VB Forum / VB Syntax / July 2004

I'm trying to delete 2 files using fso. The mail file name is stored in an
access db.
using the code below I can delete the main file but not the thumbnail.
The thumbnail has the same file name plus the suffix "_small" so if the main

I am trying to convert code from the VBA that shipped with Excel 97 to the VB 6.3 that shipped with Excel XP.  I've run into a problem dealing with ASCII characters like Chr(28) and Chr(34) ('&' and '"', respectively).
We had been using Chr(34) to bind together a dynamic pathname ...

I have a VB6 (sp5) program that imports ascii data, opens databases and
produces reports.
I use a simple proressbar that I make visible or hide and change the settings
of from time to time as I do things in my program.

Si alguen puede ayudarme!!
Estoy ejecutando un Update de SQL y me da un error de  "No se han
especificado valores para algunos de los parametros requeridos",
y yo creo que estan todos los parametros....help please!!!!

everyone. anyone can help me make the code shorter (i try
select case but fail):
   Do Until InStr(text1.text, "sheep") = 0
      text1.text = Replace(text1.text, "sheep", "goal")

Does anyone know how to pass a control Array to a function in another module?
The syntax function foo(cArray() as Control) does not seem to work. When calling with a Control array (eg. label1), I get the message Type Mismatch: Array or User Defined Type expected.  I can pass an ...

Is it possible to delete a file to recycle bin in vb6? If so how?
Best regards
Hugo Sousa

 Just to tell you what I  learn today, and that this wouldn't be
possible without my 'C' knowledge of Pointers
 'Nothing better than to work by example (I think)
' The function that is going to be passed as parameter

I would like to have a label object change it's color (highlight) when the
user moves his mouse over this label. That's fairly easy, I can do that in
the MouseMove event (happens too often, but ok, it works). But how can I
restore it to its original color when the mouse pointer ...

When you see something like
left$ or myVariable$
What does that mean?
Is it like a pointer?

i am looking 4 a way to read a text file and look for a line in it by comapering to a syntax, , extract a word from the matching line and write it to a differant text file doing all this in a loop untill the end of the file
hope that one of you can help

How to convert int into char as below coding:
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%>
<%
Dim hh

Hi. Any idea how I 'un-NET' this to VB (and without using FSO!):
Dim buf() As Byte
Dim ret As Boolean
Dim size As Integer

RetVal = Shell("C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe ", 1)
When I use the above code in VB it does open Outlook Express at the INBOX
where I can read incoming messages.
I would like it to open at the NEW MESSAGE page, ready to input an address

My application is self-scaling.  Is it possible for me to set it's run time priority automatically at startup?