VB Forum / General / January 2005

I am trying to write code to copy/cut/paste to the clipboard and hav
been trying to achieve it using the SendMessage API function.  So far
have had zero luck in getting this to work, it just appears to d
nothing!!  This is driving me nuts, any suggestions would be mos

I have seen only in one example the use of :=, which is like
a Pascal language assignment operator. It appears in the
documentation of Collection,
MyClasses.Add item := Inst, key := CStr(Num)

If I have an OCX referenced in my program, and I want to copy another version
of this OCX, with the same name, into its place, Can I do this at all?
Public WithEvents shape1 As My_Shapelabel ' myctl.ocx File
Private Sub Form_Load()

Using vb6,  sp4. When I click Project > Components > Designer,  I get a
message "File not found". Same if I click "Insertable Objects".  I'm trying
to use the Data Report. Any ideas?
Thanks

I have an old VB6 MDI application which was written when 800X600 monitor
resolution was most usable. MDIChild windows occupy entire client area of
MDI form. Now I need to make this application work with 2 resolutions -
800X600 and 1024X768.

HI,
I am trying to write some Visual Basic programs to model some data and then
put it into a NEW EXCEL spreadsheet.  I have learned how to open an EXCEL app
and then put data into the first sheet.  But I want to change the active

Very simple question i am sure?,
but how can i make whatever is typed in a text box have the spaces converted
into a - ?
(like when the user clicks on a button to create a varable)

I have 25 textboxes on a form and I would like to set a flag if any field is
changed.  In the Change routine of each textbox I have:
----------------
Data_Dirty = true

I am trying to create a collection of drop down lists.  I want to hav
10 drop down lists with 25 possible items.  Once the item is picked i
the first drop down list I want it to be removed from the other 9.
Then when the next item is picked I want it removed from the next 8.

I can generate RTF files which include graphics by referencing the graphics
files in the RTF file but the files must all be in the same directory.  How
can I encode the graphics files so that they are embedded in the file?
Thanks,

Lets say I put file names in a listview that is in report mode.
"x.doc","y.xls","z.jpg"
How do I get their icons from the OS and put the correct icon of the program
that opens them?

I'm sure this is an old problem which has been answered many times, but my
searches haven't found the answer
I need to use VB to start access and run a macro, in itself not a problem.
Regrettably, the path to access has spaces embedded in it.

What could be causing the following line in the Text1_MouseDown event
   If Button = 2 Then   PopupMenu MyPopUpMenu
to popup some strange menu list placed in the far upper left corner and then
display my MyPopUpMenu item? And what's more strange, I have a second

All,
I've got a program which does (more or less) what I want it to do.  Very
unpretty!
I call MS Word to do some things programatically.  Then, I want to add a few