Need Round corner text box in Visual Basic 6

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/RoundedCornerTextbox.aspx

Codebot, The source code is in VB.net that I do not have much experience with. How can I use it in VB6?

Hi
Please have a look at this
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Libraries/XP_Visual_Styles/Using_XP_Visual_Styles_in_VB/article.asp

You can create round edges using the following functions. You will want to change the borderstyle of your textboxe to - None to get a decent result. See code block for example.

CreateRoundRectRgn
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183516(VS.85).aspx

SetWindowRgn
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd145102(VS.85).aspx

Option Explicit

Private Declare Function CreateRoundRectRgn Lib "Gdi32.dll" (ByVal nLeftRect As Long, ByVal nTopRect As Long, ByVal nRightRect As Long, ByVal nBottomRect As Long, ByVal nWidthEllipse As Long, ByVal nHeightEllipse As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SetWindowRgn Lib "User32.dll" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal hRgn As Long, ByVal bRedraw As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function DeleteObject Lib "Gdi32.dll" (ByVal hObject As Long) As Long

Public Sub MakeRound(ByRef t As TextBox)
    Dim hRgn As Long
    
    hRgn = CreateRoundRectRgn(0, 0, _
        t.Width / Screen.TwipsPerPixelX, _
        t.Height / Screen.TwipsPerPixelX, 5, 5)
        
    If hRgn Then
        SetWindowRgn t.hWnd, hRgn, 1
        DeleteObject hRgn
    End If

End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
    MakeRound Text1
End Sub

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An alternate way of creating a textbox with round corners is by using an image and creating a pseudo-round cornered textbox. You could make the image in photoshop then use it as a background for your form or place an image control on the form to contain the picture. Your form would look like this: http://dennisdel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/image4.png. From there, place a text box with no border on top of that picture box and make sure the bounds of the text box fit within the text box image. This is the way I always used to do my custom style controls. It's not perfect, but it works, and it's quick. For any clarifications, just ask :)

sabrehagen;
The textbox looks nice. Would you be able to point me to the code that is ready to be used for the textbox you sent?

Codebot: I have not been able to create the textbox with the example you sent. where do I put the Xml code that is followed by the line, shown in the link you sent?
The manifest XML document required to use XP Visual Styles is as follows:
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Has this solved your problem uzairp? If so, could you please select a comment as the solution please?

Yes, I can use the code example that sabrehagen sent. Thank you.