VB Forum / General / September 2004

How does one make a labe box display a caption AND display data created when
an event occurs

I've a firewall that I need to enter IP ranges into using CIDR (/slash)
notation. I've a LOT of ranges that need to be converted to CIDR format!
It's a real pain doing each range by hand, too! But the range must be exact
and not go out of bounds (only the exact range must be blocked ...

I have a vb6 app that is usung asp/html based reports. I have a
nightly batch of 7 of these reports that is run everyday. My app cues
all of these just fine and even prints fine. However, the print dialog
box pops up 7 times for each of the 7 reports. Then the user has to

I have a mouseover event for a graphic that hyperlinks to another page.
The mouseover event works OK. But after I click the graphic I want the
second (clicked) graphic to remain so the viewer sees it as a visitied link
(even if they leave the page the link is on). How can I do ...

I am calling a function in a DLL from VB6.
The function in the DLL is written in C and returns a char *
By googling around I found that the way to handlte this:
(dllNewLispEval is the C function returnin a char *)

Is it possible to access a USB port in VB6? I was interesting in recieving
and transmitting simple ascii strings only... nothing too fancy. I couldn't
find any documentation about it.

 How can i design barcode and display. Later i display it on dotmatrix
printer. B'coz its faster and less expensive. And we need to print many
tickets everyday. So, printing should be faster. Can you suggest the
sollution?

This may be a dull Q but I have an Options Form in an app that I would like
to lock to (in front of) my main form when its shown. Whats the best way to
achieve this? My options form is  slightly smaller than the main form and I
want to keep the title bar on the options form so ...

Is it possible to have an MDI child work from within an ActiveX DLL?
I have got a messy hack to work - but it doesn't work as an MDI child
should. I used SetParent to set the handle of the child within the DLL to
set the parent to the MDI Client area. But it was just as a normal ...

All,
I have an application I am shelling to from a certain click event.
It works fine on my machine but bombs on somone elses because their
installation is in another location.

I got this message, when trying to compile an exe-file out of my VB project:
E:\project\form129.frm(1233) : fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR
 (compiler file 'E:\8783\vc98\p2\src\P2\main.c', line 494)
   Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++

If anyone could help with my problem I would appreciate it.
I have an app that works except for just one thing, and its the most
important thing.
so this is the situation, i'll try to give all the relevant info:

I have code that does the following:
Private Sub Command1_Click()

Screen.MousePointer = vbHourglass

I am new to vb.net and trying to build a VB.net winform application. I
really like the new look of buttons, readio buttons etc. on my WinXP box.
But only thing is I cannot make it consistent with my form background color
(greyish by default?). My question is, how can I can change my ...