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Getting around a restricted connection from an external computer

Ian Davies - 15 Oct 2005 8:19 PM - 2 messages

Hello My host does not allow external connections to my MySQL database on their server from a remote computer. I would like users of my VB application to be able to add records from a table on said database to their local MySQL ...

Newbie: remember chkbox from closed form

stanto123 - 15 Oct 2005 4:29 PM - 4 messages

Hi, i want to set up an Options menu. So i created the form and put a checkbox. In order for the program to remember wether the chkbox is set or not, i guess i'll have to read from an INI or the registry. Thats fine. But I ...

beyond dynamic code execution

George Meng - 15 Oct 2005 3:40 PM - 3 messages

I got a tough question: The backgroud for this question is: I want to design an application works like a engine. After release, we can still customize a form by adding a button, and source code for the button. (button and source code should be a record in database, these information should be retrieve from database when the form shows up) ...

Distance between a line and a point

Ricardo Furtado - 15 Oct 2005 1:33 PM - 2 messages

I'm programming in VB .Net but this might be more a trigonometry problem. i've been searching every maths book i can find and i haven't found anything i can use with VB. So, what i need to know is how to calculate the distance, between a line ...

Give Focus to Background Form

FM - 15 Oct 2005 12:17 PM - 11 messages

How do I make a form underlying another form have focus without sending the uppermost form to the back? When the uppermost form is loaded I want the underlying form to get the focus with the second form still on top. ...

Need Ebook for Mastering Database Prg in VB by Evangelos Petroutsos

shellprince - 15 Oct 2005 10:19 AM - 2 messages

Hello friends, * Need Ebook for Mastering Database Programming in VB 6.0 by Evangelos Petroutsos* -- shellprince ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shellprince's Profile: [link] View this thread: [link] The Tech SuperSite for India - [link] ...

Count Numerous Matches Only Once

Paul Black - 15 Oct 2005 9:47 AM - 6 messages

Hi Everyone, I would like to be Able to Achieve this Using VB Please. I have a List of Six Columns and Quite a Few Rows in the Range "B2:G?". Each Row has Six Unique Numbers Within it. What I would like to do, is Cycle through EVERY Combination of 3 ...

Data Repeater in VB.NET

VIswanathan S - 15 Oct 2005 6:54 AM - 2 messages

Hi All! How to use Data Repeater in VB.NET? Data Fields are Employee Number Name Photo Date of Joining Salary I want to use all the fields in Data Repeater? TIA Viswanathan S ...

Missing keyboard shortcuts

John Davies - 15 Oct 2005 12:24 AM - 8 messages

Somehow, VB6 is no longer accepting keyboard shortcuts on my computer. For example, it doesn't recognize F5 to run the app, F2 to bring up the object browser, or the ctrl-arrow or shift-arrow keys while laying out a form. ...

VB6: Toolbar button sizeing...

playwin - 14 Oct 2005 8:31 PM - 6 messages

Hi, Is anyone know here how to maintain "exact" size for the toolbar buttons: for example say I got 3 buttons to display, 2 with text (on right side), and 1 with no text labels. The problem is the non-text ones always tends ...

VB 6, SP 5 and Hyperthread

Tony - 14 Oct 2005 8:24 PM - 18 messages

Hi All, Help! I have a customer with a semi custom application written in VB6, sp5. The program mainly writes text files to disk from things organized on the screen. His computer is a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4, 800 MHz FSB, ...

User Control Re-Painting

Bryan Dickerson - 14 Oct 2005 7:59 PM - 2 messages

I have a user control in an MDI Child form that doesn't always repaint itself thoroughly if another form is displayed over it--most of the other forms are also MDI Child forms. I have put code to refresh itself ...

XP Styles and Web Browser control

Faraz Azhar - 14 Oct 2005 7:49 PM - 7 messages

Hello I have successfully implemented the XP styles on my app. I have a web browser control in my app and I use it to view an html page which contains forms (buttons). If I view that html file in Internet ...

IIS hangs when testing VB DLL

rkbarr - 14 Oct 2005 7:24 PM - 4 messages

Hello, I'm trying to develop a DLL for use as an ASP object in VB5. When i go and run the dll, it starts fine in vb and i see that it's creating a temp instance of it in the registry. ...

Organizing Constants for Easier Maintenance

Patrick Pirtle - 14 Oct 2005 6:40 PM - 11 messages

I have a number of constants such as (abbreviated list): Public Const SCALE_0132PLANS = "Plan 1/32""=1'-0""" Public Const SCALE_0116PLANS = "Plan 1/16""=1'-0""" Public Const SCALE_0332PLANS = "Plan 3/32""=1'-0""" ...

VB6: What's the command that creates an ARRAY out of a STRING???

Alan Mailer - 14 Oct 2005 6:11 PM - 8 messages

Ok, I'm in brain - lock. What is the VB6 command that could take the following string: Hello|There|World .... and create an array in which the elements were "Hello", "There", and "World"? I can't think of it for the life of me. Hopefully someone out there ...

word hyperlink + command line args

Bala - 14 Oct 2005 4:37 PM - 5 messages

Hi I have the hyperlink on my word doc, it will point to my exe (created by vb6). Is it possible to pass command line arugment from word document hyperlink? Thanks bala ...

GDI API question X 2

ian - 14 Oct 2005 3:32 PM - 5 messages

I've written a game engine, everything works fine, but I'd like to speed up collision detection. My current approach is as follows: Find any sprites who's rect's intersect. AND the intersecting section of the masks of the two touching sprites, use getpixel API call to check ...

FRM files

mark blackall - 14 Oct 2005 3:12 PM - 3 messages

HI All, I am wanting to create an EXE, that, when it runs, it loads in a .FRM file containing the setup of all the controls on the forms (the actual program code being already in the EXE). IN other words, it loads in the FRM file ...

Western European (dos)

Moose - 14 Oct 2005 1:58 PM - 2 messages

Hi guys, is there anyway to embed a word document in a VB application? or to set the encoding of a richtext object to accept Western European (dos) encoded text? Situation is - We have an old database that outputs raw text in this format, if i open ...

Sharing violation when trying to delete a file.

Dave Baker - 14 Oct 2005 1:52 PM - 3 messages

I have a VB5 application (ftpclien.exe) which creates a flag file (ftpclien_online.txt) when it is running, and then deletes that flag file when it is finished. I then have another VB5 program (mvmctrl.exe) which looks for that flag file ...

insert char in txtbox on key up?

Impakt - 14 Oct 2005 1:48 PM - 20 messages

Hi, I am trying to make a 'credit card' number input form. I want to use a single text box and have it insert a space after every 4 characters. eg: xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx I can get it to 'sort of work' using the keypress method, but I want ...

Last boot date/time info

Kjell - 14 Oct 2005 12:30 PM - 2 messages

Hi I once saw that boot date and time could be found in the registry somewhere.... Now, I can't find it again, and I also tryed google for some hints but failed. pls, say it's possible to get last boot date/time, and maybe a hint how to ...

Newbie: ADO - Access Connection string

smith - 14 Oct 2005 9:47 AM - 6 messages

Hi, Surprisingly, i cant seem to find a simple and descent ADO-Access example. There are tons of stuff on the web but, especially the connection strings, are a bit different from each other. Are there any good links / suggestions regarding connection strings (should ...

?creating activex control?

_john_ - 14 Oct 2005 8:27 AM - 8 messages

I've created one, with textbox inside. When I use it in my app on property windows I have (for example) parametar Aligment as integer but I need to have like in textbox "0 - Left Justify". The same is with appearance, border ...

Software protection against cracks and piracy

SoftComplete - 14 Oct 2005 8:16 AM - 5 messages

Software piracy! Cracked serial numbers! Thousands of commercial products are posted on the warez sites and become available to all every day! Companies lose millions of dollars every year to software piracy, and faulty protection programs. Shareware developers look for ...

Webbrowser Question

Peter Newman - 14 Oct 2005 4:19 AM - 2 messages

vb6 (sp6) i am trying to use the webbrowser control and am having a few troubles. I would live to allow user to browse to other web pages but there is no address line visible dispite it being set as true in the controls properties. its a ...

Font Dialog Box

Saucer Man - 13 Oct 2005 10:47 PM - 11 messages

How can I get the Font Dialog Box to show only Fontname, Size and Color? I don't want those other options such as Script, Understrike, etc. ...

kill a proccess for a specific user

Johnfli - 13 Oct 2005 10:10 PM - 8 messages

I have a W2003 Server machine. I need to have a little program that when runs, it will kill a specific process from a specific user. The reason being is that a software company that run our logistics from, wrote a bad piece of software and when it runs, ...

Why is Make (project.exe) disabled??

Charles Krug - 13 Oct 2005 9:42 PM - 6 messages

List: Apparantly, I inadvertantly tripped over a hidden Critical Need detector on my VB6-SP5 (Enterprise) Suddenly, the file->Make projectName.exe. . . option is disabled. What have I done? More importantly, how do I UN do it? Why YES . . the need IS critical. ...

MS Access equivalent to IDENT_CURRENT

Bob - 13 Oct 2005 8:03 PM - 3 messages

I am using an ODBC Access database along with Visual Basic. I have created a Header/Detail screen.... My question is: After creating the Header Record, I need to retrieve the Record ID (rec_id is auto-number) from this Header. ...

Ping Ken Halter

Dale - 13 Oct 2005 7:59 PM - 11 messages

After searching for weeks for a way to highlight different rows in a Listview with different colors, Google finally turned up your post from January of 2002, explaining how to do it. I was trying to accomplish it with background color (a near-impossible task, I surmise), not realizing it ...

Resizing text boxes

Jim Robb - 13 Oct 2005 6:18 PM - 8 messages

I have 7 text boxes on top of a picture box indexed 1 through 7. I want to add 3 more. To do this I need to resize the text boxes. I am not able to resize them. What is the best way to achieve this? ...

Form becomes not visible

Tod - 13 Oct 2005 6:04 PM - 4 messages

On my main form is a button that opens an IE window and displays a web page. Easy enough. But once the IE application is launched, my form is gone. The application is still running, but the form is no longer ...

VBA and ADODB.Recordset question

rmanchu - 13 Oct 2005 5:51 PM - 9 messages

hi guys i'm working with VBA and ADODB. i'm getting a weird error. i've got the .Filter property set to something like this = " Subject LIKE '*r*' OR ( To='AD' OR From LIKE '*AD*' ) " above code runs fine, but i actually need the FIRST OR above changed to ...

Searching for text in Text boxes

David - 13 Oct 2005 4:19 PM - 5 messages

Hi all Newbie question I want to be able to search a text box for text from my program in the way similar to Find (Ctrl+F) does is there any code or a control that can do this ? ...

Picture Box problem

Jim Robb - 13 Oct 2005 1:07 PM - 2 messages

I have two picture boxes, one overlaying the other. The problem is, the textbox on the bottom picture box overlays the text box of the picture box on top. I'm sure it must be a property problem but I 'm fairly new to VB and I ...

user-defined type not defined

Jim Robb - 13 Oct 2005 1:03 PM - 7 messages

I get the above message when trying to run my program. I checked the error in MSDN and it said to add DAO350.DLL to the References. I did this and I still get the error. Does anyone know what else I need to do? ...

Determine when report printed to specific printer

Matt Williamson - 13 Oct 2005 12:57 PM - 4 messages

I need to send a notification email when a report is printed to a specific printer. I'm not sure how to determine when something is printed to a specific printer. I'm doing this in vba in access 97 and I'm thinking API ...

Invalid help file (.chm)

Edward von Euw - 13 Oct 2005 12:21 PM - 2 messages

When I key on Help, I get an error message saying that the help file (.chm) , is invalid. Can you tell me what means that , or waht can I do ? ...

Query Datareport

AMSS - 13 Oct 2005 10:35 AM - 4 messages

Hi all I am using datareport in my vb project. I want to give query from the vb form and retrive the results in datareport. Any please send the solution. Regards AMSS ...

Can subroutine in VB6 DLL accept array variable argument???

Felix Cheang - 13 Oct 2005 10:26 AM - 3 messages

Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to pass array variable to a VB DLL. I managed to create an ActiveX DLL on VB and convert it to Windows DLL by including a .def file to the VB linker. ...

File Protection

avemariasoftsolutions@gmail.com - 13 Oct 2005 9:59 AM - 5 messages

Hi all I am doing a project in visual basic 6.0 . Is there any option/method to protect a file from deleting. Please help me. ...

How to use SendKeys for a ListBox in a Web Application?

ppramoda - 13 Oct 2005 8:33 AM - 3 messages

Hi I'm completely new to QTP and VBScript. I'm working on a Web Application. What I need to test is as follows: In a web-page, I need to test whether by clicking the [DOWN]arrow, ...

Difference in SQL Syntax between Access and MySQL (from VB6 project using ADO)

Ian Davies - 13 Oct 2005 12:34 AM - 19 messages

Hello Apologies for posting to so many groups but this one is difficult to catagorize precisely The following code worked fine with a connection to an Access database. However, I have changed over to MySQL and am getting syntax error messages ...

Problem offering font selection with listview in regions other than US

Saucer Man - 13 Oct 2005 12:31 AM - 5 messages

I recently added a drop-down combo with a few choices of the MS Sans Serif font that a user can select for a listview. I added 8.25, 9.75, 12, and 13.5. These are the actual font sizes I found by printing out the font ...

Amber Alert Ticker on VB6 Form

Doug Sanders - 12 Oct 2005 10:21 PM - 9 messages

I want to display the Amber Alert ticker on a form as a demonstration. The code is:  <P ALIGN=CENTER> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2" ...

Using shellexecute......

John Morley - 12 Oct 2005 9:46 PM - 17 messages

Hi All, I'm trying to use the ShellExecute API call to run a DOS program with some command line arguments, but I can't get it to work correctly. Here is my code snippet: Dim sCompiler As String, sFilePath As String ...

Help - Single-Select with Listbox...

Lisa - 12 Oct 2005 9:28 PM - 8 messages

Good day can I select only one row of a listbox with the syle checkbox? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! ...

Isometric Grid Lines

AMDRIT - 12 Oct 2005 8:32 PM - 2 messages

I have a picturebox that I have placed tiles on them in an isometric view (2:1). I would like to draw a grid on the picture box to highlight the tile borders. Everything that I have tried results in pretty (wierd) wireframes. ...

Picture Box Question

Ron - 12 Oct 2005 8:06 PM - 13 messages

I have bunch of pictures that I load and all are different sizes. Is there a way to resize the picture box to the size of the picture? Thanks ...

run time error 5

Robert Dormer - 12 Oct 2005 7:19 PM - 21 messages

Can anyone tell me why a Visual Basic 6.0 app running on Windows XP embedded would give a run time error 5 when calling one of the following functions? Mid Left Trim InStr The application is packaged using the Package & Deployment wizard, and as ...

VB IDE Not Integrating Visual SourceSafe Problem

JohnJohn - 12 Oct 2005 6:45 PM - 7 messages

Hello. We have a Citrix server on which both Visual Basic 6 and Visual SourceSafe 6 are installed. When I log in and use VB, I have the full set of Visual SourceSafe integration commands (check in, check out, get latest, etc.). ...

Run seperate program question

Tim - 12 Oct 2005 6:36 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I am trying to write a program that will play two flash movies over and over while the application is running. So, after the first movie is over it starts the second one and so on. Any ideas how to do this? ...

Opening and closing a window

Peter Newman - 12 Oct 2005 5:35 PM - 2 messages

Running vb6 (sp 6 ) I want to run a vb procedure that will open an internet window as a stay on top window and allow a user to browse web pages, etc, but when that internet window is closed then carry on with the vb procedure and report that the ...

Activex EXE help

Bala - 12 Oct 2005 4:57 PM - 7 messages

Hi All, I am calling the Active EXE from my standard exe project. Below is the code (First method). Now the load menu function will load my MDI form based on the parameters. Once I close the mdi form my focus should go to my calling standard exe. I ...

VB6 Variable Name as String

Jonathan - 12 Oct 2005 4:29 PM - 9 messages

I am using Visual Basic 6 and I would like to know if there is a way to get the value of a variable from the variable name as a string. For example: Dim i as integer i = 5 MsgBox GetValue("i") ...

format number again

Carlo - 12 Oct 2005 3:53 PM - 8 messages

Hi i need to write double number to a fixed lengh, es.: 3 -> 3.00 3.3 -> 3.30 i use format Format(Text, "00.00") but it isnt ezactly what i need, this returns: ...

excel versions in Vb 6

LAByerly - 12 Oct 2005 3:18 PM - 13 messages

I have an application that has run fine on my clients system for a number of months. The app reads a text file and builds an excel spreadsheet from the information. He is using Office 2000. We made some minor changes to the app ...

very weird compilation issue.

Stephanie - 12 Oct 2005 2:26 PM - 2 messages

Some programmer here made some changes to some dlls (then went on vacation)! Anyway, what I am seeing is very weird. I got all the code out of source safe, and compiled a dll. Fine. I compiled a dll that the first dll ...

Runtime error 429

DPM - 12 Oct 2005 2:06 PM - 3 messages

Hello, First, I apologise if this is the wrong forum for this; please direct me to the correct one if so. We have the problem of a compiled VB6 app that will only run if the computer has the VB6 development tools installed. When we try to run it on a ...

Launching a web browser from VB6, open new browser, not existing

Allen - 12 Oct 2005 2:03 PM - 2 messages

I'm currently using ShellExecute to open a report created by my vb6 app. It seems to open an existing browser thereby stomping on my end users work. Is there a way to easily open a new browser window? Note, that I don't know ...

INTODUCTION TO VISUAL BASICS

hanengeta - 12 Oct 2005 1:57 PM - 14 messages

I NEED SOME IMFOR. ON HOW TO USE V.B. AS A BEGINNER ...

ActiveX controls

Robert Dormer - 12 Oct 2005 1:50 PM - 3 messages

Hello all, I'm trying to move a VB 6.0 app from the machine it was developed on to other machines. The app uses ActiveX controls like DBGrids and progress bars. When I try to run it on other machines, I often get the dreaded error ...

Application error "Permission Denied" only under WinXP-SP2

Giobibo - 12 Oct 2005 11:24 AM - 15 messages

I have a client-server application written in VB5 running fine since years on Win98, WinNT e Win2000 systems. Client and server are ActiveX components accessed by Remote Automation. Now I have tried to install the application on a WinXP-SP2 PC, but I get ...

how to fetch the concatinated column

raja - 12 Oct 2005 9:44 AM - 3 messages

hi in my database there is a coulm called snippetlog which contains data like asdaf/qrrqr/asgjg.txt i want to fetch the last one ( asgjg.txt) how its possible to fetch that in a column pls reply raja *** Sent via Developersdex [link] *** ...

Dependency walker and custom ocx.

MP - 12 Oct 2005 8:57 AM - 7 messages

Hi I've made a custom ocx, which amazingly enough seems to work. I place an instance of it on a form in a std exe project. I have registered the ocx via regsvr32. the project is now compiled to an exe and I ran dependency walker to check ...

Lexical analysis

Ivan Debono - 12 Oct 2005 8:44 AM - 3 messages

Hi all, This is a followup to my previous post entitled 'Designing an Expert System'. The purpose is to parse a line of text and determine which is the best match from a list. In this case I need to parse ingredient lines. ...

Using LoadImage in VB6

davids - 12 Oct 2005 8:05 AM - 6 messages

Using the following function call to load a bitmap but I get error 1814 - The specified resource name cannot be found in the image file. GetBitmap = LoadImage(0, "mybitmap.bmp", _ IMAGE_BITMAP, 16, 16, _ ...

Compile, Save, Exit, ReStart, big trouble

Lorin - 12 Oct 2005 3:34 AM - 8 messages

I have an App that works in the IDE. I compile with no errors. I start to exit the IDE and IDE asks to save. I do. I restart and get a bunch of errors. The tab strip is now a picture box and some others change to pictureboxes too. ...

Problem connecting to remote MySQL DB from VB6

Ian Davies - 11 Oct 2005 11:49 PM - 7 messages

Hello all The following code allows me to connect to a local MySQL database on my pc from a VB6 project. **************************************************************************** ** Dim conn As ADODB.Connection Dim cs As String Dim MyServer As String Dim MyDb As String Dim MyUserID As String ...

event with commanbar button right_click?

RB Smissaert - 11 Oct 2005 10:49 PM - 7 messages

Would it somehow be possible to trigger an event on right-clicking a commandbar button? These buttons are created like this: Public cb2 As CommandBar Set cb2 = CommandBars.Add("MyOptionsPopUp", _ msoBarPopup, _ ...

A VB6 Control property

Nam - 11 Oct 2005 10:44 PM - 2 messages

I am looking for a VB6 control that has a Picture property and the following property that a Frame control in MS office application has: The Frame control in MS Office applications has a property called SpecialEffect. In VBA, I have used two values fmSpecialEffectFlat and ...

creating dll's, using in other projects... problem when recompile dll... help please!!!

spiffo - 11 Oct 2005 9:55 PM - 4 messages

new to vb, using 'classic' as it is now called I guess...vers 6... I have one project as activeX dll... it is a work in progress so it needs re-compile a few times a day... I have another project (also activeX dll) that has a ref to the first, as it ...

Is there a more elegant way to do this?

Patrick Pirtle - 11 Oct 2005 9:51 PM - 24 messages

I have a BUNCH of buttons that all do pretty much the same thing, similar to: '-------------------------------------------------------- Private Sub btn_Scale_0132_Click() Call mod_Scales.setImperialScale(SCALE_0132PLANS) End Sub Private Sub btn_Scale_0116_Click() Call mod_Scales.setImperialScale(SCALE_0116PLANS) End Sub ...

How many ORs can you have in ADODB

Jerry Spence1 - 11 Oct 2005 9:50 PM - 5 messages

I have an ADODB connection to an Access Database. I have the following command: SQL = "SELECT * from <table> WHERE ((myfield1 like '%red&') or (myfield2 like '%red&') or (myfield3 like '%red&') or (myfield4 like '%red&') or ...

Update Workstations with new executable

Bob Leffew - 11 Oct 2005 8:21 PM - 10 messages

We have a small shop of 15 users. I have written a bunch of Visual Basic 6 programs for which we run Inventory, Order Entry etc. There are numerous .exe's and some are updated on regular basis. We have a folder on a network call "Programs" where are the executables ...

Array to ADODB recordset

Dan Reber - 11 Oct 2005 8:16 PM - 3 messages

I am creating an array from multiple recordsets and use the array to populate an activex control. I need to take that array and populate a recordset (I don't care how many steps there are from array to recordset) so ...

Scheduling Control

Harry Strybos - 11 Oct 2005 8:13 PM - 5 messages

Hi All Has anyone had any experience with Scheduling/Appointment controls. They provide an Outlook style interface. I need to use one in a project and wonder if anyone can recommend any. Thanks Harry ...

Need to know when a process is exited

Ralph Malph - 11 Oct 2005 6:59 PM - 4 messages

I am writing an app which will use the shell cmd to run a client program on a mapped drive. This 3rd party program is just a startup program for the actual application. I need to know when that application has been exited. When the ...

Best way to have a subroutine modify more than one variable

LurfysMa - 11 Oct 2005 5:07 PM - 3 messages

I have a program that manages a database. It responds to user actions that affect individual record in the database. One of the functions involves a bunch of calculations that results in new values to several fields in that database (straight average, rolling average, weighted ...

Automatic FTP Authentication and Upload

Rob McCaughey - 11 Oct 2005 4:16 PM - 2 messages

Hello! I have need to make my Windows Application be able to 1) login and authenticate to an FTP site 2) upload a file to that site (file name will vary, so i need to pass the filename parameter along) and 3) be able to ...

How to create a pattern file package creator on spyware

beginner - 11 Oct 2005 3:15 PM - 5 messages

Greetings! I would like to ask on how to create a pattern file package on spyware. Using Visual Basic language. Thank you beginner ...

Ftp file management

jorgemiguel.paulino - 11 Oct 2005 2:34 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I have a ftp file that changes every 2 minutes. I want to detect the file date/time change e read the information in it. The ftp adress has logis/password Can anyone help me ? tanks Jorge ...

Expot datas in to excel sheet

raja - 11 Oct 2005 11:20 AM - 6 messages

how can i export the data which is returned in aquery intto an excel sheet. Raja *** Sent via Developersdex [link] *** ...

Adding to combobox!

Damon - 11 Oct 2005 10:38 AM - 3 messages

Hi, I have a list in a combo box i.e. 10, 15, 20, 25. The user can delete from the list if they want or can add a new item into the list. However, if the do either of these, then the next time they log onto the database the ...

populating combobox

jack - 11 Oct 2005 8:40 AM - 14 messages

Hi to populate a combobox with one of the field from the database we have to run a while loop which will add items in combobox like this While Not rst.EOF = True combo1.AddItem rst.Fields("name") ...

Command Button Sequence

Vance - 11 Oct 2005 5:41 AM - 13 messages

Using VB.6, When a command button is clicked, the focus can be set to a text box or a label. Is it possible to create code that requires a series of command buttons to be clicked in order to set the focus to a text box or ...

relative file path to absolute?

Russ - 11 Oct 2005 3:04 AM - 5 messages

Hi: I'm writing VB6 code and I need to be able to be given a relative file path (e.g. "N:\UserDir\somefile.txt" and turn it into an absolute path (e.g. "\\DumServer\folder1\somefile.txt"). Easy way to do that? ...

form_load parameters - novice

Luiz Horacio - 11 Oct 2005 2:55 AM - 6 messages

Hi, I wanted to include a parameter in a form_load event, so that I could include a string that would be used in that event. another form Private Sub command1_click load frm_report("test_report.rpx") end sub ...

VB6: Grabbing Email

IWP506 - 11 Oct 2005 1:39 AM - 5 messages

Hello. I'm trying to build a simple program that can get and parse an email. I was told that the function MapiReadMail() could do this, but I can't figure out how to use it. Can someone please post a simple example of how to grab a message from ...

Avoid Overflow!

Arpan - 10 Oct 2005 11:31 PM - 14 messages

One of the CommandButtons in a VB6 application is used to get the square of a number. Now what I find is if this button is clicked repeatedly, after sometime, VB generates the "Overflow" error. How do I avoid this error? This is what I have done: ...

Custom Toolbar control of VB6

Nam - 10 Oct 2005 10:59 PM - 2 messages

I have created a toolbar using custom toolbar control on VB6 Form.When user clicks a tool button, a second Form pops up just below the button (like a dropdown menu). And when user moves (not click) the mouse on the next button ...

3 dimenional control array

Jim Madsen - 10 Oct 2005 7:41 PM - 21 messages

Is it possible to create a three-dimensional control array? When I create a copy of a label or text box with the same name, it only gives me a 1-dimensional array, and no option to change it. ...

debugging vb6 activex dll under apache/tomcat

vishr - 10 Oct 2005 7:41 PM - 4 messages

I have vb6 activex dll that gets called by tomcat/apache through another application. Can someone tell me how to debug this dll at run time? Right now I am just printing messages to file which is not a the ...

VB6 How To ?: Storing Confidential Information

cincode5 - 10 Oct 2005 6:48 PM - 3 messages

Hello... I'm new to both this group and VB6, so if this seems like a really stupid question, then it probobly is, and I claim immunity from ridicule by virtue of ignorance - so, sorry in advance! I'm writing my first VB6 program (mostly for educational purposes) that ...

Getting information on a Word document

Suzette - 10 Oct 2005 5:00 PM - 7 messages

I've seen a program that reports statistics in Word that are not part of the normal statistics. Such as font changes (from bold to normal etc.) as well as header and footer information. Based on the speed of this program, it ...

Raised To The Power Of!

Arpan - 10 Oct 2005 3:55 PM - 8 messages

How do I find out the value of one number raised to the power of another number? For e.g. how do I find out the result of 5 raised to the power of 4 (or 5^4) i.e. 5*5*5*5 (which is 625)? ...

Converting decimal to BCD (binary coded decimal)...

John Morley - 10 Oct 2005 3:51 PM - 19 messages

Hi All, Is there a handy way to convert a decimal value to it's equivalent BCD representation in VB?? I need to send some data to a controller that expects date data in BCD. For example the month of October (decimal 10) ...

Make enter work like tab in forms

Wylie C - 10 Oct 2005 3:01 PM - 7 messages

I am trying to assign the enter key to work like the tab function on a visual basic form. In other words, when the user hits the enter key they move from one control to the next according to the tab order. ...

Transparent Picturebox

convert month to month

I must be blind -- what's wrong with this sub?

Newbie: Year( ) function doesnt work !

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