VB Forum / General / November 2004

I have a vb6 audio program that works fine in most environments but
occassionally a user reports problems that even with my tracing turned on
seems totally illogical.  The latest case is that during the initialisation
stage of the program, an Options form starts loading (ie the ...

Is there a way to give a frame control a transparent background color?
Regards
Peter

I have a loop running like this:
Do
 Call Sleep(100)                 'pause to give processor time up
 DoEvents                          'do pending events

I have a little function that uses the vbe object model.
this works in vba but not vb.
In vba I reference microsoft.visual basic for applications extensibility5.3
When run from autocad.vba, this function works

This is actually the first time I am using Flexgrid (I don't know how & why
I didn't use it before!) I have some questions that I would be happy to have
cleared:
1) How do I remove a column from the Flexgrid. I have some empty columns in

I've just knocked up a quick 3 project demo showing how you can use
interfaces as a message interface between components. It's minimal but
works...
I've no where to host it atm, post if you can recommend a free file

I need to print  a logo - a small .jpg or .bmp - as part of a report and
just can't find how to do it. Is there an easy way that I am missing or is
there a hard way that I don't know about.
Any advice would be much appreciated as this is part of the "icing on the

In Project Explorer In addition to Forms & Objects there is activex Designer
file
Called *.DSR
In Crystal for example you can incorporate these files in the project.

I am trying to create a record set using VB within Access (code below).  I
get an error at the first Execute Line.  I'm sure I will get an error with
the second one also, but I haven't been able to pass the first error.
Private Sub Command41_Click()

program works just fine but underlining of app menu accelerator keys is not
visible in XP (in 9x/NT/Win2000) just fine.
Is this a new feature of XP?

The overall problem is I want two child form with each child containing a
different OCX
I played around with a MDI project but
only 1 frmDocument (Child)  is created in the IDE. I can create multiple

I'm trying to change the names of files in a particular directory.
After specifying the directory, the user specifies a search string to
find in the filenames along with the string to replace it with. Based
on this, I want to cycle through a FileListBox, looking at each

I have an a VB 6 application with about 140 forms.
I generally exposed my form loads that need to be passed objects with
something like the following (I've included some calls to LogDebug in the
following discussion):

I have a doozy of a problem.  I was asked to write a program that would read
incoming data over the serial port. This would not really be a problem, but
the computer that receives the information has DOS 6.22 OS. I was told that I
could write a program in VB6 then compile it down ...