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Score Subclassing a la Caton
mayayana - 7 Mar 2009 10:36 PM - 9 messages
To anyone who has used Paul Caton's subclassing...   I've been experimenting with the Planet Source Code subclassing code by Paul Caton, which seems to be DEP-safe: [link] ...
Score Which is the Best Twain ActiveX?
Privado - 7 Mar 2009 10:28 PM - 3 messages
Hi there, I'm looking for an ActiveX control to use in a VB application in order to scan images from an EPSON scanner. Can anyone tel me which one is the best? Thanks. Please post reply here. Nélio Abreu ...
Score Retrieving picture embedded inside image control
Kathy - 7 Mar 2009 9:28 PM - 5 messages
Hello,           Is there any method of retrieving image stored as picture in image control? Stupidly, I did not preserve that picture, and now I am in need of editing it. Any help appreciated, ...
Score Wrap a Long String
chint - 7 Mar 2009 6:37 PM - 13 messages
I have a string of unspecific length, I want wrap it at every 30 character. how to add vbcrlf to every 30 characters? thanks, ...
Score Number Puzzle
Ron Weiner - 7 Mar 2009 4:08 PM - 8 messages
I have an array of int's.  I need to find an algorithm that computes the sum of every combination of numbers in the array.  So for instance if I had an array of 6 ints (lets say 5, 7, 10, 18, 24, and 33). I need to compute the ...
Score Control Container Property - Why Use It?
David - 7 Mar 2009 1:11 PM - 5 messages
I don't see the benefit or really purpose of the Container property. For example:          '--------------------------------          'Use Placeholder to hold ComboBox          '-------------------------------- ...
Score scripting in vb
IJALAB - 7 Mar 2009 12:56 PM - 2 messages
Hello all, We have a tool developed in Visual Basic 6.0. The scripting functionality is implemented as follows. The tool's user interface functions are mapped to a script command and user can write script commands and run on the tool. The script ...
Score vb6 closes with erro after I installed msdn oct 2001
catharinus - 7 Mar 2009 12:40 PM - 16 messages
Hello I use vb6 and msdn jan 2001 After installing MSDN oct 2001, I get an error. When I close vb6, the error is: there is an error (which is poste in dutch).The rough translation of the error: In Visual Basic an error occurred and must be closed. ...
Score Asycfilt.dll
LondonLad - 7 Mar 2009 11:20 AM - 3 messages
Hi I am using Inno to create my second project so a real novice, I used the same (Asycfilt.dll) in both the first and now the second project in the first the project compiled fine and was tested on Vista and XP and with some mods ...
Score VSM Wants Your Feedback
Karl E. Peterson - 5 Mar 2009 8:17 PM - 8 messages
"I want to emphasize that Visual Studio Magazine is here to serve you. With so many big and exciting changes afoot, we're more anxious than ever to hear the opinions and input of developers and managers. What can we do to improve VSM? What ...
Score Using VBPRNDLG.DLLl Instead of Print Common Dialog Boxes
Rick Raisley - 5 Mar 2009 6:59 PM - 8 messages
I've read some comments here where people don't like to use the VB standard Common Dialog Box control for printing, etc. In the process of setting paper size, a search I did came up with the following link: ...
Score Determining Available Paper Sizes on Printer
Rick Raisley - 5 Mar 2009 6:43 PM - 11 messages
What would you recommend to determine the available paper sizes on a printer? It appears that Printer.PaperSize can be used to both Set and Determine the paper size. And it appears that setting to an unavailable size gives an Invalid Property Value error. So I guess  I could loop through all ...
Score Error #429 and compactdatabase in VB6
Vanny - 5 Mar 2009 5:25 PM - 8 messages
We get this error message: Error 429 - ActiveX component can't create object -on one of the users machines. According to the error description message this happens while trying to compact Access database. The machine runs xp with office 2003. What possible file related to compactdatabase ...
Score ListBox bug?
Charlie - 5 Mar 2009 4:01 PM - 12 messages
I have a ListBox on a form, say List1, Sorted = Yes, MultiSelect = 2 List1.AddItem "Alpha" List1.AddItem "Bravo" List1.AddItem "Charlie" List1.AddItem "Delta" List1.AddItem "Echo" If I click on an item, say "Alpha", then press a letter key, say "D", the ...
Score Excel Library in VB 2008 on 64-bit OS installation
Peter K - 5 Mar 2009 3:36 PM - 8 messages
The OS of my latest machine (Intel i7 Processor) is Vista Ultimate 64-bit. In Visual Studio 2008 I am modifying one of my VB programs, which executes a backup application.  The program accesses an Excel spreadsheet to obtain ...
Score microsoft clickonce download to spesific directory
mykhuzaimi - 5 Mar 2009 4:23 AM - 2 messages
i use clickonce through publish.htm. at Form1 have CommandButton1. when user click that button it will download any .dll files to local pc with spesific directory. what code in command button to download spesific path directory. ...
Score Scrollbars on Textbox -- how can I hide them?
Stan Hilliard - 5 Mar 2009 2:04 AM - 13 messages
I have a multiline textbox with V and H scrollbars. The amount of text varies.  But the scrollbars are always present whether they are needed or not. How can I hide or make the scrollbars go away when they are ...
Score Problem with syntax
Kathy - 5 Mar 2009 2:02 AM - 14 messages
Hello, For years I haven't any problems with this code: Dim FileNum As Long                         FileNum = FreeFile ...
Score Is there WordPad object in VB reference
Alex Cheng - 4 Mar 2009 10:49 PM - 4 messages
Hi there,          Is there WordPad Object in VB reference? If yes, what is it called.          Thanks, Alex ...
Score Checkbox and Click event
Edward - 4 Mar 2009 10:43 PM - 4 messages
What would cause a checkbox on a form to produce a Click event, by setting/changing its value through code? Just for display purposes I'm using: '** Refresh form ** If RSr!Page = 0 Then     chkPage.Value = 0 ...
Score Get My Pictures Back
Lorin - 4 Mar 2009 10:33 PM - 6 messages
VB6 I have six command buttons that have nice pictures on them. Unfortunately the source of the pictures was lost in a crash right after I put them in so I had no time to back up the pictures. So ... ...
Score The Myth of Visual Basic Migration / Upgrade
chint - 4 Mar 2009 9:50 PM - 25 messages
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Score global On Error Goto ?
Claus Centrino - 4 Mar 2009 1:27 PM - 5 messages
An On Error Goto in an event handler can catch all errors in all underlaying subs (if they don't have their on error handler). This way still each event handler in an app must have its own On Error statement because the error label must reside ...
Score Error Message Help
Lorin - 4 Mar 2009 9:35 AM - 11 messages
VB6SP6 I have only seen this in the compiled app. Does not happen regularly. I do the same commands repeatedly and this only happens once in maybe 50 times. Any clues to what it is and what is causing it? ...
Score Write in C
Paulo - 3 Mar 2009 1:19 AM - 12 messages
[link] LOL ...
Score Q re Dir$
Simon Woods - 2 Mar 2009 4:36 PM - 4 messages
Hi I am testing for the existence of a folder using     FolderExists = (Dir$(FolderName, vbDirectory) = ".") I'm finding that prior to executing this command I can go into explorer and rename the folder okay. Once this has been executed, I am informed ...
Score Strange output from TextMatrix
Jeff - 2 Mar 2009 4:32 PM - 3 messages
On a production machine, we had a strange output from the following line of code: grid.TextMatrix(nRow, COL_LASTVALUE) = Format(fLastValue, strFormat) (where strFormat is ".00") nRow and COL_LASTVALUE are value, so the quirk lies elsewhere. The value that shows up occasionally in the cell is this:  -1.#IND ...
Score index object
davep15 - 2 Mar 2009 3:59 PM - 3 messages
My visual basic knowledge is a bit out of date. The last version I significantly used was VB6 and now I'm trying to do something with 2005. I want to create 106 copies of an PictureBox (System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox) and I want them to be indexed so I ...
Score How to add new rows to Listview
hon123456 - 2 Mar 2009 4:27 AM - 7 messages
Dear all,           I know that I can add text ListView like that Set Item = ListView1.ListItems.Add(, , "abc") Then I want to add another new row to the ListView, how can I do that? ...
Score Please help to translate this short Delphi code
Kathy - 2 Mar 2009 3:51 AM - 18 messages
Hello,            I need some help to implement this Delphi code into vbasic. Specially, I am looking for the vbasic equivalent of this operation: Temp := Abs(TIntegers(Buff)[I]); Please see the code below: ...
Score Vista behaves differently to WordBasic command even though same version of Word!
Laphan - 1 Mar 2009 7:10 PM - 5 messages
Hi All My setup is VB6 app to Ms Word doc and basically it took me 5+ hours to get my app to pre-populate the Save/SaveAs filename of a word doc so that when the user has looked at the doc, found it to be OK and then clicked either ...
Score Use Proc with Static Variables Multiple Times
David - 1 Mar 2009 3:47 PM - 10 messages
I have a procedure that contains static variables. This procedure can be called multiple times from a list which allows different parameters to be passed to the procedure with the static variables.  The return value of each call is then used to ...
Score Pset and SetPixel Bug
Mike Williams - 1 Mar 2009 1:49 PM - 37 messages
I've just come across what appears to be a very interesting little bug in the VB Pset method when drawing to either a Form or PictureBox (Autoredraw = False). At first I thought it might be just something to do with VB itself, ...
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