VB Forum / General / December 2004

I'm trying to figure out regular expressions. I want to check a string for a
negative sign--where one is allowed, but not required, on the front, and not
allowed anywhere else. I know I can use (where x = the string I'm checking):
InStr(2, x, "-")

Wishing y'all a happy and prosperous New Year
Jerry

Is there a way in VB to detect an exe or other program is running?
Mo

I am using VB6.0 SP5.
Question 1:
   I am trying to save a picture (.bmp, .jpeg, .gif etc) to an Access
Database.

I am a newbie who works shift work and I found this code that will prin
out a shift schedule to a form. I have been trying to figure out how t
output the D's, N's and E's to label captions on a calendar made up o
42 labels but have not been able to. Any help would be appreciated

Can anyone tell me about, VB - MQ Series connectivity? Wht are the
requirements.
Sun

The Subject line kinda says it all.  I'm trying to find the most
efficient way in VB6 of determining whether a particular Folder
contains only sub folders.  If the Folder contains even one File, I'm
going to want the function I'm writing to return True.

I am using SetWindowPos to cause a Form to always appear on top.
However, the program displays Word Dialog boxes, which are then covered,
entirely or partially, by the Form.
I've though of the following solutions:

I have changed from W2K to XP and I get the following message:
Cannot load control RichTextBox1; license not found. This worked with W2K.
What license is missing?
Thank you for all help

I've been obsessed lately with performance tweaks.
Some of the things I have done more than likely are more costly in
programming effort than will ever be saved during execution but I thought I
would share some ideas, thoughts, and wonderings while waiting for the clock

I have an application where I use a lot of class modules.  At least a
hundred, and some of these
Something that I think would help me during debugging is to know what class
objects are currently initialized, what intanciated them (i.e. myclass1

I've been writing a project in VB 6/SP 5 under Windows 2000.  When I
run the app under Windows 98 or Windows 2K, everything is fine.
However, if I run it under Windows XP, some of my buttons get cut in
half at the bottom of the form.  I'm sure this is because XP's

I need a little help figuring out the Pattern property of Regular
Expressions. Im trying to search a document loaded in a textbox. The search
has to contain the following flags: Match Case, and Find Whole Word Only.
The 'Match Case' can be set from IgnoreCase property. But I am ...

I want to put part of txt1.text (everything before the /) into txt2.
e.g. txt1 is 123/abc, txt2 should be 123
so I wrote:    
pos = InStr(1, txt1, "/")

I am writing a VB6 program to record from the PC microphone.
I wanted to have a picture of an 'old fashioned' tape-recorder - tapes
turning when the user is recording.
The problem is that I have NO IDEA how to do this!!