VB Forum / General / July 2004

I have an application in VB6 that calls Mscal.ocx for selecting date ranges in an Access 97 database.  It works fine on some XP Pro installations, with, as far as I can see, all applicable service packs, but on others apparently similar, the dates within the boxes are invisible.  ...

Is there any activex control out there that allow me to convert Midi music
file (*.mid) to mp3 or wav format. Currently I have lots of mid files on my
pc and i like to convert into mp3 or wav file or other uses.
Thanks in advance.

 I want to change the colour of the text for only part of the
textbox. For example, set the first 2 characters to red and leave the
rest black.
I'd imagine it's going to need an api function somewhere but I can't

I have been trying to center a form on Windows 2000 using the following
subroutine:
Public Sub center(Anyform As Form)
Anyform.left = (Screen.Width - Anyform.Width) / 2

I have Master/Details form. In detail i m using flexgrid. what is the best
way to save the Details files ( data in the Flex Grid ) and
also how can check whether the FlexGrid Col is Blank or Not.
Thanks...

I am printing to HP932C over a network.  When I print, all
the text is printed as if the background was set to grey.
However I have gone into options and changed printer text to
background=white.  What's even worse is that this works 50%

I need directions for an assignment.
I need to  moidfy a VB application, which creates a folder structure in the
local system. What I need to do is create a corresponding folder strucrture
(privtae folders) in the exchange.

please help
look at this code a little way in just above the rem statements, I get the
error message shown
I looked at using MAPI but that only works for the inbox I gathered

In another of my VB projects I require that my program can handle 2
keyboard inputs at the same time. However the Form_KeyDown function
seems only able to process one input at a time, so if the up arrow is
pressed it will process code for that but if i also pressed the E key

I have wrriten a handler in a .Net 2005 Windows.Form in to handle an event raised by the FileSystemWatcher class.  The handler updates a control when a file has changed.
When I change a file with NotePad, the handler fails with an InvalidOperation Exception. Th exception says the ...

I've written an MDI application in VB 6, and I'm not sure how to handle the
following:
1.  Main MDI window is open
2.  Child window #1 is open

Is there a direct way to test subfunctions from the Immediate window?
What I am doing now, is setting a break point somewhere in the program
then starting the program (F5). At that point, I can execute the
subfunction from the Immediate window.

Does anyone know if there are any PDF conversion utilities
around ? I've found some stuff written in C which I'm currently
looking over. Just wondering if anyone has any good links or
has messed with it in the past.

Public Const LVM_SUBITEMHITTEST As Long = (LVM_FIRST + 57)
I have found it in someone's else code.
Why the above line is wriiten that way?
Shouldn't it just be like this:

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I'd like to have a form hide itself, and invoke another form.
When the second form closes, I'd like to .show the original form.
I've tried