VB Forum / General / February 2005

I would like to join an enthusiast-club for VB6 in the
Mississauga/Toronto area.
Can anyone tell me about such a club??
Many thanks

Is it possible to check if a listview is in labeledit-mode? (Other then
setting a variable in the BeforeLabelEdit event.)
thanks,
John

whats the easyist way to execute a SQL query from vb6 ( sp5 ) that returns a
int and not a recordset ?
There is already a public connection to the SQL server called SysConnection

Is there anythin like drop down calendar in VB6? I found
calendar, but I need something smaller where user can
choose dates.
Thanx

I have written a program to print labels on a dot matrix printer with
continuous stationary. On printing the label(s) I issue a printer.EndDoc.
This causes the label to be printed followed by a page eject. I was wondering
if there is anyway to stop the page eject. I just want to ...

I'm currently doing a home study VB6 course and one of the exercises is to
create a Blackjack game. It has to be based on 1 deck of cards which will be
reshuffled when the amount of cards is <15. What I'm stuck on is how do I
keep track of which of the 52 cards have been dealt, so ...

I was just wondering if anybody knows whether I can
develop a software application on an English version of
windows, then run the compiled app on a Portugese or
Spanish version of Windows??

I am looking for a fast routine to sort a collection of variable length
strings.
I understand there is a QuickSort for collections written by Bruce McKinney
available somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

I'm about to write a routine in Visual Basic 6 that will loop through a two-diminsional
array and write it to a CSV file so it can be read in Excel.  It occurs to me there may be
a way to do this automatically but so far I haven't found anything that will do that.
The array size is ...

I have a program that loads a binary file into a textbox that seems to take
forever. I'm sure  that the method I'm using is far from optimal. I have
loaded several hundred kb text files before in about 1 second. When I try to
open a 10k binary file it seems to take several ...

You'll probably notice I've never really done this before,
but here's my current problem.
(I'm still using VB6..... )
I've opened an Excel (97) app from my VB6 app. All that

Is it possible for the user to input, say, the default path in a Visual Basic
.exe file and have the .exe file maintain that path in the .exe file? I would
rather not create a text file to store the values if at all possible.
If so, could someone direct me to where I might find ...

I have a binary file named data.raw.
I want to read this file... Remove the first three bytes and the last 2
bytes, and re-save it.
Any help and code is appreciated...

I am working on a project which, in part, provides users with a way to store
GPS waypoint data. It needs to allow them to enter it using any map datum
and coordinate system they prefer, but convert and save it in decimal
lat/lon format in the WGS84 datum. (The GPX format ...

Sorry to ask but I am very new to VB, I am trying to create a program to
automatically telnet to some network devices and issue some commands and
then stop. Please can someone point me in the right direction.
Cheers