VB Forum / General / December 2004

I have several forms in my project which are flickering during load due to
many time consuming procedures. I decided to insert
   lngFlick = LockWindowUpdate(me.hWnd)
at the beginning of Form_Load event and

I am having problems putting text values that I have seperated using the
split function.  Is there a special way they must be formatted before they
can be placed into a view of any sort?  I tried placing it into a combo and
listview, both coming up blank.  Here is my code.  I ...

Does anyone know of any issues with dbgrid32.ocx and XP SP2?
I've inherited support of a VB6 app that uses this data grid.  The users can
enter data directly into the grid.  When they move off of a row, the data
they entered in the previous row is saved to the database.

We're going to add flat combobox controls to our app (flat buttons too).
Anybody have any recommendations for who might have good ones at an
affordable price?  The only ones I've seen so far are from Arcadia
Software...don't know much about them.

Is it possible to secure a DLL by Digital Signing or some other means so
that it can be used (and have its interface inspected) only by
"approved" clients?
This is the first time I've explored this area of development (securing

I am trying to re-write an old Quick Basic program using VB-6.
In Quick Basic  I use the RANDOMIZE statement to define the seed and I get a
sequence of Pseudo Random numbers.
When I do this in VB-6, I get the same sequence of numbers, however, in

I have to access the DB2 data on AS400 system, however i searched the
internet, i found that it can be done using IBMDA400 OLE DB Provider.
Now, when i checked, the provider is not present on my system. Can
anyone tell, where can i get the provider.

I'm running into a problem where I'm reading a file in four-byte
increments using:
Private Sub OpenThem()
 mn_FH32 = FreeFile    '32-bit reader

I'm having a problem with the currency datatype
The following code doesn't seem to work:
Sub Main()
Dim x as Currency

I have a textbox on the form which has to display text with bigger font
(size 14). If I set FontSize=14 and then try to set height=345, it always
turns to 420. If I set FontSize=8 then Height=345 and then FontSize=14, it
works fine.

Is there any function available in VB to convert Binary to Double or If you
can give me some sample code for this, it would be great.
Thanks and Regards,
Peri

I'm wanting to do a slide show for my family's photo's. I know I can
use other software out there to do this but I'd like to make it
myself. But how can I make it display the images in full screen? I
plan on burning this to a cd and sending all of my family copies of

Is there a way to change the background color in the VB code editor?
White is okay but I'd like to experiment a bit to see if I can make
certain things stand out a bit more.
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BlankHello,
After opening visual basic 6.0 project, at the time of compilation it writes out so many files with .tmp extension and takes long time to compile.
Any help to solve this?
Thank you.

How can I make sure that a specific form is ALWAYS in front of the others
and not covered by them?
In Access, I'd just set the 'popup'-property to 'true' at design-time, but I
can't find anything alike in VB6.0...