VB Forum / General / October 2004

Calling fonts by a common dialog control placed on the form causes the
following error message:
     No fonts installed
     install fonts using the system (Systemsteuerung)

Can i make a command button run a external program like a setup program?
My problem is i have two programs which i need to launch running a
autorun.inf file i cannot work out one is a porgram and one is an update what
i want to do is have like a simple form which has just two ...

I have an app that users can use to connect to a database. In the app there
is a function that goes and gets some statistics every few minutes and pops
up a form at the bottom right of the screen above the clock in a message to
the users. When the msgWindow comes up I have it at ...

HI all Gurus
I have made 1 function in C++ Dll from VC++. it is ok but when i call from VB it give error "error no '49'. Bad Dll Calling Convention" Why i get this error.
is it wrong way to declare function in VB or C++ code  has some mistake
Where did i Mistake Please Help me.

When i use arrays i usualy use an on error statment that if an "Subscript out
of range (Error 9)" occurs i override the error and continue to another
statment. But i ever woundered:
Is there any way to know if a subscript is out of range (if an array

I'm trying to load a vb3 project in vb6. I'm getting the followin
errors.
-ANIBTN2.OCX could not be loaded
-THREED32.OCX could not be loaded

I'm developing a VB6 app that will be executed each night via the O/S
scheduler and I need to write the app so that it will accept an integer as
in input parameter so that the app will know what to do.  I seem to remember
reading somewhere that I need to write some module-level ...

hi,
in vb6, i'm using the following code to find and replace all the occurences
of a 'watchword'. it's working fine in vba for word xp. but, in vb6, it gives
me the "method replacement of object find failed" error. does anyone has any

Hi all, I have added a new form to my project and dropped a rich text
control onto it.  First question, is there a known problem with setting
the FileName property at design time?  VB6 basically locks up on me when
I go to save the project.  Setting it at runtime seems to work ...

I want to create an app in VB which can be called from the comand line
and have paramters passed to it. I then want to use these parameters in
the app and display the ressult of my exe in a form.
How do I go about creating an exe or a dll which allows paramters to be

I would like to use a FileListBox to display a filename which will be
attached to an email.  I'm not sure if I could drag a file into the
FileListBox or if I would have to select the file with an 'Browse' button for
user selection of the file.  I have created a ListBox on my form ...

Would truly appreciate some help here folks. Client is trying to install a
VB6 app created in 2002 on a Win2K (SP4) box. Install alerts that system
files are out of date, requires reboot. Cycle begins anew. Same error
message. I have done everything specified in the MS KB article ...

Look at the following code:
Private Sub cmdEnter_Click()
Dim fd As FileDialog
Set fd = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogOpen)

App path in VB
I want to programatically get the path of the VB application running so that
I can work with misc files that are in the same path.  In MS Access I've used
the following code and then parsed the path from it.  How can I get the

I have a very simple question : Is it possible to redefine page margins in
visual basic 6.0?
Actually I want to put them to 0. I tried the Scale methods but they define
a virtual coordinate system , while I want to take off margins at the printer