VB Forum / General / October 2004

hoping most here remember the simon game where you have to duplicate a
played sequence
I'm making this for my kids, just for fun
but I'd like to combine this with an educational note for learning the

I am looking the code for the method of the least squares but non linear.
Does anyone know where can I find it?
Roman

Do you guys know what kind of controls they use for the Outlook 2003
GUI.  I kinda like the way it looks and wanted to play around making a
couple of my apps look pretty too.  :))
Thanks.

I have a script that has two systems hard coded in the script.
\\cpu1\......
\\cpu2\......
I want to be able to have my script go out and read a flat textfile for the

Many years ago,we used lprint to send printer specific commands to the
printer. Now, with the object, Printer.,we are confined to a few generic
commands. How can we send specific commands, i.e, width of type to the
specific printer? If you send an escape command; printer.print ...

I have seen a lot of code snippets on the web, and everyone without fail does
a little rtb.savefile to the control. I have a .DSR report in VB6 that I am
trying to save to file. The .dsr has its' own interface when the report is
run. It has a print and export feature. Using the ...

I have been a programmer for a couple of years at the same company.
But because I moved country I now have to find a new job.
So tomorrow, (the 28th), I have my first technical interview in 7 odd years.
I understand that they will not ask me to write a program but rather ask

Can I hide a column in a listview?  Currently, I am setting the column width
to 0 but the user can still drag the column open.

I need to find the Profit percentage using the Cost and Sale.
I use this formula to find the percentage;
Cost = 100
Sale = 110

How do you permit a client to move a form, with 'BorderStyle Property set to
none, in realtime?  Any guideline on how to do this?
Thanks!
Sharrukin

Can i open an internet page only to get some results without using Internet
Transfer Protocol?
Can i use API instead?
thanks,

I've been creating Excel reports for a few years, but
have now inherited a server with a bunch of VB 6.0
projects. It's a real mess. Files are strewn about all
over the place with no real regard as to what goes where.

I received the code of a interface written i C, but I can't program in C.
Can someone interpret me this in VB?
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CHotelTstAppDlg dialog

I am using VB6 to modify and copy files from one directory to another, but I
want to maintain the original file timestamp.  The FileSystemObject doesn't
seem to allow setting this property.  Any suggestions on how to do this?
Thanks in advance,

I use items1.hasAttribute("ID") to check of attribute ID exists in node
items1 before I get the attribute value. But, why i got this error message
"object doesn't support this properties or method - run time erro '438'" when
it execute this at the if statement: