Home All Groups Group Topic Archive Search About

Visual Basic General Discussion

microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
Score Form is truncated.....
John Morley - 29 Nov 2007 9:46 PM - 1 message
Hi All, A user is reporting that a form in my VB6 application is truncated at the bottom when it is displayed. Approximately the lower 1/3 of the form is not visible. I don't know what is causing this behavior, but it has ...
Score How to copy only the contents of a picturebox?
DORI - 29 Nov 2007 7:25 PM - 6 messages
Dear All, I am copying the contents of a picturebox in bitmap format to the hard drive. It is working great but sometimes the users open other forms or toolboxes which may be on top of the picturebox and when they save the ...
Score calling a window service function?
someone - 29 Nov 2007 7:24 PM - 6 messages
Hi, is it possible to call a window service public service from a vb application and get the result? Thasnks. ...
Score Help with Help files ?
Martin - 29 Nov 2007 4:23 PM - 5 messages
I have the Oct 2001 edition of MSDN installed on my computer such that when I click on Help in VB6 it reacts. However, as I'm paging down through some subject, it often prompts me to insert CD #2 or CD #3. If ...
Score Change ICON automatically at build time
PeterD - 29 Nov 2007 4:18 PM - 6 messages
OK, I've an application that produces two executables based on a compile (build) time setting. I use conditionals to control things like string values, etc. (Think of this as a multi-language application--it isn't but that model works). ...
Score Getting Pictures from Image list into PictureBox
Gary Pollard - 29 Nov 2007 3:05 PM - 4 messages
I have a control array with 37 picture boxes and an image list loaded with jpg picture. How do I load the pictures from the image list  into the picture boxes - everything I have tried fails. I intend to use a random number for the index so each time they load the ...
Score vb6 - Detect button click on another application
Anbeyon - 29 Nov 2007 2:16 PM - 2 messages
Hi I am hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I have an application to develop where it would be really helpful if I could detect mouse clicks made on another application. I know I can hook the event/message system in windows and detect mouse ...
Score round
sydk26lgb7g3w6obgjjua - 29 Nov 2007 1:28 PM - 1 message
[link] ...
Score Error 91 after compiling but not during runtime
Co - 29 Nov 2007 11:42 AM - 5 messages
Hi All, I have created a VB program which opens a DAO database and recordset. When I use the program in runtime there is no problem but when I compile the program and try to run if again I'm getting the error 91 Object ...
Score The inaugural VB6 vs dot net test
Michael C - 29 Nov 2007 10:52 AM - 11 messages
For everyone who hasn't been following the other exciting thread this was the challenge. A comparison between the speed of VB6 and dot net. The challenge is to invert every pixel of a bitmap pixel by pixel. The bitmap ...
Score << HUNDSOME GAIN WITHOUT INVEST ON NET>>
er - 29 Nov 2007 10:15 AM - 2 messages
Hundsome  Money Online · Work part time or full time as you like . Make quick good cash working 2 to 3 hours a day . Work anywhere from home/ office without restrictions · Guaranteed payment month after month Get the Secret Formula Money Making Formula a the links below ...
Score How to break If statement
hon123456 - 29 Nov 2007 8:02 AM - 3 messages
Dear all,           I have if Statement as follows.       IF a < B Then                if C < D then break if ...
Score How to Initiate an sync all Mail in Outook Express
RoidsRim - 29 Nov 2007 12:36 AM - 1 message
Hello Group you would help me dearly if you could give the info to initiate a sync all mail in outlook express (example api - with syntax example) or next best just send rx all mail I tell you a measure how much help you would be ...
Score Web control library VS 2005 problems after switching from design view to source view
Christian - 28 Nov 2007 10:40 PM - 5 messages
Hi all, i have written a web control library and have some problems with it. The Library contains only two Controls: a menu bar and a menu item class which can have sub items (from the same class and type). ...
Score Compiled support beyond April 2008
Tom Porterfield - 28 Nov 2007 9:50 PM - 11 messages
My apologies if this has already been asked/answered but a search didn't turn up anything specifically to what I have been asked. I understand that he VB6 IDE will no longer be supported beyond April of 2008.  The runtime will be supported with the version of Windows that it ...
Score >> Reporting Tool
Jonathan - 28 Nov 2007 8:01 PM - 3 messages
Hi, we have a number of clients that range from corporates to single users. Currently our applications are written in MS Access. However the corporates are requesting that we migrate to dot Net and MS SQL. One of the advantages ...
Score Oddity in theming text boxes when running under Vista
Mike - 28 Nov 2007 7:19 PM - 1 message
My applications which theme quite well under XP when using a manifest will always display text boxes with the proper visual appearance as long as the Appearance property = 3D, otherwise text boxes will show a thin black border if set to flat. OK, nothing surprising here. ...
Score Need to add DLLs at runtime
Victory - 28 Nov 2007 7:12 PM - 6 messages
i want to be able to provide a open file dialog in my app to allow the users to specify a DLL. i want my application to automatically detect the properties, methods, etc. and build a user interface element that ...
Score Re: Arrays. Beginner's question!
Suzy - 28 Nov 2007 6:52 PM - 8 messages
Do I take it from the deafening silence that this method is OK in this case? ...
Score IE Add-ons?
Karl E. Peterson - 28 Nov 2007 5:41 PM - 14 messages
Hi Folks - Anyone here ever done an IE add-on with Classic VB?  Know of any resources out there?  I have someone asking if I'm interested in doing one, and I'm worried it's a potential ...
Score Toolbars on VB6 are grayed out.
rhobbs - 28 Nov 2007 5:01 PM - 3 messages
My VB6 GUI now has all the toolbar buttons grayed out accept the Data View Window and Visual Component Manager buttons.  Any clue?  I have MZ-Tools loaded and was searching for all occurences of a function call in my application.  It failed with an odd error (unfortunatley, I ...
Score VB Options
Jonathan - 28 Nov 2007 4:09 PM - 6 messages
Hi, In VB6 (SP6), "Options" is missing from the Tools menu. How do I get it? Thanks Jonathan ...
Score Buffer overrun detected
ybfishel - 28 Nov 2007 1:34 PM - 2 messages
I am also getting this error message in Word 2003. Microsoft Visual C ++Runtime Library Buffer overrun detected! Program: ...Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11\WINWORD>EXE A buffer overrun has been detected which as corrupted the program's internal ...
Score vb report display problem
Claudia Fong - 28 Nov 2007 12:05 PM - 1 message
Hi, I created a report in VB and I have a problem in displaying it.. When I deleted 2 textboxes from the designer view of my report, it didn't have any problem displaying it; what should I do in order to replace those 2 ...
Score VB6 versus VBNet Challenge
Mike Williams - 28 Nov 2007 9:05 AM - 22 messages
Come on, Michael C. I finished my VB6 "Invert Bitmap Challenge" code hours ago and I told you that I had done so. What's holding you up? Are you still waiting for VB.Net to load? By the way, I've taken the liberty of starting a new thread for this ...
Score break statement equivalent in VB?
Frank Moyles - 28 Nov 2007 8:41 AM - 8 messages
Need to quickly write a test app in VB, and this involves porting some C++ code to VB6. I can't seem to find an equivalent of the break statement - specifically, to allow me to break out of a WHILE loop ...
Score Looking for Easy Way to Acomplish this Task.
Kardon Coupé - 27 Nov 2007 10:07 PM - 5 messages
Dear All, I'm looking for a easy way to.... {Start at Root Directory} -{Check Amount of Directories} --{Go into first Directory} ---{Locate file based on file extension} ----{Rename Found file to same name as Directory its within} ---{Return to Root Directory} ...
Score Excel Vb
krc547 - 27 Nov 2007 6:41 PM - 3 messages
I have a user form, hoe can I get certain items blacked out depending on what check box they select at the top. ...
Score Oddity in theming text boxes when running under Vista
Mike - 27 Nov 2007 5:44 PM - 1 message
My applications which theme quite well under XP when using a manifest will always display text boxes with the proper visual appearance as long as the Appearance property = 3D, otherwise text boxes will show a thin black border if set to flat. OK, nothing surprising here. ...
Score Problem reading Digit Grouping Symbol
Chris - 27 Nov 2007 3:38 PM - 5 messages
I tried to retrieve the digit grouping symbol in MSAccess but unfortunately 3;0 is retrieved instead of comma which is my symbol. Function retrieves decimal symbol and list separator without any problem. I used the code below:   var_char_copied = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, ...
Score Knowing which user logged on
Joe Saliba - 27 Nov 2007 3:08 PM - 8 messages
is it possible to know which user and which groupe he belongs who's logged on a domain thru active directory ??? thank u for ur help. *** Sent via Developersdex [link] *** ...
Score Property pages of DBGrid as property pages of usercontrol
sk@email.si - 27 Nov 2007 8:38 AM - 2 messages
Hello everybody, I tried to find an answer on Google, but I did not know how to write the search string to find any useful answers ... ... so I am asking you When you rightclick on the control and then choose Properties, you usually get ...
Score VB6 printing on Vista
CWYap - 27 Nov 2007 3:36 AM - 3 messages
Hi guys, Below is my vb6 code to print file through network shared printer:     Dim iLPT as integer, iFilePtr as integer, sPrintPath as string, sFile as string     Dim iLoop as integer, lFileSize as long, Maxsize as long, sBuffer as ...
Score [VB2008] How to replace lines in a textfile?
Maurice van 't Loo - 26 Nov 2007 11:27 PM - 4 messages
Hi, I'm pretty new with VB, especialy with 2008 Express :-p So i need your help... I have a text file containing:     VERSION 3     ADDEDVERSION 5     OPTION_GUILD_RECRUITMENT_CHANNEL AUTO     CHANNELS ...
Score VB6 Calendar Vista error
Simply - 26 Nov 2007 9:30 PM - 5 messages
Hi, i'm using VB6, I have a program that work fine in XP sp2, but in Vista, i got the runtime error 80010108:automation error, when i load a form with a calendar. after testing, the problem come from using Calendar.value. ...
Score Forcing open file to close (like My Computer\Manage)
Parry S. Starkey - 26 Nov 2007 8:45 PM - 2 messages
I have been trying to find a way to force a file which has been opened by someone for writing to close.  I don't care whether I delete it or whatever.  I am looking to replicate the functionality you have when ...
Score Shell Execute weirdness
MP - 26 Nov 2007 8:04 PM - 5 messages
Hi, This function appears to work correctly on winxp computer at "work" at home on laptop running win2k, it acts weird it shows excel window, titlebar(caption), toolbars etc all show show ok and are "clickable", but window which displays spreadsheet itself appears as if ...
Score Read File Information
Alastair MacFarlane - 26 Nov 2007 7:07 PM - 9 messages
Dear All, Is it possible to read File information like Author, Subject, Keywords in the File Summary Tab in explorer. I have seen a couple of VB.NET examples and one that uses a file dsofile.dll (I haven't heard of this file)? ...
Score Cyrillian (and other) support in VB6
David DB - 26 Nov 2007 6:24 PM - 2 messages
Hi, Anyone that knows something of how to get support for example Cyrillic characters in VB6 ? I'm able to paste Cyrillic text into a RichTextBox, but then all code must be using the RFT codes. David ...
Score Arrays. Beginner's question!
Suzy - 26 Nov 2007 5:25 PM - 26 messages
Dim K(1 to 4) .... K=Array(45,65,23,465) What am I doing wrong please as I get "can't assign" error? ...
Score displaying directories & files using TREEVIEW in VB6
xx3884@googlemail.com - 26 Nov 2007 5:25 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I'm trying to get a directory listing using the TREEVIEW component. I'd like to display a list of directories/files with checkboxes. If I check a directory I'd like to tick all the files in that ...
Score VB6 faster than ever, then crash
John Stulle - 26 Nov 2007 3:19 PM - 5 messages
Hello. Did anyone of you ever experience such a strange behaviour? -> Normally, it takes about 5 seconds before my app starts up (both in IDE and runtime) because it loads huge ammounts of data. Half an hour ago, it suddenly loaded within about 1 second, and all the ...
Score hide/suppress VB6 errors
APSFlorida - 26 Nov 2007 3:19 PM - 13 messages
I need to hide VB6 error dialogs, or better yet send the info to theapp. event log. When VB6 throws these dialogs they end up behind my front most (TOPMOST) window an cannot be seen and make the system appear to be locked up. ...
Score Hiding/suppressing VB6 error dialogs
APSFlorida - 26 Nov 2007 3:13 PM - 1 message
I have VB6 throwing Error Dialogs on occasion from code unrelatec to the actual error and just want to suppress all error dialogs.  Better would be to redirect to the Application event log. I need to do this because in handling which one of 9 windows is placed up ...
Score Clipboard data
David DB - 26 Nov 2007 1:55 PM - 9 messages
Hi, Have come across a problem when using the VB6 builtin Clipboard functions and for example Russian text. When capturing Russian characters and then using Clipboard.GetText and showing it in a RichTextBox control it will show a lot of ????? ???? ??? ...
Score email hyperlink
jez123456 - 26 Nov 2007 1:47 PM - 3 messages
Hi experts I've built an email application using VB.Net 2005. All works ok except the hyperlink part. This is part of what I have. mail.IsBodyHtml = True strMailBody = "Please click here [link] to open the report." ...
Score Visual Basic 2008 express - Index property on label
Gazza - 26 Nov 2007 9:42 AM - 12 messages
Hello, I just installed VB 2008 express edition at home and wanted to use an array of labels in my program as I need to show and hide them depending on a random number and this could be done easily using the ...
Score Visual Studio 2005: Visual basic
slick.users - 26 Nov 2007 7:27 AM - 2 messages
How do I automatic move the X & Y to create a ellipse function as below, DrawCircle? I want it move down by user input. How can I achieve this? Thanks. Imports System Imports System.Drawing Public Class circle     Private Sub circle_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As ...
Score Web Bot for Career Search
Jonas - 26 Nov 2007 1:57 AM - 2 messages
Hello, I have looked over the internet for a program that will allow me to search multiple company sites for jobs but I haven't found it yet.  I want to be able to enter my criteria into the company websites and ...
Score contents of picturebox contents get wiped out ...
DORI - 26 Nov 2007 1:16 AM - 17 messages
Dear All, I am using Picture1.Print and Picture1.PaintPicture commands to add texts and images to Picture1 control at run time. But when a message box pops up over the picture1 or if I drag a form over the picture1 control, the texts ...
Score how to get a wav file track length
caver_dave - 25 Nov 2007 9:53 PM - 5 messages
Now i know this may sound like a stupid question, no change there! But how do I get the track / play time of  a wav file? I am currently using the windows media player to do this but it appears to ...
Score IStream, IPicture and ADODB.Stream
Alexander Mueller - 25 Nov 2007 1:45 PM - 1 message
Hi from what I have read from the docs, IPicture implements IPersistentStream and thus IStream, with its Read/Write methods. I want to save a StdPicture-object into a MSSQL-Server- BLOB, with as little memory-copying as possible. If it is possible, what i don't believe, the best solution is ...
Score How to find the datatype of a variable?
Karthikeyan Periasamy - 25 Nov 2007 11:13 AM - 39 messages
Can u please tell me to find the datatype of a variable? for ex: dim a , b as integer here b is an integer datatype. a is in which datatype? Thanks in advance, KarthikeyanP ...
Score difference between standardEXE and VBEnterprise edition controls
Karthikeyan Periasamy - 25 Nov 2007 11:03 AM - 1 message
can u please tell me about the Stadndard exe and VB Enterprise edition Control. Thanks in advance, Karthikeyan P ...
Score Reading from the registry with Registry.GetValue
Matt Pollicove - 25 Nov 2007 1:26 AM - 3 messages
Hi there. I'm trying to read from: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemStart\.Current to get the value in: (Default) using: strCurrentSound = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemStart\", ".Current", tmp) But I can't get a value and I know there's a filename stored there. ...
Next »