VB Forum / General / October 2004

How can I programmatically send a Access Report to a PDF to be saved and
printed later?  I now generate a Access Report in preview mode and then save
as a Word doc and then I send to printer which saves it to a PDF File.  The
USAF will greatly appreciate expertise on this subject ...

I have a standard data report(.dsr)
when it is closed I would like an activity/code to trigger(call a
function), but I can't find any properties in the report to do this.
in sudo code I need something like:

I have a protected form field with links that is linked to places within the
document. When I click on the link in a unprotected form it goes to the link
place in the document. I could click on the back button and it will go back
to the original link. But in a protected documentm ...

Just to make sure:
I have a VB Project that does not contain any Forms or
controls.  So I start my Project in Sub Main in the Module.
Do I need to do anything to terminate this Project

I have a VB6 project which read data from a txt file.
This file looks like :
1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8
10;20;30;40;50;60;70;80

Using VB6
Service Pack 5
MDAC 2.5
I'm Using an OLE container and embedding an executable

Jusst a quickie, I won't post the xml or the remaining code - but... just
off the top of your heads, why does the following XPath query (passed to a
VB6 DOMDocument object) fail on any DOMDocument object version that isn't
DOMDocument (i.e. DOMDocument26, 40, 50 all fail - ...

Alrite,
I have a slight problem whereby I dont have a clue where to start.
I have an external source creating a .csv file and I would like to produce a
graph in Excel while the data is being written to the file. All it is, is

I m learning to print using Printer Object .
I have some confusion
1) what ever data i supplied by printer.print "Hello" is spooled by printer.
Printer actual start printing when i use printer.enddoc method or my app ends

Environment VB5, VB6
What is the difference between an <obj>.Parent and an <obj>.Container?
I find the definition in the MSDN help file a bit ambiguous..
Thanks in advance..

I need to register many DLLs and OCXs using "RegSvr32" during development.
Someone mentioned that i could use the "FOR" command in a batch file and
someone else said I cant get it to scan SUB DIRS.
How would I add FOR in a batch file to resister OCXs + DLLs in the following

How do i make a program thar is a Windows Service?
thanks,
Gonçalo Boléo

How can I retrieve a local machines SMTP and the default email address.
Many Thanks...Arne

I use the Schema.ini with Jet to read text files into recordsets.
I know about file extensions key in the registry for Jet
I can get it to read a filename "in.txt" and it works
but if I put multiple periods in the filename

I have a Vb 6 application that  prompts the user for the criteria used in a
access97 report and then prints the Access report.
I would like to see just the ONE prompt, VB OR the Access  criteria prompt.
Im currently getting two prompts.