VB Forum / General / September 2004

I use the Dir command to access files over the network using a share e.g.
Dir("\\192.168.0.171\SharedDir\MyFile.txt")
If the call is made regularly, then it returns immediatly, but if the call
is made every 10 minutes or so, there is a delay of 3 or 4 seconds before it

Hi, I'm using VB6 and I need to convert a decimal number to an IEEE 754
decimal number. The problem is that the elegant way of overlaying a "Single"
variable
over a data structure 4 bytes long isn't precise enough. I tried to use a

Since downloading the latest Microsoft update, my computer has slowed to a
crawl. It actually took 5 minutes to bring up VB6, switching between
visible windows can take long enought that I can get a cup of coffee (not
every time, but not infrequent, either).

I'm trying to dynamically add a number of textboxes to a picturebox at run
time.  Ideally, I'd be able to add them to a control array.  The following
code doesn't work (apparently, the Index property is read-only):
   Dim i As Integer: i = 0

The PopupMenu method in VB6 has an option vbPopupMenuRightButton which
makes the menu react to a mouse click when you use either the right or
left mouse button.  I want to have different functionality depending
on which button is pressed on a menu item but the only event available

During the setup of a VB6 application program the following message is
displayed "An error occurred while registering the file
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\msado25.tlb".  Does anyone know why this error is being
reported?  Thanks.

I am looking for information on how to print a mail merge type listing of
labels from data retrieved from a database.
For example, I have a customer table and am pulling a subset of
records(tuples) out of the relation.  I want to send this data to the

I am using VB6 SP6.
I was looking to add a progress bar to the Title area of a form and also
adding one (in another form) next to a Menu item below the Title area but in
the Menu themselves.

I am looking at the references window.  I have a few questions.
Question 1: There are 2 checked entries, "Visual Basic for Applications" and
"Visual Basic runtime objects and procedures".
The location for "Visual Basic for Applications" is

I would like to switch endianess for a float (Single). I'm on x86 system
obviously.
I think that what needs to be done is that the hi order 16 bit needs to be
swapped with the low order 16 bits.

During package build I get the message "Below is a list of files for which
dependencey information could not be found.  To proceed without the
dependency information for the file(s), click OK. To permanently mark a file
as having no dependencies, select its checkbox".  The message ...

How do I get the windows path? For my application it is app.path, is it
something similar for the OS path?
Is it "$(WinSysPath)" ?  but it doesn't work.
Thanks

How can VB6 invoke the users Email client?
I want to invoke it  from a [help] menu and add a "TO:" address to the
document.
How can I do this?

I have a combobox which I am adding an item to at runtime if the item is not
already in the combobox, when I do this I can see that the item has been
added to the combobox, however when I exit my app and go back in the
combobox is blank.  If I add an item at design time that item ...

Off topic a bit, I guess...
Does anyone know a mathematical formula for figuring out of 2 rectangles
intersect?
Matt