Visual Basic General Discussion

DLL fight

Igor Bolschewski - 4 Sep 2010 7:44 AM - 54 messages

Hi all! I am struggeling with a hardware company. They provide their own drivers and .dll files, but their .dll files are buggy. People need to downgrade to make them work reliably. I am distributing the downgraded .dlls with my application, and luckily ...

Calling function pointers

Robert - 3 Sep 2010 5:04 PM - 10 messages

Hello all, I was looking at the Dynamic Array functions exported by commctl32.dll (prefixed DPA_ and DSA_) [link] Although there doesn't seem to be anything there that really couldn't ...

Call for votes: New german discussion group for VB.classic in de.*

Thorsten Albers - 3 Sep 2010 4:01 PM - 9 messages

Hi, Folks! Like other MS newsgroups the german VB.classic discussion group microsoft.public.de.vb has been closed some months ago. Due to the lack of an alternate german discussion group for VB.classic some of the participants ...

Deploy VB application

Harsha - 3 Sep 2010 11:35 AM - 2 messages

Hi All, I have created VB 6 application. Application has - .exe files - .dll files - Server dll Files. COM is setup in server with server dll files. For client .exe files and middle layer .dll files has to be copied and there should be ...

Borland Delphi 7 Personal Edition

VB - 3 Sep 2010 8:01 AM - 5 messages

Its Free, No Piracy 64MB [link] Delphi 7 Personal Edition allows new developers to create high-performance Windows 98, Windows NT? and Windows 2000 applications for personal, non-commercial use. Complete with a 32-bit, optimizing, native code ...

nested select problem

Sabbir Ahmad - 3 Sep 2010 3:24 AM - 6 messages

Dim a As Double Dim b As Double Dim c As Double a = 36.8 b = 44 select case a case 36.6 to 37 MsgBox "???" Select Case b Case 42 To 43 c = 26 ...

What Is the User Path for Deployment Similar to $(AppPath)?

David Kaye - 2 Sep 2010 7:22 PM - 18 messages

Okay, you can have files installed into directories such as $(AppPath), $(WinSysPath), and so forth, but what is the magic word to deploy files into the User's path, that is C:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data and its equivalent in Vista/Windows 7? ...

Looking for VC6 newsgroup

Karl Steffen - 2 Sep 2010 9:20 AM - 11 messages

I am normally using VB6 but this time I need to create a DLL from an ..h-file and I guess I can only do this in VC6/C++. Because of this I would like to know what the current (if there is still one at all) VC6 ...

Error 5: ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when accessing registry in Windows 7

Claire - 2 Sep 2010 2:49 AM - 11 messages

Hello, Having the full administrative privileges I have ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED response from RegSetValueEx{} Code: rtn = RegCreateKey(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, "callto\DefaultIcon", phkResult) If rtn = ERROR_SUCCESS Then ...

CopyFile method not working

Dipesh_Sharma - 1 Sep 2010 6:02 PM - 8 messages

Hi, I am using following code to copy a file or folder from computer A to computer B. Dim fso Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") fso.CopyFile(sFile, sPathDest, True) now problem here is that, if i pass "IP ADDRESS" of my source computer than ...

Closing Grouped instances in the taskbar

Sneha Menon - 1 Sep 2010 5:51 PM - 10 messages

Hi All VB6 Application. If there are a number of instances of the application running, and they are grouped in the taskbar, how can I close all instances by clicking 'Close Group' ? What shall I do in my vb6 application to make it respond to the windows 'Close Group' ? (OS is ...

Componenet not installed correctly by PDW

Scott M. - 1 Sep 2010 1:37 PM - 14 messages

I have an old test program written in VB6 that I need to run on a computer overseas. I created the setup program using deployment and packaging wizard and sent it to them. After hearing that they were having trouble running the test program, I decided to create a new PC ...

Error 481 Invalid picture

Abhishek - 1 Sep 2010 11:41 AM - 32 messages

Hi, I have Win XP, when I run my application using right click > run as > check 'protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity' I get an error Run-time error '481': Invalid picture Why this is happening? and any fixes for that? ...

Global class and WithEvents

Alexandros Peropulous - 31 Aug 2010 7:25 PM - 21 messages

Hello! I have a class which I needed to make global because it is used in/ on different forms, and the class opens and closes port handles, so I cannot simply make a few more copies of them. However, on some of the forms, I would need a notification about events ...

Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

nntp - 31 Aug 2010 6:34 PM - 4 messages

What is Happening? This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums. Why? As you may know, newsgroups have existed for many years now; however, the traffic in the Microsoft newsgroups has been steadily decreasing for the ...

WTF?? KeyDown Event

John Simpson - 31 Aug 2010 5:51 PM - 5 messages

Help!!! Windows 7, VB6 I have the following code with a mysterious problem. Hitting keys A thru Z or numbers 0 thru 9, assign the correct results the variable ch below. Punctuation is wrong. For example, the / key returns a keycode of 191. ...

Advanced Optimization Options

Abhishek - 31 Aug 2010 3:30 PM - 3 messages

are 'Advanced Optimization' Options Inherited? like I have a app in which I have set these options and in it I am using 3rd party control of which I don't have source code nor do i know if they are ...

ReactOS

Abhishek - 31 Aug 2010 5:27 AM - 4 messages

[link] [link] ReactOS (React Operating System) is an open source computer operating system intended to be binary compatible with application software and device drivers made for Microsoft Windows NT versions 5.x and up (Windows 2000 and ...

Distibution of VB6 program

jerryys - 31 Aug 2010 2:31 AM - 40 messages

I would like to download a vb6 program to whomever requests it on the web. Is there a standard control, or app that can be called to accomplish this. It seems all downloads over the internet work similarly. A user requests the ...

Lockup Continues

BeeJ - 30 Aug 2010 4:04 AM - 10 messages

So I moved all the code to a different PC. I made zero progress getting anything to work on the other PC. Now the ActiveX stuff all instantiates and I can talk to all of them. However, now some new ? related / unrelated ? problems. ...

Changing the font style, fore colour and back colour of an individual cell in a VB6 listview

Mojo - 29 Aug 2010 4:04 PM - 7 messages

Hi All Again, another I've always left rather than sorting is the ability to style (bold, underline, italic), colour the text and colour the background of the text in a vb6 listview CELL. Are any of these permitations possible? Am I better using an MS Flexgrid ...

Showing/Using Sort arrows on vb6 listviews?

Mojo - 29 Aug 2010 4:02 PM - 7 messages

Hi All I've always shied away from what seems to be an obviouls feature of the listview, but I could never figure out how to show the up or down sort arrows on a column header in a VB6 listview. ...

Why doesn't this work (sendmessage)

Robert - 29 Aug 2010 3:51 PM - 12 messages

Hi, Is there a reason why I can't send and receive a messages with a negative number using SendMessage? The Windows common controls use negative notification messages and I've never had a problem receiving those, so the problem has to be ...

An outgoing call cannot be executed...

Alexandros Peropulous - 29 Aug 2010 8:40 AM - 7 messages

Hello! I am dealing with an ActiveX-Exe. I have put an MSCOMM control into it, because I needed it be out-of-proc. Automation error (-2147417843) An outgoing call cannot be executed because the application is forwarding an input-synchronized call. ...

Radio Button Bug?

Abhishek - 29 Aug 2010 2:14 AM - 25 messages

Hi, I have 6 radio buttons (control array) on a form, the user selects the option and click the OK button and there are two procedures in my code to enable and disable all controls until the process is complete. but when I ...