VB Forum / VB Syntax / January 2004

   I am working on a VB6 SP5 project that was originally written
referencing the ansi win.tlb (dated 1997)
The app fails on a call to GetWindowPlacement when passed a valid handle to
a label on a message box. Also fails on other control types on the same

I need to load an image in a picturebox, where the image's dimensions are
most likely larger than those of the picturebox. So my question is, how is
it possible to user scrollbars to scroll the image within the picturebox?
Thanks,

Is there any way in which one can access the scrollbar properties and
methods of an mdi form? Scrollbars automatically appear and sometimes
appear when they are not neccesary. I would like to be able to set
properties such as value, max, min just as the Vscroll and Hscroll

Is it possible to determine if a *.job file exists?
Basically, the "Schedule Task" wizard will create a <name>.job file.  This
will reside (for Windows NT) in the folder "c:\winnt\tasks".
The visual Basic method "FileExists" always returns false when attempting to

I have trouble in VB6.
I have a function of a extern component which takes a
variant paramarray as parameter
(ie convert(ParamArray pArrayVar() as Variant)). I can't

I am using the Web Browser control in an Access 2003 form.  I have references set to Microsoft Internet Controls (SHDOCVW.dll) and Microsoft HTML Object Library (MSHTML.tlb).
I can click a button with the name "submit1" with the following code:  doc.all("submit1").Click
The same ...

Is there a visual basic function that returns what day of
the week it is? i.e.  Monday, Tuesday, etc.  Thnx

Has anyone successfully been able to replicate the LSET
statement from VB into the .NET environment? I am trying
to modify some legacy code that uses the statement but am
having difficulty coming up with a workable replacement...

I could have sworn i posted here yesterday, but i see that
my post is not here...  So i'll ask my question again:  Is
there a function that will return what day of the week it
is?

I want to run a lengthy routine using sendkeys after an
appactivate statement but i don't want the application i
have called to be visible, but it must have the focus.
What code do i use to bring my application to the front

Does anyone know the windows API call to get the logged-on username of the
user that is signed in to the computer?  Let's say this:
UserID: brad
User Name: Brad Jones

I use the Inet component to connect to the ftp server and transfer a file
named test.txt.  My coding like this:
With Inet1
   .URL = "192.168.1.1"

Can anyone give me a bit of a tutorial (or the link to one) on how I would
accomplish the following:
When my application opens, I would like to check a website (local website)
to see if there is a newer version of the application on the website.  If

I'm actually working in VBA but I hope I can use the same technique for
this:
Is there a system variable (or function, or code) that will return to me
the name of the server that my code is running on?  Thanks.

I have an object variable defined in the module -
something like Dim xxx as Object. In one of the class
module say class A, i set the value of xxx, by doing
something like Set xxx = objManager. In another class