This little project shows how to achieve three-dimensional control effects, and then shows how these effect compare to the effects from the THREED.VBX control in the Professional Edition of Visual Basic.
Needless to say, the effects from the custom control are superior. But if you don't need a lot of controls made 3D, or don't want to include custom controls in order to save disk space, simplify installation or speed your application up, these coding methods give some ability to make things look simple.
Of course, there are other neat 3D controls available that make most or all standard VB controls 3D. Those are nice, too. But they do require a custom control.
This project is based on Chapter 5.2 of THE WAITE GROUP'S VISUAL BASIC HOW TO, 1st Edition, 1992, Waite Group Press. I have simplified the code considerably from what they presented, though I may have also sacrificed a little flexibility... though, to tell the truth, I really think not. I think this is much more efficient code than the book's presentation.
By the way, you get a special treat if you click the hand pictures in the corner of the scroll bars.
