VB Forum / General / July 2004

I have a VB app that is currently running fine in Windows 95, 98, and NT. However, when running in XP, I have a form that will not load all the time.
Basically the user goes to a search screen, enters criteria, clicks O.K., and a result screen is displayed. This result screen ...

Mr. newbee here.
Here is the code that I am using to create a line with text and units x cost
= total. Should be simple emough to get the subsequent lines to line up but
they don't. Any ideas?

I'm creating a modal form (dialog) and would like to set the focus to a
specific control using code. The problem is that the SetFocus() property
only works once VB shows the form. That would be okay, but I lose the
processing once I call "Show vbModal". Is there anyway to keep the ...

What's the best way to format various types of data for columnar
output using a monospace font?
I have a set of data values (some numbers, some dates, some text). I
want to define a width (in characters) for each field, then generate a

I have a class member variable that is a variant that can contain either a
very large array of integers or bytes. At some point I initialise the
variant and fill with either a temporary integer array or byte array using
the sytax as below.

I'm loading a webpage in the webcontrol and setting the document property to
an HTMLDocument variable (with events) on DocumentComplete event.
Now I'm trying to disable the oncontextmenu of the document, so in the
oncontextmenu event of the moDoc object I do:

I have some VB code that when run, creates a form, displays it, then
carries out some database queries when the user presses a "run" button.  On
the form, I want to put a "pause" button and allow the user to pause
execution of the program until the user wishes to continue.

Hi, I have the following parameterized union query:
PARAMETERS SectionName Text ( 255 ), SectionNumber Long;
SELECT Search_ID, Section, Caption, Type_ID, Reference_Table,
Reference_Field, Exclude FROM Report_SearchBy WHERE Section = [SectionName]

I am using the Printer.Print Command to print to an Acrobat PDF file.
How can i change the name of the filename that is being saved by code.?
At present the filename is the name of the calling exe.
I once heard that a registry hack was required.

   I am creating an activex control which is tied to relational data.  This
relational data will get 'rolled-up' into calculated data.  This means that
I have to process a large amount of data from the relational source.
   My question is this:

Just a thought.  Is there licensing something-or-other that would prevent
this from happening, or has a company out there already attempted such a
thing?  Something that compiles VB6 source modules, forms, etc, even provide
an IDE.

Any best pratice for coding VB6.0 to improve the program execution speed?

I have a project that requires a clickable graphic.  This graphic is a circle cut into 4 equal sections or slices.  Each slice is a different color.  I need to find a way where the graphic will respond when the mouse is moved cross each slice.  When the mouse moves over each ...

I have a registered DLL that I compiled using 2.0.0 for the version in the
Make properties.
However, if I use AddFromGuid(strGUID, 2, 0), I am informed that the object
is not registered.

How is possible to retrieve information about dimension and position of
windows application bar? (Visual Basic 6)
Thanks
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