VB6 Focus Glow Effects

Question

I have a form in VB6 with text fields and I would like to create a focus glow like you see in modern web browsers.

Is it possible to make a Glowing Effect in a Textbox using VB6.0?

Kindly give me some advice or way to accomplish this one! Thanks...

Answer 1

I've noticed you are asking other questions regarding modification of the visuals of your VB6 application, too, but you have to face it: VB6 is old, very old and many of the newer UI concepts are very hard to implement in VB6.

Your best shot to make your old VB6 look better is to use a set of more current controls than the original VB6 ones. (Although better look controls are no magic bullet, it's still possible to screw up the UI by making bad layout decisions, for example)

At work we have made good experiences using CodeJock to polish our UI, but even the latest version (15.0.2 at this time) doesn't have a glow effect for text boxes.

Answer 2

You can enable the text box "glow" in Vista/7 by using a manifest. This manifest creator will handle some of the dirty work for you. Note that the effect will only appear in your compiled app, not running from within the IDE.