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Hi there, How to display 4 order Polynomial equation from the Excel in VB6 ? I can display the Polynomial equation by the following code, onething unsatisfactory it returns a 2 order Polynomial equation by default. but I need to get the ...

I need to add writing a binary file to my application and I haven't had much experience with writing files. I've been trying to understand and use examples found on the web and here is what I've been working with. ...

OT sorry. You all seem to be the most knowledgeable of all the newsgroups i know about. I need to create an eMail containing other eMails. The only app that I know that does this is Outlook. I would rather not have to struggle with Outlook. ...

Good Afternoon All, I have a datagridview dgv1 that has a combobox column in it.  Each row should have an individual item to select from in the combobox.  My code displays the same values in all of them.  Any help would be great! ...

Hi... Our company just purchased some propriety software that is on a server running MSSql. I want to connect to it to retrieve data only.  I can connect using ODBC through Access 2000, but each time I try to use the tables, I have to supply ...

Hi! In our application we need to read the unicode keypresses as we support multiple languages. The Form keypress event does not return unicode keycodes. Is there any way of reading the last pressed key ? For example using API ? Then we could put this code in the For Keypress event, and find the correct ...

I have a bad feeling about this one.  Trying to translate the following structure:    typedef struct tagRAWINPUT {      RAWINPUTHEADER header;      union {        RAWMOUSE    mouse; ...

Feel free to point... Microsoft turned off its newsgroup server, but the community resource lives on. You just need to know where to look for it. [link] ...

We have a requirement, in this we need to develop a windows service. Our client want this to be develop in Java, we are emphasising on .NET 4.0 and much more comfortable with .NET. I would like to know some good comparative ...

VB6 I have two timers running. In each timer routine I need to have a variable delay (10 mSec to 1000 mSec).  The delay only needs to be accurate to a few mSecs but should be  consistent each time it is encountered. ...

Hey C++ guys, what is the advantage or purpose of this? If (FALSE == SomeFunction()) { .... } Why put FALSE == instead of the function first, like we usually do? ...

Hello, Is there a way to display at runtime the property menu of a control so that the user may interact with the control? In my case, I'm speaking about the MsChart control which has a property menu at the design phase (when picking "properties" after ...

When installing VB6 on Windows 7 64 bit an "incompatibility problem" message box pops up. Anybody know what is causing this, and whether it is anything to worry about? Mike ...

Still pondering why my ActiveX EXE is not working. My ActiveX EXE talks to a manufacturer's M.DLL that does not return the correct result when the ActiveX EXE is referenced/used as a .EXE but does return the correct result when the ActiveX EXE is ...

I am using code to populate a drop down from hidden text (in text formfields) in a Word form. The code works great, however, I have now hidden the section that contains the text form fields and the code returns an error. Is there something I should be inserting in the code so that it can cope with hidden text/ bookmarks? I don't want to unprotect, unhide, run existing code, and then rehide and reprotect as this is cumbersome. ub Fillnamelist()      Select Case ActiveDocument.FormFields("scheme").Result         Case "CAMBERWELL"             With ActiveDocument.FormFields("nameDD").DropDown.ListEntries                 .Clear                    .Add ("ENTER NAME")                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c1").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c2").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c3").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c4").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c5").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c6").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c7").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c8").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c9").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c10").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c11").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c12").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c13").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c14").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c15").Range.Text                 .Add ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("c16").Range.Text --- ...