VB Forum / General / July 2004

I've got a VB6 application that has a main window, and can show a number of modeless dialogs along with the main window.  Each of the modeless dialogs is set so that it appears in the taskbar.
In Windows XP, when there are multiple modeless forms along with the main window, the ...

Is it possible, in code, to determine what procedure called what other
procedure.  For example, say procedure A called procedure B which calles
Procedure C.  It it possible for code in procedure C to determine that
Procedure B called it?

I need to be able to find out what numbers are made up of in binary.
For example, if i have the number 20, i need to be able to find out it is made up of 4 and 16.
Anybody got any good ideas?
Rob

When I try to open any of my VB6 projects, I get errors indicating that my 3rd party ActiveX components cannot be located. It appears that somewhere, the system is appending a "\1" on the end of the path names and therefore cannot find the file. I believe that the errors began ...

Is there any windows api function for converting a window handle to
type  integer or long and vice versa?....

Yesterday I was changing some code. Code was in two separate sources, so i
switched between them having two VB6 sessions open. One of the sources was a
control, the other a program using it.
Suddenly the IDE was messed up. I can't remember when it happened exactly,

I'm running a vb app that has the following problem. If I run the
application in debug, if I perform a risize or some other arbitrary
operations I get a vb6.exe application error saying:
The instruction at 0x00000000 referenced memory at 0x00000000. The

I am experiencing a bout of DLL Hell and it is driving me NUTS.  I am a few
days away from rollout of a Beta version and I really dont need this.
I have a situation similar to this
MyDLL1

Is there any way of forcing the immediate window cursor to the bottom
of the immediate window from within a vb program?
I have had some confusing results because I didn't notice that the
cursor was somewhere higher up in the immediate window and that's

I want to implement an OCX and my user control has a class module in it which as an event and in the client I want to get that event.. how should I implement that event in my class module and also set my class modules attributes so the client application could use an instance of ...

I need to get a recordset from SQL (that is not updatable because of joins
and
such), and disconnect it and treat it as a standalone updatable recordet. My
problem is

I am using the TextOut api to write text to a form.  How can I copy the
contents of the form to the clipboard? (or to anywhere)  Ideally I would
like to a selective copy, but since this is a form, capturing the entire
contents as text would be fine.

Is there any way to force a variable in the immediate window to be of
a particular type (integer, byte, double, date, etc.)?
It looks like all variables defined (implicitly) in the immediate
window are type Variant. Is that correct?

I need to add formatted text in Picture box and then save the Image as
bmp.
1. Basically user will type and format the text in a Rich text box.
User can change color, font, alignment etc (This part is ready).

I have a set of numbers some positive and negative, -45.21, 78.456, -90.564
etc. what I want to do is to reverse them into the opposite as follows,
45.21, -78.456, 90.564 etc. is there a format for doing this?
thanks,