VB Forum / General / November 2004

Howdy All,
  I'm writing a VB6 addin for Word to handle simple inventory management
tasks.  This involves testing code in a business-rules library as well as
code stored in the addin library (mostly the forms that make up the

I don't think I am getting the results back right.
very time I go and check the inpute state it comes back 0, all the time.
What I am tring to do is check mouse and keyboard status, if the mouse and
keyboard is idle for 5 minutes, the database client that I made will

I have a VB6 project. It's working fine untill yesterday. I opened it and
tried to debug. VB6 crashed when I hit the Start (F5) buttion. I tried again
and again. It always crashes VB6 (VB6.EXE - Application Error: The
instruction at "0x0faa8058" referenced memory at "0x041f067d". ...

We have our application running on probably a thousand workstations with no
problems. So it's pretty obvious that the problem is environmental. As soon
as the application is launched, the following error message appears:
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022). ...

i need to find out the pid/vid of an USB device connected to the pc.how can
i do?

I like to read Mail-Messages from the Mail-Client saved in a Subfolder
called "Special".
I tried a little bit with MS Mapi Control reading Mail-messages, but what I
only was able to do is to read messages from the standard Mail-In Folder.

Does anyone know of a good freeware/opensource document generator for Visual
Basic 6?
Thanks,
Kris

There are two calling programs for my application.  The
first one will execute my app directly like in the Dos
Prompt.  No parameters will be passed in.  Once my app is
executed, an internal form will be displayed.  This is

I have yet another problem.  I have a Picture on a Form that I draw graphics
on. I'd like to reproduce this same graph on printed paper along with other
information.  I have not looked into it yet but I am assuming there is a way
to'embed' this Picture object into the Printer ...

I have two forms, one of which is a main MDIForm and the other is a ChildForm
(mdiChild=true).
I will show a new normal Form with mdiChild=false with the position relative
to the top and left of the ChildForm (the normal Form over the ChildForm).

I am trying to programaticaly turn on and turn off a
specific font (bar code font) using PCL command Does
anyone know how to do it the command that I am using to
turn on an OCR font is (0U

Is there any way to check variable type for user define type
Public Type Aaa
   a As Long
   b As Long

Is it possible in VB to have arrays of dynamic byte arrays?
I want to replace an array of strings(with variable length) with an array of
bytes(with variable length) like:
Dim sTest(10) As String

Where can I find infos about these APIs:
(to integrate in VB6 code)
AddFontResource()/AddFontResourceEx()/CreateScalableFontResource() API
Thanks a lot!

I need the convert a RTF file to pdf in the same format as it is. The
RTF file have Bold letters and also the Data is written in Two coloumns.
can anyone help.
Sun