VB Forum / General / August 2004

Hello..
   I am using VB6 SP5 and have noticed that if I try to set a form's
startupposition dynamically, I get
the following error:

I'm building an Access app.
Hi.  I have a form, lets say I'm on record 14 in that form.  I created
a button on that form that would open up a Report that has the format
I need for printing.  Now when I click on that button, the Report page

I have an array which holds four values i.e 10, 5, 15, 2.  I need to be able
to cycle through and display the range so it would look like this 2 - 15.
Does anyone know of an easy way of doing this?  Is it possible to sort the
array so that it would show me lowest value to highest ...

I am having a problem with a Listbox I am using from the frm20.dll, which is
the Microsoft Forms Objects 2.0 Library. The problem is I can't get the
information displayed in the columns to look right. I set the properties
like; Column = 3,

Is it possible to start an application from another computer?
I have and MS Access.mdb file that generates reports.
I want to be able to start this file from another computer
that do not have MS Access installed.

I have a question about VB in a distributed environment. Our organisation is
running a third-party VB6 database application using a thin client approach
with SQL Server and a Citrix Server. Does anyone know of a good book,
article/series of acrticles or web page Microsoft or other ...

I USUALLY USE THE EXCEL GROUP BUT MAYBE THE BELOW IS MORE OF A GENERAL QUERY!
Not sure if there's any help available for this one!
In a class module named PlayingCard I have:
public enum enumColour

I'm creating a class collection.  Each class being stored in the collection
is given a unique string key.  As I step through the collection with a
for-each loop, I would like to get the string key as well.
My question:  Is there a way to retrieve what that key value is without

   I have several questions regarding the P&D program supplied in the VS6
suite.  I recently used the program to create a CAB and setup.exe file so
that others may install my program on their computers.  When I run the setup
program it created, I get a couple errors, all of which I ...

I am writing a DLL wrapper to the Mixer API in which I expose the mixers,
mixer lines, and line controls as objects.  Originally, I had planned to
expose these mixer objects as arrays of UDT's but then it occurred to me that
it would be a better design to expose them as an array ...

I seem to have encountered a pretty nasty problem here:
1) My application displays a modal form. Prior to displaying, I change a
counter to indicate a modal form is open
2) With an event, I am told to close my application. I receive this event

Hello everyone, I am creating a listbox in which throughout the program,
I am adding new items to the listbox.  Unfortunately, the listbox stays
completely empty until the very end.  I was hoping though that my
program would populate the list box depending on which portion of the

battling with multiple user systems - I'm trying to create some order
in the way files (stories actually) are saved from my package. A good
default /might/ be to save to My Documents, on the asumption (HA!) the
differnet users have differnet My Documents folders.

I´m writing a screen reader app using visual basic and MSAA.
The problem is when i´m reading the UI from MSOffice applications.
I use SetWinEventHook, to filter focus events and then
AccessibleObjectFromEvent to describe the UI to the blind user. Doing so

I know I could use a picture box for this, but I'm trying to keep the
number of controls down so I thought I'd ask: I want to show a list
that might need to scroll, but I don't want users to be able to
highlight any entry - i.e. it's for info only and highlighting implies