Re: Strange behaviour of Datagrid. Who has a clue?

From: Dale (dale0610_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/03/04

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    Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 10:59:38 -0700
    
    

    Zeppo, maybe just double check to see if the 3 .ocx files you previously
    downloaded are still in \windows\system32 ... maybe the installer did
    overwrite them - if it did, I guess, just unregister the ones that got
    overwritten and copy back the ones you downloaded previously and
    re-register them again.

    Zeppo wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > who can help me out on a strange problem?
    >
    > Ik created a small app with vb6p (on w2kp). It worked fine, and i
    > copied the generated .exe (68k) on my laptop (XPH)
    > It complained about some missing ocx'es, so i downloaded them from the
    > internet and registered them with
    >
    > regsvr32 \WINDOWS\system32\TABCTL32.OCX
    > regsvr32 \WINDOWS\system32\MSDATGRD.OCX
    > regsvr32 \WINDOWS\system32\MSADODC.OCX
    >
    > The result : the app worked flawlessly.
    >
    > Because i wanted to create a fancy installer, i downloaded the
    > microsft installer, and created a .msi
    >
    > When i installed the resulting MSI on my laptop, the following problem
    > occurred:
    >
    > In the datagrid, the user can directly edit some character-fields from
    > the underlying mdb. The description fields are shown in their full
    > length.
    > When the user clicks the description-field however, the original text
    > (say 60 chars) is selected but somehow truncated to 15 characters.
    > It is still possible to enter a longer text, but it works very
    > cumbersome.
    >
    > I guess it has to do with conflicting versions of used ocx/dll, but i
    > don't know how to fix this.
    >
    > Any guru out there who has an idea about fixing this problem?
    >
    >
    >
    >


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