column Paul
On 02/06/2022 16:59, Eric Selje wrote:
> It's interesting that the VB syntax has the first column as 0 when VB is a
> one-based array language. Have you tried a 1 there instead for the 2nd
> parameter?
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 7:55 PM Paul Newton<paul.newton.h...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> It's a few years old now, but I have the Sky Software Shell Megapack
>> suite (V8) which contains the two (ActiveX) controls above as well as a
>> drive combo control. I have used these successfully in the past but
>> have run into a problem. The Fileview control has a Public Read-Write
>> Property ColumnWidth which, according to the help file, "Gets/Sets the
>> width of the column in pixels". The VB syntax in the help is:
>>
>> Public Property ColumnWidth(ByVal ColumnName As String, ByVal
>> ColumnIndex As Long) As Long
>>
>> ? MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",0) and ?
>> MyFileView.Object.ColumnWidth("Name",0) both work fine and return 120.
>>
>> Trying to set the column width as follows
>>
>> MyFileView.ColumnWidth("Name",0) = 240 gives "Function argument value,
>> type or count is invalid"
>>
>> and MyFileView.Object.ColumnWidth("Name",0) = 240 gives "Syntax error"
>>
>> Am I missing something (I have checked and there is no method or event
>> on the control which references ColumnWidth).
>>
>> Alternatively, can anybody suggest affordable (aka cheap, preferably
>> free) alternatives to these controls which are designed to closely mimic
>> the behaviour of Windows Explorer?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Paul Newton
>>
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