VB Forum / General / August 2004

i have learned enough VB5 to get done all of the projects that i wanted to
do, but now am stuck. if anyone would take pity on me and help out it would
be great. please recall that once, way back, you were a hack just like me
and perhaps somebody helped you along.

I am attempting to create a Affidavit in a rtf format through VB.  I am able
to create the text in the document but it looks ugly.  Is there a way to
create a table in a rtf document and to write database information to that
table?

I have build an alarm clock in vb6.  When the alarm goes off a wave
file plays.  
When the alarm is sounding, you can click the "Stop" button but it
won't stop playing until the wave has completed.

I have a public type i want to store the contents into a file.. I don't want
this file to be readable.. maybe binary...? Any solutions?
   Thanks,
   Brian

I have used a recordset object to populate flexgrid with a database table.
The recordset correctly returns the columns and their names. However, it does
not return the correct value for number of records stored in the table thru
recordset.recordcount

Is there some kind of utility when captures a vb app runtime errors and
writes the necessary information to a file or send it per email? Something
on the lines of BugTrapper 3.0 but preferably cheaper!!
Ivan

We need to send small messages out the com port.    We need to be able to
send the full 0-255 range. We're not sending just ascii characters.  Even
parity.  It'd be good to be able to receive too, if possible.
FWIW, we're talking to a device that uses the GSIOC protocol.  It's a

I have a large form with several controls on it. It is linked to a remote
database, and each control is filled with data. It also loads a few ComboBox
controls in a control array.
The code works fine, but it seems slow - it appears to refresh the screen

All of a sudden the up and down arrows on the right side of the window in
the IDE look goofy. They have a horizontal line about half way up going
thru them. They seme to be working fine...the arrows image is just
goofy. This is NOT related to split screen.

I a help file for an application program I wrote and I am trying to use the
WhatsThisMode help in the program.
With the .hlp file I created I can use the F1 key to get help for all the
functions in the program.

I have a few questions. We have 3 developers and we are going to be
switching over to VB.Net (Visual Studio Enterprise). We are trying to
decide whether to buy individual copies of the Visual Studio .Net 2003
or whether to buy 3 Subscriptions to the MSDN.. Obviously, the

I have a icon from my app that sits in the systemtray.How can I have
real time reporting when the user views the tooltiptext?In other words
the system time changes in the text when thetooltip is visible.At
present it displays the systemtime but it freezes until you leave the

I would like to convert an excel worksheet to PDF file.  Could someon
explain to me how?  thank
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jon

Hi group,
Got a puzzler of a problem here and was hoping someone could shed some light
on the subject.
When running a compiled program, I receive:

I used to have the system set to blank the screen after the screen saver was
on for X minutes.  It has quit working and I cannot find where the setting
is located.  Any thoughts?
Marv