The windowless Frame control is a lightweight version of the Visual Basic intrinsic Frame control.
Important Unlike the intrinsic Frame control, the lightweight Frame control is not a true container. Instead, it functions only as a visual container of other lightweight controls. To group lightweight OptionButton controls, use the Group property.
Syntax
WLFrame
Remarks
The distinguishing characteristic of a lightweight control is its lack of an hWnd property. If your application does not use APIs that require the hWnd, the lightweight version of this control will conserve computer resources and allow you to create applications that load faster.
Lightweight controls do not support Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). (The lightweight Frame control also cannot contain other controls, as can its intrinsic counterpart). In all other respects, the lightweight control retains the same behavior as the standard version.
Distribution Note This control is part of a group of ActiveX controls that are found in the MSWLess.ocx. To use the this control in your application, you must add the MSWLess.ocx file to the project. When distributing your application, install the MSWLess.ocx file in the user's Microsoft Windows System or System32 directory. For more information on how to add an ActiveX control to a Visual Basic project, see "Standard ActiveX Controls."
Note This control is Unicode-enabled. When used on a Unicode-enabled system such as Microsoft Windows NT, the control passes Unicode data with no conversion. On other systems, however, data is converted from ANSI to Unicode and back. For more information, see "ANSI, DBCS, and Unicode: Definitions" in the Programmer's Guide.