VB Forum / General / October 2004

I was wondering if anyone knows how to create a sort of "scrolling marquee"
selection rectangle.  I believe I've seen it in Photoshop.
Honestly, folks, it's Friday and I'm toast.  I'm just playing around.  I've
already got a real selection rectangle being drawn via DrawFocusRect API ...

I know there's a way I just can't figure it out...
Does anyone know how I can step through my asp code using MS Script Editor?
Thanks!
mgm

        I want to use MouseMove event of VB6 to draw line (with
mouse_down event) like windows paint pencil, but it seems not a good
result, because VB6 only shows a lot of discreet points, not continues
line, how to apply mouse_event of VB6 to draw continues line with

We have some server code written in Java.
It communicates with multiple clients via TCP/IP.
The clients are written in Java, C++ and VB.
This is a test program so far, only passing strings, integers, and floats

List:
I've been using DAO methods to manage my database.
Everything works Just Fine.
Now I'm trying to use the Data Environment Designer and the Data Report

I have a VB6 freeware app which has had something like 40,000 downloads. I
am getting reports that on some machines it is running very slowly under
Windows XP SP2.
I have SP2 on my own PC, and have had no problems, so I am assuming a

I have a search form which loads names and addresses and other info, all
thsi info is held in a disconnected database so that when a record is
selected it can then update another form with the selected information. When
I then update the form and save it I want to the be able to ...

I have been reading with interest the Error Coding Question thread.
Is there any concesus as to how errors should be handled when writing
a dll ?
I realise that the dll should return the error to the calling program,

I am using Winmm to play music in one of my VB6 programs. This works fine
and I can start, pause, restart and stop the music.
However, I wish to have my program detect when a song has completed playing
so that I can then have it get another song to play and play it.

I'm writing an application that needs to be able to populate a web form
automatically. The web form is a basic web form with name, address, etc. How
can I send data to the form to populate the various fields? If anyone can
help out with this, I thank you in advance.

I have been able to connect to Excel and find worksheets, post values to
specific cells etc. Does anybody know how to copy a sheet and give the copy
a new name all from vb?

help!
Hard drive corrupted after installing extra memory (system wouldn't boot),
so rebuilt machine (W2000), including all OS SP's & Visual Studio 6.0 SP5.
Restored my VB project from a backup on a second hard drive which wasn't

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.

Just wondering what form event will be fired when the user press on Alt+Tab
and then the app gets back the contorl.
I've tried debug.print on form activate and form gotfocus event, but they
don't print.

MS SQL Server 2000 / Crystal Reports 8.5:
My report is based on a stored procedure that has an input parameter of
type "datetime". When I call it in the report, it prompts me to enter
the date value in the calendar style format which we want. What we don't