VB Forum / General / December 2004

I would like to create a "Help" menu within my VB6 application similar to
other applicatoins that allows the user to view the TOC and Index of a help
file...  .HLP or .CHM.
Does anyone know of any VB books or online tutorials on how to implement a

I have several programs I distribute which I update/revise
periodically.  I still use VB5 and several years ago when VB6 came out
I began running into the problem that later VB6 versions of .OCXs were
getting installed on my machines when I installed other people's apps

Dear Group,
I have scanned a form, designed by a third party, saving
the final image as a bitmap.
I have loaded the image into a picture box and created

 I am using VB 6 .
 I have the code below :
The Data variable is Byte as shown below :
One book items will occupy 8 block in the Data variable which read from

I want to play sounds using the multimedia control, but it is important to
play the complete sound before returning to the code (otherwise it will be
clipped). I use this code, but it still does not play the sound to the end:
               MMControl1.Notify = True

I have posted this before and also on databound forum, but with no answers
forthcoming, I thought I'd try again.
I am using a databound datagrid and allowing edit/add new and delete methods.
I am VERY confused on how the beforeupdate/afterupdate,

I want to send an e-mail with an attachment through the clients default
e-mail program (Outlook or Outlook Express).
I have played around with ShellExecute (mailto) but all this does is to
display the e-mail with the fields filled in. The user has to click send.

Hi
I created an .chm help file and would like to use it into my VB project.
First application form showed at app start is an MDIForm.
I referred my .chm file on App.helpfile at MDIForm_Load and I specified also

Hi group,
I must sum in hex, how can i do that?
or just, can i convert dec to hex?
Thanks,

When I open a new VB project in Win XP, it clears what ever
I have in the Clipboard.
Any body know a fix for this bug ?
Thanks

I'm working on VB6 project which already contains about 200 modules (forms,
classes, standard modules). Many of them contain pretty big numbers of
controls and lines of code. Compiled EXE has about 5 MB in size. My boss
continues to ask for additional features which just increase ...

Dear Group
I have created a scrollable picture in my application, ie a picture box as a
member of another picture box, a couple of scroll bars and now I have a
scrollable bitmap image larger than my screen. I would now like to be able

I am setting up a testing station for my classroom and need to develop a
funtion that, when the student clicks the start button, takes the time..adds
a specific amount of minutes (assigned by variable (what data type?), then
puts up a message at the end of that specific time.

Basically I have N numbers ranging from 1 to N, and I need an algorithm that
can
shuffle them up randomly.

I am trying to sprose up my list box search function which will currently
work down very long list of entries when text is put into a text box...
this is the code i use
      If InStr(1, lstNames.List(J), txtSearch.Text, 1) > 0 Then