VB Forum / General / February 2005

I have two problems with child frames (frame which is called by the main
frame.
1.) In my child frame I have a combobox.  I also defined combobox change
event, however this event is never called, despite the fact I change its

i am opening a word doc from vb
I want to open a new document not one that already exists.
Also when i open a document i get an error message saying it is locked by
another user(my own computer) and i must view in readonly mode.

I want to write a procedure to create a tone (through system speaker or
graphic card)with specified tone frequency (e.g. 216Hz) while the user
holding down a key (like Beee...ep).
With the following procedure I can create a pre-specified duration tone

Hi Group,
I have a small program that copies files from the hard disk to a diskette on
the A:\ drive.
In the program I have 2 forms, one with a command button to start the program

I have been looking for a little while at detecting the change of USB
devices (VB6.0 SP5). I have been looking at using "hooking" Windows Messages
through the API with some limited success, but recently found sysinfo.ocx
After jumping up and down with joy I started looking for ...

Anyone know why I am having several VB.tmp files in my project folder. The
other day I checked and saw more than 50 vb##.tmp files. They range in
number from VB100.tmp to VB200.tmp. I keep deleteing them after closing
development environment but they keep piling up (incrementing in ...

Is there anyway to scroll an MSFlexgrid from code?
I would like to automatically index the visible area of the MSFG to the
graphical dispay of it's data which the user locates with a cursor on a graph.
The user would run the cursor to a point on a line graph in a picture box

I want to define a new picturebox member.  For example,
PictureBox.Circle member already exists, I would like to define
PictureBox.Square member.  Is this possible to do and how?
Thank you for your answers,

I am well acquainted with defining constants, however I do not know how
to define array constant.  Eg
Const dayofweek(7) = "monday", "tuesday", ....
Is that possible to accomplish?

My apologies for asking newbie stuff. I'm trying to create a function
to accept a SQL statement as a string, then return back a disconnected
recordset. Could someone help provide a sample? I'm sure that most
people would only take 5 minutes.

Good day VB experts and seniors,
I have an VB6 application which is installed in Wins2K Professional
platform. The application needs to obtain file from remote PC for processing.
Before the file is grabbed, there is a system datetime variance checking

i want to add a help file to my appliction that just has a short walk through
that explains how the system works and the different screens.
I have added a link from the menu at the top under help, however i am not
sure what the best way is to show the help file.

I have working VB6 [ Student Ed. ] programs running under WIN 98 SE.
When transferred to WIN XP systems they fail at statements such as :-
Set wbook1 = excel1.Workbooks.Open ("c:\... etc. ") or alternatives such as

I want to give user option to select the font size.
Experimentally I found the proper label's height values, but I do not think
it is a proper way.
Is there any formula covering that?

I am try ing to make a form with 2 text boxes to convert from celcius to
fehrehite and rectoverso
So when i enter the celcius degree the fehrenhite will be calculated and put
in the other box and if i enter the fehrenhite degree the celcius will be