VB Forum / General / January 2005

Is it possible to embed animated gif in VB6 project ?

Im using WebBrowser control in my app. It keeps displaying the message that
"Web Page Unavailable Offline.... Connect or Stay Offline". Can this be
stopped? This box even appears in VB IDE... it really bugs me. Ive tried
setting the Offline property of the control, but no effect.

 I am looking for an API and/or any code examples for getting information
from a windows file, specifically "Author/creator" and  "Last Saved By".    
I've already found GetFileTime and GetFileSize, but haven't come across any
way to access the many other file properties out ...

I am trying to recreate my VB6 ICMPSendEcho ping routine in VB.Net.
Nothing I do seems to work.
Is there a technique to PING in VB.Net?

What I need is to let the browser render some HTML files (provided by third
party) in my installation
directory. The user can browse arround these files. I can't implement all
those security checks as in IE.

VB.NET >> Can someone give me some insights as to communicating info between
2 forms.  Generically, I have the following - 1 form with a datagrid which is
the result of a search operation.  Another form that holds detailed data for
each row in the search result grid.

I have VB6.
I have found, I think, that when you write all Unicode characters to
RichEditBox it only gives you most (not all) of the Unicode characters. For
example, I have a Unicode font called "TITUS Cyberbit Basic". When I write a

Is there any way to determine when File activity has finished?
I have a App. that updates a 60mg Data File. I close the file after the
update.
Then reopen it in another module.

I'm a programmer;however, new to VBScripting. I need guidence to
write a VBscript which does the following:
Once a user logs into window (XP/2003), certain user specific
programs (define by the admin) starts installing

I'm using lines like the following:
Set SystemSet = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" &
CurrentComp).InstancesOf("Win32_OperatingSystem")
to retrieve information on all the computers on my network.

I need to replace a third party control. There are about 40 different forms,
is there a way for me to search or another way to quickly find a control
without opening and manually look on each form?

I want to get Unicode code of given symbol in dependence from code table.
Exaple:
ASCII symbol with code 255 (hex E1) in charset Windows-1251 have Unicode
Code: 1073

I'm having trouble bringing the other tabs of my TabStrip Control to the
front so I can work on them.  VB Help says to use ZOrder or Hide/Show
(depending on source), but the sample code doesn't fix the problem for the
design view.

I have to make a process to run like a service, I'd like to know f it'is
possible to run this process to run on low priority, did I have to add any
code in the load of my application`
Thanks

Before I start I have to admit I am a complete neophyte at VB though I have
used VBA extensively in MS Access.
I'm running some code I downloaded from the web. I need to modify this code
to use it in an Access database. I have all the source. I opened the project