VB Forum / General / December 2004

I'm in the process of converting some VBA Userforms to VB Forms and having
Word run the code using a DLL.
The code sets the Parent of the Form to the window that is active when the
Form is started.

i have a textbox control that i need operators to input figures. How can i
format it to display to two decimal places.
ie  if an operator types in 33.65 then the formatting will come back as 33.65
    if an operator types in 32 then the formatting will come back as 32.00

I would like to store .gif files in a resource file.  My question is how to
load the pictuer from the resource file and be able to display it in either
a picture box or an image control.
Any suggestions would be appriciated.

We have a VB6 form file (*.frm) and related .frx file out of sync.  I
understand that this is not good, but want to know if there are any good
articles (or software) out there that will assist in getting the two back in
sync.

How do I add a control to one specific tab of the sstab control
programmatically?
(Suppose de control already exists, and I add the control to TAB number 3).
Thank you.

I have a number of projects that use VB's UDP engine, written in VB6,
and maybe earlier versions. Having just done a virus scan with McAfee
they are all showing up as being infected with "Generic VB" trojan.
As every UDP based VB project, zipped and unzipped, is being flagged as

I have 31 labels each representing the days of a month.
Since some months have only 31/29 days, I need to find out this
max number so that I can do a for i = 1 to Max Label(i).Caption = i...
How can I accomplish this?

Do you know how to change a very big integer to string?
For example,
CStr(12345678901234567890) => 1.23456789012346E+19
format(12345678901234567890, "####################") => 12345678901234600000

I have tried out this bit of code
http://www.veign.com/vrc_codeview.asp?type=app&id=41
into my project but to no avail
Obviously i am doing something wrong but what ??

In my VB6 application I already have the pathname and the filename (some
text file). On the click event of a command button, I would like to open
up that text file for the user to browse through (similarly
functionality to if you were to double-click a text file from windows

I have an update app that runs ever so often, if there is an update
availible, it will download and run the install. I have two other apps that
need to be shut down or unloaded before the updates can be installed.
Can any body point me in the right direction on finding a sample of ...

I'm considering purchasing SmartCODE for VB6.  Does anyone have any opinions
or recommendations on this software?
I've sent sales an e-mail a couple days ago asking a question and have yet
to get anything back.

I am using MS Internet control in my VB 6 program.
In some machines, when I navigate to an excel file in the Internet control
(wbrowser.Navigate "c:\text.xls"), then close the VB application, EXCEL.EXE
will  also be gone from Task Manager - Processes, which is the desired

Downloaded SchedulingAgentVB6.dll, written by Tom Shelton.
It works very nice, but I can't figure out to make it have the parameter
Run only if logged in set to True (checkbox ticked in the Task tab).
I use this .dll file with VBA in Excel.

My users access the application using Citrix metaframe.
When they viewing reports (Crystal 9) they want to print them, but Crystal
viewer prints only to the default printer, which in my case is default to the
Citrix server.