Code Newsgroups: Visual Basic General Discussion

Connecting to SQL Server 2005

John Baima - 3 Dec 2005 11:52 PM - 2 messages

It is possible to have both SS2000 and SS2005 running on your machine at the same time. However, I'm not sure how to specify which server to use when I make a connection. How is it done?? -John ...

.Font.Size is that string or long?

Jack - 3 Dec 2005 9:13 PM - 5 messages

When referring to the control, for example textbox is txtBox.Font.Size a string or long (numeric)? ...

Popping down a ComboBox with code

MAB - 3 Dec 2005 6:05 PM - 2 messages

This there a way to tell (with code) a ComboBox to pop down? ...

What is value of these contants?

Jack - 3 Dec 2005 6:04 PM - 4 messages

cdlCFScreenFonts and cdlCFPrinterFonts Where I can find the full list of all constants? Thanks, Jack ...

DTpicker control question

Robertico - 3 Dec 2005 4:57 PM - 8 messages

I have an application with a DTpicker control displaying hours and minutes. When the control gets the focus (using Tab key), the digits for the hours are selected. When a user hits the Tab key again, another control gets the focus. ...

Multidemsina Array

Peter Newman - 3 Dec 2005 4:50 PM - 4 messages

Im reading an XML file and would like to put the data from the elemanys into a an array .. can anybody show me how to do this .. and to recover the data from the array thanks Set oBaseNodes = ...

Search using regular expressions

Robertico - 3 Dec 2005 10:07 AM - 9 messages

I'd like to use regular expressions to search within files. But what's the most efficient way ? I can read small files at once into a string variable, but what about large files ? Read them in chunks ? But what if my 'hit' is at the chunk border ? ...

How to access Windows font selection?

Jack - 3 Dec 2005 5:37 AM - 4 messages

What API can I use to be able to open Windows Font window and select Font, Size and Style? I know I can individually select that in vbasic, but I would like to have just one window showing all available font options. ...

Odd VB6 Crash

John Baima - 2 Dec 2005 11:51 PM - 9 messages

I've used VB6 a lot over the last couple of years and I am getting something really odd. I have a simple program that has gets a small amount of data from a SQL Server with very simple SQL. It seems like ...

UDP Chat in Terminal Server + Client-Server

ShaneO - 2 Dec 2005 10:08 PM - 3 messages

I am trying to create a UDP Peer-to-Peer Chat application for use in a local area network that contains both Client-Server (CS)users and Terminal Server (TS) users in a Windows 2003 Server environment. The CS computers are working perfectly, and will even communicate ...

Can I set a checkbox at runtime???

Dan - 2 Dec 2005 8:39 PM - 5 messages

Does anyone know if it's possible to set a checkbox at runtime? I keep getting a runtime error 380 (Invalid Property Value) when I try to set it. I have a simple form that's loaded but hidden, and in the code in a menubar ...

label as hyperlink

arno - 2 Dec 2005 7:16 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I feel daft asking this, but how do you make a label in a Form display and behave as a hyperlink? I simply cannot find how to. tia, arno ...

mouse goes houglass in form

Dave Cullen - 2 Dec 2005 4:28 PM - 3 messages

Is it normal for the mouse pointer to change to an hourglass when a modal form is displayed? Mine does... Dim DlgInkjetSelect As New frmMarkingSelect DlgInkjetSelect.Show vbModal, Me The form comes up and I'm able to click on its contols (option buttons ...

SQL Server Connection

Alastair MacFarlane - 2 Dec 2005 3:27 PM - 5 messages

Dear All, In the function below which is called below, I would presume that since I set the ActiveConnection to Nothing and closed the database that there would be no active connections for my application in my SQL Server Database ...

LostFocus - refresh

Simon Woods - 2 Dec 2005 3:14 PM - 2 messages

Hi I've a grid control on a tabstrip. I'm using the _lostfocus event on the grid control so that if someone presses one of the tabs, the grid_lostfocus will fire and I can check for changes to the grid and save them before ...

Question on colors

Dan - 2 Dec 2005 2:50 PM - 6 messages

Hi - Does anyone know if it's possible to have more colors when setting the background than the limited palette of 48 colors? Thanks a lot for any ideas! Dan ...

Is "XP" version of VB6 runtime likely to screw my Windows 98SE?

MM - 2 Dec 2005 2:38 PM - 3 messages

I noticed that a setup file for a product I recently evaluated included the runtime that is later than VB6 service pack 5. I assume it is from SP 6, which may or may not be equivalent to that issued ...

CTRL + ALT + char in textbox only

Louis Fielding - 2 Dec 2005 2:29 PM - 2 messages

Whats the best way of emulating a "CTRL + ALT + (char)" kind of behaviour in a textbox? An example is the shortcut key textbox on a shortcuts properties window. Regards Louis ...

CreateObject Error 91 Object variable or With block variable not set

Matt Connor - 2 Dec 2005 11:02 AM - 6 messages

Hi I have some code which uses CreateObject e.g. Dim XLApp As Object Set XLApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application") MsgBox XLApp.Version On most PCs this works fine but we have 2 new (Win XP) PCs where this ...

Random Numbers

Joe - 2 Dec 2005 9:52 AM - 5 messages

How do i generate random numbers. I got tickets with ticket number from 1 to 5000 and if i want to get 50 numbers randomly from the tickets then what should i do. Advanced thanks for those who are giving me the solution. ...

How to get the default gateway?

Frank Rizzo - 2 Dec 2005 7:27 AM - 2 messages

How do I get the IP address for the default gateway? Thanks. ...

Closed vb6 app but process still running?

lushdog - 2 Dec 2005 4:43 AM - 8 messages

Hi, last n00b question for you all. I have exported my .exe and everything runs great. After I close it though i still see the .exe running in the processes window. If i open and close the .exe 4 times there will be 4 of the .exe ...

command line for vb6 ide

jack - 2 Dec 2005 4:33 AM - 5 messages

Hi all is it possible to get vb6 from typeing come command in command line (run) dialog box from If any one know anything about this please help me Ihis would be g great help Thanks for replying ...

VB6 no printing on form and statusbar

Anil Bhattacharji - 2 Dec 2005 2:42 AM - 15 messages

Hi , In my app. The splash screen comes up fine the tips form comes up fine. In the App where I catch keystrokes and print them on the form . The printing does not take place even though the keystrokes are being trapped . ...

My Documents folder

Anil Bhattacharji - 2 Dec 2005 2:37 AM - 4 messages

I want my app to open files in the "My documents" folder. I just want to make sure that it will do that even if the folder is renamed . Is this possible? Anil ...

GDI PLUS ERRORS

RMS001 - 2 Dec 2005 1:58 AM - 2 messages

Hi - Does anyone know where a list of the error codes returned by GDI+ can by found. MSDN does not have any info (that I can discern). Thanks. ...

Changing working directory in vb6?

lushdog - 2 Dec 2005 1:42 AM - 4 messages

I recently made a small app in the vb98 directory of Visual Studio. I then moves the files out to another folder. The problem is the program is looking for its .txt files in the vb98 directory, not in its new directory. ...

trying to type

Harry - 1 Dec 2005 7:33 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I am having a wierd issue when trying to type VB code. Sometimes as soon as I type a letter () appears and I am unable to delete the line unless I highlight the whole line and hit delete. If I close the window and reopen the code window, I can type as normal but ...

WebBrowser Focus?

Arpan - 1 Dec 2005 7:27 PM - 3 messages

I am using the WebBrowser control in a VB6 application. Now suppose I navigate to a website & start typing some text in a TextArea. While typing, I go to some other application & then come back to the browser. ...

Import Address Book?

Arpan - 1 Dec 2005 7:22 PM - 8 messages

I am using the WebBrowser control in a VB6 application. I did like to import all addresses existing in Outlook Express' Address Book & populate them in a ListBox or ListView. Can this be done? If yes, how? Thanks, Arpan ...

Masked Edit Bug?

The Merg - 1 Dec 2005 7:01 PM - 2 messages

I seem to be having an issue with Masked Edit controls on a form in VB6. The controls are connected to an Access 2000 DB via DAO. When I make a change in a record and move to another record, data entered into the Masked Edits is ...

Search for string in an Excel workbook

James Houston - 1 Dec 2005 5:10 PM - 3 messages

Hope I'm posting to the right group for this, if not please let me know. What I want to do is search an Excel 97 workbook for a string and display information from several adjacent cells if the string is found, and let the ...

Printers collection not updating

Jeff Henry - 1 Dec 2005 4:51 PM - 2 messages

I have a VB6 app that loads a combo box with a list of Printers on the local computer: cboPrinters.Clear For i = 0 To Printers.Count - 1 cboPrinters.AddItem Printers(i).DeviceName ...

GROUPING IN DATAREPORT

KRISH - 1 Dec 2005 8:12 AM - 2 messages

Hi!, Anyone help me how to design a Data Report with 6 to 7 levels of Grouping. I managed upto 2 levels.... but unable to go further. . Please help.... thanks..... in advance........ KRISH ...

Popupmenu in modal form

John - 1 Dec 2005 7:35 AM - 10 messages

Hi, Is it possible to get a popupmenu in a modal form? John ...

No FileSystemObject

lushdog - 1 Dec 2005 7:02 AM - 8 messages

Hi, when i use this in my code: "Dim fso As New FileSystemObject" I get this error: "User defined-type not defined" Do i have to do something to my set-up to allow the use of this object? TIA, ...

How to save Import Specification in MS Access to be used with TransferText in VB?

shveta - 1 Dec 2005 6:57 AM - 3 messages

Hi all , I am very new to VB and would like to have your expert comments on how can we save import specification for some text file to be imported in MS access through TransferText function in VB.Actually , I have with me ...

Clear a text file?

lushdog - 1 Dec 2005 6:40 AM - 4 messages

Hi, just was wondering what would be the best way to open a .txt file to clear out all the data. I guess deleting and remaking the file is an option too. TIA, lushdog ...

Populate Address Book In Form?

Arpan - 1 Dec 2005 6:10 AM - 2 messages

How do I populate the addresses existing in the Address Book in a VB6 Form? Arpan ...

How can I Debug in VB an EXE called externally

toyotastarlet - 1 Dec 2005 3:10 AM - 5 messages

Hi. I have a .EXE file that I created in VB. This .EXE file is called from some code in Excel by using a Shell command. After running the shell command, it interacts with the EXE using the ID returned from the Shell command. ...

How to rename VB Projects

Andibevan - 30 Nov 2005 11:27 PM - 6 messages

Sorry for asking such an easy question but is there any easy way to rename a vb project (VB 6) that has numerous forms and modules? Ta Andi ...

FTP from VB6 dll to site w/ subdirectory

Barb - 30 Nov 2005 10:21 PM - 4 messages

I need to programmatically FTP a txt file from my server to an FTP site, into a specific directory on the FTP site. I've got code that will FTP stuff, but I don't know how to specify the subdirectory so that it ends up in the right ...

Need to write a SELECT statement where the WHERE clause is an arbitrary list?

Charles Krug - 30 Nov 2005 9:51 PM - 6 messages

I need to write a SELECT statement (DAO v3.5, iirc) where the WHERE clause is an arbitrary list of strings. What's the best way to do this? My immediate thought is to brute force it by concatenating a whole heap ...

Mapped Drive VB 6

Dib - 30 Nov 2005 8:48 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I need help to figure out if a Mapped drive is available. or accessible My program is in VB 6. The reason is my program is creating a PDF document when the user print out a document. The PDF is stored on a Mapped Drive "T:" most of the time the ...

Handwriting

abs81 - 30 Nov 2005 7:50 PM - 8 messages

Hi guys, I have developed an application in VB6 and now i want to add handwriting capabilities to it that is to say i want to use a stylus pen and write stuff on vb form save it and display it back in the same form later. ...

Processor-intensive VB-App randomly locks up in XP but not Win2k

John - 30 Nov 2005 7:31 PM - 2 messages

I'm not sure if this is an issue with Visual Basic, Windows, or my hardware. I have a very simple but very processor-intensive data mining application that I wrote in Visual Basic on a Windows 2000 machine. When I run it on the Windows 2000 machine (or another Windows ...

DAO Event Issues...

The Merg - 30 Nov 2005 7:14 PM - 7 messages

I am using VB6 connected to a MS Access database. 1.) When clicking on the arrows on a DAO control to move to a previous, next, first, or, last record, how do you cancel that action? As soon as you ...

physical memory dump

Robertico - 30 Nov 2005 6:50 PM - 8 messages

Is it possible to create a VB application that can make a physical memory dump. Regards, Robertico ...

Get users in network

vonclausowitz - 30 Nov 2005 6:49 PM - 3 messages

Hi All, I have found some code in the groups that will check our network to see which users are online. The only problem with the code is that it returns the name of the machine instead of the name of the person who is logged on. ...

XLM to Pipe Delimited in VB?

mniccole - 30 Nov 2005 6:17 PM - 3 messages

Does anyone know how I can import a xml file & export into a Pipe Delimited or .tab file in VB? Having a hard time finding any documentation on this... any help is greatly appreciated...... thanks... mniccole jacksonville beach, fl -- mniccole ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via [link] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...

Has MS done a complete purge of VB 'Classic' Articles?

Ralph - 30 Nov 2005 5:49 PM - 14 messages

Is it just me, or has MSDN recently done a complete purge of all VB 'Classic' downloads and Articles. I have been having trouble finding 'older' stuff over the last couple of months, but usually one could ferret it out in the 'Archives'. Today I ...

For the Programmers By the Programmers Of the Programmers !!

francis.milton - 30 Nov 2005 5:12 PM - 6 messages

Hi Everybody, Here is an interesting DISCUSSION GROUP exclusive for programmers ... (PROGRAMMERSDESK). Find people and start your discussion... URL : [link] Email : programmersd***@googlegroups.com ...

ascii code for special characters

Marc - 30 Nov 2005 3:46 PM - 11 messages

I'm trying to retrieve the Ascii code of some characters using the "Asc" function. When I try to do it for some spanish characters (special chars) like Ñ I should get a value of 165 but I get 209. ...

bit operations

Marc - 30 Nov 2005 3:43 PM - 3 messages

How can I perform bit operations in VB6? In VC++ I could move bits to right or left from an integer value using "<<" and ">>" operators. Is it possible to do it in VB6? Thansk in advance, ...

Send attachment wiht vb6

zureoone - 30 Nov 2005 2:06 PM - 3 messages

Hi I want to know if exists a way to send a mail withouth using the Mapi controls or Outlook reference, I want to do the same action when user right click a file "SendTo mail" in the desktop. Also i want to know the way to put a attachment in then "shelexecute mailto ...

code analyzer

Ben - 30 Nov 2005 1:42 PM - 8 messages

Hi all, I was wondering if there's a free or low cost add-in for VB6, such that I would analyze spit out a call stack for all of my procedure calls. When I write I frequently break code into a list of sub routines and sometime I lost ...

Visual Basic to PDF

amitavabardhan - 30 Nov 2005 11:56 AM - 5 messages

I need to display information from visual basic but the documents that I create should be read only, that is, information will be available to the users but they cannot modify them. I think creating a pdf document from inside visual basic will solve the ...

function to get Minimum value

smart.bug - 30 Nov 2005 10:47 AM - 3 messages

hi guys can anyone plz tell me abt any function available in VB 6.0 which is equivalent to __min(int a, int b) function in VC ..... __min fuctions returns the minimum of 2 parameters. thnx ...

How to read a Tab Delimited text file in to a Flexgrid without using .Clip Method

Cmaz - 30 Nov 2005 6:38 AM - 5 messages

How to read a Tab Delimited text file in to a Flexgrid without using ..Clip Method ...

How to repeat the mouse behavior?

Boki - 30 Nov 2005 5:42 AM - 5 messages

Hi All, I want to repeat the mouse behavior from user. I have an application ( Bluetooth ), I can drag files (Mp3/jpg/...) to the bluetooth icon, and then choice the target device, finally, the applicatoin ...

Labels as arrays

snick - 30 Nov 2005 5:41 AM - 8 messages

In VB6 I was able to utilize labels as arrays; this was very useful for my students when we created some simple games. However, I have not been able to create arrays using labels with VB.NET; does anyone know how to do this? ...

Valentina 2 Windows Foundation Database Suite Announced

Lynn - 30 Nov 2005 1:34 AM - 2 messages

Valentina 2 Windows Foundation Database Suite Announced COMPLETE TOOLS FOR DEVELOPMENT USING ALL MAJOR WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS November 30, 2005. Beaverton, Oregon. Leading multi-platform database vendor Paradigma Software, Inc, makers of the ultra-fast Valentina 2 Office Server, announce next-generation suite of components and a ...

Using office spell check from VB

David De Bono - 29 Nov 2005 10:49 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I'm using VB 6 with the Word object: Dim oWord As Word.Application Dim oDoc As Word.Document Dim oDic As Word.Dictionary Dim oSuggestions As SpellingSuggestions ...

FTP upload progress

nsajus - 29 Nov 2005 10:07 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I have a VB6 application which creates a FILE, FTP's the file and then archives the file. I want to track the bytes(file size) transferred during FTP progress. Since I was not able to track the upload progress using Inet and ...

Load Picture from MS Access to VB6

The Merg - 29 Nov 2005 10:02 PM - 7 messages

I have an app in VB6 that is connected to a MS Access 2000 database. I am connecting to the database with DAO. I have a field in one of my tables that contains pictures in possibly JPG, GIF or BMP format (usually JPG though). I ...

Adding an icon to a dll

Harry Strybos - 29 Nov 2005 9:49 PM - 4 messages

Hi All Can someone me how to add an icon to a dll. Thak is to say, when I build a dll, how do I get it to use a different icon in the build options? Can't seem to find any info on the web ...

FTP Upload progress, vb6

nsajus - 29 Nov 2005 9:13 PM - 6 messages

Hi, Is there a way to find the size of data file uploaded in vb6. I used the following without any luck. 1. Inet Control .Execute , "SIZE TestOutput.txt" where TestOutput.txt is the file in the remote FTP directory. I can get the size using ...

need proof???

joe mamma - 29 Nov 2005 8:01 PM - 151 messages

Need proof that VB6 and the flex grids are total pieces of dung and should not be be used for production applications???? 1. Create new Standard Exe project. 2. right click form1 and select Menu Editor 3. add menu item - ...

Update with NULL

vul - 29 Nov 2005 6:55 PM - 8 messages

I'm using ADODB.Command object to update SQL Server table from VB6 app. I need to update one of the fields with NULL if Text in the TextBox associated with that field is empty. I tried to use CommandText for Command: ...

How to reference a form's controls from a class module?

Carl Imthurn - 29 Nov 2005 4:54 PM - 4 messages

What am I missing about referencing a form control's methods and properties from a class? Here is the relevant code: ' in the General Declarations section of my form: Option Explicit Private ReportInfo As clsReportInfo ' the Load event of my form (edited for relevance): ...

Copymemory Byte array

Simon Woods - 29 Nov 2005 3:43 PM - 11 messages

Hi I've a byte array dim'ed 0 to 33 and it's populated with stuff up to element 31. I want to copy elements 0-31 into a string variable. What's the copy memory call to do this? ...

Why is that error?

Jack - 29 Nov 2005 3:43 PM - 12 messages

Me.Width = CLng(lname) or Me.Width = CInt(lname) causes Mismatch error!!! Me is the current form lname is declared as a string and contains saved Me.Width value. What is wrong with that? ...

Time out problem

PhilPeak - 29 Nov 2005 2:51 PM - 4 messages

VB Application performs a large number of queries to an SQL server in all the process takes around 6 hours to complete. Why should the CPU show only 4% activity for this process. Regards Phil ...

stuck in stream.read plz help..

mulham.haffar - 29 Nov 2005 2:37 PM - 2 messages

hi guys.. im writing an application that uses windows service to listen (as a tcplistener) for any data sent (by a tcpclient) ... one kind of the requests might be a file sent by client and the service should recieve it as number of packets. ...

Help needed on XML problem

Peter Newman - 29 Nov 2005 2:29 PM - 2 messages

Im running VB6 SP6. I am trying with limited sucess to read an xml report. I have managed to work my way through it and assign the values i need to variables, hovever i am stuck on one last bit. i can get the error reason but ...

Refresh and Unique Number

Anver - 29 Nov 2005 12:34 PM - 3 messages

Dear, I have created a small data project in VB/Access2003, which is having - 8 command box and 6 fields, my problem is that, when I update the data, the cells are not refreshing, and the second problem is one of the field(Product ...

how wud i break while loop on some condition

smart.bug - 29 Nov 2005 12:06 PM - 6 messages

guys i have a inifint while loop i.e. while 1 'statements 'statements 'statements end while if i want to break this loop on some condition ... how wud i do that... ...

CRC

jack - 29 Nov 2005 11:32 AM - 6 messages

Hi i have hear about CRC but dont know what is it Could you please help me in this Thanks for replying ...

QUERY: auto clean VB editor

KevinGPO - 29 Nov 2005 10:58 AM - 2 messages

Is there any way to auto clean indent the VB code? If not, anyone know an additional 3rd party program to do so? Such cleaning eg. removing trailing whitespace, formating/correct indentation, etc. ...

How to check what is left

Katie - 29 Nov 2005 8:26 AM - 2 messages

i run my application in debugging mode. when i close the application, the application is not fully stopped even all forms is unload... is there any thing like recordset or unshown form i haven't closed. But indeed i have include all form to unload when i close the main form and each ...

How to connect vb2005 express and SqlServer Express through a network

saroxonline76 - 29 Nov 2005 8:11 AM - 3 messages

Dear all, I installed Visual Basic 2005 Express and SqlServer Express. I tried some features of both of them but I'm not able to connect a databse through a network. To explain, I have two computer in the same work group. In one of them ...

Need a help from you on VB6 programing!!!

Ramn - 29 Nov 2005 8:06 AM - 7 messages

Hi all, I am new to this group and VB6 as well. I have a small doubt in the coding part. I am using VB6 with mysql 3.23.54 database. I need to pass a string value (eg. c:\pictures\logo.gif) to the corresponding ...

How to connect VB with Access

sheetalsuri11 - 29 Nov 2005 7:32 AM - 2 messages

Here i m enclosing my code which i have used for connection this is basically for DAO (Data Controler) connectivity but in case of recordsource this gives an error like unrecogonized database Private Sub Form_Load() Set con1 = New Connection Set cmd1 = New Command ...

Read specific word in a text file

Gol Yass - 29 Nov 2005 4:56 AM - 2 messages

Dear All I need to read some words from a file. These words are in many places in a file but marked between certain characters like <word1,word2 > . Could you please tell me how to look for these specific words in a file? ...

OCX overhead

Kevin Provance - 29 Nov 2005 12:47 AM - 4 messages

I read via MSDN when a project uses an OCX, there is a bit of overhead involved in terms of resources. What I could not find out is the amount of overhead used with multiple controls. Which would use more overhead: An OCX with two controls, or using two ...

Windows Taskbar interfering with MDI Form

nah - 28 Nov 2005 11:16 PM - 3 messages

Hello, I have an MDI project where an MDIForm is loaded (with the WindowState Property set to Maximized) and the user is prompted to open a data file. A Child form is then opened and resized to fill the entire area of the MDIForm, ...

What object do I use to query a Server disk space details?

Chris Asaipillai - 28 Nov 2005 10:53 PM - 2 messages

I want to write a function that will query a Server and output the following details: Total Space: Free Space Used Space (All in Megabytes) What object would I need to use to do this? ...

Reading just one field of a comma separated line

Saucer Man - 28 Nov 2005 10:12 PM - 30 messages

I have a .txt file containing many lines. Each line has many fields, comma separated. How do I read in just the first field into a variable? I was doing a line input and working with the whole line but I really want just that first ...

Export Information from Word to Excel

jamesftoland - 28 Nov 2005 8:55 PM - 2 messages

Hi, Although there seems to be plenty of ways to move data from Excel to a Word doc, I need a script that would move some selected field information from a Word doc to an Excel spreadsheet (notably, 4 or 5 ...

TransparentBlt - 16bpp bitmaps

Kasia Muniak - 28 Nov 2005 6:25 PM - 3 messages

Hi, It's my problem with TransparentBlt function. From M$ documentation: ---------------------------------------- Requirements Windows NT/2000/XP: Included in Windows 2000 and later. Windows 95/98/Me: Included in Windows 98 and later. and The TransparentBlt function supports all formats of source bitmaps. ...

Put UDT's into classes

Galen Somerville - 28 Nov 2005 6:14 PM - 11 messages

I'm contemplating putting my bas module UDT's into a class module. Did a lot of research but very confusing. I need some guidance here. A typical UDT Type stcParam PgmName As String * 28 PgmNum As String * 3 ...

Launch an outside application

JustLearning - 28 Nov 2005 6:10 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I want to have VB6 launch an outside application. I don't need to have it return anything, just launch it. What would the syntax be, please? My attempts have been along the lines of: system.execute anotherapp.pl ...

small vb app to restart pc

Ben - 28 Nov 2005 3:49 PM - 8 messages

Hi all, I have a list of users that do not have local admin rights. But a lot of times they work from home. Frequently they need to reboot the PC because it becomes sluggish. But when they remote into their machine, they don't have ...

Path only from CommonDialog

The Merg - 28 Nov 2005 2:24 PM - 15 messages

Does anyone know of a simple way to get the path without the filename from the return of a common dialog control. In my app, I want the user to select the path where data is stored. I can easily use the common dialog to allow ...

2 Lines ToolTip?

Arpan - 28 Nov 2005 8:24 AM - 2 messages

Most of the controls in my VB6 application renders a tooltip when the mouse is moved over the controls but some of the tooltips are too long; so I did like to break it into 2 lines. I tried using vbCr, vbCrLf, ...

animation Effects

jack - 28 Nov 2005 7:04 AM - 6 messages

Hi all ,, just curious for about the animation effect about vb As i was playing card game i have noticed the animation of the game .. I have tryed a lot to create an smoot animation effect like this one ...

animation Effects

jack - 28 Nov 2005 7:03 AM - 2 messages

Hi all ,, just curious for about the animation effect about vb As i was playing card game i have noticed the animation of the game .. I have tryed a lot to create an smoot animation effect like this one ...

Need help with replacing multiple strings of code

Jack - 28 Nov 2005 12:08 AM - 3 messages

I have this problem. I am redoing my code and I came to the point that I need to replace line: TapiRep = TapiRep & vbCrLf & "Command_formload " & CommandTail with Call SendData("Command_formload " & CommandTail) Of course the part after TapiRep & vbCrLf & is not the same. Each line I ...

grab selected text in other app

arno - 27 Nov 2005 11:17 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I have a 3rd party application in which I have highlighted some text. In the app itself, it is not possible to determine which portion of the text is highlighted (for example like in MS Word, where you have a ...

Restore Buttons

Andibevan - 27 Nov 2005 11:05 PM - 5 messages

I have got a version control tool installed that works with the VB editor. Problem is I managed to delete one of the buttons when trying to copy it to a toolbar. How do I go about getting the button back as it doesn't appear ...

Using a form as a variable

VB6 crashes on add component

Can't Bring Label to the Front

How to get VB to use MSDN?

Crystal Reports

SHFileOperation return value

newbie help

Open vs FSO vs API

bitmap array to picturebox without saving first

How to write data to an existing file on a certain offset

What Should I be using - ADO, DAO, SQL, etc.?????

Can I show a label on a movie while in full-screen mode?

Overflow error