>>>All right, this is pretty lame...but here goes:
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>>>I'm trying to learn a little VB. I create a new project with a form in it in VB6. I have a toolbar with controls, like vfp, but I can't add any controls to the form. I tried select/click, drag-drop, but nothing works. What do I need to do to add controls?
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>>First, :-) are you associating the word "stupid" with the word "VB" or the word "question"? :-)
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>>I.e. Stupid VB, question
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>Right!
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>>Stupid, VB question?
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>>Ben awhile since I created forms in VB but if I remember right I clicked the control then clicked the form!?
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>No, I thnik it used to work that way. Tim steered me to the new way...

Yeah. I knew it was something like that. Bit me more than once by not drawing the control ( i.e. give it dimensional size ) on the form. Doesn't seem very intuitive or friendly to me.