VB Forum / VB Syntax / January 2004

You know how you can navigate to a computer through your network and run a
program?(\\SomeComputer\C\program Files\myProgram\RunMe.exe)
That executes locally on your machine.  What I need to figure out though is
how to make it run locally on THAT machine.  I'm trying to do an

Hi, I'm just wonderign if there is a way to tokenize strings like you can in java? I'm reading in some text from a textbox and I want to be able to break it down word by word in order to check characters within each word and modify some words. My plan is to tokenize them into a ...

Is there an easy way to copy a user-defined object? Thus
if I set A = B; A will be a mirror of B such that all of
the properties in A will be set to the same value as B.
I can write a method to do this, however, I thought I

Is it possible to place AVI files in a resource file and then extract them a
load them in vb6??
Thanks,
Ivan

Has anyone got any code that will tell me the machine name of who is
currently logged onto the network ? (WIN2000)
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

I'm using WritePriter to print lines of text to a printer, using the
following:
Private Declare Function WritePrinter Lib "winspool.drv" (ByVal hPrinter As
Long, pBuf As Any, ByVal cdBuf As Long, pcWritten As Long) As Long

I have been trying to print the line-drawing characters on
an HP laserjet in order to reproduce a report previously
generated by an HP mini computer.
The characters are those that for the corners, sides and

OK. this is a very simple one for someone to answer, but i cannot find it anywhere. All I want to do is format the output to a list box so it looks nice and neat. In VB.NET I would do something simple like
Dim fmtStr as String = {0,20}{1,20}{2,20}
lstOutput.Items.Add(String ...

Is it possible to write an event in a class module?  I want to write a
global ToolbarClick event for my ActiveReports.  How would I properly
declare this in a class, and what is the right method to call this event
from my report?

What is the regular expression to locate all instances "Listing xx:"? The
'xx' could be a number from 1-99.
Thanks

What is the best way to setup a V6 application to run as a Windows service?
Thanks in advance!
Serge

I have a database that stores the date as Hexadecimal Value as
002569AA0000A329, I want a function or a method to change this hexadecimal
value to a valid date/time, is it possible. I am using Visual basic 6.
Thank you in advance

how can i check my date if it is valid or not?
i am using format but not good enough to handle

I need help for something that should be simple.  I keep getting a
"subscript out of range" error and don't know why.  Briefly....
I have an array of Variants dimmed as this:
Global gMyConnection() As Variant

Is there any way in which I can access the properties and methods of
the mouse scroller button. I presume this would be low level. Which
would be the best api's to access these?