VB Forum / General / August 2004

Will pay $100 to get a small VB program to  work. This program is about 50
lines long and is mostly complete but I know nothing about VB.
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I am using the following code to open an excel file, after which I do a few things to the file and close again.  
 Dim MyXL As Object
 Dim WKBK As Excel.Workbook
 Set MyXL = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")  

I'm running into a strange situation. I have a standard tab control
on a form with several tabs. I also have a standard text box on
the tab control. I position my cursor in the text box, then I click on
another tab header.

Hi anyone,
Why the printer respond tinme are too slow when i using the Write
Printer API to sent the file to the printer.
Thanks in advance

Can anybody steer me to information for using VB6 to talk to a USB port that
will be connected to our own equipment ?  I assume I need some kind of
driver.
Thanks, Dana

I'm having a problem with the following routine, which seems to be leaking a
single GDI object each time its run:
Private Declare Function SelectObject Lib "GDI32.dll" (ByVal hDC As Long, _
 ByVal hObject As Long) As Long

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Is there a way to do this?  I can compile my VB .Net code to a Class Library ( DLL ) but I don't see how to export a .DEF file for the VC++ to recognize the DLL entry point.

in my journey to build a MP3 player, i face one more issue, like everybody
know, the player should consists of [Play], [Pause], and [Stop] buttons.
i use webdings font on the button caption to have it shown. but the pause
button looks ugly and incompatible with the [Play] and [Stop] ...

I am looking for a way how to add all MPEG Audio, Ogg Vorbis and Wave
files to a ListView and found FindNextFile to be exactly what I need.
However, I can only supply patterns like "*.wav", "*.mp1"... Is there a
way to search for "*.wav; *.mp1; *.mp2; *.mp3; *.ogg" in only one ...

I am working on an app that is driven from an icon located in the
systray (near the clock).  The app is started from the start-up folder.
 Running on Win2k pro.
The problem I am having is that sometimes once someone logs on the icon

I'm a sort of "extreme" VB user, however, I've been struggling for almost a
month with this task, searched the Internet extensively, but alas to no
avail.
Here's my problem:

For any of you that know anything about ASP.Net, I'm looking at adding all
appSetting Keys to a combo box - -
However, I'm not that familiar with XML and it's various versions, etc
the top node is:

ok, now the surge for all rational people to abandon IE5/6/7/8/9/.....  for mozilla and other "unproven" wares
so what do we face with our "old" code?
obsolete? adapt? rewrite?  VB scripts, of any use?
(& did the root of all MS programmers know of other inherent "problems" that are ...

I'm creating a post script file from VB Program but I can't pass the name of file to the printer object. In other words I don't see when I trigger the complete command list, there is no method or property for passing the post script filename (or any filename). I would like to ...