VB Forum / General / November 2004

If I use property SelLength to select a part of text then there seems to be
a problem with asian characters:
if the textbox contains, for example 2 asian chars and 6 Ansi chars and I
use

Anyone else see display size issue where the height or width is way off?
Anyone have some ideas on solutions?

I am writing an application using VB 6. The application creates "txt" files.
Records within the files are muti-column. I need a snippet of code to sort
the records in various ways. There would be "major and minor" sort columns.
Can anyone supply a reference or a copy of code to ...

Which is quicker/better (I imagine it'll be marginal)
If Lenb(MyVariant) = 0 then
or
If IsEmpty(MyVariant)  then

    We have Access 2000 and VB 6.
    We have a form where I've just changed a textbox to a lookup. The
previous data was hand entered with slight differences. As a result, there
are 144 distinct entries, where there should be 40. I've created an

I'm still having problems with an Image List control on one of my forms.
After my application has run a couple of times the images contained within
the Image List seem to become corrupt. They look like they have a black
background on them. I can remove all of the images and ...

I am a novice in VB6 and I know I have been posting quite a bit of VB6
questions here lately but that's the best way for me to learn how to do
things with the help of some of yours expert advice.
With that being said, I would like to create a button on the form that

I have a customised DLL file with some custom functions. Is it possible to
hit the ESCAPE key while the function is running, and if so how do I
implement this through VB
Thanks in advance

Can anyone please tell me why this code is working:
fileopen = Shell("C:\Program Files\EC55\ec55.exe   " & "c:\04987.ecw", 4)
and this code is not:
dim directory as string

I am trying to think of the best way in going about this.
I have 5 pc's and a server.  On the pc's is a directory that i want to
monitor the files for any changes.  If one of those files changes, i want to
copy to the server. And have the server distribute the files to the other

Is there a way in VB to intercept the right click paste command.  I
want to be able to program a text box that it the right click paste
command is intiate it first cleards the text box regardless of what
text is highlighted

Can anyone tell me how to create a application wich can run as Windows
Service?
I got to know that it is not possible in VB6 but VB.NET support it.
Is there anyway to get around it by using some other program to run my

Is there any easy way in VB6 to copy folders en mass from one area of the
drive to another, renaming them at the same time?
Thanks in advance
Lorne

Can anyone please help me with the following?
My VB6 application has two forms, let's call them FormA and FormB.
A button on FormA carries in the Click Event the code "Show.FormB
vbModal".