VB Forum / Enterprise Development / October 2004

Is it possible to control any other application that already open?
Please help, for example to control word application that open previously or
manually.
Regards,

How do I programatically turn on/of the scroll Lock Keyboard Light.
I'v tried to turn off the light by:
Dim keyarray(256)       As Byte
GetKeyboardState keyarray(0)

 I have attendance scanning system which is connected to com2. How can i
read data to my form control(textbox).
I placed comm control, textbox
'Form_load event

I have just noticed a glitch in my code that I use to unload my application.
My application uses a System tray icon in the bottom right corner of the
screen. and I need to at any time allow the user to Exit the application if
they choose.

I am having trouble getting a DLL file to install.
Firstly I have followed the instructions in the help but I now get the
following error so I think I must have done something wrong with the
CLSID...

I have to support an ancient VB 6 app and have the following problem.
The app was originally written in the days of NT 4. Recently it has been
installed on a variety of machines using newer windows OS's. The problem was
first noticed when the app was installed on an XP box. The ...

i want to learn if the client machine is online or offline,like the function
of ping command on DOS...
so like this:
if control.ping ("192.168.x.x") is true

I am trying to send email with attachment with VB6.
I have been searching Google all day but can't find anything useful.
Would someone point me to a page with some examples please?
Thanks!

I have Visual studio 6 installed in my machine.  As of a few days ago,
whenever, I try to open VB6... the windows installer for Visual Foxpro 8
pops up.  I keep cancelling few times and I am fine using VB until I close
the session and restart it again.

Through VB code, is it possible that I trigger any application on any other
machine on a LAN ?
like how would i go if i am sitting on machine-A and i want to trigger an
application on machine-B from machine-A?

I have a software program that uses a DLL, and two OCX's that I have
also written.  Software is called Dynamic Response (www.presspley.com)
When I am developing in VB6 I use SourceSafe (which causes me the
noraml problems of failed to load project etc all the time) and have

I am calling an Oracle StoredProc that returns a CLOB data type value as an
output parameter. What parameter data type should I use?

and they all fail. Size of returned value will exceed 50k.

Can anyone please tell me how to use a webcam on a form. I have done an app
that uses a webcam, but I have used the drivers for that webcam. Now I need
to use a different camera on a different site and obviously will have to
reprogram for those drivers.

I'd like to use regular expression to search through binary files.
Now i'am reading the whole file into a string and then use the regular
expression search.
But i think that this isn't the best way to do this.

We wrote a couple of VB6 applications which have been in use for several
years now.  We have several external customers who dial into our network and
use those applications.  In order to use our apps, they have to have an
account on our Active Directory 2000 network and log into ...