VB Forum / General / January 2005

I have posted a few things lately and I wonder do how many messages down the
list are people still looking at your posts. There are so many posts here
every day.
I dont know whether to keep a post going or simply start again but it might

I use the Rectangle API for drawing several rectangles on my form.
How can I do, for to know  when the user click if the cursor position is in
a rectangle?
Regards

I have written the following test code within CommandButton_click:
n=0
before = Now
Do While (86400 * (Now - before) < 10)

First of all I am very new Data Report, and I need help. The code below
works well with ADO in unbound mode
   'Create a RS
   Dim RS As Recordset

I wonder if it's safe to delete files that are found by the Dir function
(without disturbing the ability of the loop to discover all the files
that have a certain extention) while in a loop that is coded in this way:
    Dim s As String  

I know this is a pretty general question but I thought I'd ask.  How do you
prevent customers from pirating the software you give them?  Do you use a
third party solution or maybe require a key or altering the registry in some
way?

In OOP how do you go about this problem (sorry for this again)
I have a Class A which creates an internal object Class B and uses 1 of its
function.
In my Class B I have that function which requires the calling Class A data.

I would like to experiment creating my own button faces for use with the Image control.  Can someone
recommend an inexpensive, or free, graphics program to start this?
I have XP and VB6SP6 & tried the MS Paint, but did not like using it.
Thank you,

I have searched the archives of this group and found messages that say
the following is not easily done, which is hard to believe.
I have a project that will end up with 5 or 6 forms.  I would like to
use the same basic menu for each form and then make any necessary

Hi Group
I have a simple application which includes a "Clear All" button. This buton
resets several user defined types back to default values as in code snip
below. This works fine in Win2K & XP but causes an error in USER.EXE in

Using VB6.
Could someone help me on how to merge matching cells in Excel like the
Flexgrid?
I can't figure out how to move from column to column across a row.  

Hello --
Can anyone tell me one or more sources of examples of using ADO Data Control
and DataGrid control?
I am struggling with even the simple task of displaying data from the pubs

List:
Which controls allow multiple items to be selected?
I'd like the ability to select multiple items (ala explorer) from an
itemized list (currently housed in a flexgrid).

We are looking for a winsock control to send and receive
data. It will be great if the control also has a string
compression in it, because we are sending a lot of data
to our clients.

We are trying to create a web application that will fire off a vb application
at specified times.  The application has not been successful and we are
struggling with this problem.  The question is how to best run a batch vb
application that has references and components from a ...