VB Forum / General / July 2004

I am building an app that contains a form to show the contents of a
directory. It uses SendMessage to get a list of direcory contents and place
them in a listbox.
It works fine on drives that are simply called by their letter, "C:", E:",

Has anyone used Binary File Access?  I am reading from a ACSII text file
using Sequential File Access and then trying to write it into Binary file
using Binary File Access.  Here is my code:
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Const MyURL = http://www.somesite.com/somepix.gif
Private Sub cmdGetPix_Click()
Inet1.Execute MyURL, "GET"
Private Sub Inet1_StateChanged(ByVal State As Integer)

The code in my form load is as follows:
frmMDImain.print "This is a test"
The problem is nothing appears on the form.  Can someone verify that it is
possible to print to the form directly?

This one's probably very simple, but I haven't found anything yet
which tells me how to do it...
I have had to program a bit of drag'n'drop functionality, in which the
object being moved must stay on the same X coordinate, i.e. it only

I used google to search for "vb Shaped form." I clicked on one of the links
named "vb Shaped form creator 7.3." That link opened a site
(www.serial.com/key/vb...) but didn't have any vb related information. While
I thought about it I noticed my system was grinding away indicating ...

Is there a way to suspend processing of code that follows the opening of a
VB form?  I know in Access I can open as a Dialog form and it is modal until
I close it.  Thanks.
David

In the VB6 Properties Window you can quickly go to a selected property by:
CTRL + SHIFT + <first letter of property name>
For example, to go to the "Caption" property of a Label, you would press:
CTRL + SHIFT + L

I was looking for people's thoughts on updating to SP6 for Visual Studio. I
heard a lot of bad press in the pass and have stayed away for that reason,
and was just wondering if people still had the same impression.
Gunner

Thread I'm commenting on is "Re: Best practice for saving information
between runs?"
OK, Sorry to be coming in late. First, I must note that I'm using Outlook
Express to read this and I cannot read the entire thread. (I'm going to go

does anyone know a way to trace the causes of an "Exception Floating point
inexact result"?
It occurs suddenly while my application is running (it receives data from a
server and updates its displays), no actual user operation seems to be

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I write for Access 2000 Macros in VBA.
In last time I get more and more the following error message when I would like to use these makros that are e.g. linked to Text boxes:
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In my VB6 app I am merging to word to do reports.  When displaying
percentages it is rounding up the values so the total adds up to 101%.  How
can I in VB tell it to round down even if the result is i.e 19.85% so it
displays 19% instead of 20%.

why doesn't Visual Basic (6.0 Pro) allow having controls aligned vertically
in a MDI Form (not Child Form)? I was thinking about having a menu on the
left hand side, but it seems to automaticly set all controls' width to the
form's width.

Somewhere in my program I start rather long calculation and I want to inform user what is going so I rise a new form which contain only one progress control bar which I refresh from time to time
m_prb.lbMsg = "Connect to the database"
m_prb.MaxV = newInputFiles.Count
m_prb.Show