Code Newsgroups: Visual Basic General Discussion

reg.savesetting error

Norm - 29 Oct 2005 11:46 PM - 10 messages

I keep getting an error when trying to use reg.SaveSetting or reg.GetSetting, but only in WinME. I get an error message that the Object variable or With variable is not set. Am I missing a reference setting that I am not aware of. The procedue works ...

Trapping Listview column changes

Kjell - 29 Oct 2005 11:46 PM - 3 messages

Hi reg. a Listview in lvwReport view style. How can I trap when user changes a ListView's Column Width property?? (i.e. dragging the handle between two column headers) Kjell ...

Problem with User defined type

Kjell - 29 Oct 2005 10:11 PM - 12 messages

Hi Is it possible to add var objects declared as 'user defined types' into a collection? in a similar way as working with class objects something like this: 'At module level Public Type MYPROJSTEP StepID As Long CreatedBy As String * 20 ...

change shortcut icon

FM - 29 Oct 2005 5:38 PM - 2 messages

Whats the recommended method of changing the icon of a shortcut (shell link) to another icon image? Thanks ...

writeline to file

SiouxieQ - 29 Oct 2005 2:52 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I'm new to VB and am trying to write code to send data to a file. So far all I've been able to get to the file is a row of commas and the date, and now I have lost the data also. ...

Use of Crystal Report 11 in VB6.0

Shivendra - 29 Oct 2005 12:43 PM - 3 messages

I am using Crystal Report 11 in My Vb6.0 Application. I want to know which component required to add for using Crystal Report 11. Thanks in Advance ...

VB mobile

Joe - 29 Oct 2005 8:34 AM - 6 messages

I have doubt is it possible to program the mobile using VB ...

How set TreeView to right to left

Igor - 29 Oct 2005 6:43 AM - 3 messages

HI! I have a problem to set a standard TreeView control to right to left direction. In VB6 there is no such property, but in VB.NET the existing one does not works. Is there any possibility to set VB6 TreeView control to right to left ...

Animated GIF!

Arpan - 29 Oct 2005 6:37 AM - 3 messages

I want to place an animated gif in my VB6 application which makes use of the Microsoft Internet Control (WebBrowser). Before posting my query, I had gone through a few posts on this topic wherein a few people have said that as such, animated gifs cannot be loaded in a Form ...

BlockInput Failed~ Help!!

o1j2m3 - 29 Oct 2005 2:52 AM - 12 messages

The winapi BlockInput function dunno why... not really function well... in Visual Basic 6.... BlockInput True or BlockInput False also will block the input.... none of them can release the keyboard and mouse, unless I press CTRL-ALT-DEL The system I am testing on is XP SP2 Professional... ...

Trig Math Help

DanS - 29 Oct 2005 12:36 AM - 5 messages

How do ? I'm working with a flat 2D image and projecting it on a 3D plane. The result's were puzzling since they weren't as I expected and made no sense. (You can skip down to the actual question if that all your ...

Bitwise Operator Help

HLong - 28 Oct 2005 10:29 PM - 5 messages

I am trying to understand an example where the Least Significant Bit is replaced. The code is in C# and I am having problems with a line that reads: B= (byte) (Value == 1 ? B | (1 << poss) : B & ~ (1 << poss)); ...

Microsoft Internet Controls!

Arpan - 28 Oct 2005 10:28 PM - 2 messages

I am using the component Microsoft Internet Controls (WebBrowser) & am encountering some problems. In the "Properties" window, I have set the "AddressBar", "MenuBar" & "StatusBar" properties of the WebBrowser control as True but when I run it, I don't find either of them in the browser. I even hard-coded it ...

Weird behavior in VB6sp6

Tim James - 28 Oct 2005 8:21 PM - 5 messages

The left shift key on my keyboard sometimes sticks for just a second. The other day I was writing code and it stuck when I was typing ".Top"... And It turned out ".TOp" Now that I diddnt catch this mistake and VB diddnt catch it... ...

Can VB6 get a picture's Dimensions...

Jeff Harbin - 28 Oct 2005 7:45 PM - 8 messages

In WindowsXP in the Windows Explorer window there is a column of data if you choose the Details view that lists the picture dimensions. Can VB6 read a picture's dimensions so that I might build a list of dimensions for all ...

VB.NET 2003 << How to disable intellisense? >>

ChairShot - 28 Oct 2005 6:40 PM - 2 messages

I am a college student working on assignments. I'm finding it difficult to get anything done because intellisense is uncooperative. I just want to turn it off so I can finish what I am doing here. Thanks, dos-man ...

I must be going crazy....

Bryan Dickerson - 28 Oct 2005 6:29 PM - 5 messages

This is basic stuff, but I'm getting a Run-Time Error 6 on the For statement in the following sequence... n = mvarsrcLineItems.Count For i = n To 2 Step -1 ...

On Friday's Only...

Ken D. - 28 Oct 2005 6:26 PM - 8 messages

I have a small vb file that I run in Windows Scheduler to remind the user to perform a backup to a locally installed database. Since the user needs to be logged on to run the job, I wanted to fire the job At Login but only on ...

Passing Data Between Different Apps

tom - 28 Oct 2005 6:02 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I have a VB6 app that launches a C# app for the user to interact with. The C# app gets user input for the VB6 app. The reason fot the app to be written in C# is because the form is highly configurable with many different ...

Help With VB6, MS Access and text files

andy.mcvicker - 28 Oct 2005 5:35 PM - 4 messages

Hi Gang I have a new (small) project at work where I have to open a few text files that have input data from multible inputs. I need to take this data and put them into an Access 2003 database where the data will be ...

MySql/VB .NET --> Updating/printing

thenewgeek - 28 Oct 2005 5:13 PM - 2 messages

I have a MySql database. this database has two tables (customers and Invoices). I created a VB .NET application which allows me to access the database. I created a tabcontrol. The first tab is invoices, second tab customers and third tab search. ...

Newbie

mb - 28 Oct 2005 3:30 PM - 2 messages

Can someone point me in the right direction for the newbie discussion folder? Thanks, mb ...

Control Arrays

Antony - 28 Oct 2005 2:36 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I am enumarating through the form.controls collection an using a select case to determine the type of control select case typename(c) case "label" If member of control array do this else do this end if case "textbox" ...

Counters

Rick - 28 Oct 2005 1:49 PM - 16 messages

In vb6, How can I create a "counter" that keeps track of the number of times an application had been opened, without showing the user a file the he can delete? ...

Folder/Drive existance

Wyne - 28 Oct 2005 12:44 PM - 4 messages

Hello, Currently, I am using FileSystemObject to check the existance of a specific folder (or drive). The functions I'm using are objectname.FolderExist(folderpath) objectname.DriveExist(drivename) Because I frequently excounter problems with ScrRun.DLL, I want to use some ...

VB6 coding style checker

Dirk Theune - 28 Oct 2005 12:33 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I am looking for a VB6 coding style checker which checks rules like: - existence of comment blocks for methods, events, ... - existence of error handlers (On Error Goto) - existence of Option Explicit - max. length of methods - ... It should be possible to customize the rules and define own rules. ...

activex - one more :)))

_john_ - 28 Oct 2005 11:31 AM - 2 messages

I forgot about this one:)) On my custom controll I have textbox that is shipped with vb. When I use my controll in code I have to use for example this line: myTextBox.text = "sample" insted (with standard textbox) of: ...

activex - using object as parametar

_john_ - 28 Oct 2005 11:25 AM - 4 messages

Hi ppl, I'trying to create custom controll that has object as parametar. When I declare it on controll as object then every time I use this controll on creation I get error like "Object not set". Purpose of this parametar of ...

Re: Copying file from hosted remote sever to local machine

Ian Davies - 28 Oct 2005 10:37 AM - 2 messages

Eureeka Ive found a solution. Visual basic offers functions that use the 'Internet Transfer Control' which can communicate with remote server and manipulate, put and get files to and from it as well as other interesting things. If anyone is interested do a search on Microsoft website for 'Internet ...

Moving to beginning of a text file in vbscript

Andy M - 28 Oct 2005 10:24 AM - 8 messages

I want to open a text file and read all the info in there. then instead of closing and opening it to get to the start, I want to "rewind" to the beginning. ?? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. ...

modal/modeless form

PC - 28 Oct 2005 9:24 AM - 11 messages

is there a way that a form can know whether it is shown modal or modeless to elaborate: in form1 i can say: form2.show vbmodal or in form1 i can say: form2.show is there any way form2 can know if it is modal or modeless, without form1 ...

detect all drivers Windows is using, approach?

mscir - 28 Oct 2005 7:50 AM - 2 messages

I would like to write a program that would detect all of the drivers my Windows 98 is using, and back them up to a folder on my hdd. There are times in the past when my system crashed and having the drivers backed ...

Create Process API

Kamran Ali - 28 Oct 2005 6:04 AM - 2 messages

Hello All, I cannot able to solve problem while using CreateProcess API in visual absic 6.0. I want to open a new .exe (e.g notepad.exe) file with CreateProcess API and it never take parent id from the parent process and open as on same level ...

How to mouse click on a command button of a running application from a VB program?

Athena - 28 Oct 2005 4:52 AM - 21 messages

Hello, I want to control an application (3rd party) by using a program I am developing in VB. What I want to do is the following: 1) Place the mouse cursor over one of the command buttons of the running ...

Changing array dimensions at runtime

Amit Mohod - 28 Oct 2005 4:49 AM - 2 messages

Hi, how can i change the dimensions of arrays at runtime? ...

Log on as Another User

Robert Lie - 28 Oct 2005 4:39 AM - 2 messages

Dear All, I want the users of my application to log on as administator temporaryly. Pls see the code below. strbarcode = strwarehouse & "-" & strdtreceived & "-" Set btApp = CreateObject("Bartender.Application") btApp.Visible = True '===> Need to Log on as Administrator, need help!!! ...

commondialog

inquirer - 28 Oct 2005 2:30 AM - 9 messages

I am using the commondialog to save a file. If I leave the dialog form by clicking Cancel or close it by choosing "X" (or any other way) so that a file name is blank, how can I trap this condition? ...

CPU is too fast when saving file to hard drive!

Jack - 28 Oct 2005 2:06 AM - 14 messages

I have the following problem: FileCopy File1, File2 'copy Out.txt into Out.bak If Dir(File2) <> "" Then Call TrimLogFile(File1, File2, "Out") End If ...

Class Termination Woes

Kevin Provance - 28 Oct 2005 1:45 AM - 19 messages

Okay, here is the deal: I keep all my Internet read/write functions in a class module. I keep the Init stuff in Class_initialize and the clean up in Class_Terminate. Everything works fine. Now. In the form which reads an image off the Internet and places it into ...

WINSOCK and VB6

jerry_ys - 27 Oct 2005 10:34 PM - 2 messages

i have heard that .NETSockets extend WINSOCK functionality to VB. My question is has anyone attempted this with success and if so, where do i get the .NET Framework classes. It would then be possible to use asynchronous I/O methods and many other things for higher performance. ...

web based database

Guillermo - 27 Oct 2005 9:41 PM - 18 messages

Gentlemen, My VB6 application works great on my PC. Now I have to upload it to my website, together with the database. How do I set the Data1.Database property?. Will it take an "http"://www....." URL as valid?. Thanks. Guillermo. ...

User control questions

Bryan Dickerson - 27 Oct 2005 7:42 PM - 11 messages

I have a user control in which I have some code as follows: Private Sub UserControl_Paint() On Error GoTo ErrHandler If UserControl.Ambient.UserMode And (Not bInitDone) Then MsgBox "UserControl_Paint: Initializing..." ...

chimstry

fima - 27 Oct 2005 5:17 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I'm planning on building a program that will simulate some processes in biochemistry labs does anyone know about books, guides or other stuff which can help in coding the algorithms ill need? such as the ones ill need to simulate an electrophoresis for example and ...

Setting ActiveX control properties with <param> tags

Chris Lieb - 27 Oct 2005 4:00 PM - 5 messages

I am writing an ActiveX control that gets information from the serial port and displays the results in a label. I have declared the property "value" that will hold this data. This control is going to act as a ...

Installation of MSMQ - Message Queueing

Bill Baker - 27 Oct 2005 3:55 PM - 9 messages

Is there an installable version of MSMQ available, and is there a silent install mode available? Thanks, ...

Running VB6 app produces Office error "The feature you are trying

Michael Cook - 27 Oct 2005 3:31 PM - 7 messages

I have a VB6 app that works on most machines. On a few Windows 2000 computers, launching the program produces a message from MS Office that "The feature you are trying to use..." and it prompts for the CD. I can have the ...

MouseMove!

Arpan - 27 Oct 2005 3:17 PM - 7 messages

A VB6 Form has a CommandButton with an image (i.e. no caption, the Picture property of the CommandButton has been assigned a gif image). Assume that when the Form loads, the image on the CommandButton is named 'Img1.gif'. ...

Image On Buttons!

Arpan - 27 Oct 2005 1:44 PM - 11 messages

How do I make a gif/jpg image cover the entire area of a CommandButton? By "entire", I mean not even a millimeter of the CommandButton should reveal the desktop color? Thanks, Arpan ...

Getting around a restricted connection from an external computer

Ian Davies - 27 Oct 2005 12:29 PM - 3 messages

Hello Stefan or anyone else who can help Some time ago you suggested a solution to my original post about connecting to data on a remote server from a VB application where my host doesnt allow a direct external contact. Your solution is below. However my host doesnt ...

B/W Image!

Arpan - 27 Oct 2005 12:11 PM - 3 messages

Can a colored image/picture (gif, jpg etc.) be converted into black-and-white programmatically in a VB6 Form? Thanks, Arpan ...

How can I get Screen Resolution?

Amit Mohod - 27 Oct 2005 11:31 AM - 8 messages

hi all, Can any one tell me how can I get the current resolution of the display? I m i wrote a code which resize all controls when resolution is changed at run time or form is resized. But at design time I hard coded the Starting ...

Reading data from Outlook forms

Dave - 27 Oct 2005 10:43 AM - 9 messages

Hi I need to extract some data from a custom form in Outlook, there are several hundred of these so I don't want to do this by hand but I only need to do it once so I am not too worried about elegance or efficiency. ...

Weeks in VB6

Tor-Magne - 27 Oct 2005 8:32 AM - 3 messages

Hi I have problem finding how to converting between week number and date - using functions in vb6. If I have a date how do I find the week number - and if I have the week how do I find the start/end dates? ...

Non-compatibility of a VB6 dll although code unchanged

Kaat - 27 Oct 2005 7:44 AM - 12 messages

Hi I have the following situation: I have a (quite large) VB6 dll which I compile in VStudio. Then, without changing anything, I recompile with binary compatibility set to the dll compiled just before. I get a message about broken compatibility, ...

SQL Parser

Frank Rizzo - 27 Oct 2005 6:52 AM - 3 messages

Is there a implementation somewhere (in VB preferably) of tokenizing an SQL string into constituent pieces? I am not looking for complicated SQL, just relatively simple stuff (select, update, delete, etc...) Thanks. ...

creating text file in vb6

inquirer - 27 Oct 2005 6:08 AM - 6 messages

I am trying to create and open a text file in VB6. I have used the example in the Help: Dim fso As New FileSystemObject, fil As File Set fil = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", True) but whenever I try to run it I get ...

Detect Dependency Software

Ted - 27 Oct 2005 1:41 AM - 4 messages

Any software recommendation that detects dependency ? Thanks ...

Databases

Sharp - 27 Oct 2005 1:17 AM - 7 messages

I've managed to get set up with a data control that lets me view the contents of a database file and step through it manually. I need to be able to have my program do the stepping through the ...

Need to Write to a text file on a different computer from a webpage

LaliberteC - 26 Oct 2005 8:57 PM - 5 messages

Does anyone have any tips on how i would go about doing this i need to create a webpage that will have a submit form that will write to a text file on another computer whose ip address and filename i have access ...

Getting the file length

MikeG0930 - 26 Oct 2005 8:23 PM - 9 messages

Hi everyone! I have the following code: Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim Name As String Dim CalDay As Integer Dim EEP1 As String Dim i As Integer Dim r As Integer Dim c As Integer Adodc1.ConnectionString = "Provider = Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _ ...

XML Escape Sequence routine

Frank Rizzo - 26 Oct 2005 7:03 PM - 6 messages

I have an app that builds an XML file manually (without the XML DOM). I know I could use the XML DOM but it is not an option in this case. Is there a routine somewhere out there that converts XML special ...

Change Debug Starting Directory in Visual Basic IDE

guxu - 26 Oct 2005 6:54 PM - 8 messages

My VB application needs be run in a directory other than my source since it looks for some other dlls in the current directory. I could make the exe and put in the other dir, but it would be hard to debug ...

A Q about OS

Rick - 26 Oct 2005 6:38 PM - 4 messages

In vb6 I created some codewhich depends on the OS(Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, etc. I used the environ Function and the sysinfo.ocx control to get the operating system. It works fine for Windows NT based OS, but it doesn't for Windows 95 nor ...

Copy a Directory to a CD-RW -- Problem

Sam - 26 Oct 2005 5:09 PM - 4 messages

OS=Windows XP Professional, VB6 Enterprise Edition I have tried several examples of code (from this BBS and others) using the API SHFILEOPERATION. On my system, I have the following drives: A, C, D, E, F, and G. Drives F ...

Where to purchase VB 6.0

Sandy - 26 Oct 2005 4:25 PM - 5 messages

Hello - Any suggestions on the best place to get a cheap copy of VB 6.0? If so, should I get Enterprise edition or Professional, etc. and how much should I expect to pay? ...

Is this ETC (Evil Type Coercion) ?

Jack - 26 Oct 2005 3:03 PM - 5 messages

Just one more question: When using GetPrivateProfileInt() API the return value is the integer. Can I cast that value into variable which is declared as Long or Byte? or it will be ETC? :) and I should redo all my variables declarations? ...

Toolbars

James - 26 Oct 2005 2:50 PM - 4 messages

We have multiple customized toolbars for the VB6 IDE. DOes anyone know where they are stored so we can coy them simply to other machines instead of recreating them? ...

VB Code - Increment non-standard number

linda.h.jackson - 26 Oct 2005 1:25 PM - 17 messages

Hi, I need help with VB code to increment a non-standard number field. For example: Pkg_ID=2008.1000 I need to have the first value for Pkg_ID=2008.1000. Then I need the second record for Pkg_ID=2008.1001, third record Pkg_ID=2008.1002, and ...

Create DSN in Runtime

Joe - 26 Oct 2005 10:57 AM - 11 messages

Is it possible to create DSN in runtime. ...

Question on Permissions

Peter Newman - 26 Oct 2005 10:03 AM - 3 messages

vb6 (sp6) & SQl 200 (sp3) im running the following code in order to try and track down a problem oPKG.LoadFromSQLServer ServerName:=sServer, Flags:=DTSSQLStgFlag_UseTrustedConnection, PackageName:=sPackageName I have a simple AxtiveX task which executes ok, however when i ask the ...

string concatenation efficiency

MP - 26 Oct 2005 1:50 AM - 31 messages

Hi, There is always much discussion on the inefficiency of vb string concatenation. The following is adapted from a recent post on this by Mike Williams. I often concatenate strings in multiple locations through a project to build a report string for debugging purposes. ...

Form_MouseDown

Jack - 26 Oct 2005 1:30 AM - 17 messages

Form_MouseDown is not activated when I click on form's edge to resize it. (Form_MouseUp is also not when I release the mouse button) Which event can be used for that? I want to stop screen from flickering when resizing the form. ...

Develop an application which run from a CD

Eduardo - 26 Oct 2005 1:27 AM - 12 messages

Can I develop an application with Visual Basic which run from a CD without the need of installing on the target machine. I want to develop an applicaction which run when the user insert the CD in its computer, without any problems about install the application on the ...

whats an .obj file?

MP - 26 Oct 2005 1:20 AM - 5 messages

Hi Just noticed a whole gob of .obj files magically deposited in one of my working folders a few days ago? Is that trash left over from when i was crashing all over the place due to a bad api declare? ...

Newbie: algorithm - code help

stanto123 - 25 Oct 2005 9:02 PM - 5 messages

Hello, I have the following problem that i am trying to get a "clean" solution *before* my code becomes totally spaghetti. I'll try to describe it: Not giving too many details, i have a set of parameters (temperature, pressure, etc.) and various things associated with them in a tabular ...

Parse bmp to get "average" color?

Doug - 25 Oct 2005 8:14 PM - 8 messages

Anyone know of any algorithms/code snippets that will analyze/parse a bitmap and come back with a color that would best "match" the palette? I found a wallpaper program a long time ago that did that to set the ...

Q: Breaking out of paused code

newsposter - 25 Oct 2005 7:55 PM - 3 messages

I'm working on a video system, where the user clicks a button and it plays video from a video server. The code works perfectly fine, except that I can't quite get the page to stop execution when the user clicks ...

Globalization & numbers & SQL Server

Jon - 25 Oct 2005 6:54 PM - 5 messages

What is the recommended way to handle the following issue? I have a VB 6 app that is being localized. It uses SQL Server 2000 as the backend database. It uses RDO as the data layer protocol, it's an old app! ...

How to return value from ActiveX EXE ?

fniles - 25 Oct 2005 6:35 PM - 13 messages

I have a main program who calls ActiveX EXEs that gets data and send the data to a client program. There could be many concurrent clients requesting different data, so there could be many ActiveX.EXEs running at the same ...

creating activex controll in vb 6.0 - again

_john_ - 25 Oct 2005 5:41 PM - 2 messages

Im trying to create controll that is based on textbox controll that is delivered with vb 6.0. I have been using add-in ActiveX Control Interface Wizard. I have created my custom property and this works fine. But... I'm still missing DataField, Multiline, ...

Active Directory Universal Group Caching

throck25 - 25 Oct 2005 5:19 PM - 2 messages

Is there a way to read the Active Directory local Universal Group Cache using VB 6. I know it can be done with .Net but the clients using the application do not have the framework loaded. Thanks in advance. ...

Configuring Services

Bill Baker - 25 Oct 2005 4:48 PM - 5 messages

I know that NET START can be used to start a service, but are there commands and/or a utility for automating the configuration of services through VB6 (i.e. setting the Startup Type and Log On parameters)? Thanks, ...

shelling to another program,users choice

SteveC - 25 Oct 2005 4:31 PM - 8 messages

On an app I'm finishing up I have "open text editor" on the menu, currently just use windows notepad, Dim Notepad As Variant Notepad = Shell("notepad.exe" ,1), but it hit me that others use different text editors. Is there a way to let the user set their own ...

Structure implementation

musclpete - 25 Oct 2005 2:04 PM - 2 messages

I have a structure called Stitch that has an x,y coordinate, a maincolor mc and a secondary color, sc. I want to render these @ the x,y coordinate. I've already done that without it being in a structure. ...

Outlook Automation

RonnieB - 25 Oct 2005 1:48 PM - 9 messages

I have a VB application which runs continously on a desk top and "looks" in the inbox of the Outlook account and then performs a task depending on the Subject of the E-Mail. If I VNC to that desk to and am "logged" on to that ...

XP Service Packs and Updates effect on VB 6 controls

GY2 - 25 Oct 2005 1:21 PM - 5 messages

I have a problem with a small jpeg image within a Scrollbar & PictureBox 'viewport' setup (as the VB Help file calls it) not being repainted in response to a scrollbar event. I used a machine running XP SP2 to develop ...

debug problem in vb6

Wally McClure (MVP) - 25 Oct 2005 1:10 PM - 6 messages

I am not sure if anyone knows anything about this type of issue or can help, however, I thought I would put this out to both newsgroups and see where it goes. I have a very complicated VB6 application that I have inherited a while ...

Form_load and .top

John - 25 Oct 2005 12:07 PM - 9 messages

I have an aplication that loads on the top of the screen (Me.top = 0). One of my clients runs Naturally speaking which sits up there so the top of my form is hidden even though NS is set to be on top always. If ...

Active-X dll can not be called by Active-X exe when compiled

Kaat - 25 Oct 2005 10:21 AM - 7 messages

I have a standard exe, an activex dll and an activex exe. The standard exe references the dll, as does the activex exe. From the standard exe, I call the activex exe. The activex exe runs fine as standalone. When I call the activex exe (as component) from the standard exe, I get an ...

Connection problems SQL

Tor Inge Rislaa - 25 Oct 2005 7:31 AM - 9 messages

Hi I have developed an application that I have been running against MS SQL Server 2000 for several years with no problems. I have tested it against several servers with success. But on this new server I am testing it on it ...

COMM control refresh

Abdhul Saleem - 25 Oct 2005 7:08 AM - 4 messages

Hi, Is there any way to refresh COMM control without unloading and reloading the form? The code snippet currently used is below. Option Explicit Private Sub Form_Load() 'Debug.Print IsDeviceConnected(1, 0.5) ' Wait up to 0.5 Seconds ...

Common Dialog Control

Joe - 25 Oct 2005 6:57 AM - 4 messages

I am using CommonDialog1 control in my project. In properties i changed the Dialog Title to "Choose Picture". Is it possible to open only JPG or GIF Format files. I tried to edit Filter property to .jpg but i didn't get the result what may be the problem. Can anyone please help ...

Using VB to check IP Address subnet

Luke Bellamy - 25 Oct 2005 4:56 AM - 5 messages

Hi - I'm just looking around for a piece of VB6 code that you can pass in an IP address and check if it's in the subnet range? Thanks mate. --------------- Luke Bellamy Newcastle, Australia ...

Use TextBox Text As Function Name!

Arpan - 25 Oct 2005 2:21 AM - 10 messages

A VB6 Form has 4 OptionButtons - A, B, C & D & a hidden TextBox. When the Form loads for the first time, by default, the 1st OptionButton "A" is checked & the text in the TextBox is "A". Now when another ...

Could not find the answer in VB help document?!

Andrew - 25 Oct 2005 2:17 AM - 5 messages

Hi, friends, I tried to convert a hex value to long using VB6, but I could not find how to do it in VB help library. I found Hex() to convert a long to hex number, but could not find. I tried CLng("C3E") or CLng(C3E), or CLng(0&C3E), etc., ...

Sort currency column in Datagrid

Vanny - 24 Oct 2005 9:10 PM - 3 messages

I have a small application in VB6 connected to MS Access database. I like to sort the column (which the datatype is currency) on the datagrid by doing the headclick. The sort function does not work correctly (e.g. ...

How to get hold of files inside opened WinZip window?

Jack - 24 Oct 2005 9:06 PM - 3 messages

Here is my problem: I created small update.exe file which task is to copy 3 files to some folder on hard disk (overwrite existing files). I created compressed update.zip package which contains update.exe + 3 additional files There is NOT a problem if I unzip first all the files to some folder on hard ...

Which API to use to retrive the current user name?

Jack - 24 Oct 2005 8:32 PM - 10 messages

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Problem ending a socket connection

Martin - 24 Oct 2005 7:50 PM - 5 messages

How can I terminate a winsocket connection (from the client side) such that the server-side will know it without actually shutting down the client-side process? If (on the client-side) I do a Winsock.Close without shutting down the ...

Writing to file - CPU usage

fniles - 24 Oct 2005 6:31 PM - 22 messages

When I use PRINT to write to a file, it takes up CPU. Is there any way to write to a file without using a lot of CPU ? Thanks. Open App.Path & "\Log.txt" For Append As #1 for x = 1 to 100000 ...

Add a Constant/Variable??

Program doesn't when user changed

Software Version

flexgrid height visible rows

creating activex controll in vb 6.0

Byval vs ByRef

GetFileVersionInfoSize API

Tabbed Control.

Can someone get me started on system messaging

Outlook Automation Problem

How to change the value of Boolean variable?

VB Variable Tools

Reg Sheduling tasks

Errors

CryptAPI

String with Single quote