>>Brilliant idea! Thank you very much.
>>By the way, why do you add 4 to the Sysmetric(5) for the width?
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>To account for the spinner borders, I got the 4 by trial and error and doing PrtScreen and pasting into a graphics program and zooming in and checking the results.
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>If you don't want the borders, do the following:
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>Add a container to the form, add a spinner inside the container, then:
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>*!* Container Init
>This.Width = Sysmetric(5) - 2
>This.Height = This.spinner1.Height - 6
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>*!* Spinner Init
>This.Width = Sysmetric(5)
>This.Height = Sysmetric(6) * 2
>This.Top = -3
>This.Left = 1
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>And voila! an up/down control with no borders, and sized just like the scrollbars arrows.
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>Carlos
Carlos,
Thank you very much! This should get me what I need.
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