VB Forum / General / October 2004

I have a couple of questions with regards to handling errors and exceptions.
1. If I use
On Error goto Errhandler
..

Having discussions on use of ElseIf with colleague.
Question is, in general, do people like and use ElseIf or are other decision
constructs preferred?
Any thoughts welcome.

I'm sure there is an easy answer to this but since this is the first time I
have tried to use this control I have searched the help and goggle for an
answer and have not found anything that speaks to this specific situation.
All of the information I have found says that you add ...

Does anyone know a good website explaining how to write a search function
that accepts wildcards in VB6? I've been searching the web but unfortunately
did not find what was looking for.
Thank you in advance,

Is there any way to do this in VB6?  I'm looking for something similar to
EVALUATE in FoxPro.

I use Crypt API and I get error message "The profile for the user is a
temporary profile". I can not specifiy exact function, because problem
occures not on my computer. Has anybody experience with this error
message?

Rather than placing an object, in this case the MS common dialog object,
directly on the forms that I want, I'm using the CreateObject() method to
create the object. The code works perfectly. The problem is that the
underlying form, in this case the main application form, is "kind ...

   i am quite new to the collection object. I would like to ask if i have a collection to store some objects, do i need to set the
object to nothing explicitly when i remove the object from the collection such that it won't eat up all the resources of my
computer? Thanks

what i thought should be easy is quickly becoming not quite so easy. if you
highlight text in a textbox programmatically, the caret is always placed at
the end of the highlighted text. usually, this not a problem however when
the text is longer than can fit within the textbox, ...

Hi, now we are so used to use mouse wheel to move up and down the window,
but the mouse wheel does not work on VB 6.0 and VBA edit window. Is there
anyway can solve this problem?

In FoxPro I could use either Evaluate or macro substitution to alter the name
of a procedure that would be called, based on some other criteria.  Is there
a way to do something similar in VB6?
What I want to do is this - passed on some selection criteria, retrieve

Rachel wrote:

can a flexgrid control contain 99000 lines of data ?
i really confuse of this problem
althenius - forum member
http://www.visual-basic-data-mining.net/forum

The last statement in the following code gets an Compile error saying
that it can't assign to array. Can anyone tell me what the error is
and how to fix it? I am trying to get the individfual values in the
string into elements in the array.

my problem is that i require to utilise the entire 8 bits of the serial
port, rather than just being confined to using the ASCII character set. Is
there any way in which i can output data directly to the com port register
and fill the buffer completely? i need to be able to use each ...