VB Forum / General / November 2004

Having just gone back to pretty up some old apps I had one with a tabstrip
with treeview etc on it, I had a picture box as a divider bar which was set
to ButtonFace color. With the XP look enabled this was the wrong color as it
needs to be the same as the tabstrip which is a lot ...

Hello out there,
another puzzler for me:
I've got an array of object (specifically based on a class module), like
this:

I have a text box that the user enters in the last 4 digits of an
account number. In the txtAcct_AfterUpdate() function, I need the length
checked to see if it is a full 4 characters. It would start with an
isNumeric check to make sure the user isn't putting in bogus info. A

I have:
WIN98SE in ENGLISH
VS6 SP6
IE6SP1

I'm trying to find the function that shows me the highest element used in an
array (not UBound).
Also, does anybody have an opinion :o)  on the best place to get help like
this for VB6 ?  I've been fighting with an old MSDN library disc and

I have VB6 SP5
All of a sudden I Have a problem using "Help"
ie; If I go to "Help "  for the Open Statement , the See Also -- Example --  
And Specifics

in the following code, I get a type mismatch error on the line .....If (ab =
67) Then....
Dim boolTx_enable As Boolean
Dim boolConnect As Boolean

My situation.  I need to have a process running on a remote server machine
(80 machines, actually).  This process, at some command from a client
machine, must open up a database and create xml exports then zip them up
into one file, and respond to the client machine with the ...

Is there a windows function or vb function that will let ping an address and
return a value that shows if it was found or not.
Thanks Mark

From VB.Net,  I want to open an Access database and run VBA module that
resides in the Access database.  .Net gives me the error message that Access
can't find the VBA Module.  
Code that so far:

how can i add unbound data to a datagrid from a recordset.
** it must be unbound

I am experimenting with Recordsets in VB6 and it keeps telling me that I
have a syntax error in the line of code that contains the Execute method.
I've checked the documentation and I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing
wrong. Any help that you VB6 experts can offer would be ...

Is there a quick and easy way of loading a Rich Text Box from a text file
and putting line numbers into the Rich Text Box?
Thanks in advance.

I inherited a VB6 program that prints wingding fonts. Is there a relationship
between the chr function and what wingding font is printed. For example the
existing code uses chr(80) which corresponds to a tag. If I want to change
that, what chr would I use?

I'd like to be able to put a web page on my screen that gets a feed from my
webcam.
The end result? I can interview with people and give them my dynamic I.P.
address and they will be able to see the web page as well. So it will be