VB Forum / General / November 2004

I have stored a string in a SQL Server field that is the formatted text from
a VB6 RichTextBox object. I would now like to insert that string into a Word
Document Object while keeping the formatting from the database string. I am
doing this from VB6 using the Microsoft Word 10.0 ...

I am trying to write some code for a client that will recover a load of his
databases which a disgrunted employee put on them before they left.
The Databases are Access 2000 .mdb standand ( have ran similar code over
them to check for 97 which does work)

I'm trying to launch a Powerpoint .pps file using the shell command.
When I try to execute the following code
    Dim RetVal As Double
        RetVal = Shell("festival.pps", 1)

I'm having a problem with downloading a file from the internet. I am
using the APIs shown in the code below.
The problem is that I only seem to get the first part of the file. I
have tried setting the buffer size to something way bigger than the size

In my app, I have some text box's, my question is:
When I tab through them, or set focus to them, how do I highlight the text,
just by tabing or seting focus, if there is any text in them?

How can I get at the information stored about in the windows font folder?
For all installed fonts, I want to get the Full Font Name, Font Unique Name,
Font File Name and path. I then want to be able to enter this info in a
table for use in a VB application.

I can't seem to get this to work togther. CR 9 worked fine with it. Is there
a way to get 10 to work as well? I am guessing it is compatible with it.

How do I inable the Machine debug manager service?
I have visual basic dot net and everytime I click start in the debug menu a
dialog box comes up saying the Machine debug manager service is disable.
Thank you.

Can anyone tell me if it makes any difference to memory usage whether a
class is defined 'withevents' or not?
thanks
Felix

I was just wondering if anyone knew of a way to set Environmenta
Variables through VB, what I am trying to do is make a exe that wil
set up Tomcat for users so I need to set the CATALINA_HOME variable.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, is there any known reason why I can't capture the mousedown or click
event for a picturebox when I click the left mouse button. It works OK for
the right mouse button.
Thanks in advance

I have a datagrid which displays client information i.e name, address, post
code etc.  The user can search by name, address and postcode the result are
filtered in the datagrid, however if I then press enter it crashes my app,
if I select the record and press enter it works fine.  ...

I am working on integrating a VB.NET application with RightFax. We are
actually converting a program written in Cincom SmallTalk to VB.NET and we
are experiencing some problems with faxing. In the SmallTalk version of our
application we used RightFax's embedded codes to fax. We just ...

   I want to re-write my application for my company, so I'm reading some
articles from Internet about COM+. It sounds good providing load balance,
resource sharing, object pooling etc. But they're all new to me. I haven't
written any distributed application so far. I'm not sure ...

  I have VB 6 application which request HEX value from hardware  . I
need to convert the HEX value to the byte array .
Any ideas or suggestion how to do conversion ?
The HEX VALUE is : 18  3E  16 00 00 00 00 00