VB Forum / General / August 2004

I have a string ie  BC3ELOPR8TY2UEDCX
What I am trying to do is find a very simple and quick way of doing the
following:  Say I am looking for the string OPR8T and if I find it int the
main string I want to through it out and keep what is left. With the above

I am playing with an Excel spreadsheet with command button objects "floating"
over the spreadsheet data.
UGLY!
I know how to use the VBA edit screens a bit, and I can find the VBA event

Sometimes I end up with more than one .exe launched. Is there a way to
recognize that so I can set a busy flag or something. Perhaps a windows api
that can tell by the handle... program name...???
Any ideas or help appreciated.

DrawText has many overload. Two of which won't let me use the function
because once accepts a ByVal rect and the other accepts a ByRef rect. How
can I resolve this problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to get my dcom server to work with the XP SP2 firewall. My
server exe is install on XP SP2, the client which to tries create an
instance of a class in the server is on W2K. I added the server exe to
the Exceptions list in the firewall configuration dialog and I still ...

I am using an example of a function I received from the Internet (Code is
below).  This works fine for me, but when the files to be copied are in use,
then it throws up a criticle box saying file cannot be copied:<filename>  in
use by another program.  I know that this is normal, ...

I created a class (cLink) that fires Events (e.g. Splitted) and another
classe (cLineRoute) that has cLink declared withevents. Several cLineRoutes
refer to the same cLink object. If that cLink Object fires the Splitted
event, it keeps firing it on the first cLineRoute object in ...

Hello;
I have a problem using Dir on a remote shared directory.
example:
   Dir \\mycomputer\mySharedFolder

This is kind of urgent.
I have made a program in VB6 with one standard exe file that calls an
activex exe server.
The program is polling a directory to look for files that needs to be

I'm using VB 6.0 and Access database using ADO. In my computer everything
works fine but in my client's computers.
The program end's without any error messages. I was able to make it work by
putting some info messages in the middle of the code. Once the messages are

I use VB6
Is it possible to add a button that will clear the immediate window?
If not - How do I find the hwnd of this window?
I tried FindWindow api with no luck.

I am writing an ActiveX EXE. It has this function:
Public Function Method1() As StdPicture
   Dim tmp As StdPicture
   Set tmp = LoadPicture("c:\test.bmp")

I am trying to set up a simple button in a Word form that should be
easier than this!
I would like to have the following occur onclick:
1- open UI box that asks user for a file name

I have a page where i want someone to put in a password click a button and if
it is right go to the next page.
I have all the code written except that i do not know how to tell vbscript
to load a new page

I use VB6 and I want to put something on the main window status bar that is
determined by actions in another window.  When I set the value
   frmMain.sbrMain.panels(3).text="My text"
I find that 1) the frmMain load code executes and 2) the text does not