VB Forum / General / January 2005

I am using DAO code in my VB6 program to create an Excel (.xls) file.
I'm creating the fields (columns) and adding records (rows). This all
works ok but I can do very little formatting. I can't set column
widths, etc. The main reason I'm doing it this way is because Excel

I run little graphics program on my win95 vb6 .
I then run the same prgram in winXP and the program wouldnt quit and the
computer had to be rebooted.
I had a main loop that simply updates graphics.

Is there a way to have the color picker (full color spectrum to choose a
color like in Photoshop) in VB6?  I would like to click on a button, have
the Color Picker pop up and then be able to get the RGB values.
Thanks,

I inherited a VB program but I am not all to familiar with VB. The VB
program runs fine from the creators computer and another computer that he
set up, but when ran on other computers it does not complete.
The program is using the dbengine open a text document and outputting

When I prompt a user to enter a file name, I'd like
to permit him to browse the file system in a manner
similar to Word's Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen).Display
construct.  Is there anything like that in Visual Basic?

I was directed to an article regarding using Outlook from within Word.
When I tried to run the sample I got the following error:
" User defined type not defined " on this function statement
       Public Function StartQuietSession(NoMailServices As Boolean) As

can anyone tell me how to access .lnk files and get the information
especially the path to the linked file?
thx
Peter

I need to call functions in a C++ DLL from a VB.Net program. I am confused
about what data types to use. For example, if a function returns a pointer
to NULL, what data type would I use in VB?

I want to play a *.mid and a *.wav-file at the same time(nearly
synchronously).
For this I installed a second sound card, but how do I do my job??
I think I've first to bind the sound files to a specific card, i.e.

I have a program that in one form I open and read data into an array and
check for the min and max values.  The array is  public.  At one point in the
program, a user may request to  create ranges from  numbers in the array.  I
have another form that provides areas for the user ...

It is not really a VB question, but I will try anyway....
I have some stored procedures in ORACLE that run outside
my VB 6 app.  When I connect to my DB from VB I know which
DB I access.

Hai,
I am trying to convert a binary value to double using the function
'pblfBinaryToDouble' given below. I am getting the result correctly in
Windows XP, but an 'Overflow Error' in Windows 2000. Can any one please help

Looking for general advice on a set of OCX's or NET managed code for
producing greeting cards.
I'd like to have a greeting card with editable print and graphics.  A quick
look for OCX's show no products.

I am building up a VB6 app that pretty much rolls through a record set of a
table, if certain criteria are met then it does something. (simple enough).
If it gets to the end of the table then it simple goes back to the start.
The things that it does are dropped into class objects ...

I need to run a VB app non-interactively as part of a batch system.
I need the app to return a status as in this C code so that I can check the
status in a Windows Batch File:
int main ( )