VB Forum / General / August 2004

I am new to VB programming and need help making a vertical scroll bar scroll
a form. The form name is frm140_6 and I am only showing about 1/4 of the form
at the top of the screen and need to be able to scroll the entire form. The
form height is 4475.

here's something weird: FindFirstFile searching for "*_*" finds all
"*_*" but also all "*=*"! Even more mysterious: it does not work the
other way round. (WinXP).
Any explanations anybody?

I am having issues when connection to a FTP Server via an EZFTP.OCX PRO
(www.coolstf.com).  Once in a while the FTP process does not connect to the
FTP Server via my VB App.  FTP has a tendency to lock my VB App for a second
when making a connection to an FTP Server.  During that ...

Does anyone know a url to the vb6 language reference? I've googled for
this but MS has been doing a good job hiding it :/

googling for SHGetFileInfoW (+ VB) brings up almost nothing. I just wonder
why. Has anybody here ever tried SHGetFileInfoW?
thanks
Donald

          In Windows XP>Control Panel there is Speech folder and in it one
male voice (Sam) , which plays fine.
Does it mean that speech engine is installed on that computer?
I am asking because my code:

Control of Key response in text box
=========== Code ==========
Private Sub Prefix_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
   if  KeyAscii =This OR KeyAscii =That then

I have VB6 and XPHome.
I have not tried to do this but I want to get a list of computers (connected
with my computer) using the LAN cards (without using the Internet
obviously). Is there a Component I should install? And if I may say, how do

From MSDN:
If you want to get only the Mike and Mary voices redistributable for Windows
XP, download Mike and Mary redistributables (Sp5TTIntXP.exe).
After downloading it there is only 1 file: Sp5TTIntXP.Msm

Using VB6 SP5
Question.
Is there any way to have the Superscript and Subscript when using the
RichTextBox?

I have been using VB 6.0 from the beginning.  I have gotten good at it too.
Should I upgrade to VB.NET?  What is the downfall to moving to VB.Net? Does
anybody know the percentage of VB6.0 and VB.Net users?
Thanks!

i hope someone can help 'cause this is driving me crazy!
When i'm in debug mode and an error occurs which is outside of my control
eg. typing in an invalid statement in the immediate window, my IDE as
expected throws an error.  The trouble is the error msg box is hidden behind

I have an MDI application with quite a few child forms...
a requirement has come up which requires that I notify the MDI form when
one of it's child forms is about to close/unload.
I need to perform some validation checks & if they fail prevent the form

Has anyone come across a reasonably priced programming tool that support
OCR. The old kodak imaging for Windows had one, but it was VERY slow and not
well documented or supported.
Any tips would be much appreciated.

all the help on case statements says you can use 'expressions'
A combination of keywords, operators, variables, and constants that yields a
string, number, or object. An expression can be used to perform a
calculation, manipulate characters, or test data.