VB Forum / VB Syntax / November 2004

I'm learning vb, coming from a Perl background.  I want to know how to
reference a form element by using a counter variable in the element's name.  
For instance, let's say I have a form with 10 textboxes named textbox1
through textbox 10 and I have a for loop and I want to ...

I am using VB6 and ASP  as my development tools (old as me)
I have two question actually.
1.  How to write a function with return value which is an array of a varible
a self-defined type

I wish to change the current working directory to a specified directory, and
then to a subdirectory of that one.
However, non-existence of directories results in an error.
How can I work around this error?

I have two questions. The first is probably quite simple, but i just don't
know it:
Say i have the numbers: 12 - 5 - 6.5 - 3.5 - 13
I wish to print them as: 12,0 - 5,0 - 6,5 - 3,5 - 13,0

I need to know if a control array element has already been loaded. The
following code runs but not with the expected results:
For i = 0 to UpperLimit
   If myControl(i) Is Nothing Then Load myControl(i)

When writing to the eventlog from VB6 the source becomes "VBRuntime", is
there any way to change that to the name of my own application?
regards Betina

I used to used this code below to display an icon when I point to a
picture box, but this time I have a label instead of a picture box...
(I put label.SetFocus)Picture1.SetFocus
(I put label.MouseIcon)Picture1.MouseIcon = LoadPicture(App.Path &

Hi there. We have a VB 6 application which works fine as an administrative user. However, as a limited user, it will work fine, and then after
recompilation, it will not even go into sub main -- we have a message box to check if it gets there. It just displays "Windows cannot ...

I am editing text in a RichTextBox, then use the SaveFile method to write it
to a template containing a header and footer, like so:
   'Use SaveFile method to save the file:
   [rtfTextBox].SaveFile [Template], [0 = filetype RTF]

I've tracked down a bug that appears to be due to an implicit type
conversion not actually happening. However, I'm at a loss to explain what VB
is actually doing at that point. I wonder if anyone can flash a pair of
fresh eyes across the following.

I believe CDate just converts the entered date into date format.
It makes no check for validity.
Ex - The user can enter 31st February
Is there a way how i can check whether the user entered date comes within

I am unable to send Unicode string from VB appln to VC appln. I guess,
sending a string from VB appln converts the string to Ansi format
whereas, my VC appln is understands Unicode format. i.e. if the string
is Chinese or Japanese then sending it from VB converts

Hi, I need to take phone number field values and just extract the numbers
and ignore dashes, slashes, periods, parenthesis, and what ever else people
enter into these fields.
For that matter, it would be handy to be able to extract numbers and/or

Can I pass a variable from a form to another? Do I have to define again this
var in another page? for example: I define a variable in MDIfrom and assign
it a value, I want another form when loaded to get this value of the
variable. Thanks for any idea.

I have a project that is going to connect to a SQL Server.
At the moment whenever I have to try out the .exe I have to rewrite the
connection string so that it looks at the correct SQL Server and Database
name.