VB Forum / General / July 2004

Sorry for the multi-post but this post was an after thought...
Is there somewhere I can download just one or two header files, ie: The two main
ones Under-> Windows.h
Problems:

I have a little pop3 thing I'm working on that launches my default email
program like this:
RetVal = ShellExecute(Me.hWnd, "open", PathToApplication, _
    FileName, vbNullString, SW_SHOWNORMAL)

My question is regarding the comparison of two UDT variables.
I don't want a byte-by-byte comparison to see whether they contain same
information or not.
What I want is to check whether they are same variables or not.

Is there anyway of turning on/off the Print Background Colors and Images
setting in IE from VB? I have an application which generates a html document
and sends it to IE for printing. It would be good to be able to enable this
setting before I print the report so I have print the ...

I find it very annoying that when I want to compile my project, I have
to ask VB to compile, then click OK to the dialog asking me where I want
to put the compiled file, then click Yes when it asks me if I want to
overwrite the existing one.

What's the recommended way to get from a text string to an array
index?
I have a series of data records that I will be reading one at a time.
They have a format like:

I have a VB 6 program installed on a Remote Server out of the Office in a
different location, I would like to know if it is possible to run the VB EXE
on my desktop(Local PC) with out installing the VB program on the local
computer.

Why did VB define "False" as "-1" (when it gets converted to other
data types) rather than "1"?
How is boolean data stored internally?
Just curious.

I have a packaged control that I want to work off a button.  How do I call
it from btn_click()
For example:
Private Sub controlA_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As

I'm creating a VB program in a 1024-768 screen resolution.
The program is however also used on a screen which uses 1280-1024.
I have a MDI main form on which I want to load childforms like:
 HVT.Move 0, 0, Me.ScaleWidth - 4900, Me.ScaleHeight - 2400

Is there any way to disable the typomatic function for a selected key?
Actually, I want to toggle it on and off.
I am writing an electronic flashcard program where the user scores
themselves. I have it set up so that the program displayes the

My software, when i deploy it, cause the runtime error 372.
I've been looking on the web for the last 2 days, but i can not repair it.
But there's something very wierd, usualy this error appear when a control is
use and is not up to date. My control is a user control inside the

I rememeber seeing a thread a long time ago about how people trap errors and
resume, but I can't find it now.  I'm pretty sure either Ken Halter or Larry
Serflaten demonstrated something that was pretty cool for trapping errors when
in the IDE and still being able to find out the ...

I need to run Access from VB
The following doesn't work.
Set MyObject = CreateObject("Access.application")
MyObject.Open ("P:\Rep\CPT.mdb")

I'm having a very hard time figuring this out, and I'm going to have an even
harder time explaining the problem.
I have a large program that displays customer details along with purchase
details etc... on my development machine my program runs perfectly well but