VB Forum / General / October 2004

Im sure this is really basic
Can I create a dll that contains a number of constants and functions (that
are not in classes) that I can call from another application without
instanciating any class?

I've created a small EXE program to speed one of my jobs.  It has to open
Word(2003) under Windows XP, connect a mailmerge document to a FoxPro/Dbase
database and bring up the dialog box to save the document which is now
attached to the data.

I would like to add the ability for the user to gather a collection of
images and text files (representing a skin) and compile that into a single
resource file that the app can then retrieve the images and text from. Does
anyone know how I could do this, or point me to some kind ...

I am writing a client side program with winsock control.  I have to send a
request to the server using winsock.SendData method from the client side
program.  The client side program will receive its data from
winsock_DataArrival event.  I want the program wait the data back ...

In the Help index, the entry entitled
 ?string functions, new in Visual Basic 6.0"
includes a link entitled "InstrRev Function". Clicking on it goes to
the InStr function. InstrRev gets an error from the Immediate window.

I cannot recreate that error on my computer, but some user is reporting it.
The code is:
   If txtHour.Text <> "12" And txtAmPm.Text = "AM" Then
       lpString = CStr(vsbCount(17).Value * 3600 + vsbCount(18).Value * 60)

I'm stuck. Hoping to get some experience and wisdom.
After procrastination, I updated my VB6 Professional to SP 6 skipping all
intermediate ones. Just what I feared happened. When I run my working project
I immediately get the following error:

has anyone else seen anything like this?
VB6 SP5
Win 2000 SP4
MS WheelMouse

I am trying to place a red line under the item text I am dragging an item.
Can anyone tel me how to do this uner mousemove for the relevant listview.
Thanx

I declare this function in VB6:
Declare Function MessageBoxEx Lib "user32.dll" Alias "MessageBoxExA" (ByVal
hwnd As Long, ByVal lpText As String, ByVal lpCaption As String, ByVal uType
As Long, ByVal wLanguageId As Long) As Long

I want to change the background color of menu
and sub-menu item by item. For example :
Sub menu Edit contains 15 items. Item 1 to 5
have yellow background. Item 6 to 10 have white

When our customer, that use our vb 6 application with a sql server database,
needs a new report we use Access. The customers runs the Access reports from
independent, free standing mdb files. I'm wondering in what ways our
developers could integrate the Access reports into our VB ...

how can i place a form in an activex dll and how can i show that form in an
application
the idea is to update a program with those dll's
so how do i 'load??' those dll's at runtime

I am using the following code to retrieve file creation date data.
   .
   .
   hFile = FindFirstFile(ptPathToFile & ptSearchStr, wfd)

I'm looking for a tool ( free preferred but not required )
which will allow me to capture Keyboard and Mouse actions
on an application and then to replay those keyboard and
mouse actions again when re-running the application.