VB Forum / General / August 2004

I made a simple VB6 program.
Packaged with P&D Whizzard, it loads and runs under Windows.
I am wondering what would be involved in making it run on a Mac.
It uses only controls that are on the std VB6 toolbox

I'm given the coordinates for one leg of a two-legged through-hole capacitor,
the span between the legs and the polarity (in degrees) and need to calculate
the coordinates of the second hole.  This is beyond my grasp of geometry!
VB further complicates this for me since it ...

I searched in the archives, and couldn't find the info I was looking for.
I have a client that has an app currently written in VB6.  Basically, they've
also purchased a system called FaxPress, which is supposed to automate faxing.
The requirements for the additional functionality ...

I have built a component in vb. I have two function, one returns
ADODB.Recordset and the other take one argument which is ADODB.recordset by
ref.
In both function I fill the recordset.

I everybody
Is there anyway to parse .sif files by using visual basic, please.
Regards
.sif like winnt.sif of XP cd

i want to know can i have dynamic enum at VB6 that i can get name and value
from an ini file, e.g.
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Is it possible to implement the Singleton pattern in VB6?
I've seen discussions where you use a global variable in a standard module
to store the singleton object and use properties in a class to retrieve the
global variable.  Is that the best(and possibly the only) way to do this?

I'm generating a CSV file, writing it to disk, then opening it with Excel so
I can save it as an XLS. This is the code snippet:
                   oExcel.Workbooks.OpenText sCSV, xlWindows, ,
xlDelimited, xlTextQualifierNone, , , True, , , , , , , ",", "."

I am using a resource file to determine the language displayed on all user
interface components in a VB6 application.  My question is: is there a way
to change the language used for system controls like messagebox button
options (ex: vbokonly, vbokcancel, etc?).

I am having a mental breakdown, and can't seem to get a decent working
function!  I am trying to write a function that will remove duplicate strngs
from an array of strings.
This should be easy, right?  Basically what I am try to do is pass a

Hi to all,
Please, I need a good book about programming services in VB60.
Any proposals?
tnx

I am fairly new to VB6 and I have run into a little snag.  I'm outputting a
string (newfiledata) to a text file with the following code:
     Set fil = fso.createtextfile("a:\drow.dat")
              fil.write (newfiledata)

I am an amateur hobby programmer and depend mucho on the book.
In Form1 Declarations, I have the dim statement:  Public StartDate
But, in Form3, StartDate is empty.
If I use Form1.StartDate in the Form3 code,  the value is correct.

I have a parent MDI form in my project, in the MDI parent
form I have a menu with lots of menu items. When I open 2
MDI child forms wihin the MDI parent, then close 1 of
them, the MDI parent menu disappears and will not come

ORACLE database
If I have a field like:
MY_FIELD
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