Visual Basic General Discussion

regfree-loading

Webbiz - 30 May 2009 5:50 PM - 8 messages

While reading comments written to explain some code, I came across this... 'Dim Cnn As cConnection 'define a SQLite-Connection 'Set Cnn = New_c.Connection("c:\SomeFolder\Some.db") 'and save some lines of code this way, but also keep 'your App prepared for regfree-loading, without replacing ...

not getting 'variable not defined' with Option Explicit

vbDavidC - 30 May 2009 12:27 PM - 4 messages

I have an app that has multiple forms and procedures. I added a string variable to a new procedure (in a form module) without dim'ing it and I am not getting a variable not defined error. I am also able ...

How to test for array?

fred - 29 May 2009 9:34 PM - 29 messages

Hello, How to test whether the array is dimmensioned ? When I do: If UBound(SkypeDtmfDelay) > 0 Then there is an error: "Subscript out of range" ...

Overactive colon in VB6

Bee - 29 May 2009 2:59 PM - 7 messages

Or maybe I should call it the hyperactive colon in VB6 I am fiddling with what I thing are generically called hyperlinks. I have search for all the cases but cannot find what I think should be more. So, here I am asking for help again. ...

Mayayana and others: Know The Notes now for 98SE using MM's new 'Never Replace' scheme

MM - 29 May 2009 1:22 PM - 8 messages

.....is now here: [link] Also note that you can open up a Run window and type: c:\download\setupktn98se.exe /X To peruse and/or extract any or all files from the Setup prior to ...

parse Excel file

George - 29 May 2009 11:46 AM - 4 messages

I have got .xls file where two columns (F and J) must be parsed. Columns look like this: F J aaa bbb (empty) ccc (empty) ddd (empty) (empty) fff ggg (empty) rrr (empty) vvv (empty) (empty) So, I need to go through these columns and copy data to other sheet: ...

Text box cannot change color at runtime

hon123456 - 29 May 2009 8:03 AM - 4 messages

Dear all, I have to set text box color to gray. I use this code : frmMain.txtDate.BackColor = &HC0C0C0 But the color of text box does not change at runtime. But when I set a ...

Adding Text- to -Speech functionality (SAPI 5) to my app

fred - 28 May 2009 5:24 PM - 4 messages

Hello, I am novice using TTS. What should I do to add SAPI 5 functionalty to my app? Is there any ready component or reference I can use? ...

Format function question.....

John Morley - 28 May 2009 1:25 PM - 12 messages

Hi all, I want to convert an integer value from 0 to 15 into it's hex representation for display. I want to display a full hex byte so the display value should have a leading zero, ie. 00 ----> 0F. ...

DLL in Visual BASIC 6

Privado - 28 May 2009 1:11 PM - 14 messages

Hi There, I'm developing a small program in VB6 with a menu and several sub-menus. Each option of the sub-menu calls a form with objects in it. I was planning to move these forms into an external DLL in order to easyly update them in ...

Stone Wall

Bee - 28 May 2009 12:13 AM - 16 messages

I have a VB6 app that compiles and runs fine (previous version). I added code to the main form and a couple of classes and modules and it compiles. These are all interconnected and used in another app that works fine. ...

GW-Basic

Bruce Stiles - 27 May 2009 8:08 PM - 14 messages

I have a customer that runs a program through Basic. The routine will not run in XP. I would like to get this converted over to another 'language' such as VB. Is there a conversion routine available to convert the lines of ...

Getting pixels from EMF (StdPicture)

asperamanca@gmail.com - 27 May 2009 9:27 AM - 5 messages

Hi all, with the help of the web, I figured out a way to get the pixels in a StdPicture object, basically using GetDIBits. This works fine with StdPicture type 1 (Bitmap) However, it does not work at all with a StdPicture of type 4 (Enhanced ...

GetObject with VB6 ActiveX exe

mark.tunnard.jackson - 27 May 2009 8:23 AM - 10 messages

Hi The VB6 help on GetObject says "You can't use GetObject to obtain a reference to a class created with Visual Basic." My VB6 GUI exposes objects as an ActiveX exe, for other components to manipulate. I want the other components to connect to the GUI that's already running, ...

Prohibit Paste

Bee - 27 May 2009 12:35 AM - 10 messages

I want an control, e.g. combobox, to accept typed characters, but not text pasted into it. How do I tell if it is a paste operation and prohibit it from changing the control? VB6 ...

XML in VB

Ueli Werner - 26 May 2009 12:52 PM - 4 messages

Hi there I like to store an read data into an xml-file. The data which is used is a very simle List of persons: Name, surename name2, surname2 .... .... I don't want to use a db, so I decided to create XML. ...

Anyone know of a good Help Authorizing Tool

Randem - 26 May 2009 10:24 AM - 16 messages

I need a good easy help authorizing tool. Does anyone know of one? I want to create help chm files. ...

Unicode Problem

hon123456 - 25 May 2009 11:47 AM - 2 messages

Dear all, I have selected a unicode string from database. In SQL server query analyzer, I can see the field descripion is VARISTOR® where circle R is unicode. But when ...

Create Icon File From Resource

Lorin - 24 May 2009 4:38 PM - 7 messages

I want to create an icon file from resource. I want to run this from Sub Main. I have tried several methods and all error out. Here is one failed example. Verified that FLAME is in resources under Icon. Dim picIcon As PictureBox ...

Excel 2003 vs 2007

10_a_c - 24 May 2009 5:17 AM - 3 messages

Hello: Everything was fine until I tried my code on another laptop with Excel 2007 and the new file extensions. Trying to get my VB code to tell the difference between Excel 2003 or 2007. Is there an API or Function call that can do this? ...