VB Forum / General / October 2004

A while back, I (probably foolishly) installed VB6, SP6. So far no problems.
Now I need to distribute an app that uses the ListView. My particular app
doesn't allow the columns to be reordered in report mode, so the
XP/SP6-Listview bug doesn't bite me. But I don't want to distribute ...

I was using this statement in my app which runs fine on
most OS's...
Open "c:\Mapper.txt" For Output As #1
Then we got Windows XP and I get a Path/File Access error

Hi Group
I need to restore a mimimsed window. (of a different application to that
issuing the restore commands) In order to do this, I need to know the handle
of the window.

I want to create a graph on a form to display data that is polled periodically.
I would like it to look like the CPU Performance line graph that you see
when the Task Manager is loaded.
I will be polling the COM Port at regular intervals to receive data from an

Hi, I am totally new to mail sender system and am looking for any free smtp
class/code/component which will send an email to a receiver based on the
receiver smtp server which require authentication. The email will have
subject, body, attachment and sender email address.

I am looking a for a IDE addin that will not let me exceed 800x600.
I would like to force the client/user to have at least 800x600.
So when I am programming/developing I would like to be forced to stay within
800x600 so that if the client had a larger screen resolution than 800x600

I'm going to write a VB program to download a file (text file) from a
cpu which has an IP address. The problem is this is the first time for
me to do a task like this.
What I need is using a timer for every 30 minutes, the program will

I am showing a list of documents against a customer record. The user can
link a document to the record with my VB6 (SP5) application. The document
can be any file (e.g. Word, Visio, Acrobat or anything else) and they will
all show in a list.

I have a count-down timer that requires a large font size (48 to 72 pt). How
does one display large text without the appearance of jaggies. The text
changes every second.
Thank you in advance for your help.

After hours of frustration, I still can't figure out how to write binary
data into the registry.
Here's the Binary as read from the registry into a .reg file:
"Position"=hex:2c,00,00,00,6d,02,00,00,1c,00,00,00,84,01,00,00,9a,01,00,00,1

Hi, are there any reported problems if I open a non MDI form from an
MDIParent and then open an MDIChild from the non MDI form I just opened from
the parent?
Many Thanks in advance

The following code always throws me an exception in vb6 crashing the ide and
everything...
What is the problem?
Option Explicit

Is there any publications that I can purchase to learn vb that has exercises
that I would allow me to grasp what the author is trying to instruct me in.
I learn faster in a hands on environment rather than just being lectured.

I have to make an application where I have to change the ActiveCell in
the Spreadsheet using the coding as my Spreadsheet is to be invisible.
Is there any function which can activate cell (g4).
Thanks in advance

Hello All, I recently inherited a maintenance project and am weeding through
all of the pieces. One thing new to me with this one is the presence of a lot
of .OBJ files. They seem to correlate to all objects in the solution, forms,
classes etc.