VB Forum / General / November 2004

Some files produced by my prog can be several MB long - this gives
rise to the dreaded Out Of String Space error. There must be a way
around this, but google doesn't easily give up its secrets :o(  I
guess it has to be, somehow, a chunk at a time, but how, and what size

This is just a hypothetical post, but involves a discussion I am having with
another coder:
The question:
Is there any good reason to create a custom ActiveX control out of a

I come from a Microsoft Visual FoxPro background and VFP has a function
called AMEMBERS() that will retrieve a list of property names from an
object, I need to do the same with VB6. Can someone point me in the
direction to find out how to do this  ?

I hope I didn't get it backwards in the Subject line,
but I wasted an hour today because of trying to
write some code to generate a web page.
In my app, I used CommonDialog's Color option

I have an app with an RTC in it and want to have spell checking for it.
I searched around and found two routines -- one which checks all the
text in the RTC and the other which checks a single word. Both work
okay in my app except that they use MS Word to do the checking,

I have an ActiveX control that displays a DialogBox. I would like to be able
to access a control like a button that is in the ActiveX control from the
DialogBox. How can I do this?
Thanks in advance.

I'm teaching myself VB6 from a book and have a bit of a trivial question...
The book is telling me to build a form (unbound) for a database application
and has two frames with some text boxes, list combos etc in each.  There are
also some labels in each frame but I can't get these ...

I have an app that needs to run when windows needs to start up, I don’t want
to put a shortcut on the start/Programs/Startup. I would like to put a Reg
entry to start the app. But I need the app to run in the same dir that it is
installed in order for the app to run with now ...

I am trying to create a button that when pressed will send the current record
in an Access Database to a Microsoft word document. I have been able to get
all the responses I am looking for  with the exception of I would like that
when it creates the word document(by pasting into ...

The setting of Windows theme affects
the menu look. My questions are :
a. What code should I use to detect the
  current setting, Windows XP or

I am populating a listbox with all the names in an Employee table
using ADO.
What is the correct way to delete records from a table using that
listbox?

I'm making an application and the help for that application. The help is
almost like the MSDN, in apperance and functionalaty. My problem is to know
how to pass a string from my application to the other application (the Help
App) in order to put the string in the search textbox. ...

Is there a way to check to see if a folder is shared and if not then set the
sharing?
Thanks,
Ken

I have some code running in the field on a test server. I have written stuff
to the event log to debug my code which is not working. (Or I would not be
bugging you all.)
A sql string is create, SELECT...

       I am developing automatic notification system and when there is an
alarm I need to send an automatic generated message by email.
When I use:
ShellExecute Me.hwnd, "Open", "mailto:", "", "", 0