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Boris P. -
11 Sep 2010 5:30 PM - 12 messages
Hello! I am saving an array to a file and then load it again. Open sPath For Binary As #iFile1 If uLoad Then Get #iFile1, , uArray ...
Tony Toews -
12 Sep 2010 3:06 AM - 4 messages
Folks I've been doing some searching through Google Groups but haven't found this answer if there is one. I"d like to unzip a zip file without using any external DLLs. I'm aware of the open source Infozip DLLs and have used them in the past ...
Mike S -
10 Sep 2010 4:19 AM - 17 messages
I made an Inno installer script for a program that automates Excel, based on my P&D setup.lst, which includes the Excel object library: [Setup1 Files] ..... Fil***@EXCEL9.OLB,$(WinSysPath),,$(Shared),3/19/99 10:00:32 PM,638976,9.0.0.2719 ...
nntp -
11 Sep 2010 2:25 PM - 4 messages
What is Happening? This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums. Why? As you may know, newsgroups have existed for many years now; however, the traffic in the Microsoft newsgroups has been steadily decreasing for the ...
-mhd -
10 Sep 2010 5:04 PM - 24 messages
Well at least it's a challenge for me :-) What is an elegant way of referring to the first string item delimited by a space without assigning to a string array variable as a separate step? Normally you could do... ...
Nigel Bufton -
10 Sep 2010 1:56 PM - 7 messages
My app creates a PDF file in a user-specified font. If a particular string contains characters that cannot be represented in that font, the app needs to know. What it then does is to throw the string into an RTF control and ...
MM -
10 Sep 2010 10:15 AM - 7 messages
I've read up on TTM_SETDELAYTIME, but this appears to relate to a newly created tooltip. How can I change the Windows default tooltip's initial delay from 500ms to, say, 10ms? I want one particular tooltip (on my virtual piano keys) to appear as instantaneously as possible. ...
Abhishek -
8 Sep 2010 8:50 PM - 48 messages
Hi Everyone. I am using Vista, 7 Aero glass in my app. I am able to apply it using the DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea API, but there is a minor problem, the text on controls appears transparent. someone suggested me that I should use ...
Nobody -
9 Sep 2010 5:18 PM - 15 messages
Have a VB6 app that is being used to pull data from a database. Various locations have this database and it has been running fine on all of them except for one where we are getting the following error message: ...
fniles -
6 Sep 2010 7:55 PM - 9 messages
Using winsock, how can I read POP 3 email attachment (the attachment is an ..EML file) ? Thank you ...
AndyK -
8 Sep 2010 9:27 PM - 16 messages
hi all, I am moving an old vb6 application from a W2K to an XP machine. If I run the app from the XP box and with the .mdb file also on the XP box, I get the above error. ...
SIS01 -
8 Sep 2010 1:08 AM - 20 messages
Hi, Please helpme I want to split this line: string line = "Davis , Jones, Beckett , Jordan , Kennt " into an array of their trimmed versions: "Davis" "Jones" "Beckett" "Jordan" "Kennt" I've tried several soluctions but none resolves it. ...
BeeJ -
8 Sep 2010 10:57 PM - 10 messages
I get a popup messagebox when closing my app in the IDE. Error 217 at xxxxxx (memory address). I have no user defined error codes. I cannot find it in help. google is no help either. Any ideas? ...
Anders Jorgenson -
7 Sep 2010 11:32 AM - 9 messages
I have an ActiveX exe and I am having a hard time to have it raise an event. My problem is that the class of the ActiveX-Exe does not receive the withevent from the form. Is that a known problem? What am I missing? ...
Anders Jorgenson -
10 Sep 2010 5:32 AM - 9 messages
I have an array which stores values of precalculate results at certain positions (x,y): Theoretical, it would look like this: Dim sngArr(200000,200000) as single For example sng(1,1) would be 0.003923 Of course this is not possible due to the memory capacity. ...
Chuck -
16 Apr 2010 8:38 PM - 4 messages
I have a bunch of webpages I need to print out. So I tried doing: PDataContext dc = new PDataContext(); var q = from a in dc.Reviews.Take(2) select a; ...
Karl E. Peterson -
8 Sep 2010 6:16 PM - 26 messages
Just noticed something really odd. If you enumerate fonts using standard VB methods, a bunch of them are returned twice, once with a leading ampersand. What's up with that? Repro: Public Sub Main() Dim i As Long, s As String ...
jerryys -
31 Aug 2010 2:31 AM - 40 messages
I would like to download a vb6 program to whomever requests it on the web. Is there a standard control, or app that can be called to accomplish this. It seems all downloads over the internet work similarly. A user requests the ...
Igor Bolschewski -
4 Sep 2010 7:44 AM - 54 messages
Hi all! I am struggeling with a hardware company. They provide their own drivers and .dll files, but their .dll files are buggy. People need to downgrade to make them work reliably. I am distributing the downgraded .dlls with my application, and luckily ...
Mike Williams -
28 Aug 2010 4:11 PM - 37 messages
Being a hobbyist I don't often get involved with file permissions when my code is run on other machines. I do know a few things about it, for example the behaviour of code running in a folder in the main Program Files folder ...
GS -
19 Aug 2010 2:22 PM - 51 messages
Just to follow through on a previous post "How to get the File Properties", is there a way to write these properties using Shell? I'm looking for a way to do this without having to use an external component such as DsoFile.dll or dwProp.dll. Any suggestions are ...
RDub -
12 Aug 2010 7:46 PM - 10 messages
Guys/Gals I need to display byte values in Hex format and preserve leading zeros. so I came up with : format(hex(SomeByte),"00") to perform the deed. I just noticed an inconsistency with that code and changed it to : ...
Mike S -
6 Sep 2010 2:35 AM - 19 messages
I want to modify the installer to create a desktop shortcut when a program is installed. I found this discussion [link] that explains, "by adding just 4 lines of code, the Packaging & ...
Tony Toews -
5 Sep 2010 6:51 PM - 17 messages
Folks I'm putting a timer on the main form of my utility. Are there any quirks I should know about? I ask because there is an interesting quirk with the timer event in Access that developers need to know about. ...
Dipesh_Sharma -
1 Sep 2010 6:02 PM - 8 messages
Hi, I am using following code to copy a file or folder from computer A to computer B. Dim fso Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") fso.CopyFile(sFile, sPathDest, True) now problem here is that, if i pass "IP ADDRESS" of my source computer than ...
Scott M. -
1 Sep 2010 1:37 PM - 14 messages
I have an old test program written in VB6 that I need to run on a computer overseas. I created the setup program using deployment and packaging wizard and sent it to them. After hearing that they were having trouble running the test program, I decided to create a new PC ...
VB -
3 Sep 2010 8:01 AM - 5 messages
Its Free, No Piracy 64MB [link] Delphi 7 Personal Edition allows new developers to create high-performance Windows 98, Windows NT? and Windows 2000 applications for personal, non-commercial use. Complete with a 32-bit, optimizing, native code ...
Alexandros Peropulous -
31 Aug 2010 7:25 PM - 21 messages
Hello! I have a class which I needed to make global because it is used in/ on different forms, and the class opens and closes port handles, so I cannot simply make a few more copies of them. However, on some of the forms, I would need a notification about events ...
fniles -
5 Sep 2010 8:09 PM - 6 messages
Can I use Winsock to read POP 3 mails ? When I do this, Winsock1.State stays at 6 (connecting), and it is never 7 (connected). Winsock1.Connect "mail.myservermail.com", 110 Do While Winsock1.State <> 7 ...
David Kaye -
2 Sep 2010 7:22 PM - 18 messages
Okay, you can have files installed into directories such as $(AppPath), $(WinSysPath), and so forth, but what is the magic word to deploy files into the User's path, that is C:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data and its equivalent in Vista/Windows 7? ...
cphx -
15 Aug 2010 10:56 PM - 9 messages
The Error is raised when i try to set the Direct Sound Buffer. ...
Robert -
3 Sep 2010 5:04 PM - 10 messages
Hello all, I was looking at the Dynamic Array functions exported by commctl32.dll (prefixed DPA_ and DSA_) [link] Although there doesn't seem to be anything there that really couldn't ...
Nando -
19 Aug 2010 5:25 AM - 81 messages
Hi guys! As I have written somewhat in previous posts, I have spent many years writing code for in-house processes. I'm no longer with my company and I'm starting to embrace software development, but now towards a general ...
Thorsten Albers -
3 Sep 2010 4:01 PM - 9 messages
Hi, Folks! Like other MS newsgroups the german VB.classic discussion group microsoft.public.de.vb has been closed some months ago. Due to the lack of an alternate german discussion group for VB.classic some of the participants ...
BeeJ -
20 Aug 2010 6:03 AM - 7 messages
In a VB6 app that i am always working on, I found a strange difference between XP and Vista (both latest SP). I used the API to set Owner vs non-Owner. On Vista, when set to Owned, the main form contains the child form such ...
Sabbir Ahmad -
3 Sep 2010 3:24 AM - 6 messages
Dim a As Double Dim b As Double Dim c As Double a = 36.8 b = 44 select case a case 36.6 to 37 MsgBox "???" Select Case b Case 42 To 43 c = 26 ...
Karl Steffen -
2 Sep 2010 9:20 AM - 11 messages
I am normally using VB6 but this time I need to create a DLL from an ..h-file and I guess I can only do this in VC6/C++. Because of this I would like to know what the current (if there is still one at all) VC6 ...
Harsha -
13 Aug 2010 10:42 AM - 21 messages
Hello there, I have a problem in client - server application. My server is windows 2003. Problem is whenever I try to send collection as an argument to the remote method I get error saying Runtime error 462. The remote server does not exists or is ...
Abhishek -
1 Sep 2010 11:41 AM - 32 messages
Hi, I have Win XP, when I run my application using right click > run as > check 'protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity' I get an error Run-time error '481': Invalid picture Why this is happening? and any fixes for that? ...
Claire -
2 Sep 2010 2:49 AM - 11 messages
Hello, Having the full administrative privileges I have ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED response from RegSetValueEx{} Code: rtn = RegCreateKey(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, "callto\DefaultIcon", phkResult) If rtn = ERROR_SUCCESS Then ...
Mike Williams -
27 Aug 2010 9:13 PM - 53 messages
Come back Micro$oft. All is forgiven (well, some of it is!). Google is the new AntiChrist :-) Whilst developing a VB6 program (just to keep this on topic!) I installed Google Chrome web browser. I did not like it and so I uninstalled it, and ...
Mojo -
29 Aug 2010 4:02 PM - 7 messages
Hi All I've always shied away from what seems to be an obviouls feature of the listview, but I could never figure out how to show the up or down sort arrows on a column header in a VB6 listview. ...
Alexandros Peropulous -
26 Aug 2010 5:59 PM - 5 messages
Hello! Does anybody know how to get a message (WindowMessage?) when the user plugs/unplugs a USB device? Thank you! Alex ...
Sneha Menon -
1 Sep 2010 5:51 PM - 10 messages
Hi All VB6 Application. If there are a number of instances of the application running, and they are grouped in the taskbar, how can I close all instances by clicking 'Close Group' ? What shall I do in my vb6 application to make it respond to the windows 'Close Group' ? (OS is ...
Abhishek -
29 Aug 2010 2:14 AM - 25 messages
Hi, I have 6 radio buttons (control array) on a form, the user selects the option and click the OK button and there are two procedures in my code to enable and disable all controls until the process is complete. but when I ...
Robert -
29 Aug 2010 3:51 PM - 12 messages
Hi, Is there a reason why I can't send and receive a messages with a negative number using SendMessage? The Windows common controls use negative notification messages and I've never had a problem receiving those, so the problem has to be ...
John Simpson -
31 Aug 2010 5:51 PM - 5 messages
Help!!! Windows 7, VB6 I have the following code with a mysterious problem. Hitting keys A thru Z or numbers 0 thru 9, assign the correct results the variable ch below. Punctuation is wrong. For example, the / key returns a keycode of 191. ...
BeeJ -
23 Aug 2010 8:53 PM - 11 messages
My VB6 app looks at the command line when it starts. I want to gather a list of images that the user selected then list them in my app. So far this is what I am seeing on my XP PC ... ...
Norm -
22 Aug 2010 8:29 PM - 49 messages
Hi, I am using the following code to set all controls on a form to visible, so that I can set only the ones I want to see later in a routine, as this seems the quickest and easiest way to do it when I only want to ...
Alexandros Peropulous -
29 Aug 2010 8:40 AM - 7 messages
Hello! I am dealing with an ActiveX-Exe. I have put an MSCOMM control into it, because I needed it be out-of-proc. Automation error (-2147417843) An outgoing call cannot be executed because the application is forwarding an input-synchronized call. ...
BeeJ -
30 Aug 2010 4:04 AM - 10 messages
So I moved all the code to a different PC. I made zero progress getting anything to work on the other PC. Now the ActiveX stuff all instantiates and I can talk to all of them. However, now some new ? related / unrelated ? problems. ...
Kevin Provance -
26 Aug 2010 7:42 PM - 19 messages
I hate to break it to you old top, but I think "Nobody" was responding to you. :( Also, there is evidence that it may in fact be an impostor. This is another reason why folks should be using their real names and not ...
Mike Simpson -
8 Aug 2010 11:22 PM - 10 messages
I have several VB6 programs which I have written using the Common Dialog box COMDLG32.OCX and they all work fine. Suddenly this week on my own PC (Windows 7 - 64 bit - Home Premium) all these programs throw up the error ...
Mike Williams -
26 Aug 2010 1:50 PM - 31 messages
Does anybody know who I can write to at Microsoft in order to ask them to stop one of their own MVPs, PAUL CLEMENT, from trolling this newsgroup. He is a disgrace to himself and he is both a disgrace and a liability to ...
Nando -
25 Aug 2010 10:51 AM - 11 messages
I have been using SSTab for as long as I can remember (in both VB6 and VBA6). Just wondering if there are other reasons why I should consider using MSCOMCTL's TabStrip instead. TabStrip Control Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 (SP6) ...
BeeJ -
27 Aug 2010 11:57 PM - 11 messages
My app compiles with Ctrl-F5 then locks up. My app compiles to an EXE. When run it locks up and does not fully start. Ctrl-Break does nothing. The Stop button is inactive. I use Process Explorer to kill it. ...
Alexandros Peropulous -
28 Aug 2010 3:48 PM - 9 messages
Hello! I have some bytes which are from a wav file. They are without a header. Normally, I simply add the header, the file size, and I am done, I have a complete wav file. But this time, my bytes are from a BigEndian wav file. Does anybody know ...
David -
25 Aug 2010 7:27 PM - 11 messages
I have a "real-time" data structure in the following format: Type ThisDataInfo DT As Date Amount As Single ...
Abhishek -
16 Aug 2010 5:33 PM - 34 messages
Hi, can anyone tell me which is the latest VB6 Cumulative Update? I mostly use common dialog and common control. Common Controls Update - Nov-2005 [link] Dec-2008 (buggy) May-2009 [link] ...
Leo -
27 Aug 2010 2:40 PM - 4 messages
Hi all can someone please help me convert this C sample into VB6 please WORD CalcTitleChecksum( char* pszTitle, // A pointer to the name of the savegame int cb) // set to either 39 or 47 for TTO or TTD savegames ...
JP... -
26 Aug 2010 2:11 PM - 5 messages
Hi: I have developed an app that has sevearl data grids on different forms. They all were working. One grid has several columns with most locked and the operator can only change the data in one column. (that one column is not ...
BeeJ -
27 Aug 2010 12:44 AM - 7 messages
OK, I googled and found that there are at least three methods of creating a shortcut that I can understand. The fourth I am not to sure about. I want to create a shortcut in the SendTo folder for my app. Command$ ...
Abhishek -
24 Aug 2010 4:16 AM - 26 messages
I installed API-Guide on Windows 7 and it doesn't work because there are no VB5 Runtime. I know even Vista didn't had them but it shows a interesting message. I guess we are going to see a similar message in next Windows ...
Alex -
25 Aug 2010 3:32 AM - 8 messages
hello, i have a program developed with VB6 and trying to install it on Windows 7 32-Bit OS and nothing happens nor installs on my computer.. is there anyway around to install programs on Windows 7 developed with VB6? ...
Nobody -
20 Aug 2010 2:29 PM - 7 messages
FYI, I have been having problems with a ListView with about 100 items, and when I try to scroll vertically or horizontally by dragging the scroll bar, it doesn't catch up immediately, but it looks highlighted and frozen, and ...
BeeJ -
20 Aug 2010 2:22 AM - 6 messages
I love playing with my WebCAM in VB6. Please give me links to places where I can find sample code or just snippets to get started. I want to use this on Win7 and XP. Would this be this DirectX or better? ...
lin -
24 Aug 2010 6:53 PM - 6 messages
hi friend...am new to this group....currently am doing Mtech in MIT, chennai. I want to know details regarding compression technique for my final year project...... my question: 1, I want to know any available content based compression ...
Abhishek -
19 Aug 2010 1:39 PM - 9 messages
Hi, I am having problems using Flash 10 control in VB6, anyone else having the same problem? The last version of flash which didnt had any problem with VB6 was Flash10e.ocx it seems all version after that are having the same problem. ...
KiwiKid -
19 Aug 2010 3:52 PM - 10 messages
Hi everyone My question is how to retrieve and update records in a remote Access db sitting on a remote web host using a VB application. While I can do this with SQL Server I could do with some general pointers on the ...
jim evans -
23 Aug 2010 10:04 PM - 5 messages
I used fCreateShellLink with vb5stkit.DLL successfully and reliably under VB5, but I can't make it work with vb6stkit.DLL. fCreateShellLink has two additional arguments with vb6stkit.DLL -- fPrivate & sParent. I haven't found an explanation of what these ...
kbkforums via VBMonster.com -
23 Aug 2010 11:41 AM - 6 messages
I want to create a plugin for an external application in VB6. To do this I create a regular dll, export the necessary functions and compile the dll. So far so good. The problem comes when I developed a second plugin (also in vb6 ...
BeeJ -
23 Aug 2010 4:13 AM - 7 messages
How do I register ActiveX EXEs that I have moved from one PC to another? I do not want to have to recompile them every time. I tried creating the .reg file that usually registers .dll but that does not work. ...
Nando -
1 Aug 2010 7:17 PM - 39 messages
Hi all! I have a little program (written in VB6) that saves the image in a picturebox to a BMP file. The problem is that BMP files are several megabytes in size and do not support DPI (dots-per-inch) information for ...
Larry Serflaten -
18 Aug 2010 2:33 PM - 23 messages
I am looking for ideas on concise methods to store and lookup words. The plan is to include only words of 3 letters up to 8 letters in length. The obvious move is to break them out by size and build ...
Alexandros Peropulous -
12 Aug 2010 9:13 AM - 16 messages
Hello! I have documented my problem below. Can anybody help? Could it be done by CopyMemory? Private Sub Form_Load() Dim sngArr() As Single ReDim sngArr(1, 1) sngArr(0, 0) = -5 ...
Junior -
10 Aug 2010 11:00 PM - 16 messages
I use the code below with almost any Zebra printer, but i am trying to use it with ZEBRAZM400 and is not working. Could help me to find where is the problem? Description N Q250,1 q800 OFf A160,10,0,2,1,3,N,"" ...
David -
18 Aug 2010 2:26 AM - 5 messages
I'm dealing with an Excel worksheet which allow the user to enter a values into a year/date column and an amount column. If the user enters multiple years then I need to sum the values. I thought this might be easier in VB so what I had in mind was: ...
Sergio T -
19 Aug 2010 2:22 AM - 5 messages
hi I am Using VS2008 and WindowsForms how can I drag and drop a datagridviewrow over a treenode ? I have a treeview like in the Explorer on left side of a panel, and on the right side I have a datagridView, and I need to drag and drop a row from ...
saftheonly -
17 Aug 2010 10:41 AM - 34 messages
Hi Larry, I've tried this in Visual Basic 2008 Express and can't get it to work. If I create a VB Script file from this code and run it the output is fine. When I type Set sa = CreateObject("Shell.Application") into the IDE, as soon as I ...
Leo -
18 Aug 2010 3:59 AM - 17 messages
I have a standard DLL whose subs take a while to complete. I was thinking of somehow using a calback sub/function to allow the program calling them to display progress. Is that possible in vb? ...
Nobody -
15 Aug 2010 6:39 PM - 11 messages
I am using GDI+ in one of my VB6 apps(mainly for anti aliasing support). It works fine, but when I create the Graphics object, which takes a PictureBox hDC. It never draws outside the PictureBox original size if I make it bigger ...
Tony Toews -
15 Aug 2010 3:39 AM - 6 messages
Folks I'm creating a single entry DLL for the OS application event log so developers and admin types don't get that ugly message when looking at errors in the event log. I've got the following make file which is working but I see the dll ...
DotNut -
15 Aug 2010 3:46 PM - 16 messages
[link] (License 25 Euro) KBasic is a powerful programming language, which is simply intuitive and easy to learn. It is a new programming language, a further BASIC dialect and is related to VB.NETT, Visual Basic®, Visual Basic for Application® and ...
Kevin Provance -
3 Aug 2010 8:56 PM - 43 messages
I'm curious. By accident, my particular API viewer was generating W versions of APIs I commonly use. I only caught it because the APIs were failing. Specifically I was using FindWindowEx. The declare for the W was exactly the same as the A, the difference being ...
Mike S -
14 Aug 2010 1:13 AM - 5 messages
I want to add the ability for the user to email an attachment after generating a report, but I don't want to have to rely on them for much help in setting up the email, a lot of them would have trouble finding ...
DotNut -
14 Aug 2010 6:34 PM - 33 messages
My experience with .NUT Today I downloaded a small tool from Microsoft, it came with .msi installer, I am on windows 7 32-bit. I opened the installer and it says you need .NUT 1.1, do you want to download it now? ...
Kevin Provance -
13 Aug 2010 10:10 PM - 27 messages
[link] Here comes Tom and Paul to spin for their master in 5...4...3...2...1... ...
Spero -
14 Aug 2010 3:20 AM - 5 messages
I have a VB project that open up a NYSE table (ADO) of all the symbols, feeds them into a web services where I take the xml response and writes the quotes and volumes to server. The problem is that I ...
MM -
15 Aug 2010 10:29 AM - 9 messages
I'm now using XP (bought another computer) and installed my HP Laserjet P2015. When I looked back at the screen, what did I see? "Installing .Net Framework", that's what. ..Net is like the fifth column in World War II. I suppose I'm lumbered ...
BeeJ -
13 Aug 2010 4:34 PM - 15 messages
So what is happening? In both cases I have set Thread Per Object. I instantiate four of the same ActiveX EXEs (set as an array of Ax(). With SingleUse I see all four in Process Explorer. with MultiUse I see one in Process Explorer. ...
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