VB Forum / General / August 2004

I startup vb 6 on my machine and the IDE hangs. What's wierd is that when I
start the IDE a Windows Installer box pops up and nothing. However, when
logged in as different user on the same machine the IDE runs fine. Any
ideas??? Please help!

I am wrting some VBA code to interact with a third party application that
has a VBA interface.  A form that I am working with has an OLE Control and I
want to invoke one of its events.  This third party does not have good
documentation on this control and I was wondering is there a ...

Does anyone know where I can find the event order of the controls (combobox,
textbox, etc) used to create form in VB 6?
TIA,

Is'it possible to have 2 different scales in the same chart? If it's
possible, how i make it?

How can I place/run a VB application from the system tray ? Is this possible
? Thanks in advance.

I've got a whole bunch of data types (bytes, longs, ints, variable-length
strings) that I need to write to a file in records:
Record 1
String1

I have an ADODB Recordset that I need to sort.  There is a "price" column of
varchar type.
I am sorting the recordset by the following line.
oRS.sort = "price ASC"

I saw several messages on the search engines all discussing this same
question but none really answered the question.
I would like a form (being used as a mdichild) that has no control box, no
icon, no min or max buttons, no control menu, no caption no title bar ....

I am saving single words in a simple sequential file using this code:
The FileName is ...\List1.doc which I thought would make it
a Word document.
   Open FileName For Output As #1

I have a byte array which contains data for example first 4 bytes contain a
numeric value and then next 4 bytes contains date etc. How can I read these
values?
Thanks in advance.

     I am trying to create an html file to be published by our
webserver.  I need it to display some graphs that are in ms chart and
a list of data that I get from an acess query.  Any suggestions and
help on how to do this will be much appreciated.

I am using VB in Word trying to concat 2 Strings
They should be seperated by a newline and I took \n for that but i
doesn't work
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(actualPos, 3).Range.Text = "Text1" +"\n"

Is it recommended coding practice to declare parameters that are "read
only" to a function using ByVal or does it not matter?
I need to write a few utility functions for a project. They will be
passed some numeric values that they do some processing on, but do not

I am developing a small application for multiple Windows 2000/XP clients
(10-15 max) that will display records from a SQL Server database in a
ListView or similar control.  Each client can potentially add/edit new
records that will be displayed on the control.

Hey, is there an API that will determine a mouse button's up or down
position?