Code Newsgroups: Visual Basic General Discussion

Question about rects

John Stulle - 17 Nov 2007 7:09 PM - 3 messages

Hi. I have a question which is driving me insane. I am not sure if I do this correctly: 1. I have a usercontrol (scalemode = pixel). 2. I get the rect by GetClientRect(usercontrol.hwnd,rWork) 3. Now I want to let this rect have 2 "cells", one on the left side of ...

get external (public) IP address

Cemal - 17 Nov 2007 3:40 PM - 16 messages

Hi guys I need to get the external ip address of company machines that is through out the nation. this became problem for me because most machines are behind professional firewall. when I do ; reqest.servervariable("rmt_addr) I get the public ip address if ...

Multi line tool tips...

Nigel V Thomas - 17 Nov 2007 10:47 AM - 16 messages

I've been avoiding this for a while now but it's finally become a serious requirement in my app. Can anyone recommend a source, source code, component even, to allow me to do this. Target systems sare Xp/2000/Vista ...

Accessing DB through VB

SabaUdi - 17 Nov 2007 10:03 AM - 5 messages

Hello, Im trying to access DB through VB and i found on help topics that i need OLDB object/ DataBase Object and so. How do I add these components into my workspace? I don't think they exist in my project. ...

Training/Projects on SAS For Life Sciences at Global Institute of Biotechnology

Global Institute of Biotechnology - 17 Nov 2007 9:31 AM - 1 message

SAS FOR LIFE SCIENCES SAS (statistical analysis systems) is business intelligence software used for data analysis by more than 40,000 customers worldwide. SAS provides many solutions for life sciences including: * Optimization of the flow of Scientific Data ...

Insert smaller images into a bitmap

Brian - 17 Nov 2007 4:05 AM - 2 messages

I have a windows forms project done in vb.net. One of the forms creates graphs based on the data supplied to it. I want to take multiple graphs and paste them into a larger Image object. I already ...

Problem with mouse scroll up

RB Smissaert - 16 Nov 2007 10:24 PM - 1 message

Have an ActiveX dll with a form with a multi-line textbox and have sub-classed this textbox to do a scroll up and down with the middle mouse. Scrolling down is fine, but on some machines/some mouses the scroll up is somewhat problematic in that if you do it fast it ...

XP vs Vista Component Height

Lorin - 16 Nov 2007 9:32 PM - 3 messages

VB6SP6 I have an app that I am moving to Vista. Seems OK except for component heights. On a resizable form I have from top to bottom Form's Caption Bar Form Menu Picturebox ...

ADODB Guids

cfps.Christian - 16 Nov 2007 7:26 PM - 8 messages

I'm creating a program that uses the GUID as found in the database to determine what information to display on the page. I pass in the guid though the url and then I was going to use it to query the database. ...

Comments disappear from appSettings after Save()

Antonio Ooi - 16 Nov 2007 6:01 PM - 13 messages

Hi, I have the following appSettings in my app.config file: <appSettings>  <add key="MyKey1" value="1"/>  ...

MSComm and USB to RS485 Converters (head hurting now, must have martini)

EdV - 16 Nov 2007 3:00 PM - 3 messages

I am having some weirdness and was wondering if any of the readers of this group are experiencing the something similar. I was using a Quatech QSU200/300 which worked great but then upgraded to their ESU series which do not work with my in house application. ...

how do I move the mouse programmatically in VB

Flavio Bortolan - 16 Nov 2007 1:51 PM - 3 messages

Hallo everybody! How do I move the mouse pointer programmatically in VB5.0? Thanks! ...

how do I move the mouse programmatically in VB

Flavio Bortolan - 16 Nov 2007 1:43 PM - 1 message

Hallo everybody, I need to move the mouse pointer position programmatically in VB5.0 does anybody knows how to do it? Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!! Flavio Bortolan ...

OT: Math problem

John Stulle - 16 Nov 2007 1:05 PM - 4 messages

Hello, I have a grid like data array which starts at Index 0 and ends at end 14. 0,1,2,3,4 5,6,7,8,9 10,11,12,13,14 Can I ask how you can savely determine the row and column for a given ...

Run-time error '-2147221504 (80040000)

Claudia Fong - 16 Nov 2007 11:59 AM - 3 messages

I tried to run a vb application in debug mode and i got this Run-time error '-2147221504 (80040000) it seems that has to do with a multilanguage dll file that needs to be register which I did, but it still didn't fix the error. ...

Trouble moving or resizing objects

redseal - 16 Nov 2007 5:39 AM - 3 messages

I am using VB6 Pro SP6 on Vista Home Prem. My problem is after I put an object on a form I cant move it or resize it unless I change the Left, Top, Height, or Width in the Properties pane. There must be a simple solution but ...

Form Minimize, restore, maximize, close buttons

Pop` - 16 Nov 2007 12:03 AM - 43 messages

Hi, I don't know if I have a "Problem" or just a "problem", but I have a form that's missing the Minimize and Maximize buttons up in the top right corner, next to the "X" to close it. ...

How to send a WOL Magic Packet?

Martin - 15 Nov 2007 10:57 PM - 8 messages

I want to write a little app that will send out the special "magic packet" to start up a computer on my LAN. I've downloaded a couple of free apps that do this but they're rather simplistic (eg: they don't save the needed info from one use to the ...

IE browser: how to refresh it?

Jack - 15 Nov 2007 9:43 PM - 21 messages

Hello, I am looking for the method how to programmatically refresh all opened IE windows. Is that possible? Jack ...

App invisible at run time

elena - 15 Nov 2007 7:12 PM - 4 messages

Hi, All I need develop utility app, which will run invisible in .NET 2003 or .NET 2005. It was in VB 6.0, where application runs w/o interface. When i choose Windows App or Console it still display some interface for a ...

Objects & Binding

Lorin - 15 Nov 2007 6:53 PM - 2 messages

VB6SP6 I have code that I wrote that, among other things, opens Excel and Word. Works OK when Excel and Word are installed on the PC. I write data to cells, etc. However, when installed on a PC without one or the other I obviously get an ...

Question in exe size..RESOLVED

David - 15 Nov 2007 3:42 PM - 5 messages

Hello all Some of you may rememeber my question on exe size, viz, I was getting a 26mb exe after compile on 3 other computers, but on my new Duel Core Quad box, the exe size leapt to 96mb. Well, after much stuffing around, I ...

How to clear only bitmap on the clipboard

Dhananjay - 15 Nov 2007 1:38 PM - 2 messages

Hi All, How to clear only bitmap from the clipboard? Lets say I have one image & some text on my clipboard. I set one picture on the clipboard using setdata & format = VBCFBitmap. Now how can I clear only bitmap value? ...

Concept of God in Islam

abdo911 - 15 Nov 2007 10:48 AM - 21 messages

WAMY Series: On Islam No.9.Introduction God's Attributes The Oneness of God The Believer's Attitude Introduction It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not ...

open db question

Claudia Fong - 15 Nov 2007 10:02 AM - 5 messages

Can someone tell me the diferrence between those two? The second one does not need a sql command and it only open "ShowActivies"; is it a store procedure? strSQL = "Select Description, ActivityId from Activity where ActivityName = '" + cmbActivities.Text + "'" With rst ...

FileCopy vs. Read & Write or CopyFile API

Peter KarlstrÃ¶m - 15 Nov 2007 7:50 AM - 8 messages

Hi We have tried creating an automatic update function in one of our COM Addins for Word. We want to update data in a database and copy Word doc-files which we specify in the database. The files are located on a network share and the permissions are ...

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6 Setup was not completed successfu

JerryCic - 15 Nov 2007 1:28 AM - 3 messages

I've been trying to upgrade for at least a year now. I have Vista ultimate now. And still have the same problem. Both on my XP Pro machine and my Vista Machine, I get an error upon exiting vb6. ...

summing quantities

spowel4 - 14 Nov 2007 10:31 PM - 7 messages

abcd,10 abcd,11 efgh,7 ijkl,8 ijkl,14 Using the above comma delimited file as an example, how can I add up the quantities of each item. So if field 1 is an item and field 2 is a quantity of the item, I need ...

Generic SendInput samples?

Karl E. Peterson - 14 Nov 2007 9:23 PM - 46 messages

Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB) wrote: Understatement of the millenium, there! :-) Hey, I'm cobbling together a little utility here, and thought I'd use it as an excuse to come up to speed with SendInput. What I can't really seem to find are any ...

Does it make a diff if dims are in an If..then?

Blackberry - 13 Nov 2007 10:08 PM - 1 message

Hi All I've used a bit of code for a while where I do the following: Private Sub lsImports_ItemClick(ByVal Item As MSComctlLib.ListItem) lsvImport.ListItems.Clear If lsvImports.ListItems.Count > 0 Then Dim oXML As DOMDocument, oPupilLst As IXMLDOMNodeList, oPupil As ...

Automatically fix indentation throughout my code

Christian Blackburn - 13 Nov 2007 6:50 PM - 28 messages

Hi Gang, I have a program I wrote a long time ago and it must have had the indent set to 2, which I've long since learned isn't clear enough. Is there a way to have it crawl through each module in my project and ...

printing contents of an array into a message box

Alex_Rodriguez - 12 Nov 2007 11:48 PM - 3 messages

Hi, Currently, I am working through some basic examples given on this website: [link] When I tried the first example in Excel VBA Basic Tutorial 3, ie: Option Base 1 ...