VB Forum / General / August 2004

Sorry I'm a bit rusty with my VB6.
Is this kind of set logic possible?
At the moment, I have the following:
If Left(sComp, 3) = "AHC" Or Left(sComp, 3) = "AMC" Or Left(sComp, 3) =

How to print ASCII letters to matrix printers in text mode
from VisualBasic 6 using native functions, statements ...?
Or i have to call Win32 API.
D. Dimitrov

What I'm trying to do is make a Switchboard, but if the file that a
button points to moves for some reason, I want the program to
automatically search all local drives for it.
Anyone wanna help a brother out?

is there any way to rid yourself of sp6 without utilizing system restore?

Any graphics I display on a form displays differently between my development
PC and some other production PC's.   Usually the graphic is slightly lower.
I've made sure the display settings are the same, but that shouldn't make a
difference.

When I run my code in VB6, I got this error.
"Unexpected exception i VB6.EXE (MSVCR71.DLL):cx000005:Access violation.
Why?

Would anybody know what the SIZE and the RESOLUTION of the Form Icon, ie:
the icon that is displayed on the top left hand corner of a VB form, should
be so that it may appear clearly?  I am using VB 6.0.
Thanks!

I am using vb6 sp6 or whatever the newest sp is and its all screwed up
because everytime i put a comma in a place where it should go, i.e. FileCopy
(Form1.Label5.Caption & "/" & Form1.Text1.Text, Form1.Label5.Caption & "/" &
Form1.Text1.Text & ".mcn") it says Compile Error: ...

When drawing shapes via the api, you can set a pattern (hatch, right?) of, for
instance, A diagonal cross.  You can also set the colors that it will use to
draw this.  However, you can only draw in a rectangle that appears on screen
with a, I dont' nkow how to describe this, not ...

private var1 as object
private var2 as object
set var1 = createobject(....
set var2 = var1

I am writing a small program that connect to IRC. I create
a TCPClient connection and i use stream to read and write
data. It works ok, but i have a problem reading from stream.
while(true){

How does one go about creating a recordset on the fly without a database in
VB6?
I want to populate a recordset from an array without using a backend
database...

.... I want to let the user do a multiselect on a listview by dragging
the mouse over the rows he wants selected.  How can I do that?  Thanks.

I have got the following problem.
I would be glad, if anybody can help me.
How can I use "post" instead of "get" in my
httpwebrequest?!?httpwebrequest.method doesn't work :-( ....

I recently upgraded my computer to windows XP and re-installed visual basic 6.  For the first week or so it was working fine and all.  But now whenever I try to compile it into a .exe I get an error and it closes VB.  If I just compile an empty form (no buttons or codes) it works ...