VB Forum / General / September 2004

Ok guys....Your help would be greatly appreciated cause I've been a
this for too long and can't think straight anymore. I'm new to XM
programming so this is most likely caused by my newbie state and I'v
been pretty close to solving it a few times already, but I kept o

Currently I cannot run two instances of my compiled vb6 program.
How can I run two copies concurrently?
Stan Hilliard

Is it possible to write a C dll containing a function
returning string to VB6?
I googled around, and this seems to be rather difficult.
Nevertheless,

Ken Halter wrote:

I want to use a DataGrid control.in VB6.0 to read plain ascii text files.  I
do not want to bound the control  to a DataBase.  Any suggestions which
DataGrid Control I should use? and where I can find it?
Thanks!

I have a combo box that when it is opened the user should not click any menu
option, he can click anywhere on the screen except a menu option or the app
crashes. Is there anyway for me to know if a user click on a menu option
without having to code for every menu option ...

sometimes I get to know the parent of a class
first I just stored the Reference introducing a .Destroy - Method
that removed the cyclic Reference
then I learned that it was possible to store only the ObjPtr and

Hi,
Please, I need explanation how to store text from RTF control into MS
SQL database.
Should I treat RTF text as picture(binary)? Is there any other way?

I need several 16x16 icon files for use in TreeView and ListView. I place
them into a resource file using the VB6 Resource Editor. In code, I use
LoadResPicture function to get these icons. But when I use them, they are
stretched to 32x32 pixel size. When getting the same icons ...

I am sure there is a simple answer to my question, but I can not find it.
In Visual Studio C++ there is an option to format the code.  You highlight
the section then Edit | Advanced | Format.  I can not find anything like
that in VB 6.0?

I can use Oleview.exe to examine the contents of, say, msword.olb and save
the critter as an IDL file that I can easily search with, say, Wordpad.
How can I examine the contents of the Visual Basic and VBA DLLs themselves?
For example, the online help states that IIF has named ...

A lot of applications display a description, in the status bar, of the menu
option that the user passed with the mouse over the a certain menu option.
How is that possible to do in vb once the only event vb has in terms of menu
options is the click event?

Dear all,
I've written a dll (in C#), to be used as a COM object in VB6. Say
(for simplicity) I've defined two classes in that dll: Class1 and
Class2. One of the functions in Class1 (say, called "FunctionToCall")

I know technically this is not allowable in VB6, but I understand that there
are 3rd party products that help you get around that limitation.  Does
anyone use or have any experience with one that you could recommend?  I want
to see if it's feasible/practical and/or if it will really ...

let me think of Excel case:
   Set oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
   oExcel.DisplayAlerts = False
   Set oDoc = oExcel.Workbooks.Open(SourceDocFile)