The problem is knowing what controls are available - VB6 doesn't expose these controls publicly for things like object browsers to see.
This little script will loop through each control on the form, and write some interesting values out to a text file - there's sometimes a few hundred controls on a form, so this is preferable to a messagebox being displayed for each control.
Where you put this code fragment is up to you - I tend to just put it in the form loaded, and then close and re-open the form. Just don't forget it's there if you do this on a live system, or users may get errors opening forms because it attempts to write to the local C:\ folder.
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Dim WorkStr
Dim Control
Dim fso, f
Dim lTop
Dim lLeft
Dim lWidth
Dim lHeight
Dim lIndex
FileName = "C:\ControlListing.txt"
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.CreateTextFile(FileName, True)
f.WriteLine "Control Name, Index, Top, Left, Width, Height"
For Each Control In FormObject.Controls
On Error Resume Next
lIndex = ""
lIndex = Control.Index
lTop = ""
lTop = Control.Top
lLeft = ""
lLeft = Control.Left
lWidth = ""
lWidth = Control.Width
lHeight = ""
lHeight = Control.Height
f.WriteLine Control.Name & "," & lIndex & "," & lTop & "," & lLeft & "," & lWidth & "," & lHeight
Next
f.Close
