VB Forum / General / November 2004

I just copy a new font into the Win XP Font folder from my VB6 application.
The font is there but does not work straihgt away. How do I register the
font, to get it working from the start?

can anyone help?
Has anyone used a pcl command to turn on a specifi font
while printing? I have a specific font that needs to be
turned on while printing certain values .

How can i get a topic from a HTML .chm file and display it in my VB app.
Like a richtext box or a webbrowser control ?
I dont want to popup another window.....
Peter

Hi one and all.
I have an update that runs each night and I need to have the DataBase
selection take place in the query, not from the DB Selection Dropdown.
Here is my query.

Hi everybody,
I am having a little dilemma here. It's probably something simple that I am
overlooking but here goes. I'm creating an ASP.NET Web Application using
VS.NET 2003. I have a main VS.NET Project called thomasintranet. I am

I need to get the % process busy for a process. below is the code i am
using, but does not seem to get the correct info. hope someone can help.
strQuery = "Select * From " & "Win32_PerfRawData_PerfProc_Process " & _
             "Where Name = '_Total'"

I'm looking for a simple proof of concept application that shows a VB6 app
reading a Chinese string from an Access database and displaying it on a form
(in the caption, menu, button, etc.).
Can anyone help out.  I've tried this, but all I get are question marks

Hello.  I am in the design phase of a very large project.  The project is a
application for estimating the cost to produce a product.  This application
has a need to be highly flexible to a group of non developer administrators.
What I am invisioning is an application that ...

My Application will have to shell (launch) notepad to open a file.
I would like that only one instance of this file can be open.
I can use FindWindow to check if notepad is running and has open a
file that has the same name as that one I want to open. But I can't be

I have been working with VB since version 4 and have never really looked at
VBA at all as I've always felt I could do anything I wanted with VB. Now I
may have some projects coming up that were written in VBA so I'm going to
have to learn more about it. Anyone know of some good ...

When I try and run a form in VB.NET, the form does not run.  It indicates
that the build succeeded, but the software just hangs there and never
displays the running form.  Any ideas?
Thanks.

I have a form used to accept search parameters for an automobile parts
inventory program. The form has three combo boxes and one list box. One
combo box list auto year from 1953 to the current year. The second combo is
the automobile Make, i.e.,, Ford, Dodge, etc. This has 37 items. ...

List:
This may be a repeat--if so ignore.
I'd like to do some simple registry access, but I'm finding the VB Help
rather unhelpful.  I can see accessor functions which may or may not be

I have a funny problem with listbox plz help me guyz
well I'm developing a listbox user control and the only difference is that
when the mouse is over the listbox its background should be changed to blue
and whenever it goes out of the listbox area it should be changed to White.