VB Forum / General / December 2004

I've been doing Google searches on VB6 and ini files to see example code of
how to read/write to a file I have (testing.ini).  So far it appears that
GetPrivateProfileString is something I need to use, but all I'm finding is
bad code that doesn't actually work.  Does anybody have ...

Is there a way to write entire VB variables (including arrays) to a
file in binary so that they keep all of their VB attributes and later
retrieve them with no data loss?
That is, each data type would be written out exactly as they are

We have a large MDI VB6 app. The majority of the Forms in the app are MDI
children, Each of the MDI children are derived from a class module. Each
form class module consists of multiple Tabs and uses multiple User Controls
(not compiled ocx's) as well as many standard MS and ...

A user of one of my apps reported a problem with it, and said his PC is
running Windows "Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600".  Since MS went
to naming Windows versions as "95", "XP", etc I have lost track of the
version numbers. Which one is version 5?

I have a VB6 application that uses Microsoft's COMMDLG32.OCX control. When I
use the control (running or in design view) with an administrative user (or
power user on Win2K), then everything works fine. When I create a user on
WinXP with "limited rights", then I receive a message ...

VB6
I have an application I wrote and now I an getting an error. It is becasue
the file Thumbs.db file is showing up. This is a network drive on a 2000
server. I simply want to delete it but it does not want to be deleted. :-)

   I am building a complex form containing 5 frames. Each frame contains a
variable number of controls. Each field has a Label to show the field title,
followed by either a TextBox, ComboBox, or other control. All controls are
members of control arrays.

I would like to write a program in VB6 that can CREATE a graphic
image. The image will be very simple - just a rectangle. I want to
specify the dimensions and color and I want it to have a border of a
specified width and color. The output needs to be either .gif or .png

This was my first full year using VB6 and I found this forum invaluable
with the amount of help it has provided me, and I just wanted to thank
everyone and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hopefully a terrific
2005 - gosh, gotta get used to writing 2005 now.

Any help on the following problem would be much appreciated.
1. Create a new EXE project with a sizable form and a usercontrol.
2. Set Alignable property of usercontrol to True.
3. Add usercontrol to form and set Align property to top.

I'd like to be able to create a marquee type effect using a textbox to scroll
any given text inside the textbox from left to right, something like a stock
ticker.  Does anyone have any code to do this?  Are there 3rd party controls
available that could do this?  Thanks in advance ...

I have two questions regarding adding a
[Setup]
LicenseFile=
to my Inno setup.

You would think it would be a simple task: in VB6, display the directory
tree for the user to select a directory, or group of directories, to
print the folder/file info, somewhat like Windows Explorer displays the
directory list of files. But the further I get into it, the behinder

Apologies if in wrong NG.
How can I programmatically set the application
compatability of a shortcut from a batch or command file?  
Or even from code (VB).

I tried to use MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest to get the data from a web service using
VB code in Access database (2003). I got an error of "ActiveX component
cannot create object". I have added MSXML 4.0/3.0 reference. But I still have
this problem. Any help?