acPointPicker is an ActiveX control that can be used in your Visual Basic 6 projects. The purpose of the control is to graphically display the available AutoCAD point styles, and allow the user to choose one. Then, return its value so that the AutoCAD PDMODE system variable can be set. Its design is intuitive, and has a very small footprint. Icon selection is hot track able to provide visual feedback to the user.

Methods include GetPointType, for returning the value needed by AutoCAD to set the PDMODE system variable. SetPointType, for setting the graphical icon on the button that represents a point type. The control exposes two events; click event and change event. User properties consist of GridColor, ToolTipText, and enabled.

To make this control available to your Visual Basic toolbox: download it to your windows system directory and register it. Then add the component CTLacPointPicker to your projects toolbox.